About Kanon Greek
By a seminarian, for seminarians.
Kanon Greek is a small, personal project — built by one Westminster Theological Seminary graduate who didn’t want to lose his Greek, and shared in the hope that it helps you keep yours.
Why I built this
My name is Ryan Frederick, and I lead this project. I’m a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary, and I would have loved to have this tool during my MDiv studies. Like every seminarian I know, I worked hard for my Greek — vocabulary cards in coat pockets, paradigm charts taped above the desk — and like almost every seminarian, I watched it start to slip the moment the exams were behind me.
What I wished for was simple: a fun way to review Greek vocabulary and paradigms that was actually sticky — something with the daily pull of the puzzles I already opened every morning, doing quiet scheduling work underneath so the words would stay. It didn’t exist. So I made this app.
The hope behind it
The church is served by men who can open the Greek New Testament and read it — not as a party trick, but so the text itself shapes the sermon. My hope for Kanon Greek is exactly that: to help godly men retain the Greek they labored for in seminary and preach with skill and conviction, for the glory of Christ.
Ten minutes a day isn’t heroic. Kept up for years, though, it’s the difference between a language you once studied and a Testament you still read. And if you’re not headed for a pulpit — a homeschool family, a student, a reader who simply loves the text — everything here is for you too.
Honest, and plain about it
There’s no company behind this — one seminary graduate, a code editor, and the conviction that the Greek you fought for shouldn’t fade. The daily puzzles are free to play; a membership is what funds the servers and the ongoing work. The vocabulary glosses are original or public-domain, and the Scripture text comes from freely licensed editions — nothing here is anyone else’s labor passed off as mine.
If you want the method itself — the spaced-repetition engine under the games and why it works — that story is on Why Kanon Greek.
The best way to know whether this helps is to play a day of it.
Play today’s DailyRead how the method works