Keep your Greek and Hebrew by reading the text.
Koine Greek first · built in the open · shaped by the people who join now
Three years of Greek shouldn't have a five-year half-life.
Interlinears read for you
Parsing guides and interlinear Bibles hand you the answer before you've done the work. They're wonderful references — and quiet accomplices in letting the language go.
Flashcards float free of the text
Vocabulary drilled in isolation doesn't survive contact with a real sentence. Words stick when you meet them where they live: in the text, in context, repeatedly.
Retention needs a loop, not a resolution
“I should really keep my Greek up” isn't a system. Reading a manageable portion, capturing what you didn't know, and reviewing it on a schedule — that's a system.
The reading-to-retention loop, for the biblical text.
Morphology-aware lookup
Tap any word for its parsing, lemma, and gloss — aorist passive participles included — without losing your place in the verse.
Corpus-frequency vocabulary
Learn words in the order the Greek New Testament actually uses them, so every hour of review buys the most reading fluency.
Verse-aligned practice
Cloze review built from the very verses you've read, on a spaced-repetition schedule — recognition in context, not trivia.
Anki, first-class
Push what you save straight to your own Anki collection and keep it for life. Your vocabulary is yours, not a feature of our database.
Grammar help on tap
Ask why a construction works the way it does and get a language answer — usage, syntax, idiom. Never a theological one.
Open source, self-hostable
The whole workspace is open source. Run it on your own hardware for free, forever — or let the managed cloud handle it for you.
Build progress is public on GitHub and discussed as it happens on Discord.
A six-week reading pilot, not a waiting list.
What you get
- Early access to the Koine Greek pack as it takes shape
- A direct line to the builder — your workflow shapes the tool
- The founding price, kept, when the Scholar plan launches
What we ask
- Read along for six weeks — one New Testament book, a manageable portion each week
- Two short conversations about what helped and what got in the way
- Honest feedback, especially the unflattering kind
The questions we’d ask too.
No. Lector is a language tool, and it stays denominationally neutral. It helps with grammar, vocabulary, morphology, and how a phrase works in context — it does not answer theological questions, and it never will.
Lector itself is real and shipping: an open-source reading workspace with tap-to-look-up, spaced-repetition cloze review, and first-party Anki export, currently covering 7 modern languages. The biblical packs are not shipped yet — morphology-aware lookup, corpus-frequency vocabulary, and verse-aligned texts for Koine Greek are what the founding cohort is helping design and test. We would rather tell you that plainly than sell you a screenshot.
Public-domain and permissively licensed editions of the Greek New Testament, with editions and licensing stated transparently before anything launches. Lexicon data will come from public-domain works (Abbott-Smith, Strong's-class data, and friends) — meaning no bundled BDAG or HALOT. If you need those, keep them; Lector's job is the reading-and-retention loop, not replacing your reference shelf.
Second, deliberately. Pointed Hebrew with right-to-left text is genuinely harder engineering than Greek, and we'd rather ship an excellent Greek New Testament experience first than a mediocre pair. Hebrew Bible support is on the roadmap and cohort members shape its priority.
Self-hosting Lector is free forever — it's open source, biblical packs included when they ship. The managed cloud version for biblical languages is planned as a Scholar plan at roughly US$99/year, with student and institutional pricing planned alongside it. Founding-cohort members help set that price and keep their founding rate.
No. This is being built for pastors preparing weekly, seminary students mid-coursework, and anyone whose hard-won Greek is quietly slipping — morphology help on tap means you can read above your parsing pay-grade while it comes back.
Reference platforms are superb at exegesis lookup — but an interlinear does the reading for you, which is exactly why the language fades. Lector is a learning loop: read the text, tap what you don't know, keep what matters, and review it until it's yours — in the app and in Anki.
Don’t let it fade.
One email is enough — tell us who you are and what you're trying to keep. We read every reply, and the first cohort is deliberately small.
Or write to us directly: [email protected]