Hebrew Bible Reader & Word Study
Read and study the Hebrew Bible in the original language with interactive tools for Biblical Hebrew morphology, vocabulary, lexical study, Qere/Ketiv, cantillation, and Biblical Aramaic.
Select a Hebrew word to examine its lemma, grammatical form, meaning, frequency, morphology, and other available source-backed information. The reader is designed for students, pastors, teachers, translators, and anyone learning to read the Hebrew Bible more confidently.
Read and Study the Hebrew Bible
Choose a biblical book and chapter below. You can adjust the Hebrew display, inspect individual words, prepare chapter vocabulary, and practice recognizing grammatical forms.
Biblical Hebrew Study
Hebrew Bible Reader
Read the source text, inspect morphology, prepare vocabulary, and keep Qere/Ketiv visible without merging textual layers.
Select a word for lexical and morphological help. Qere markers are source annotations; they never silently replace the Ketiv text.
Passage preparation
Chapter vocabulary
Known-word status is stored only in this browser. It is never sent to the server.
Source-backed practice
Parse forms from this chapter
Practice questions are generated only from morphology explicitly attached to OSHB words. Person, gender, number, state, stem, and verbal-form labels follow the supplied OSHB morphology code documentation. Incorrect answers can enter a bounded browser-local review queue; nothing is sent to WordPress.
Descriptive only
Chapter statistics
These figures describe the loaded source annotation. They are not a universal difficulty score and do not support historical or theological conclusions by themselves.
Source firewall
Sources & methodology
Running text and morphology: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), based on the Westminster Leningrad Codex. The supplied OSHB archive controls verse identity, word IDs, Hebrew/Aramaic language tags, lemmas, morphology, Qere/Ketiv annotations, vowels, cantillation, Maqaf, and Sof Pasuq in this release.
Lexical layer: Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon supplies the augmented-lemma bridge, Lexical Index, Brown–Driver–Briggs text, and Strong’s Hebrew dictionary. BDB and Strong’s are displayed as historical resources; Strong numbers are secondary identifiers.
Learner gloss: a deterministic BHS learner aid taken conservatively from the Open Scriptures Lexical Index definition when present, otherwise from the supplied public-domain Strong definition. It is not presented as BDB wording.
Unicode: source Hebrew is preserved without NFC normalization. Display options remove selected combining marks only for presentation and never rewrite stored corpus data.
Qere/Ketiv: the primary OSHB text remains visible. “Expand Qere” displays the supplied reading annotation alongside the written text; the application does not silently substitute one tradition for the other.
Excluded audited sources in v0.4.0
unfoldingWord Hebrew Bible is retained as an independent editorial/versification layer; STEPBible TAHOT and TBESH are excluded by the rights/provenance firewall; MACULA linguistic fields are reserved for a later field-level whitelist; unfoldingWord Hebrew Grammar is reserved for a later grammar stage. No separate Aramaic Grammar or UXLC archive was supplied for this build.
Exact release identities
Study Biblical Hebrew Word by Word
Click or tap a Hebrew word to open its study information. Depending on the available source data, you may see its lemma, learner gloss, part of speech, morphology, verb stem, verbal form, person, gender, number, state, lexical references, frequency, and Qere/Ketiv information.
Raw database codes are not intended to be the main learning experience. Morphology is presented in clearer forms such as Qal perfect, third person masculine singular, while source details remain available for deeper study.
Learn Vocabulary in Context
Vocabulary is easier to remember when encountered repeatedly in actual biblical passages. Use the chapter vocabulary tools to identify common and uncommon words before reading.
You can filter vocabulary by frequency, mark words you already know, and concentrate on unfamiliar words. Your known-word progress is stored locally in your browser rather than being sent to the website.
Practice Hebrew Parsing
Use the parsing exercises to practice identifying grammatical forms found in the selected biblical chapter. Immediate feedback helps you recognize Hebrew verb stems and verbal forms while the actual biblical context remains close at hand.
A useful study method is to identify the form yourself first, check your answer, and then return to the verse and consider how the form functions in context.
Qere, Ketiv, Vowels and Cantillation
The reader preserves important features of the Masoretic Hebrew text. Where the source securely identifies a Qere/Ketiv reading, the written and read forms remain distinguishable rather than being silently combined.
Vowel points and cantillation marks are also preserved, with display options that allow you to simplify the text as your reading ability develops.
Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic
The Hebrew Bible contains both Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic. Where the corpus securely identifies the language, the reader distinguishes them rather than treating Aramaic as merely another form of Hebrew.
This provides a foundation for increasingly specialized Biblical Aramaic vocabulary and grammar tools as the application develops.
Learn to Read Hebrew More Independently
The goal of Biblical Hebrew Study is not simply to provide instant answers. It is to help you depend less on them over time.
Read the Hebrew first, identify what you can, inspect unfamiliar forms only when necessary, review important vocabulary, and then reread the passage. Repeated exposure to real biblical Hebrew gradually strengthens vocabulary recognition, morphological awareness, and reading fluency.
Use this interactive reader together with the Biblical Hebrew lessons and learning resources on BiblicalHebrew.org as you progress from individual words toward confident reading of complete biblical passages.