Example: Second Greek Exercise

(You may be interested in a corresponding Hebrew exercise.)

We will now look at the exercise called “demo2” in the “Nestle 1904/demo” folder. Click on the number 5 under “...preset passages” for that exercise. The system will show you a random sentence from the specified Bible passages, for example, this one:

Here, we have a sentence from Luke 8:17. You will immediately notice an important difference from the previous example: Some of the words have been replaced by a number in parentheses. The reason is that in this case Bible Online Learner asks the user to provide a word that is actually part of the text; therefore the word must not be shown in the window. The system has therefore replaced the interesting words with numbers.

In this example, the answer box contains five lines labelled “Item number”, “Lexeme”, “Tense”, “Mood”, “Voice”, “Person”, and “Number”. The item number refers to the number in parentheses in the sentence. The lexeme is the dictionary form of the word in question, and the voice, mood, person, number, and tense should help you create the word form that is actually in the text.

Your task is to type the word form that is found in the text in lower case without accents. (The label “Normalized” refers to a version of the text without punctuation and certain accents.) Below the empty field for the text, you will see a few buttons labelled with Greek characters. You can use these buttons to spell the correct word form, which in this case is εστιν. The key marked ← is a backspace key that deletes the last character you entered. The small characters in the upper left corner can be used to type the Greek character on you computer keyboard, if you prefer to do so rather than to click with your mouse.

When you have entered your answer, you can use the “Check answer” button to verify that your answer is correct.

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