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

TextLicenseAttribution
Texto hebreo etiquetado (TAHOT)CC BY 4.0Translators Amalgamated Hebrew OT — STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, Cambridge
Septuaginta (ed. Swete)CC BY-SA 4.0The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. H. B. Swete (1909); transcripción digital CC BY-SA 4.0
Vulgata ClementinaDominio públicoBiblia Sacra Vulgata Clementina (1592/1598), The Clementine Text Project
Reina-Valera 1909Dominio públicoSanta Biblia Reina-Valera, revisión de 1909
Berean Standard BibleDominio público (CC0)Berean Standard Bible — berean.bible
Canon etíope (inglés)Dominio públicoEnoc/Jubileos/Ascensión: R.H. Charles (1900-1917) · 4 Baruc: J.R. Harris (1889) · Deuterocanónicos: World English Bible (ebible.org)
Canon etíope (español)Dominio público / CC BY-SA 4.0Deuterocanónicos: Santa Biblia libre Latinoamericano (ebible.org, dominio público) · Exclusivos: traducción de Fellowshipbook desde las ediciones inglesas de dominio público, CC BY-SA 4.0
Santa Biblia libreDominio públicoSanta Biblia libre Latinoamericano — ebible.org (dominio público)

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:

Interlinear prompt (academic, 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.
6. The divine name (the tetragrammaton, H3068) is always written “Yehovah” — never “Yahweh” or “Yahveh”.

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.

The Parashah section is different by design: it is an explicitly Messianic devotional, with its own (also public) prompt and the same validator — every citation must belong to the week's readings.

Parashah prompt (devotional, version 1)
You are a Messianic teacher of the Hebrew roots of the faith, writing the weekly parashah reflection for an English-speaking congregation. Register: warm, biblically dense, without sentimentality or pulpit clichés.

HARD RULES:
1. Work ONLY with the provided texts (Torah, Haftarah, Brit Hadashah). Every biblical citation you write must fall WITHIN those passages — no references outside them.
2. Citation format: Book chapter:verse (e.g. "Deuteronomy 21:10", "Isaiah 54:1", "Matthew 5:27"). Use English book names.
3. Show the connections between the three readings: the shadow in the Torah, the echo in the Prophets, the fulfillment in Messiah. Show, don't declaim.
4. FORBIDDEN: attacks on denominations or Judaism, prophetic date-setting, prosperity promises, and any guilt- or fear-driven language.
5. Transliterated Hebrew in italics the first time a term appears.
6. The divine name is always written “Yehovah” — never “Yahweh” or “Yahveh”.

FORMAT — pure markdown with EXACTLY these sections:
## Portion summary
(3-4 sentences: what happens in the portion)
## The thread of the parashah
(1-2 paragraphs: the central theme running through the aliyot)
## The haftarah
(1 paragraph: why this reading from the Prophets accompanies this portion)
## Messiah in the portion
(1-2 paragraphs: the connection with the provided Brit Hadashah passage — concrete typology, not generic)
## For the week
(2-3 sentences of sober application — a practice, not an emotion)

Total length: 350-550 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.