Flashcards
Review due words, prep upcoming passages, and keep your Greek vocabulary moving at a humane pace.
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New here? Import the 100 most frequent New Testament words in one tap. You can fine-tune a custom deck below.
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Learn the prefixes and suffixes that build hundreds of NT words. Pick a brick — get a deck.
Each deck pulls the top NT lemmas built on one prefix or suffix. Best for learning the formation in context.
Search the Greek New Testament vocabulary and add words from real occurrences.
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HackGreek flashcards run on FSRS, a modern spaced-repetition algorithm. Every time you rate a card — Again, Hard, Good, or Easy — FSRS updates its estimate of how well that word is stuck in your memory and sets the next review for the moment just before you would otherwise forget it. Words you find easy drift further and further apart, so you stop wasting time on vocabulary you already know cold, while the words that keep tripping you up come back sooner. The result is that each minute of study is spent where it does the most good, and your review queue stays a manageable size instead of ballooning as your deck grows.
Because the schedule is driven by your own recall, there is no fixed daily list to memorize. You simply clear the cards that are due, rate them honestly, and let the algorithm decide when each word should resurface. Over weeks and months, mature vocabulary settles into long intervals while new and shaky words cycle quickly, which is exactly the balance that turns slow, halting reading into something closer to fluency.
A relatively small set of Greek words accounts for the vast majority of the text of the New Testament, so the order in which you learn vocabulary matters enormously. HackGreek's frequency decks introduce the highest-frequency lemmas first, which means the words you study on day one are the ones you will meet again on nearly every page. Learning common words before rare ones gives you the fastest possible payoff: each new card you master unlocks a measurable chunk of real reading rather than a single obscure verse.
You are not limited to a single ordering, though. You can pull words straight from the reader as you encounter them, so a word you stumbled over in an actual passage becomes a card while it is still fresh and tied to a real context. You can also build a deck ahead of time from a specific book or chapter, front-loading the vocabulary you will need before you sit down to read it. Whichever path you choose, the cards flow into the same FSRS-scheduled queue.
The reason spaced repetition works is consistency. A short daily review session keeps your queue from piling up and lets FSRS stretch your strong cards into ever-longer intervals, so the time you spend each day tends to shrink even as your known vocabulary grows. Skipping days does the opposite: due cards accumulate and intervals reset, turning a few easy minutes into a long backlog. Treating review as a small, regular habit — rather than an occasional cram — is what lets a modest amount of daily effort compound into the ability to read the Greek New Testament with real comprehension.
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