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Welcome to the NT Greek Vocab Deck

This deck provides cards for every New Testament Greek Word.  It provides both a Greek->English card and an English->Greek card; however, see my notes below.  I have ordered every word in this deck in what I think is an ideal order, and I will explain that below.  Unless you are experienced at ANKI and have a good reason not to, I recommend enabling the Import Options “Import any learning progress” and “Import any deck presets” to ensure that my learning steps, card scheduling and suspensions come in (I explain more below).  

Additional Information:

I started with the All Bible Greek Vocab 2021 shared deck as my base and I have heavily modified it, keeping only some remnant of card appearance, some field data, and the basic sub-deck structure.  I have changed the styles, changed glosses, removed fields (including audio, which I did not use due to its pronunciation), and added new fields with a significant amount of data that suited my goals and purposes.

Data Included:

• Unmarked lexical form to facilitate quick searching of words.
• Full Verses for every single word, displayed with the Greek front cards, to help understand the meaning in context before seeing the gloss. Most of these will be SBLGNT.
• I included NA28 Frequency, LXX (Ralphs-Hanhart) Frequency.  
• I have generated a “Frequency Order” number that indexes each word from Highest Frequency to Lowest Frequency and alphabetical for shared frequencies.  
• I also added an Occurrence Order which is the order that each word appears in the NT and included the reference to the First Occurrence of the word in the NT.
• I have added principle parts of all verbs using Bill Mounces format of (imperfect), future, aorist active, perfect active, perfect middle/passive, aorist/future passive.
• I manually identified the verbal roots for every verb and listed them in a format similar to what you would see in Bill Mounce’s works.  
• I have included the MBG tag with a link to the the words page within his online dictionary.
• Within “Additonal Information” on the card backs, I have included links to ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ’s LSJ Lexicon, Katabiblon’s word info and word forms pages to make it easy for me to look up these details in real time.

I have tried to ensure that the lexical forms and glosses of words are all consistent, for the most part.  I have made sure all verb glosses are expressed in their first person singular form.

I have suspended all the English->Greek cards by default, but they will only be suspended upon import if you enable the “Import any Learning Progress” option.  I leave it to the user to decide whether they want to use them in their own study.  My personal approach has been to learn the Greek->English card first, and then to learn the English->Card exactly 1 week later.  That rhythm paired with the learning steps of (10m 1d 1d 2d 3d 7d) makes sure that I see the Greek card several times in the first week, and again on the day before I learn the English card.  Then the English card helps to reinforce my recall from english.  This has been very helpful as I have the goal of speaking/producing Greek.  This may not be for everyone, and an ANKI beginner may not understand how to manage the deck so that they can take in the English card a week later, so I have suspended all of these cards by default, assuming that most will prefer the simple approach of focusing exclusively on Greek->English.

I include my learning steps in this deck, and I recommend that beginners toggle on “Import any deck presets” when they import this deck.  This will provide a solid sensible starting place for those who are learning.  I have honed these steps personally, and trialed them with several other individuals.

I have applied a specific ordering to the cards by default that I think will be most suitable for people new to Greek or Anki.  I have ordered all the words by NT Frequency, starting with the highest frequency words.  Once you get to a NT frequency of 5, I then order by LXX Frequency.  In my own practice, when I got to this point, I began reading in the beginning of the LXX to increase the likelyhood that I would encounter the words I am learning in my reading.  After the words reach a NT Frequency of 5 or less and a LXX Fequency of 5 or less, I order the words by their First NT Occurrency.  At this point in my study this allowed me to read 7 minutes or so a day (about a chapter a day, maybe a little more) and keep my reading about 2-4 weeks behind the new words I was learning, thus reenforcing my vocabulary acquisition.

If you would like to see any of my other Greek work, including audio recordings, or would like to contact me, you can reach me through the Contact Page or check out my Ζῶν Ἑλληνιστί or Conversational Koine episodes on the ProveText Podcast.

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