בְּשׂוֹרָה

Besorah

The whole Bible,
in the languages it was written in.

The Tanakh in Hebrew and the Septuagint, the New Testament in Greek and Hebrew, and the Apocrypha — every text paired with English, in the traditional Jewish book order, with study tools built in.

Open the app Get the terminal edition

Free to use in your browser — nothing to install, works offline once loaded. The iPhone & iPad app is on the App Store; the Mac App Store app is on the way.

Genesis 1 in Parallel view: the Hebrew text beside the English, with a chapter and book sidebar

Free foreverNo ads, no purchases, no subscription.

Private by designNo accounts, no analytics, no tracking.

Works offlineEvery text and study tool is inside the app.

Made to be readFour reading environments, in dark or light.

What’s included

The whole Bible, plus the Apocrypha

Two volumes on the shelf, four original-language texts, and the Septuagint’s extra books — each original paired with its English, sharing one numbering so lines always match up.

Tanakh

תַּנַ״ךְ

Torah → Nevi’im → Ketuvim in the traditional Jewish order — Genesis to Chronicles, 39 books.

Hebrew · Westminster Leningrad CodexVowel points kept, cantillation stripped for easy reading
Septuagint · Brenton’s Greek & EnglishAligned verse-by-verse to the Hebrew numbering
English · World Messianic BibleRe-versified onto the Hebrew numbering so it lines up
Targumim · Onkelos, Pseudo-Jonathan & Jonathan on IsaiahAramaic and English (Etheridge), beside the book they translate

New Covenant

Καινὴ Διαθήκη

Matthew to Revelation — all 27 books, in two original-language editions.

Greek · SBL Greek New TestamentCritical text with its apparatus sigla
Hebrew · Salkinson–GinsburgThe classic Hebrew translation of the New Testament
English · World Messianic BibleTravels with each original

Apocrypha

Ἀπόκρυφα

The books found only in the Septuagint, in their own Apocrypha section at the end of the Tanakh index — Greek with Brenton’s English.

Wisdom · Sirach · Baruch
Tobit · Judith
Maccabees · 1 Esdras
Bel · Susanna · Prayer of Manasseh …and the rest of the Septuagint canon

4original-language texts

6texts to read side by side

14,000+Strong’s entries

40look-and-feel combinations

The Tanakh book index in Jewish order: Torah, Nevi’im, The Twelve and Ketuvim, each book named in Hebrew and English

Hebrew numbering is canonical. The Greek texts are mapped to it — including the Psalms’ different numbering and the Jeremiah chapter reordering — so switching between Hebrew and Septuagint always lands you in the right place.

Reading

Four ways to lay out a page

Choose which texts to show with one tap — each is a column — then choose how they’re arranged.

Parallel

Hebrew, Septuagint and English side by side, verse for verse. Add or remove columns from the Texts menu: any combination of the originals and their English translations.

Septuagint verses align to the Hebrew by verse, even where the two are numbered differently
Verse rows stay aligned across columns
Hebrew and Greek set right-to-left / left-to-right correctly, with proper typefaces

Psalm 23 in three columns: Hebrew, English and Septuagint Greek

Interlinear

Every word becomes a stack: the original, its transliteration, and the English beneath it. Tap any word for its full dictionary card.

Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament, word-aligned
Septuagint with transliteration and short glosses
Hebrew New Testament — approximate, and labelled as such
Separate size controls for the original, transliteration and English

Genesis 1 interlinear: each Hebrew word with its transliteration and English gloss beneath

Reader

One text flowing as prose, with real paragraph breaks from the source editions, drop-cap openings and inline verse numbers. For when you want to simply read.

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Linear

Texts stacked per verse — each verse shows its Hebrew, then its English, then the next verse. Ideal on a phone.

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Switch source

Hebrew ↔ Septuagint in the Tanakh; Greek ↔ Hebrew in the New Testament. The English travels with whichever original you pick.

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Shareable links

The address bar always carries exactly what you’re looking at — the view, the columns and a verse — so a copied link reopens the same page.

Careful with the text

The details scholars and scribes notice

The text is typeset with the conventions of the manuscript tradition rather than flattened into plain lines.

Poetry as poetry

The Song of the Sea, Haazinu, the Song of Deborah, David’s song — and the New Covenant canticles of Mary, Zechariah and Simeon — set in their scribal line-shape.

Acrostics marked

Psalm 119, 145, 34, Proverbs 31 and Lamentations show each stanza’s Hebrew letter in gold.

Scribal traditions

Inverted nuns, the large ע and ד of the Shema, the small ה of Genesis 2:4, suspended letters — drawn as scribes wrote them.

The Name, reverently set

The Tetragrammaton is set apart in Hebrew; Greek nomina sacra can be shown with an overline or contracted to ΘΣ / ΚΥ as the earliest copyists wrote them.

Weekly Torah portion

This week’s parashah, Haftarah (Ashkenazi, Sephardi or Yemenite) and Besorah reading, checked off as you go. Calendar built in to 2035.

Reading plans

Bible in a year, New Testament in 90 days, the four Gospels in 30, the Torah in 60, Psalms & wisdom in 90 — plus Five Psalms a day and a daily whole-Bible walk.

Search every verse, in every language

One search box finds matches across the Hebrew, Greek and English at once — and it knows that שָׁלוֹם and שלום are the same word.

Vowel- and accent-insensitive: type plain letters, match pointed and accented text; final letters (ך ם ן ף ץ, ς) fold to their medial forms
Real search grammar: "exact phrase", lov* wildcards, +must -exclude, and full /regex/flags that match the pointed text, with Unicode-aware word boundaries
By Strong’s number: strong:H430 finds every verse using a word — across the Hebrew Bible, or both Greek editions for G numbers
Scope it (“In:”): Torah, Prophets, Writings, Gospels, Pauline letters, the Targumim, Apocrypha — about twenty collections, or any single book
Filter by text: Hebrew/Greek originals only, English only, or the Targumim only; restrict to the Tanakh or the New Testament; whole-word and case-sensitive toggles
Filter the results: a “Show” row narrows hits to the Tanakh, New Testament, Apocrypha or Targum, and a per-book strip shows where the hits fall — tap a book to search only there
Smart suggestions: type “love” and see the Hebrew and Greek words behind it; type “John 3:16”, “Ps 23” or “Onkelos Gen 1:1” and jump straight there
Shareable: the query, scope and filters live in the address, so a search is a link — and recent searches and saved searches are kept for you
Command palette (⌘K): jump to any book, verse, word or setting from anywhere
Find in chapter with ⌘F / Ctrl+F, highlighting every match without disturbing your own highlights
In the terminal too: besorah search "in the beginning" --in torah --targum --whole --count

Search results for lov* excluding hate: 1,125 matches across Hebrew, Septuagint and English with matched words highlighted and a per-book facet strip

Language tools

Strong’s, parsing and cross-references — built in

Tap a word, any word. No second app, no internet connection required.

Strong’s Concordance on every text

Hebrew Bible — nearly every word (99.9%) tagged to its Strong’s number
Greek New Testament — 97% of verses fully tagged
Septuagint — Brenton’s Greek word-tagged (~80% of words), so you can study Old Testament Greek too
Hebrew New Testament — tagged by matching each word to the tagged Hebrew Bible (~93%); approximate, and the card says so

Every Strong’s number has its own page: lemma, transliteration, definition, KJV renderings, a per-book bar chart of where it occurs, words rendered the same way, and every verse that uses it. A word browser lets you search all 14,000 entries by number, transliteration or meaning.

The word page for H430, Elohim: Hebrew lemma, definition, 2,595 occurrences and a bar chart by book

Word card

Tap a word in the reader for its Strong’s number, lemma, common renderings, occurrence count and a one-tap “find every occurrence”.

Morphology

Parsing for Hebrew and Greek words: “Verb · Qal · Perfect · 3rd masc. sing.” — from the OSHB and MorphGNT data.

Cross-references

A button on every verse opens related passages with their text, from OpenBible.info’s voted links — and each one leads to its own web of references.

Occurrence search

strong:H430 finds every verse that uses a word — across the Hebrew Bible, or across both Greek editions for G numbers.

A page for every verse

Open any verse — #/verse/GEN.1.1 or besorah verse Gen 1:1 — to see every text of it side by side (Hebrew, Septuagint, Targum, English), the interlinear, each word and its cross-references together.

Make it yours

Bookmarks, highlights and notes

Mark up the text the way you would a printed Bible — and take it with you.

John 3:16 in the reader with three highlights in yellow, pink and green

Select to highlight

Highlights in six colours — select any words, in any language, and pick a colour
Bookmarks — star any verse; they’re listed with the verse text
Notes on any verse, highlight, bookmark or even a search result
Saved views for bookmarks and highlights, filterable by colour, with-notes and sortable
Reading progress — chapters mark themselves read as you scroll past them; every book shows a progress bar, gold when finished
Export & import everything as a readable JSON backup (merges without overwriting), or print a saved-items report as a PDF
Sync between your Mac and iPhone through an iCloud Drive folder — your notes stay yours, no account needed

The Highlights page listing three highlighted passages from John 3:16 with colour filters and a search box

Look & feel

Four reading environments, five colours, two moods

Change the page, the type and the ornaments — then set the size of every language exactly how your eyes like it.

Psalm 23 on a warm parchment page with a gold drop-cap — **Parchment**Warm paper, classic book type, quiet ink

John 1 in Greek on a cream page with a large initial and red-and-blue rubrics — **Early Print**Renaissance serif, a framed page

John 3 on a clean dark page in emerald — **Modern Edition**A clean, contemporary scholarly book

The home page: two leather-bound volumes, Tanakh and New Covenant, on a lit wooden shelf — **Digital**The original leather-and-gold look

Dark & Light, tinted

Pick an accent — blue, gold, emerald, royal red or purple — and the whole app re-tints: backgrounds, ink, even the favicon.

Text sizing, per language

Independent size, weight, letter-spacing and line-height for Hebrew, Greek and English — or link the sizes so they move together. Type an exact number or drag a slider with a live preview.

Made for reading

Alegreya for Greek and English, Shofar for Hebrew, Cormorant for headings. Oldstyle figures in text, justified paragraphs with hyphenation, and gematria chapter numbers in Hebrew.

Settings that stay out of the way

Haftarah tradition, nomina sacra style, keep-screen-on while reading, a command palette (⌘K) for every action, keyboard shortcuts for everything (press ?), and chrome that tucks away as you scroll.

Everywhere you read

One app, on every screen

The same features across the web, Mac, iPhone and iPad, your terminal, and the TV.

On the web

A full installable web app — add it to your home screen and it works offline, with every book cached the first time you open it.

Open the app →

Mac & iPhone/iPad

Native apps with home-screen and desktop widgets — weekly portion, daily Psalms, Continue Reading, bookmarked and highlighted verses — and Siri Shortcuts. iPhone & iPad: download on the App Store. Mac App Store: coming soon.

In the terminal

A complete reader, search and Strong’s lookup on the command line, for Mac and Linux, with a free download.

See the terminal edition →

On the TV

A Roku app for reading on the big screen — Hebrew, Greek and English, highlights, word study and plans — free to sideload now.

See the Roku app →

Start reading

Besorah runs the full app in your browser — free, with no account and no ads.

Open the app Download for Mac & Linux terminals

Web

Available now · works offline once opened · install to your home screen

Terminal · Mac & Linux

Available now · Apple Silicon, Intel, x86-64 and ARM64 downloads

Roku TV

Available now as a free sideload · install steps

Mac App Store

Coming soon

iPhone & iPad

Available now · free on the App Store

The whole Bible,in the languages it was written in.