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Greek System

Occasionally on simplybible.com Greek words are shown, but in a simplified manner that best suits our purpose.

Greek character entities are specified by numbers in the form Α --a different number for each Greek letter. The table below gives all the information. The task is simplified however, by a special library function GetGreek(). This will automatically transform English letters into proper Greek characters. Most Greek characters are represented by a single letter, but seven characters need two letters. The scheme is almost the same as in Strongs, so it is familiar and easy to remember.

Here is an example of how the function is used. Where the Greek word is to appear, put... <script>new GetGreek("k,u,r,i,a,k,o,sf")</script>. In this example the word comes out as .

Breathing. Ignore a soft breathing, but use the letter h to indicate a hard breathing at the beginning of the word. For example <script>new GetGreek("h,a,d,e,sf")</script> will yield . Note how the h in the data string has translated into an acute accent, which is the nearest thing to a hard breathing that available character entities provide.

Space. If more than one Greek word is required, use the underline character to indicate a space, as in <script>new GetGreek("e,n,_,CH,r,i,s,t,o,sf")</script> which will produce . Note the script includes nobreak tags to stop the Greek phrase from breaking at the space.

Color and Style. A default style "greek" is provided. This presents the Greek in purple using the Times New Roman font which presents the Greek characters a little better than Arial. There are five other choices of styles. To get a style other than the default, include a digit 1-5 in the data string.

• 1 = Big (default enlarged)
• 2 = Arial boldred
• 3 = Arial boldgreen
• 4 = Arial boldpurple
• 5 = Normal type

Table of Greek Codes

In the table below, the codes to insert into the function's data string are shown in the blue boxes.

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