About See the Bible

The purpose of See the Bible is to help us all dig a little deeper into the scriptures. To slow down, take up good tools, set aside what we assume the text says, and let the words come alive.

Our goal is not to interpret the scriptures for you, nor do we promote a specific denominational framework. Instead, our mission is to provide the raw, mechanical tools—the ancient grammar, the historical geography, and the lexical data—so that you can read the text closely and let the scriptures speak for themselves.

Where the text comes from

The Hebrew scripture text, lexicon, and the people, places, timelines, and relationships on See the Bible are built from our own editorial research together with the open datasets credited below. Individual facts carry their citations wherever they appear on the site.

Licenses

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0). The Hebrew Old Testament text and its morphology are the Westminster Leningrad Codex as encoded by the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible project — original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb. Portions of our place and people data derive from STEPBible Data (TIPNR), created by Tyndale House, Cambridge, and from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data by Stephen Smith. Each is used under the CC BY 4.0 license. Changes were made: records were selected, matched to our own entries, and reformatted for this site.

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 4.0). Portions of our timeline and relationship data derive from Theographic Bible Metadata by Robert Rouse (Viz.Bible), used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. In keeping with its ShareAlike terms, the data we derived from it is available under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license — contact us for an export.

Public domain. Word numbers and definitions come from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (James Strong, 1890) and the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (1906), both long out of copyright. The Westminster Leningrad Codex underlying the Hebrew text is itself public domain; the CC BY 4.0 license above covers the Open Scriptures encoding, lemma tagging, and morphology built on top of it.

Fonts. Hebrew is set in SBL Hebrew from the Society of Biblical Literature, and Greek in GFS Neohellenic from the Greek Font Society. Cuneiform is set in Assurbanipal, a Neo-Assyrian cuneiform font by Dr. Sylvie Vanséveren, which she makes freely available for scientific, educational and academic use; we serve it unaltered, with our thanks. Where a device cannot show it, Noto Sans Cuneiform from the Noto project stands in, under the SIL Open Font License.

Our own articles, chapter summaries, section headings, and editorial research are not covered by the dataset licenses above.