Sources & licences

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The interlinear, the word pop-ups and the cross references are built from these openly licensed and public-domain works. Thank you to everyone who made them.

  1. Robinson–Pierpont Byzantine Textform 2018 (RP 2018), with Strong's numbers and parsing

    By
    Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont (byztxt)
    Licence
    Public domain (the Unlicense)
    Used for
    Greek New Testament words, Strong's numbers and parsing codes in the interlinear.
    Changes
    Two files of release v3.3.2 aligned word by word; paragraph marks (¶) are not shown; parsing codes are spelled out in words.
    Source
    github.com/byztxt/byzantine-majority-text

  2. Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC)

    By
    J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research
    Licence
    Public domain
    Used for
    Hebrew Old Testament words in the interlinear.
    Changes
    Morpheme dividers (/) removed for display.
    Source
    github.com/openscriptures/morphhb

  3. Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB): lemmas and morphology

    By
    Open Scriptures
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Used for
    Hebrew lemmas, Strong's numbers and morphology codes in the interlinear.
    Changes
    Morphology codes spelled out in words; homograph letters used to pick the matching dictionary entry.
    Source
    github.com/openscriptures/morphhb

  4. STEPBible TAHOT (Translators Amalgamated Hebrew OT)

    By
    STEPBible.org, based on work at Tyndale House, Cambridge
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Used for
    English word glosses and transliterations for the Hebrew interlinear.
    Changes
    Reformatted: each gloss was matched to an OSHB word by its consonants (about 99.5% of words); slashes removed; where no match was found, the OSHB lexical index gloss is shown instead. The STEPBible data itself is not redistributed here: please get it from STEPBible's GitHub.
    Source
    github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data

  5. Dodson Greek Lexicon

    By
    John Jeffrey Dodson
    Licence
    Public domain (CC0)
    Used for
    Short Greek glosses (interlinear and pop-ups).
    Changes
    None.
    Source
    github.com/biblicalhumanities/Dodson-Greek-Lexicon

  6. Strong's Greek and Hebrew dictionaries (1890)

    By
    James Strong; XML by Ulrik Petersen (Greek) and Open Scriptures (Hebrew)
    Licence
    Public domain
    Used for
    The Strong's entry in the word pop-ups.
    Changes
    Cross-references shown as numbers with the headword; the Hebrew file's abridged-BDB outlines are not used.
    Source
    github.com/openscriptures/strongs

  7. Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889)

    By
    Joseph Henry Thayer; digitization: Every Promise (imbennyhim/Every-Promise-Thayers)
    Licence
    Public domain text; CC0 edition
    Used for
    The Thayer section of the Greek pop-ups.
    Changes
    Split into paragraphs; may contain transcription slips from the digitization.
    Source
    github.com/imbennyhim/Every-Promise-Thayers

  8. Brown–Driver–Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (OSHB edition) and the OSHB Lexical Index

    By
    Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, C. A. Briggs (1906); XML: Open Scriptures
    Licence
    Public domain text; files CC BY 4.0
    Used for
    The BDB section and short gloss of the Hebrew pop-ups.
    Changes
    Converted to simple HTML (bold, italics, Hebrew); very long articles shortened, with a note.
    Source
    github.com/openscriptures/HebrewLexicon

  9. OpenBible.info cross references

    By
    OpenBible.info (largely from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge)
    Licence
    Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
    Used for
    Cross references on chapter pages and in the verse menu.
    Changes
    Only references with at least one vote, the 15 strongest per verse; mapped into each translation's numbering.
    Source
    www.openbible.info/labs/cross-references/

Audio recordings

The Audio Bible uses these public-domain recordings, copied to this site's own storage (re-encoded for speech; the words are unchanged).

  1. World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred Wardell Henson

    Reader
    Winfred Wardell Henson
    Licence
    LibriVox recordings are in the public domain in the USA (librivox.org/pages/public-domain/). eBible.org: "You may download, copy, and listen to this recording of the Holy Bible freely."
    Source
    ebible.org/eng-web/audio/ · ebible.org/eng-web/audio/winfred.htm · librivox.org/world-english-bible-complete/ · archive.org/details/worldenglishbible_1707_librivox
    Changes
    Re-encoded to mono MP3 for streaming; new ID3 tags. The performance is not edited. Mr Henson read an earlier edition of the World English Bible (about 2015), so a few words may differ from the WEB text shown on screen (the 2020 edition).
    Coverage
    1,189 of 1,189 chapters · Audio Bible

  2. Reina-Valera Antigua (RVA), read by Joyfull (LibriVox volunteer)

    Reader
    Joyfull (LibriVox volunteer)
    Licence
    LibriVox recordings are in the public domain in the USA (librivox.org/pages/public-domain/); the archive.org items carry the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0.
    Source
    librivox.org/reader/9972 · archive.org/search?query=Joyfull+Reina+Valera+librivox
    Changes
    Re-encoded to mono MP3 for streaming; new ID3 tags. The performance is not edited. Read from the Reina-Valera Antigua (RVA) text on BibleGateway. LibriVox labels several of these projects "Reina Valera 1909"; small wording differences from the RV 1909 shown on screen are possible.
    Coverage
    1,087 of 1,189 chapters · Audio Bible

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