| --- |
| 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](https://www.sermonindex.net). |
|
|
| 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`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sermonindex/bible-reference-sa), |
| so that a share-alike obligation is never inherited by accident. |
|
|
| ## Contents |
|
|
| | 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`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/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](https://github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data), 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](https://www.openbible.info/geo/) 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 |
|
|
| ```python |
| 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 |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{sermonindex_bible_reference, |
| title = {Bible Reference Corpus}, |
| author = {SermonIndex}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/sermonindex/bible-reference} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
