Read the Word in its own words.

Lectio divina for the Greek New Testament — a slow, faithful way to learn the language of Scripture.


Lectio Cards joins a reader for the Greek New Testament with simple flashcards, so the words you study are the words you meet on the page. Everything stays on your device; nothing hurries you.

Coming to the App Store


The home dashboard with tiles for grammar decks, reading Scripture, building a deck from a passage, all decks, and progress.
The home screen —see more screenshots

Vocabulary that meets you on the page

Simple cards, spaced over time — a few words a day, resurfaced just before you would forget them. The words you study are the words you meet in the text, so study and reading feed each other.

The back of a study card revealed: the gloss “Jesus”, morphology chips, the Strong’s lexicon entry, and pass and fail buttons.

A reader that keeps you in the text

Read the Greek New Testament verse by verse. Tap any word for its morphology, gloss, and Strong’s number — and, where it has been studied deeply, its historical senses, with the Greek examples and Scripture references tappable right there in the panel.

The lexicon panel for πνεῦμα showing several attested historical senses, each with a period tag, a tappable Greek example, and a Scripture reference.

Build a deck from any passage

Pick a book, a chapter, and a verse range. Lectio Cards turns the passage into a study deck of its words — master them, and the passage is yours to read in Greek.

The passage builder with verses 1 through 14 of John 1 selected as a range, and a Build button ready.

The whole Greek New Testament

The complete text, with scholarly morphology and syntax for every word — built on the MACULA Greek corpus, carried in your pocket.

The Greek New Testament reader showing John 17 in polytonic Greek with part-of-speech tags above each word.

Offline and private by design

Everything lives on your device. Sync, if you turn it on, moves your progress between your own devices only. No accounts, no tracking, nothing phoning home unless you want it.

The front of a study card showing the Greek word Ἰησοῦς with stage dots and a tap-to-reveal prompt.