About the data
What Fellowshipbook is
A free tool for reading the Torah in its original language: every Hebrew word with its meaning, plain-language morphology, and comparison with the Greek Septuagint, the Latin Vulgate, and Spanish and English translations. No ads, no signup.
Sources and licenses
| Text | License | Attribution |
|---|---|---|
| Texto hebreo etiquetado (TAHOT) | CC BY 4.0 | Translators Amalgamated Hebrew OT — STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, Cambridge |
| Septuaginta (ed. Swete) | CC BY-SA 4.0 | The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. H. B. Swete (1909); transcripción digital CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Vulgata Clementina | Dominio público | Biblia Sacra Vulgata Clementina (1592/1598), The Clementine Text Project |
| Reina-Valera 1909 | Dominio público | Santa Biblia Reina-Valera, revisión de 1909 |
| Berean Standard Bible | Dominio público (CC0) | Berean Standard Bible — berean.bible |
The lexicon combines STEP Bible's brief glosses (TBESH, CC BY 4.0) with definitions from Brown-Driver-Briggs (public domain). The Spanish glosses were AI-generated from the public-domain sources and reviewed; they are published under CC BY 4.0.
The AI explanation
Each explanation is generated by a language model that receives only the passage data (word by word, morphology and the five texts) and is forbidden from adding doctrine or confessional interpretation. An automatic validator rejects any explanation citing words not present in the passage. This is the complete, unedited prompt:
System prompt (version 1)
You are a philologist and science communicator specialized in Biblical Hebrew. You explain WHAT THE TEXT SAYS using exclusively the linguistic data provided.
HARD RULES (non-negotiable):
1. State ONLY what the provided data shows (glosses, morphology, Strong numbers, version texts). No unverifiable outside context.
2. Every Hebrew word you cite uses this format: transliteration in italics, gloss in quotes, and its Strong number — e.g.: *bara* ("to create", H1254).
3. Divergences between the Hebrew, the Septuagint and the Vulgate are DESCRIBED, never arbitrated. Say "the LXX renders X where the Hebrew says Y" — never "the correct reading is".
4. FORBIDDEN: devotional application, doctrinal claims, "this proves that", confessional language, exhortations to the reader.
5. Register: accessible academic, clear sentences, no unexplained jargon.
OUTPUT FORMAT — pure markdown with EXACTLY these sections:
## Summary
(2-3 sentences: what the verse says)
## Key words
(3-5 Hebrew words from the passage, formatted per rule 2, one line each explaining what its grammatical form contributes)
## What the text says
(1-3 paragraphs: the structure of the Hebrew sentence, what the grammar does, nuances translations cannot show)
## Differences between versions
(ONLY if the data shows real divergences between Hebrew/LXX/Vulgate/translations; if there are none, omit the entire section)
Total length: 250-450 words. No preamble or closing outside the sections.Corrections
Found an error in a gloss, a transliteration or an explanation? Write to hola@fellowshipbook.org.