Attribution
Greek New Testament
Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus
The underlying Greek text for Script.re is the Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus. The digitization was graciously provided by the Trinitarian Bible Society. This text is in the Public Domain. We are in the process of reviewing the digitization against the facsimile scans and so far are finding it of incredibly high quality.
An older attempt at a clean Scrivener 1894 TR text may appear in the app in some places as we phase it out. This data was cross-verified from multiple independent digital sources including the CNTR KJTR, the Robinson SCV transcription (byztxt.com), and the CCEL Latin transliteration.
Robinson, Textus Receptus Parsing
Greek word information such as morphology and Strong's numbers was derived from Dr. Maurice A. Robinson's Textus Receptus with morphological parsing and Strong's numbers. This repository is maintained by Dr. Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen. This work has been aligned to the TBS digitization of the Scrivener 1894 text. Where the two texts cannot be aligned with confidence, we have left the Greek word without data at this time.
CNTR KJTR: Center for New Testament Restoration
The lemmas (dictionary forms) of each Greek word as well as the accented forms used to match Robinson's unaccented text to the Scrivener 1894 Greek came from this dataset. The King James Textus Receptus (KJTR) is a work by the Center for New Testament Restoration and Alan Bunning.
Hebrew Old Testament
Ginsburg Ben Chayyim 1894: Society for Distributing Hebrew Scriptures
The primary Hebrew Tanakh (Old Testament) text displayed in Script.re is the Ginsburg 1894 edition of the Ben Chayyim Masoretic Text (Second Rabbinic Bible, Venice 1524-25), digitized by the Society for Distributing Hebrew Scriptures. The Ben Chayyim text served as the standard printed Hebrew Bible for nearly four centuries and was the textual basis for the King James Version (1611) and other Reformation-era translations. It remains the foundation of the Koren Tanakh, the edition accepted by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel for synagogue use, and is the edition most closely aligned with the Textus Receptus tradition.
This edition of the Dr. C. D. Ginsburg 1894 text was digitised and first published in 2025 by the Society for Distributing Hebrew Scriptures. The Society for Distributing Hebrew Scriptures, as the editors and copyright-holders of this edition of the Word of God, hereby grant permission for this text to be freely reproduced and quoted from, as long as the text remain unchanged and this information is included, along with the requirement that it also be provided free and without any charge to the readers and end-users.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Westminster Leningrad Codex
The Strong's numbers on each Hebrew word are matched onto the Ginsburg text from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, a word-by-word tagging of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. The same project's markup supplies the paragraph breaks used to lay out the Old Testament. The Westminster Leningrad Codex itself is in the public domain.
STEPBible TAHOT: Translators Amalgamated Hebrew OT
Morphological codes for the Hebrew interlinear are derived in part from the TAHOT dataset by Tyndale House, Cambridge.
Lexicon & Strong's Concordance
Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament
Abbott-Smith's A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) is in the public domain. Script.re offers it as a selectable lexicon source alongside Strong's, and also draws on it for the sense shown beside each member of a compound word: its per-sense glosses ("to throw, cast, put, place") are true senses, where Strong's supplies an alphabetized list of the renderings the KJV happens to use.
- Status: Public domain (1922)
MACULA Greek: Louw-Nida Semantic Domains
Semantic domain classifications for New Testament Greek words are derived from the MACULA Greek linguistic annotations by Clear-Bible. These annotations assign Louw-Nida semantic domain codes to each word in the Nestle 1904 Greek New Testament. Script.re transfers these domain assignments to the Textus Receptus spine via Strong's number and morphology matching.
Ammonius Grammaticus: On the Differences of Similar Words
Ancient Greek synonym-distinction definitions from Ammonius (Peri Homoion kai Diaphoron Lexeon, 1st-2nd c. AD) are shown in the details panel for the selected word. The digital text is from the First1KGreek project (Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies), based on the Nickau (Teubner, 1966) critical edition.
MLVV, Dictionary of Contemporary Latvian
The primary Latvian monolingual dictionary shown in the word details panel is the Mūsdienu latviešu valodas vārdnīca (MLVV), a contemporary explanatory dictionary developed since 1997 by the Institute of the Latvian Language, Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia (Ieva Zuicena et al.). It contains over 58,000 entries based on recent Latvian usage.
Tēzaurs, Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian
For words not covered by MLVV (chiefly biblical proper names), definitions fall back to Tēzaurs, the largest open lexical database for Latvian, maintained by the AI Lab at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia. The database contains over 410,000 entries with phonetic, morphological, derivational, and semantic annotations.
Spanish Strong's Definitions: Machine-Generated Translation
Script.re aims to support the development of Bible study resources in many languages. As a demonstration of the platform's multilingual capabilities, the Spanish-language Strong's definitions were generated as a new, independent translation of the original 1890 public domain English definitions using Anthropic's Claude (Opus 4.6). This translation has not had significant manual review and may contain errors, awkward phrasing, or inaccuracies.
This Spanish translation is an original derivative work produced independently by Script.re. It is not derived from, and has no connection to, any existing copyrighted Spanish-language concordance product such as the Nueva Concordancia Strong Exhaustiva (Editorial Caribe / Grupo Nelson, 2002) or any other commercially published Spanish Strong's reference work.
- Source material: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain)
- Translation method: Machine translation via Anthropic Claude API (Opus 4.6)
- Status: Unreviewed draft: contributions and corrections are welcome
Word Anatomy & Concept Decomposition
Strong's Greek Dictionary (1890)
Strong's Greek Dictionary (1890) is in the public domain, and it supplies much of what Script.re shows for Greek words: the Strong's Concordance definitions, the "Translated as" rendering chips (parsed from Strong's KJV rendering lists), Greek headwords, transliterations, pronunciations, the derivation notes, and the concept decompositions (the "compound word" chips) parsed from those notes.
The digital text is Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen's Strong's Dictionary in XML with real Greek, version 1.9, released under the Creative Commons CC0 waiver, which descends from Michael Grier's 1996 public-domain e-text of the 1890 work. A copy of the XML together with its waiver is kept in Script.re's own repository. Every link in that chain is public domain or CC0; no share-alike claim applies to any of it. An earlier lossy conversion of the same transcription, published by the Open Scriptures project, was used previously and has been retired; it supplies no text and now serves only as a comparison witness.
Script.re's editorial changes to the dictionary data are disclosed here in full.
One addition to what Strong printed:
- G611 (ἀποκρίνομαι): the 1890 print derives it "from 575 and κρίνω", giving the second word without a number. Script.re additionally records that word's own Strong's number, G2919, so the compound chips can link to it. This is an addition to what Strong printed, not a correction of it.
Five corrections where the 1890 print was checked page by page against two scans and the digitization proved to have departed from it. In each case Script.re restores the printed reading:
- G250 (ἀλόη, aloes): the digitization cites Greek G174. The print sets the number in roman type, which is how Strong cites his Hebrew dictionary, and the Hebrew entry 174 is 'ahaliym, aloes. Corrected to H174.
- G912 (Βαραββᾶς): the digitization cites two Hebrew numbers. The print sets the second one, 5, in italic, which is how Strong cites his Greek dictionary, and G5 is Ἀββᾶ, Abba, which is what the entry's own gloss "son of Abba" requires. Corrected to G5.
- G3329 (μετάγω): the digitization derives it from G718. The print reads 71, ἄγω, which is what μετά + ἄγω requires. Corrected to G71.
- G3968 (πατρίς, fatherland): the digitization derives it from G3902. The print reads 3962, πατήρ, father. Corrected to G3962.
- G4715 (στατήρ, a coin): the digitization derives it from G2746. The print reads 2476, ἵστημι, "to stand", and the two neighbouring entries on the same page derive from 2476 as well. Corrected to G2476.
Where the digitization silently improves on the print, Script.re keeps the improvement rather than reprinting an obvious slip, and says so: at G1518, G2208, G2252, G2467, G3304, G3305, G3532 and G1510 the 1890 text prints a number that cannot be right (four of them point an entry at itself, and two point at a number Strong never used), and the digitization's reading is kept.
The full adjudication, including the 201 further candidates that were checked and came back needing no change, is published in the repository as data/lexicon-vendored/provenance/adjudication.tsv.
These changes are public domain; anyone may use them.
greek-inflexion, James Tauber
The stem and ending boundaries in the word anatomy display are generated with greek-inflexion, James Tauber's stem database and sandhi rule engine for New Testament Greek, validated letter-for-letter against the Scrivener 1894 text before anything is stored. His postag-convert (MIT) documents the Robinson morphology scheme used for parse conversion.
Smyth, Greek Grammar (1920)
The preverb sandhi rules (elision, aspiration, nasal assimilation) and the temporal augment classifications used to derive the four-way word anatomy are transcribed, with per-rule citations, from Herbert Weir Smyth's Greek Grammar (Harvard University Press, 1920), which is in the public domain.
Study Datasets
STEPBible TIPNR: Proper Names of the Bible
The Script.re named-entities layer (people, places, groups, and other proper nouns of the Bible, each disambiguated into a distinct individual) is derived from TIPNR (Translators Individualised Proper Names with all References) by Tyndale House, Cambridge, published by STEPBible. TIPNR's verse references and Strong's numbers are used at import time to anchor each named entity to the Hebrew and Greek source-text spine. The published layer is a reformatted derivative; the original TIPNR file is not redistributed from this project.
English Bible Editions
All English Bible editions currently available in Script.re are in the public domain or under Creative Commons.
King James Version (1769 & 1611)
The 1769 Blayney/Parris standard revision serves as the default edition of Scripture in the English language. In addition, the Heritage 1611 edition of the King James version is also made available and is currently undergoing a digitization review within the Heritage Editions Initiative.
- Status: Public domain
- 1769 source: CrossWire Sword Project
- 1611 source:
aruljohn/Bible-kjv-1611: plain text JSON of the 80-book canon. Verified against original 1611 facsimile scans for ampersands, thorn abbreviations (þͤ), macron-vowel nasal abbreviations (ō, ē, ū, ā), and other period typography.
- 1611 Marginal Notes: from the exhaustive listing of the 1611 marginal notes compiled by Calvin George literaturabautista.com. This work is undergoing review for digitization accuracy through the Heritage Editions Initiative, and will eventually be made available outside of the 1611 edition within the app.
- Display font (1611): KJV1611 typeface by Fredrick Brennan (SIL Open Font License). Designed as a faithful restoration of the 1611 blackletter, with ligatures for the period thorn-with-superscript-e abbreviation and other period forms. This font is used for the entire rendering of the 1611 within Script.re as well as certain characters for substitution in the Tyndale font rendering.
CrossWire KJV OSIS: CrossWire Bible Society
The KJV 1769 text, along with its word-level Strong's tagging, is sourced from the CrossWire Sword Project KJV OSIS XML module. This work served as the starting point for the alignment of the KJV text to the Hebrew and Greek texts.
World English Bible
The World English Bible is a modern English Bible in the Public Domain with wide coverage of deuterocanonical books. As such, it serves as a primary fallback edition for deuterocanonical books that are missing from other editions.
- Status: Public domain (dedicated to the public domain by its publisher)
- Source: eBible.org
Douay-Rheims (1899 American Edition, Challoner)
The classic Catholic English Bible. Translated at the English College in Douai (Old Testament, 1609-1610) and Rheims (New Testament, 1582) from the Latin Vulgate, and revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in the 18th century (1749-1752). The 1899 American Edition reset that text with American spelling conventions.
Tyndale (1534 New Testament, 1530 Pentateuch, 1531 Jonah)
William Tyndale's English translation of the New Testament from Erasmus's Greek (1519/1522 editions), the textual substrate of what would later be named the Textus Receptus. The 1534 revised edition (The Newe Testament, Dylygently Corrected and Compared With the Greke, Antwerp: M. Emperowr) is the form Tyndale revised before his martyrdom in 1536. Roughly 80-90% of KJV New Testament phrasing traces directly back to Tyndale.
Included in our rendering of this edition are Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch (1530) and Jonah (1531).
The digitization is being reviewed under the Heritage Editions Initiative along with a restoration of marginal notes and prologue content.
- Status: Public domain (1530, 1531, 1534)
- Primary source: ebible.org engtnt USFM: explicitly Public Domain. Contains the verse text in normalized period spelling (Iesus, Dauid, generacion) without the original typographic abbreviations.
- Diplomatic enrichment source: EEBO-TCP
A68940, the Text Creation Partnership's diplomatic transcription of the 1534 Antwerp printing. Released into the public domain by the partner libraries on 1 January 2015 as part of EEBO-TCP Phase 1. Preserves period typography (long-s ſ, thorn abbreviations, macron-vowels, original capitalization) that the ebible.org transcription normalizes away. Used by Script.re to recover the diplomatic forms of the text for the typographic rendering layer.
- Display font: UnifrakturCook by the UnifrakturProject (SIL Open Font License), a heavier Schwabacher-flavored blackletter matching the Antwerp Bastarda print of the 1534 original.
- Pentateuch and Jonah: EEBO-TCP (https://textcreationpartnership.org/) A13203 (The Pentateuch, 1530) and A16000 (The prophete Ionas, 1531), diplomatic transcriptions from the same EEBO-TCP Phase 1 public-domain release. These are the sole source for these books; the ebible.org text covers the New Testament only.
R.H. Charles: 1 Enoch and Jubilees
R.H. Charles's English translations of 1 Enoch (1912) and Jubilees (1913), books of the Ethiopian Orthodox canon.
Wikisource: 1-3 Meqabyan, 3 Maccabees, and the Rest of Esther
Community English translations from Wikisource's Translation namespace. They supply 1-3 Meqabyan and the Rest of Esther, which have no public-domain English edition in Script.re, and offer an alternative English 3 Maccabees to the World English Bible's.
American Standard Version (1901)
The American Standard Version (1901) is in the public domain in the United States. Script.re uses the ASV as a demonstration translation for its content protection system. The copyright controls applied to the ASV, including copy quotas, API rate limits, DOM obfuscation, and response encoding, are for testing and demonstration purposes only. They simulate the restrictions that would apply to a genuinely copyrighted translation licensed for display on Script.re.
When Script.re obtains permission to display copyrighted Bible translations, those works will be listed on this page with their applicable copyright notices, license terms, and publisher contact information.
- Status: Public domain (copyright demonstration)
- Original publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons (1901)
- Source: the getBible API's ASV text. Where that text runs words together ("AndDavid"), Script.re restores the spacing, and each such correction was checked against a facsimile of the 1901 printing.
Licensed and Permission-Based Works
The works below are under copyright and appear in Script.re with the permission of their copyright holders. Copyrighted Bible translations will be listed here, with their copyright notices and license terms, as they are added.
Glika Bībele, 8. izdevums: Latvijas Bībeles savienība
The eighth edition of the Glück Bible is © Latvijas Bībeles savienība (Latvian Bible Union), 2016, and is used in Script.re with their kind permission.
We are deeply grateful to the Latvian Bible Union, not only for permission to use their text, but for the personal time and care their team has given to helping the Script.re project. Their generosity has shaped Script.re's Latvian work from the beginning.
- Copyright: © Latvijas Bībeles savienība 2016. Used with permission.
Public Domain Content Sources
All of the works below are in the public domain. We credit the projects whose digital editions Script.re builds on, with thanks for their work.
Reina-Valera 1909
The 1909 revision of the Reina-Valera Spanish Bible.
Church Fathers and Sermons
- John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew, translated by George Prevost, revised by M.B. Riddle, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Vol. 10 (ed. Philip Schaff, 1889). Source: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David and sermons. Source: The Spurgeon Archive
Dictionaries and Lexicons
- Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Digital edition: DataWar/1828-dictionary (MIT License).
- Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), unabridged. Digital edition formatted by Eliran Wong from text provided by Tim Morton (Bible Analyzer): eliranwong/unabridged-BDB-Hebrew-lexicon.