Sacred Tongues
Texts & sources
Every text on this site is listed here with its edition and the basis on which it is used. Where an edition is still being prepared, it is marked as such. If you hold rights in any text listed here and have a concern, write to the address in the footer and it will be addressed promptly.
Hebrew Bible
| Text | Edition | Basis | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masoretic Text | Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) | Freely distributed by the J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research | Live |
| Morphology & lemmas | Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB) | CC BY 4.0 | Live |
| Hebrew lexicon | Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890) with the Open Scriptures lexical index; Brown–Driver–Briggs (1906) to follow | Public domain / CC BY 4.0 | Live |
Greek New Testament
| Text | Edition | Basis | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family 35 | Wilbur N. Pickering, The Greek New Testament According to Family 35 | Distributed free by the editor | Coming soon |
| Byzantine | Robinson & Pierpont, The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform (2018) | Released to the public domain by the editors; parsing and Strong's numbers by M. A. Robinson (public domain) | Live |
| Textus Receptus | Scrivener 1894 (Robinson's tagged edition); Stephanus 1550 to follow | Public domain | Live |
| Westcott–Hort | 1881 (Robinson's tagged edition; margin readings omitted) | Public domain | Live |
| Nestle | 1904 (British & Foreign Bible Society); morphology from biblicalhumanities.org | Public domain / CC BY-SA | Live |
| Greek lexicon | Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) for glosses; Strong's Greek Dictionary (1890) for fuller entries | Public domain | Live |
Septuagint
| Text | Edition | Basis | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecclesiastical text | Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece (1928) | Reproduced for study; used with the understanding that the Church of Greece makes this text freely available for reading | Coming soon |
| Codex Vaticanus text | H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek (Cambridge, 1887–1894) | Public domain | Coming soon |
| Lucianic recension | P. de Lagarde, Librorum Veteris Testamenti Canonicorum Pars Prior (1883) — Genesis to Esther | Public domain | Coming soon |
| Daniel, Old Greek / Theodotion | Both forms, from Swete | Public domain | Coming soon |
Vocabulary lists
Hebrew chapter lists follow the sequence of Pratico & Van Pelt, Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 3rd ed. (Zondervan, 2019). Chapter groupings and word frequencies are factual; glosses are being revised to this site's own wording drawn from public-domain lexica.
Strong's numbers
Strong's numbering (1890) is used as an index to link words across texts and lexica. Glosses shown are from the lexica above, not from Strong's dictionary.