Bible Word Study Tool

Reading order

• Hebrew and Aramaic read right to left. Go down the rows from top to bottom like any page; in each row start at the far right and move left. When a long verse wraps, finish the top row, then start the next row at its right edge.
• Greek reads left to right, like English.
• Each box is one word, read top to bottom: the original word, its transliteration (in English letters), the English gloss, the Strong's number, then the grammar code. Words marked Aramaic are Aramaic (parts of Daniel and Ezra, and a few other verses).

The English

• The glosses follow the original word order, so read in a row they sound choppy. For the sentence, read the KJV verse beside the original text.
• Words in [brackets] are English the translators supply so the gloss reads smoothly; there is no separate original word behind them. In Genesis 1:2 the word glossed [was] over is only “over”: Hebrew leaves “was” understood. (This is the same idea as the italic words printed in KJV Bibles.)
• A grey gloss in (parentheses), such as (the) or (obj.), is a word the English leaves untranslated: most often the Greek article (G3588, “the”), or the Hebrew mark of the object (H0853).

Strong's numbers

Click a Strong's number (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek) to open that word's card under the verse; “open in the word study” takes it to the Word study tab. Smaller numbers beside it are the attached prefixes and suffixes, such as “and” or “the”.

Notes under a word

A box with a dashed border carries a note about the text itself. In the Old Testament, the Hebrew scribes kept some words as written (ketiv) but read them differently (qere), with the reading in the margin; in the New Testament, the notes mark where the KJV’s Greek and NA28 differ:

• written but not read (ketiv): in the text, but not read aloud.
• read as the margin (qere): the word as read, from the margin.
• written as a separate word (ketiv); read joined to the next word (qere), or written as a separate word (ketiv); read joined to the previous word (qere): written apart, read as one word; “(spelling also differs)” means the letters change too.
• restored: a word the Leningrad Codex is missing, filled in.
• In the New Testament: in the KJV's Greek (TR), not NA28 and in NA28, not the KJV's Greek (TR) mark where the two Greek texts differ.

Where the text comes from

Hebrew and Aramaic: STEPBible.org TAHOT, which follows the Leningrad Codex, vowel marks included. Greek: STEPBible.org TAGNT (NA28, with the KJV's Textus Receptus words marked). Both are by Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0. The transliteration is a pronunciation aid; systems differ, so other books may spell a word a little differently.

Searching

• Type a reference: Gen 1:3, John 3 16, 1 Cor 13:4, Ps 23 (a chapter), or a range like Gen 1:3-5 or Gen.1.3-5.
• Or type words of a verse in any order; words in the right order rank higher. Missing words, typos and old or modern wording still find it: “the lord is my sheperd” finds Psalm 23:1, “for god so lovd the world” finds John 3:16, “love is patient” finds 1 Corinthians 13:4. A single word on its own may find other verses first, so give a few words.
• Start with a book name to search only that book: “john for god so loved”.

Prophecies of the Old Testament with the passages that tell of their fulfilment: the messianic prophecies (the Messiah's birth, ministry, rejection, death, resurrection and kingdom), others fulfilled within the Bible, Jesus' own predictions, and prophecies the New Testament places at the end of the age.

This is not a complete or final list. Lists of prophecies, and especially of messianic prophecies, differ between traditions and writers (some count over 300, others far fewer), and Jewish and Christian readers, and scholars, read many of these passages differently. Only pairings with a source are listed:

• Cited as fulfilled: a passage under “Fulfilment” (or “Cited in”) says the prophecy was fulfilled: “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet”, “according to the word of the LORD”.
• Quoted: the passages quote the prophecy and name it as scripture (“as it is written”, “Wherefore he saith”, “David speaketh concerning him”) without saying in so many words that it was fulfilled.
• For both, the exact words that introduce the quotation are shown under the entry, and each has been checked in the KJV; open “Read the verses” to see them in place. In two places those words are only in the KJV's Greek (Textus Receptus), as the note says.
• Allusion: the passages under “Alludes to it” echo the prophecy without saying it is fulfilled; each is linked to it by OpenBible.info's cross references. Whether these are fulfilments is a matter of reading.
• Direct quotation: the New Testament repeats the words of the Old Testament passage, without a formula (“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me”); the quoted words are shown under the entry and checked in both passages in the KJV.

Topics. Common topics (the seven-year tribulation, the rapture, the antichrist, the virgin birth, the thirty pieces of silver and others) are curated groupings, each with a one-line note saying where a term is a later synthesis or is read differently. The topics are written for this site from the index's own entries, not taken from a published list.

Main prophecies, book by book. Beside this highlighted list, an index of the main prophecies of every book from Genesis to Revelation is complete. Books with no predictive prophecy are left out and say so: Ruth, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon; Galatians, Ephesians, Titus, Philemon, 2 John and 3 John. (2 Corinthians, Philippians and Colossians each have a short entry on Christ's appearing or judgment.) Predictions made and fulfilled within the New Testament itself (Jesus foretelling his death and rising, Peter's denial, Agabus' famine) have their own class, NT history (fulfilled or foretold). It is built from the King James text itself, the New Testament's own citations and OpenBible.info's cross references, not copied from any published list, and may be corrected. Each entry gives the prophecy's own words (checked in the KJV) and one class:

• Fulfilled, cited in the NT: a New Testament passage says it was fulfilled, or names who or what was spoken of (“this is he that was spoken of”, “this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel”, “this is Elias, which was for to come”).
• Fulfilled in OT history: fulfilled in events the Old Testament records, such as Sennacherib's retreat or Cyrus' decree.
• NT history (fulfilled or foretold): foretold within the New Testament and recorded there as fulfilled, such as Jesus' own predictions of his death and rising, Peter's denial, or the famine Agabus foretold; a few are marked as having no recorded outcome, or as still going on.
• Messianic: about the Messiah, often quoted or echoed in the New Testament without the word “fulfilled”.
• Judgment on the nations: the oracles against Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, Moab, Tyre, Edom and others.
• Judgment on Israel and Judah, and Restoration of Israel: warnings of invasion and exile, and promises of return and renewal.
• Future / end of the age: the day of the LORD, the new heavens and earth, the age to come.

A second tag says how the fulfilment is known: Stated fulfilled (the passage says so), Recorded in scripture (scripture narrates the event), Quoted in the NT (quoted or applied without saying fulfilled), Standard reading (a widely held identification the text itself doesn't make) or Outcome not recorded in scripture (foretold for a time now past, but scripture doesn't tell the outcome; always with a note), Ongoing (still being fulfilled, with a note), No fulfilment given (still to come, or not identified). The words that link each passage are shown and checked. Contested marks entries that are read in more than one way, with the reason.

“OpenBible: N votes” is how many readers of OpenBible.info's cross references (CC BY 4.0) linked the two passages. Click a reference for its cross references, or Interlinear for the Hebrew or Greek.

A type (Greek typos, G5179, “pattern, figure”) is a person, event or institution in earlier scripture that foreshadows a later fulfilment, its antitype (antitypos, G499). The New Testament reads the Old this way itself: Adam is “the figure of him that was to come” (Romans 5:14); Israel's wilderness journey happened “for ensamples” (1 Corinthians 10:6, 11); the tabernacle served “the example and shadow of heavenly things” (Hebrews 8:5; 9:24; 10:1); the flood is a “like figure” of baptism (1 Peter 3:21); Hagar and Sarah are “an allegory” of two covenants (Galatians 4:24); and holy days are “a shadow of things to come” (Colossians 2:17).

Some types are named in the New Testament; others are traditional readings, held by many interpreters but not stated in the text. Each entry is marked:

• Named in the NT: a New Testament passage draws the comparison in so many words (figure, shadow, example, allegory, “as… so”, “a greater than”). Those words are shown under the entry and checked in the KJV.
• Traditional reading: a long-standing reading the New Testament doesn't state; each is linked by OpenBible.info's cross references (CC BY 4.0), with its readers' votes.
• Read differently: interpreters disagree; the note says how.

Filter by a word, a name, a topic (types of Christ, the feasts, baptism, the tabernacle) or a reference (Genesis 22, Hebrews 9); small misspellings are corrected. Choose a book to see the typologies with a type or its fulfilment there, or choose a class. Each entry gives the type's own words; open “Read the verses” to read both passages, or click a reference for its cross references.

This is not a complete list. No typology is listed for Judges, 1 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Daniel, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah or Haggai, nor for Mark, Philippians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Philemon, the three letters of John or Jude.