Each line, one complete thought.

Reading Modes

To switch modes: tap the Greek or English pill in the layer bar at the top of the screen. Both pills lit shows interleaved Greek + English; either pill alone shows only that layer. The reader prevents turning off the last visible layer (a brief refusal flash signals the click was registered but blocked).

What Is a Sense-Line?

Each line in this edition is a sense-line — one complete thought, the natural unit you would pause on if you read the passage aloud. (In scholarly work these are called atomic thought units, or ATUs.) The Septuagint was composed to be heard, not read silently.

Verse numbers, paragraphs, and punctuation were all added centuries later, and can blur that flow. This edition restores it — breaking the text into sense-lines at the points where the Greek grammar itself begins a new thought.

Navigation

• Tap the menu icon, the book name, or the chapter number in the top bar to open the navigation panel.
• Tap a chapter number, then select a verse to jump directly to it.
• URL format: #book-chapter-verse (e.g., #genesis-1-1)
• Tap the home icon inside the navigation panel to return to the landing page.
• Use arrow keys or the floating arrows at screen edges to move between chapters.

Search (bilingual)

• Tap the magnifying glass icon or press Ctrl+F to open search.
• Search matches both the Greek and Brenton's English — a query hits a verse if either layer matches, and each result shows the layer that matched.
• Type Greek without worrying about case or accents/breathings.
• Use quotes for an exact phrase: "ἐν ἀρχῇ".
• Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT, NEAR5, parentheses (Greek layer).
• Tap a result to navigate directly to that verse.

Settings

• Punctuation: Show or hide editorial punctuation (hidden by default — it is not original to the text).
• Verse numbers: Show or hide verse reference numbers.
• Text size: Small, Medium, or Large.

Greek/English layer toggles live in the layer bar at the top of the screen, not in this Settings panel.

About

Greek text & segmentation: Greek text from CenterBLC's Text-Fabric edition of Rahlfs' Septuagint (1935). Segmentation has two sources: for Genesis and Ruth, the UD_Ancient_Greek-PTNK dependency treebank provides gold-standard hand-annotated colometric structure. For Exodus through Malachi, segmentation is derived by projecting Hebrew clause-atom boundaries from the BHSA treebank through the CATSS Hebrew/Greek parallel alignment onto the Greek text — a substrate-projection method that yields a v1 colometric baseline pending future refinement.

English: Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton's The Septuagint with Apocrypha: Greek and English (London: Bagster, 1844) — the standard public-domain English translation of the Septuagint.

Method: ATUs derived from Greek grammatical structure using syntax-tree analysis of the UD_Ancient_Greek-PTNK dependency treebank, following the scholarly tradition of colometric formatting for oral delivery.

For more information, see the project on GitHub.

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