GNT Reader — Greek New Testament

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Each line, one atomic thought.

Reading Modes

Greek (default)

The SBL Greek New Testament formatted as atomic thought units (ATUs) — one thought, one breath per line.

English

A structural English gloss tracking Greek clause order line-for-line — each English line corresponds to its Greek counterpart.

Both

Greek and English interleaved, with the English in dimmer italic below each Greek line.

To switch modes: tap the Greek or English pill in the layer bar at the top of the screen. Both pills lit shows interleaved Greek + English; either pill alone shows only that layer. The reader prevents turning off the last visible layer (a brief refusal flash signals the click was registered but blocked).

What Is an Atomic Thought Unit (ATU)?

Each line in this edition represents one ATU — one thought, one breath, one image. The original texts of the New Testament were composed for oral delivery, not silent reading.

Modern formatting — verse numbers, paragraph breaks, editorial punctuation — was added centuries after composition and can obscure the original structure. This edition recovers the compositional flow using Greek grammatical analysis, placing natural break points where the grammar itself dictates: at subordinate clauses, discourse markers, participial phrases, and parallel structures.

Navigation

Tap the menu icon, the book name, or the chapter number in the top bar to open the navigation panel.
Tap a chapter number, then select a verse to jump directly to it.
URL format: #book-chapter-verse (e.g., #acts-2-38)
Tap the home icon inside the navigation panel to return to the landing page.
Use arrow keys or the floating arrows at screen edges to move between chapters.

Search

Tap the magnifying glass icon or press Ctrl+F to open search.
Type Greek without accents or breathing marks — search handles diacritics automatically.
Type a dictionary form (e.g., ακουω) to find all inflected forms (52 forms for ἀκούω).
Use quotes for an exact form: "ακουσας" matches only that form.
Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT, NEAR5, parentheses.
Corpus filters: narrow results to Synoptics, Pauline, Johannine, General, etc.
Tap a result to navigate directly to that verse.

Settings

Punctuation: Show or hide editorial punctuation (hidden by default — it is not original to the text).
Verse numbers: Show or hide verse reference numbers.
Text size: Small, Medium, or Large.

Greek/English layer toggles live in the layer bar at the top of the screen, not in this Settings panel.

About

Base text: SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT), licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

English gloss: Structural rendering tracking Greek clause order, produced for this edition.

Method: ATUs derived from Greek grammatical structure using syntax tree analysis, following the scholarly tradition of colometric formatting for oral delivery.

For more information, see the project on GitHub.

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