Biblical Greek
Learn Biblical Greek, starting today.
A structured path from your first alpha to reading the Greek New Testament, built for pastors, seminarians, and serious students of Scripture. The first unit is free, and you will read a real verse of John by its final lesson.
What is Biblical Greek?
Biblical Greek, or Koine ("common") Greek, was the shared language of the eastern Mediterranean from roughly 300 BC to AD 300. It is the language in which every book of the New Testament was written and in which the Old Testament circulated among Greek-speaking Jews as the Septuagint. When you learn Koine, you are learning to hear Paul, John, Luke, and the Evangelists in their own words, ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, without an intermediary.
How this course works
Each lesson covers one topic in about five to seven minutes: a few short screens that teach one idea at a time, real examples from the New Testament, and quick checks with instant feedback. Vocabulary is introduced by frequency, so every word you memorize pays off on nearly every page of the Greek New Testament. And you read real Scripture from the very first unit, not manufactured sentences.
Basic Biblical Greek: the units
Unit 1
The Alphabet & Pronunciation
Free
Recognize, write, and pronounce every Greek letter, diphthong, and mark, and read your first verse.
Unit 2
Nouns & the Article
The case system, the article, and the first and second declensions.
Unit 3
Verbs I: The Present
The present active indicative, contract verbs, and the verb “to be.”
Unit 4
Prepositions, Adjectives & Pronouns
The small words that connect a sentence, the words that describe, and the words that stand in.
Unit 5
Verbs II: Past & Future
The augment, the imperfect, the future, and the aorist.
Unit 6
The Third Declension
Consonant stems, the case endings they take, and the sound rules that explain every change.
Unit 7
Middle and Passive Voice
The middle and passive voices, the middle/passive endings, and verbs that are middle in form but active in meaning.
Unit 8
Aorist Passive and the Perfect
The θη passives, reduplication, the perfect and pluperfect, and all six principal parts.
Unit 9
Participles
The verbal adjective: its morphemes in every tense, how it is used, and the genitive absolute.
Unit 10
Infinitives, Subjunctive, Imperative, and μι Verbs
The non-indicative moods, the μι conjugation, and a closing reading of Mark 10:43–45.
Common questions
How long does it take to learn Biblical Greek?
Basic Greek is 105 short lessons of four to eight minutes each, about eleven hours in all, from the alphabet to reading sentences from the New Testament. Unit 1, the alphabet, is eleven lessons and ends with John 1:1. How long it takes depends on your pace; daily flashcard review keeps the vocabulary from slipping.
Do I need to know English grammar first?
No. Every concept, from case to tense, voice, and mood, is introduced from scratch, in plain language, at the moment you need it.
Which pronunciation do you teach?
Lessons follow the traditional classroom pronunciation taught in H. P. V. Nunn’s Elements of New Testament Greek. It is a convention for learning, not a claim about how the apostles sounded.
What comes after the basic course?
The intermediate course covers syntax and guided readings through 1 John, John, and Mark. The advanced course goes on to discourse analysis, verbal aspect, and sentence-flow diagramming, the tools of serious exegesis.