Greek Study

Greek New Testament (GNT).

Statistics

• Statistics vary somewhat from reference to reference, so the following numbers may not be accurate.
• Strong's Concordance gives 5,523 unique words in the GNT, with 319 accounting for 80%. Strong's is using the Textus Receptus Greek version, not the Critical Text. Presumably, the Critical Text has 5,400 unique words.
• hapax legomenon; "being said once". 2,000 of of the unique words in the GNT appear only once. Koine Greek (GNT) was a "trade" language, so it was the simplest Greek there is. The vocabulary of classical Greek had 147,000 words. Thus, the GNT vocabulary consisted of about 1.1% of the Greek language.
• 50% consists of 27 words.
• 75% consists of 200 words.
• 80% repeating 50 times or more consists of 311 words (Critical Text) or 319 words (TR).
• Textus Receptus has 140,521 total words versus the Critical Text having 138,015 total words, or 2,506 fewer words.

Greek vocabulary

• Biblical Greek Text Organised By Word Frequency.
• GNT 311 most common words.
• GNT 1000 most common words. Published 1893.
• Gospel of John Word List. Also in PDF. Consists of 1,073 lemmas; 16,878 tokens (UBS GNT).
• GNT Vocabulary Lists.
• John 1:1-5 pronunciation guide. Duration 15:54.
• John 1 Greek New Testament. Duration 12:55. John chapter 1 read aloud.
• John 1:1-34 Reading. Duration 31:42.
• John 10:1-7 Reading. Duration 10:45.

Greek commentary, articles, etc.

• Textual Criticism 101. Comparing Majority Text vs. Critical Text vs. Textus Receptus.
• Spirit.
• Judge Not.

Online Greek, Interlinear Bibles

• Abarim Publications' free online interlinear (Greek/English) New Testament. Parallels the King James Version with the Greek Byzantine Majority Text. The parsing of the Greek text is based on the Robinson and Pierpont 2000 edition, but with considerable corrections of their own.
• Online Parallel Study Bibles. Includes Scrivener's Textus Receptus, IGNT (Interlinear Greek NT, using Scrivener's TR), Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Greek NT and more.
• Textus Receptus Bibles. Includes most of the TR variants.
• The English Majority Text Version. The Old Testament is from the Septuagint. The New Testament uses the MT as the base-text.