November 2003

Greek Language—Palm OS/Pocket PC

Rodney Decker’s “Doing Greek” on a PalmOS Hand Held Computer [Index] [Home]

http://faculty.bbc.edu/RDecker/palm.htm

This page is part of Decker’s larger website that also includes a gateway of links to resources for New Testament study (see above). Decker has been using handhelds for several years and discusses his experience with using Greek language applications on the Palm OS platform, both advantages and limitations. His comments are helpful in giving a general orientation related to accessing Greek for the “mini’ crowd. A good first place to start if you have never owned a handheld and are considering one with the express purpose of “doing Greek.”

Jamie Macleod’s MiniFlash [Index] [Home]

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/spaw/

Jamie Macleod has provided a Palm OS (3.3 to 5.1) Greek and Hebrew flash card system. He also has added Latin and Aramaic. The Greek uses Mounce’s Teknia Greek font mappings. The Greek has full diacriticals and the Hebrew has vowel pointings. The program even is customizable: you can add your own new Greek words or even change the glosses to words. Very nice. The software is available at Macleod’s SouthPaw Solutions website.

Olive Tree’s BibleReader with Text Modules [Index] [Home]

http://www.olivetree.com/handheld/Palm/PalmBible.html

BibleReader is Olive Tree’s basic software engine that runs various Bible texts and software for Palm or Pocket PC. Of these are included Gramcord’s Gramcord Lite, which includes Greek parsing and a Greek dictionary. Olive Tree offers a Greek NT (NA27) with all accents and diacriticals, the LXX, and the Hebrew Masoretic text with vowel pointing, along with other Greek texts and numerous English translations. While one cannot do extensive tagged, grammatical research, as in a full-blown computer version, the basic Greek text with parsing and dictionary will prove quite useful for on-the-go reference. Eerdmans Bible Dictionary also is now available.