Undertext — sit with the language beneath the verse

Undertext

Not a translation. The language that lives beneath the verse — Hebrew, Greek, and the Aramaic Peshitta — held one word at a time.

Book

Chapter

Verse

gathering the words…

Sources & Licenses

Every word here comes from an open scholarly dataset. Nothing is generated.

English text — KJV

King James Version (1769), public domain. Shown as the familiar surface text only.

github.com/aruljohn/Bible-kjv

Public Domain

Hebrew OT — Westminster Leningrad Codex

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb): WLC consonantal text (public domain) with lemma + morphology tagging.

github.com/openscriptures/morphhb

CC BY 4.0 (tagging) · WLC text PD

Greek NT — OpenGNT

Open Greek New Testament (NA28-equivalent), keyed to Tyndale House extended Strong's, Tauber/Robinson morphology, and Tyndale/Mounce glosses.

github.com/eliranwong/OpenGNT

CC BY-SA 4.0

Aramaic Peshitta (NT) — SEDRA via sedrajs

Syriac New Testament word data with lexeme links and English glosses, converted from the SEDRA 3 database. Syriac script and transliteration derived from the CAL encoding.

github.com/peshitta/sedrajs

Restricted: personal/academic, non-commercial, no redistribution of altered files

“This work makes use of the Syriac Electronic Data Retrieval Archive (SEDRA) by George A. Kiraz, distributed by the Syriac Computing Institute.” Conversion code © Greg Borota (MIT). Peshitta is a New Testament text, so it does not appear on Hebrew OT verses.

Lexicon — Strong's Hebrew & Greek

A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Hebrew Bible (1894) and Greek of Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), digitized by Open Scriptures.

github.com/openscriptures/strongs

CC BY-SA · underlying text PD

Undertext is a study prototype, built for stillness rather than scholarship-grade precision. Treat glosses as a doorway, not a verdict.