Transparent multi-tradition study

How Spirit Nation Source Study Works

Spirit Nation places public-domain English scripture beside relevant ancient-language witnesses while keeping source, license, confidence, alignment, and human-review boundaries visible.

Open a source-study example

Try it with Genesis 1:1

Open the Genesis 1:1 source panels. The King James text is the reading starting point.
Read the witness names and source notes beside the selected verse. Open only the panels actually shown for this passage; a missing panel means this library has no aligned record there.
Use parallel comparison for Genesis 1 to read available editions side by side. Check each edition label and its numbering before drawing a comparison.

The tool helps you compare textual witnesses. A wording difference alone does not prove a theological conclusion; follow each edition's source record and consult qualified scholarship for larger claims.

What the study panels contain

10Source witnesses

8Editorial datasets

165,149Source-verse records

2,608,697Word-study tokens

A selected verse can expose the relevant Hebrew or Aramaic tradition, Greek Septuagint or New Testament text, Latin tradition, Syriac Peshitta, Targum, and documented editorial alignment notes. Not every witness applies to every book or verse. Spirit Nation reports those gaps instead of manufacturing a uniform set of panels.

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Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic

Hebrew panels support most of the Jewish-scripture corpus, with Aramaic handled where the underlying passages use it. Dataset-backed morphology and lexicon identifiers are labeled separately from generated enrichment.

Greek Septuagint and New Testament

Greek witnesses can differ from later Hebrew arrangements in wording, numbering, and book structure. Brenton’s English Septuagint is useful for readable comparison, while Greek panels preserve the source-language layer.

Latin tradition

Latin panels provide another major historical witness. Their role is comparison and textual history, not a claim that every tradition shares identical versification.

Syriac Peshitta and Targum

Syriac and Aramaic traditions broaden the comparison where reliable, licensed data and structural mappings are available. Coverage notes explain where a source does not contain or align to the requested reference.

Confidence and review labels

Dataset-backed: morphology or identifiers imported from the named source dataset.
Rule-aligned or machine-aligned: useful computational enrichment that still requires caution.
Pending morphology: source text is present, but detailed word analysis is incomplete.
Verified by Spirit Nation: a specific record has passed the project’s review workflow; it does not imply universal scholarly agreement.
Editorial alignment note: Spirit Nation’s explanation of a structural or versification issue, never presented as ancient source text.

These labels make the system useful for research without pretending that generated analysis is hand-reviewed scholarship. Important academic, doctrinal, or pastoral conclusions should still be checked against primary editions and qualified scholarship.

Available source records

Westminster Leningrad Codex

Hebrew · Hebrew · 23,213 verse records

Old Testament / Hebrew Bible · 39 books with text · 23,213 source verses

Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.

Public Domain — Hebrew Bible source text distributed through eBible for public scripture use. Imported as source-text study data.

Source and license record

Greek Brenton Septuagint

Greek · Greek · 27,976 verse records

Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported · 51 books with text · 27,976 source verses

Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.

Public Domain — Greek Septuagint source text from the public-domain Brenton Septuagint package distributed through eBible.

Source and license record

Targum Onkelos Torah

Aramaic · Hebrew Square · 5,846 verse records

Torah · 5 books with text · 5,846 source verses

Ancient Aramaic Torah translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as the Hebrew original text.

Public Domain — Imported from Sefaria Export JSON files whose exact Onkelos Torah Hebrew/Aramaic version records are marked Public Domain. This is separate from excluded CC BY-NC TheoDoor/Metsudah Onkelos material.

Source and license record

Biblical Aramaic Passages

Aramaic · Aramaic / Hebrew square script · 269 verse records

Canonical Aramaic passages in Genesis, Jeremiah, Ezra, and Daniel · 4 books with text · 269 source verses

Original Aramaic passages embedded in the Hebrew Bible, not a full Targum.

Public Domain WLC text; CC BY 4.0 OSHB lemma/morphology — Biblical Aramaic passages drawn from the Westminster Leningrad Codex source text already used by Spirit Nation. Lemma and morphology annotations are from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project under CC BY 4.0.

Source and license record

Syriac Peshitta Old Testament

Syriac · Syriac · 28,423 verse records

Old Testament and selected Apocrypha · 53 books with text · 28,423 source verses

Imported Syriac text with preliminary word analysis and dataset candidates where mapped. Word-level analysis still requires review.

MIT License — Text imported from the ETCBC Text-Fabric plain-text corpus under the MIT License. Use as an Aramaic/Syriac tradition panel, not as the original-language witness for every book.

Source and license record

Targumim on Prophets and Writings

Aramaic · Hebrew · 16,319 verse records

Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing. · 31 books with text · 16,319 source verses

Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.

Public Domain — TheoDoor source notes identify Targum Jonathan, Targumim on Psalms/Job/Proverbs, Megillot Targumim, and Chronicles Targum as public-domain texts sourced from Mikraot Gedolot or Wikisource. Targum Onkelos Torah is excluded because the same source note marks it CC BY-NC 4.0.

Source and license record

Greek Textus Receptus

Greek · Greek · 7,957 verse records

New Testament · 27 books with text · 7,957 source verses

Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.

Public Domain — Public-domain Greek New Testament source text distributed through eBible.

Source and license record

Tischendorf / Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament

Greek · Greek · 7,939 verse records

New Testament · 27 books with text · 7,939 source verses

Imported Greek New Testament text. Word entries show their analysis source and review status; text coverage does not mean every analysis has been reviewed.

Public Domain — Public-domain Tischendorf 8th edition text with morphology derived in part from Maurice A. Robinson’s public-domain Westcott-Hort analysis.

Source and license record

Syriac Peshitta New Testament

Syriac · Syriac · 7,957 verse records

New Testament · 27 books with text · 7,957 source verses

Imported Syriac text with preliminary word analysis and dataset candidates where mapped. Word-level analysis still requires review.

MIT License — Text imported from the ETCBC Text-Fabric plain-text corpus under the MIT License. Use as an Aramaic/Syriac tradition panel, not as the original-language witness for every book.

Source and license record

Latin Vulgate Clementine

Latin · Latin · 35,809 verse records

Bible and Apocrypha where imported · 73 books with text · 35,809 source verses

Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.

Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology — Latin Vulgate text is public domain. Lemma/POS annotations imported from GreLa v0.7, which uses latin-lemmatized-texts Vulgate annotations under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Source and license record