For developers

Any page, in any format

Every chapter, book, word and list page exists as Markdown, plain text and JSON. Add a suffix, or ask with an Accept header; each HTML page also names its alternates in Link headers and <link rel="alternate"> tags.

curl https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/23.json
curl https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/23.txt
curl https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/23.md
curl -H 'Accept: application/json' https://besorah.bible/word/H430

REST API

Described by OpenAPI at /api/openapi.json (also at /openapi.json); an index of everything at /api; catalogue at /.well-known/api-catalog. Every MCP tool is a REST endpoint: GET /api/tools/{name}?arg=value or POST JSON. Add max_chars to cap an answer and format=markdown for a readable one.

curl 'https://besorah.bible/api/verse?ref=John 3:16-17'
curl 'https://besorah.bible/api/word?id=H430'
curl 'https://besorah.bible/api/tools/search_text?query=shepherd&language=english&book=Psalms'
curl -X POST https://besorah.bible/api/tools/query_words -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"grammar":"Hiphil imperative","book":"Isaiah"}'

MCP server (for AI assistants)

Setting it up in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code, with example prompts, is on Use with AI. A remote Model Context Protocol server over HTTP: https://besorah.bible/mcp (discovery card: /.well-known/mcp.json). 23 tools, plus resources and prompts. Everything in one file for an assistant to read: /llms-full.txt.

claude mcp add --transport http besorah https://besorah.bible/mcp

Tool	What it does
get_passage	Read a passage (verse, range or chapter) in its original language (Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic) and English, with a link.
get_verse_study	Everything Besorah knows about one verse (or a range of up to 5): text, word-by-word Strong's/lemma/parsing, cross-references, quotations between books, curated parallels, similar wording, questions it asks or answers, songs, scribal marks, Ketiv/Qere, Targum connections.
search_text	Search the text itself.
search_words	Find Hebrew or Greek words (Strong's entries) from an English word, a transliteration ('shalom', 'agape') or the original word.
get_word	A Strong's lexicon entry (Hebrew H… or Greek G…): lemma, definition, KJV renderings, occurrences, for Hebrew the Brown–Driver–Briggs entry, how names are built, verses per book, and the Septuagint renderings of a Hebrew word (or the Hebrew words a Greek word renders).
get_word_occurrences	Every verse a Strong's number is in (Hebrew Tanakh, Greek New Testament and Septuagint), with the text, optionally within one book.
get_related_passages	For one verse: voted cross-references, quotations in either direction between books, curated parallel passages, and similar wording.
get_cross_references	Cross-references for one verse (voted, OpenBible.info); the first few include their English text.
get_book_connections	The chapters a book (or one chapter) is most joined to by cross-references across the whole Bible.
list_books	Every book with its code, chapter count, the editions it exists in, and its URL; also the editions.
list_songs	Songs and prayers inside Scripture (the Song of the Sea, Hannah's prayer, the Magnificat…), by kind.
list_questions	Questions asked in one place and answered in another (e.g.
get_targum_connections	Where the Targumim and the New Testament share an idea or phrase.
get_parashah	A weekly Torah portion with its Torah, Haftarah and Besorah (New Testament) readings.
get_guide	How Besorah's texts and tools fit together, and the conventions (numbering, ids, codes).
query_words	Find every word by grammar and/or Strong's number, within a book or testament — e.g.
get_collocations	The words that keep company with a Hebrew or Greek word: which other words most often appear in the same verse, ranked by how much more than chance.
get_vocabulary	A book's vocabulary: size, most frequent and most characteristic words (summary); hapax legomena (words used once in the whole text); words used only in that book; or every word by frequency.
compare_books	Compare two books' vocabularies: how many words they share, the rare words they share (most of whose uses are in these two books), and the words only one uses.
get_context	A verse in its setting in one call: the verses before and after, the verse (or up to 5) word by word, and its cross-references, quotations and parallels.
trace_theme	Follow a passage's connections outward — voted cross-references plus quotations and parallels between books — one to three steps, and return the verses most strongly connected, with their text.
compare_witnesses	One verse across the texts: Hebrew, the Septuagint (matched by the app's verse tables, even where numbered differently), the Targumim, the Greek and Hebrew New Testament, and the quotations that join them — with the Greek words a New Testament quotation and the Septuagint do and do not share.
get_quotations	Where the New Testament quotes the Old, in either direction: give a New Testament book/chapter/verse for the Old Testament passages it quotes, or an Old Testament one for the New Testament passages that quote it.

Feeds and calendars

The weekly and daily reading schedules, always current: https://besorah.bible/feeds/torah-portion.xml, https://besorah.bible/feeds/besorah-portion.xml, https://besorah.bible/feeds/daily-psalms.xml, https://besorah.bible/feeds/mels-bible-study.xml — each also as .json (JSON Feed) and .ics (calendar); all at once as OPML; any reading plan as https://besorah.bible/feeds/plan/<plan>.ics?start=YYYY-MM-DD. See feeds and calendars.

Raw data

The app’s own data files are static JSON under https://besorah.bible/data/ (start at manifest.json). Licences and credits — including the CC BY-SA terms on adapted data — are in /data-licence.txt and Sources & credits.

Other ways to find things

/llms.txt, /sitemap.xml, /opensearch.xml (add Besorah as a browser search engine), /.well-known/security.txt.