--- title: Biblical Hebrew & Koine Greek description: Biblical Hebrew and Koine Greek unlock the Bible in its original languages. You will learn the scripts, grammar and vocabulary, and the tools for reading and exegesis. category: languages subcategory: ancient-languages difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/biblical-hebrew-and-koine-greek --- # Biblical Hebrew & Koine Greek Biblical Hebrew and Koine Greek unlock the Bible in its original languages. You will learn the scripts, grammar and vocabulary, and the tools for reading and exegesis. ## Available Resources 3 Books • 3 Courses • 2 Websites ## Websites ### 1. The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (SBLGNT) **Author:** Michael W. Holmes Michael Holmes's critically edited Greek New Testament, free to download in Unicode under a Creative Commons licence and diverging from other standard texts in over 540 places. The print edition adds an apparatus comparing four primary editions. Nestle-Aland is the other standard edition but is not freely redistributable; the SBLGNT is the one a learner can download, load into any tool, and cite in academic work without a licence. Every grammar resource in this topic is ultimately training you to read this text. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://sblgnt.com/ **Tags:** koine-greek, greek-new-testament, critical-text, textual-criticism, sblgnt ### 2. STEP Bible (Tyndale House, Cambridge) Free scholarly Bible study interface built by researchers at Tyndale House, Cambridge, offering morphologically parsed Hebrew and Greek texts, disambiguated lexical links to LSJ and Hebrew lexica, manuscript variant data, and corpus-wide word usage searches. A grammar student uses it to read the text, not to skip the grammar. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.stepbible.org/ **Tags:** biblical-hebrew, koine-greek, morphological-parsing, bible-software, lexicons ## Books ### 1. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament **Author:** Daniel B. Wallace The standard second-year Koine syntax reference, cataloguing case, tense, voice, mood and clause categories with New Testament examples and the exegetical consequences of each reading. Roughly 860 pages with Scripture, subject and Greek word indexes. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0310218950?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** koine-greek, greek-syntax, new-testament-exegesis, intermediate-greek-grammar ### 2. Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (4th Edition) **Author:** William D. Mounce The most widely assigned first-year Koine Greek textbook, introducing the alphabet, all vocabulary occurring fifty or more times, and the noun and verb systems through explanation of underlying rules rather than rote paradigm memorisation. Fourth edition, 2019. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0310537436?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** koine-greek, biblical-greek-grammar, greek-morphology, greek-vocabulary, first-year-greek ### 3. An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax **Author:** Bruce K. Waltke; Michael Patrick O'Connor The standard English reference grammar for Biblical Hebrew syntax, covering parts of speech, the verbal stem and conjugation system, and clause subordination across forty chapters with more than 3,500 cited biblical examples. Assumes a completed first-year grammar. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0931464315?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** biblical-hebrew, hebrew-syntax, hebrew-verbal-system, reference-grammar ## Courses ### 1. Daily Dose of Greek — Learn Biblical Greek **Author:** Robert L. Plummer Twenty-four free video lectures taking beginners through a first-year Koine grammar, paired with five two-minute videos a week parsing a single Greek New Testament verse. Includes downloadable vocabulary charts, paradigm sheets and flashcard apps. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://dailydoseofgreek.com/learn-biblical-greek/ **Tags:** koine-greek, biblical-greek-grammar, video-lectures, greek-parsing, greek-new-testament ### 2. Daily Dose of Hebrew — Free Beginning Hebrew Lectures **Author:** Mark Futato; Adam Howell Free video lectures by seminary faculty condensing the forty chapters of Futato's Beginning Biblical Hebrew, plus a separate morphology series and a daily two-minute walkthrough of one Hebrew Bible verse covering grammar, syntax and translation. This delivers the formal grammar-translation track (paradigms, morphology, parsing) that academic Hebrew still assumes. The daily verse videos then sustain reading after the course ends. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://dailydoseofhebrew.com/learn/ **Tags:** biblical-hebrew, hebrew-grammar, hebrew-morphology, video-lectures, hebrew-bible ### 3. Aleph with Beth — Free Biblical Hebrew Video Course A free immersion-method video course in Biblical Hebrew that builds comprehension through images, props and repeated spoken input rather than paradigm drilling. Over a hundred sequential lessons carry absolute beginners from the alphabet into simple narrative text.The single best free on-ramp for someone who has never seen the script: it produces actual reading and listening competence rather than a memorised paradigm chart, and it is genuinely complete rather than a teaser. Free, no signup, no tiers. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://freehebrew.online/ **Tags:** biblical-hebrew, communicative-method, comprehensible-input, hebrew-alphabet, video-lessons --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/biblical-hebrew-and-koine-greek