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hyprbible is a free, open Bible study site where every person, place, and concept has a home base, and every verse is a doorway to it.

Every chapter on the site reads this way. Each underlined word is a live link to a person, place, or concept.

9 Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”
Acts 2:9-11

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Organized

People, places, concepts, and books each have one canonical home base that gathers everything we know about them.

Connected

Every page links outward. Follow a name in a genealogy to a person, then to the verses where they appear, then to the places they lived — without leaving the site.

Searchable

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Annotation Key

Throughout the text, annotated words link to encyclopedia entries. Each category is color-coded for quick identification:

Person Individual people mentioned in scripture
Place Geographic locations, cities, and regions
Deity Names and titles of God
Group Nations, tribes, and collective groups
Term Important theological and cultural concepts
Object Physical objects, artifacts, and items
Plant Plants, trees, and vegetation
Animal Animals and creatures

Data Sources & Attributions

Scripture Text

Berean Standard Bible (BSB) — a modern English translation available under a generous open license permitting free use.

Entity Annotations

ACAI Biblical Entity Data © 2024 BiblioNexus / Mission Mutual, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. ACAI provides curated annotations for people, places, groups, key terms, flora, fauna, and cultural objects.

Bible Dictionary

Aquifer Open Bible Dictionary by Mission Mutual, adapted from Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary © 2023 Tyndale House Publishers, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Flora, Fauna, and Realia Lexicons

Aquifer editions of United Bible Societies lexicons: Plants and Trees in the Bible, adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops; Animals in the Bible, adapted from All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope; and Human-made Things in the Bible, adapted from The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz. These resources and their images are © United Bible Societies and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Original Language Texts

Macula Hebrew and Macula Greek from Biblica / Clear-Bible, providing morphologically-tagged original language texts.

Word Alignments

Alignments from Biblica / Clear-Bible, providing word-level mappings between original languages and English translations.

License

This project is open source. Derivative works incorporating the ACAI data, Bible Dictionary content, or UBS lexicon content must be shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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