Paul gave Timothy a plain instruction about the things he had been charged with: “Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress” (1 Timothy 4:15, ESV). The verb behind “practice” is μελετάω, and it is where this tool gets its name. Seminary asks a student to know a great deal by heart, and most of it has to be learned by being asked. A Greek paradigm is not known until it can be produced on demand. A catechism answer is not known until it can be said without the page. I built Meletao for my own preparation, so that I would always have someone to ask me, and I have left it open for any student facing the same material. It was called the Reformed Bible Quiz until now.
What Is In It
Meletao is arranged by category. You choose one, answer a question at a time, and get a score with a review of what you missed.
For Greek, it begins with the Koine alphabet and goes on to the 319 vocabulary words of Mounce’s Basics of Biblical Greek, then a second list that continues from word 315 to word 641, down to words that occur twenty times in the New Testament. There are chapter drills, and 136 forms to parse. None of it needs a Greek keyboard. An on-screen keyboard handles the typing, and parsing is done with menus.
For the catechism, it has all 107 questions of the Westminster Shorter Catechism with their proof texts.
For the English Bible, it covers the ground of the English Bible Exam at Reformed Theological Seminary: 145 key passages to locate, a summary of each of the 66 books, 86 biblical figures from Adam to Mark, and 17 questions that walk through redemptive history from creation to the consummation.
A mixed quiz draws from every category at once, for the days when the point is to be surprised.
How It Grades
Some answers are simply right or wrong, and those are checked exactly: a letter, a gloss, a parsing. On Greek, accents and breathing marks are not held against you.
Other answers cannot be checked that way. A catechism answer recited from memory will rarely match the page word for word, and a summary of Ruth can be right in a hundred different sentences. Those are graded for meaning rather than wording by an AI model, which is told to be strict with the catechism and to give partial credit on the summaries. The model only grades; check its judgment against the reference answer every review shows beside yours.
A study mode lets you read through a category in order before being quizzed on it. Scripture references open the passage in the ESV.
What It Keeps
There is no account and nothing to pay. Your last quiz and your record of commonly missed words stay in your own browser, which also means they do not follow you to another device. Answers are sent to the server to be graded and are not stored there.
It is still being refined. The question banks are being trimmed and corrected as I use them, and Greek vocabulary can be quizzed but not yet studied in order.