A parallel reading view of the Bible in its original languages and the Berean Standard Bible (BSB). The Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament are divided into clauses, each with its English counterpart beside it, and every English word is linked to the Hebrew or Greek word it translates. It was made at the Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship.
Using it
- Hover over a word to light up its counterpart in the other language.
- Click a Hebrew, Greek or English word to open its entry in the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew or Greek, with the sense used in that verse marked.
- Role / Phrase / Plain colour the words by their syntactic role, by phrase, or not at all.
- Added links underlines English words linked by the rules described below rather than by the original mapping.
- ← / → go to the previous or next chapter. A link such as /#PSA.23 opens a chapter directly.
How the alignment is made
The starting point is the UBS mapping of the BSB to the MARBLE word ids. Clauses come from the MACULA syntax trees, embedded clauses are indented, and English words the mapping leaves out are linked by rules that check the Hebrew or Greek morphology (pronouns to suffixes and verb endings, articles, prepositions, negations…). About 96% of the BSB's words are linked.
Sources
- Berean Standard Bible, public domain.
- BSB → MARBLE mapping © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- MACULA Hebrew and MACULA Greek © Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0: the Westminster Leningrad Codex and the SBL Greek New Testament, with their syntax trees, morphology and glosses.
- Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and of Biblical Greek © United Bible Societies; open editions at ubs-open-license, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The alignment itself is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0, like the mapping it is built on.