Data Credits & Licenses

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.

Datasets

OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data CC BY 4.0
OpenBible.info (Stephen Smith)
Place identifications and coordinates from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data by Stephen Smith, used under CC BY 4.0. Changes were made: records were selected, matched to our entries, and reformatted.
https://www.openbible.info/geo/ — version 7eb18a5ee62f27b9b93bd6689ea272d76dd23b8f — retrieved 2026-07-21 license

Licenses

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0). 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 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.

Scripture text, lexicon data, and our own articles are not covered by the dataset licenses above.