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The New Testament in the Greek it was written in: Eberhard Nestle’s 1904 text, the edition the British and Foreign Bible Society carried around the world and the ancestor of the Nestle-Aland editions used in universities today. Twenty-seven books, 260 chapters, 137,779 words.

Every word is parsed by hand — not by machine. The morphology is Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen’s, released to the public domain, and it is the same analysis that underlies most of the free Greek New Testament tools in existence. Click or tap any word for its dictionary form, its tense, voice, mood, case and number written out in plain English, a short definition, and the full article from Abbott-Smith.

The Greek of the New Testament is Koine — the common Greek of the eastern Mediterranean, the language of shopping lists and army orders as much as of literature. Its vocabulary overlaps heavily with the Septuagint, which is where most of its writers learned their Scripture, and this site lets you follow any word across both: the concordance links every occurrence of a word in the New Testament to every occurrence in the Greek Old Testament.

Edition. Text: Nestle, Novum Testamentum Graece, 1904 (public domain). Morphology: Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen via biblicalhumanities.org (CC0). Dictionary: Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament. Grammatical descriptions: STEP Bible, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
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