# Besorah

> Besorah (https://besorah.bible) is a free, ad-free, account-free reader for the whole Bible in the traditional Jewish book order: the Tanakh in Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) and the Greek Septuagint, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament in Greek (SBL) and Hebrew (Salkinson-Ginsburg), each paired with English, plus Targum Onkelos, Pseudo-Jonathan and Jonathan to Isaiah. It has interlinear views, Strong's word study, cross-references and full-text search. It is a client-side web app: pages are rendered by JavaScript from public JSON files.

## Reading URLs

- Book index: https://besorah.bible/tanakh and https://besorah.bible/besorah (New Testament)
- Chapter: https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/23 , https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/4 , https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/2
- Verse highlight: append ?v=N (e.g. /tanakh/genesis/1?v=3). Layout: ?view=reader|parallel|linear|interlinear
- Strong's entry: https://besorah.bible/word/H430 , https://besorah.bible/word/G26
- Search: https://besorah.bible/search?q=love (supports "phrases", /regex/, strong:H430)
- Numbering is Hebrew/Masoretic for the Tanakh (Psalm superscriptions are verse 1).

## Machine-readable text

Every book is one static JSON file, no authentication or API key:

- https://besorah.bible/data/manifest.json — editions, ordered book lists (code, English name, chapter count)
- https://besorah.bible/data/<edition>/<CODE>.json — { code, original: [chapter][verse], english: [chapter][verse] }; verse N is index N-1
  - editions: tanakh-he, tanakh-gr, nt-gr, nt-he, tanakh-onk, tanakh-pj, tanakh-tji
  - example: https://besorah.bible/data/nt-gr/MAT.json
- https://besorah.bible/data/words/<edition>/<CODE>.json — Strong's numbers per word; https://besorah.bible/data/lexicon.json — Strong's lexicon
- https://besorah.bible/sitemap.xml — every chapter URL

## More

- About, downloads (iOS, Mac, terminal, Roku): https://besorah.bible/about/
- Sources and licences for every text: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html
- Privacy: nothing is collected; no accounts, ads or analytics: https://besorah.bible/about/privacy.html