Datasets:

sermonindex
/

bible-reference

license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - en
  - grc
  - he
pretty_name: Bible Reference Corpus — Lexicons, Concordance, Topical and Geographic Data
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
task_categories:
  - text-retrieval
  - question-answering
  - token-classification
tags:
  - bible
  - lexicon
  - greek
  - hebrew
  - christianity
  - knowledge-base
configs:
  - config_name: strongs
    data_files: strongs.jsonl
  - config_name: dictionary
    data_files: dictionary.jsonl
  - config_name: meanings
    data_files: meanings.jsonl
  - config_name: renderings
    data_files: renderings.jsonl
  - config_name: sblgnt
    data_files: sblgnt.jsonl
  - config_name: hebrew_verses
    data_files: hebrew_verses.jsonl
  - config_name: word_editions
    data_files: word_editions.jsonl
  - config_name: map
    data_files: map.jsonl
  - config_name: tsk
    data_files: tsk.jsonl
  - config_name: nave
    data_files: nave.jsonl
  - config_name: places
    data_files: places.jsonl
  - config_name: papyri
    data_files: papyri.jsonl
  - config_name: parallels
    data_files: parallels.jsonl

Bible Reference Corpus

Thirteen aligned reference datasets for study of the biblical text: Greek and Hebrew lexicons keyed to Strong's numbers, an interlinear word map, the critical apparatus of eight Greek editions, cross-reference and topical indexes, and geolocated places.

Published by SermonIndex.

Everything in this repository is public domain or CC BY 4.0. Sources with share-alike terms are kept in a separate repository, sermonindex/bible-reference-sa, so that a share-alike obligation is never inherited by accident.

Config	Rows	Keyed by	What it is
`strongs`	14,513	Strong's no.	Greek and Hebrew lexicon entries from 12 lexicons
`dictionary`	14,117	headword	Bible dictionary and encyclopedia articles
`meanings`	13,401	Strong's no.	Plain-English gloss per word (machine-generated, see caveats)
`renderings`	5,410	Strong's no.	How translators rendered each word, with shares
`sblgnt`	7,939	verse	SBL Greek New Testament text
`hebrew_verses`	23,261	verse	Hebrew OT, word by word with morphology
`word_editions`	7,948	verse	Where NA28, NA27, SBL, WH, Tregelles, Tyndale, TR and Byzantine differ
`map`	31,064	verse	Original-language to English word alignment
`tsk`	29,055	verse	Treasury of Scripture Knowledge cross-references
`nave`	31,787	verse	Nave's Topical Bible topics
`places`	5,616	verse	Geolocated places with coordinates and confidence
`papyri`	3,216	Strong's no.	Documentary papyri attestations by century
`parallels`	2,526	verse	Verses with shared vocabulary, scored

Verse-keyed configs share reference, book, book_order, testament, chapter, verse. Word-keyed configs share strongs and lemma. So any of these can be joined to each other, and to sermonindex/bible, on those fields.

Lexicons in `strongs` and `dictionary`

Entries	Licence	Module
9,258	Public domain	International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
8,723	CC BY 4.0	Translators Brief Hebrew Lexicon (STEPBible)
8,674	Public domain	Brown-Driver-Briggs glosses
8,674	Public domain	Strong's Hebrew Dictionary
8,594	Public domain	Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, full
5,741	Public domain	Strong's Greek Dictionary
5,523	CC BY 4.0	Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition (STEPBible)
5,488	Public domain	Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT
5,408	Public domain	Dodson Greek-English Lexicon
5,298	Public domain	Nave's Topical Bible
4,771	Public domain	Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon
4,537	Public domain	Smith's Bible Dictionary
4,032	Public domain	Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament
3,921	Public domain	Easton's Bible Dictionary
2,610	Public domain	Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
2,277	Public domain	American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
1,723	Public domain	Thompson Chain Reference topics
626	Public domain	Torrey's New Topical Textbook
220	Public domain	Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament

Each entry carries its own module, name and licence fields, so attribution can be reconstructed per row rather than taken on trust from this table.

Deliberately excluded. Two modules that appear on sermonindex.net are not in this release: the Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary (© 1993 teknia.com, non-commercial use only) and the Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones (CC BY-SA). Do not expect this dataset to reproduce the site's lexicon panel exactly.

Other attributions

Hebrew text and morphology: TAHOT, STEPBible, CC BY 4.0
Greek word data and renderings: Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible, CC BY 4.0
SBL Greek New Testament, CC BY 4.0
Place geocoding: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding, CC BY 4.0; geometry partly OpenStreetMap
Papyri attestations: Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, CC BY 3.0
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and Nave's Topical Bible: public domain

Example

from datasets import load_dataset

s = load_dataset("sermonindex/bible-reference", "strongs", split="train")
agape = [r for r in s if r["key"] == "G25"][0]
for e in agape["entries"]:
    print(e["name"], "—", e["licence"])

Caveats

meanings is machine-generated. The simple field is a plain-English paraphrase produced by a language model from the public-domain lexicon entries, then reviewed against them. It is a study aid, not a lexicographic source, and it should not be treated as ground truth or used to train a model that will be evaluated as a lexicon. Everything else in the config (kjv_def, tyndale, brief, lexicon_note) is from the public-domain sources.
places carries a confidence and score per identification. Low-confidence identifications are disputed among geographers; do not read them as settled.
Strong's numbering is itself an editorial scheme from 1890 and does not map one-to-one onto modern lexical analysis. Some keys carry letter suffixes (G1003a) where later editors split an entry.
OCR and transcription of the older lexicons is good but not perfect, particularly for pointed Hebrew and polytonic Greek diacritics.

Citation

@misc{sermonindex_bible_reference,
  title  = {Bible Reference Corpus},
  author = {SermonIndex},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/sermonindex/bible-reference}
}