Besorah — the Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic and English
The Bible in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic: grammar search, Strong's, Septuagint, Targum. Free, no key.
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claude mcp add --transport http besorah https://besorah.bible/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"besorah": {
"url": "https://besorah.bible/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"besorah": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://besorah.bible/mcp"
}
}
}Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://besorah.bible/mcpTools 23 found in our last check
get_passageReturns a verse, range or chapter in its original language (Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic) with its English and a link; a range is capped at 80 verses. edition (septuagint, onkelos, pseudo-jonathan, jonathan, hebrew-nt, hebrew, greek) chooses the text. words=true adds, for each verse…
get_verse_studyReturns one verse, or a range of up to 5, in full: the original and English text; word-by-word Strong's number, lemma and parsing where the words line up with the tagging; and the verse's cross-references, quotations between books, curated parallels, similar wording, questions i…
search_textReturns the verses that match a search of the text, in Bible order, each with its reference, link and text; 10 per page by default (limit 1-25, and nextOffset continues). English by default; language=hebrew|greek|aramaic searches the original with vowel points and accents ignore…
search_wordsFinds Hebrew and Greek words (Strong's entries) from an English word, a transliteration ('shalom', 'agape') or the original word. Returns the best matches first (10 by default, up to 25), each with its Strong's id, lemma, definition, occurrence count and link; 'more' says how ma…
get_wordReturns one Strong's entry (Hebrew H… or Greek G…): lemma, transliteration, definition, KJV renderings, occurrence count and verses per book. For Hebrew it adds the Brown–Driver–Briggs entry and, for a name, how it is built from its parts; it also gives the Septuagint renderings…
get_word_occurrencesLists every verse that contains a Strong's number (Hebrew Tanakh, Greek New Testament and Septuagint), in Bible order with the verse text, plus the count per book. Covers every form of the word; optionally limited to one book. 10 verses per page by default (limit 1-25, and nextO…
get_related_passagesReturns the verses connected to one verse, grouped by kind: voted cross-references, quotations in either direction between books, curated parallel passages, and similar wording. Use when the user asks what passages are related to one verse.
get_cross_referencesReturns the voted cross-references (OpenBible.info) of one verse, each with its reference and link; the first few also carry their English text. 12 by default (limit 1-30). Use when the user asks for the cross-references of one verse.
get_book_connectionsReturns the chapters a book, or one chapter, is most connected to elsewhere in the Bible: chapter pairs joined by at least two verse-level cross-references (OpenBible.info), most-linked first, each with its link count and a link. 15 by default (limit 1-40). Use when the user ask…
list_booksReturns every book with its code, chapter count, the editions it exists in and its URL, and the list of editions. The whole list comes back in one piece. Use when the user asks what books, editions or book codes are available.
list_songsReturns the songs and prayers inside Scripture (the Song of the Sea, Hannah's prayer, the Magnificat…), each with its name, Hebrew title, kind (victory, prophetic, thanksgiving, boast, prayer, work song, blessing, lament or hymn), passage reference and link. kind narrows the lis…
list_questionsReturns pairs of passages in which a question asked in one place is answered in another (e.g. 'what is man?' in Job and Psalm 8). Each pair has its theme, the asking and answering passages, and a note. theme (god, man, suffering, sin, death, time, wisdom, worship, messiah) or co…
get_targum_connectionsReturns the curated list of places where the Targumim (the Aramaic translations of the Torah and Isaiah) and the New Testament share an idea, phrase or contrast. Each entry has a title, whether it is a shared idea or a contrast, the Targum passages, the New Testament passages, a…
get_parashahReturns a weekly Torah portion: its name, Hebrew name, meaning and Shabbat date, with its Torah, Haftarah and Besorah (New Testament) readings and links, on the Diaspora calendar. Give a name ('Toledot'), a date (YYYY-MM-DD) for the portion read on the Shabbat on or after it, or…
get_guideReturns a plain-text guide to Besorah's texts and conventions: the editions, the Hebrew-based verse numbering, Strong's ids (H… Hebrew, G… Greek), book codes, and what each study tool returns. Use when the user asks how the texts, numbering and ids work.
query_wordsFinds every word by grammar and/or Strong's number, within a book or testament — e.g. all Qal imperatives of H1285 in the Prophets, every aorist passive participle in Paul, every Hiphil verb in Isaiah. grammar takes the words of the parsing (Qal, Hiphil, imperative, participle,…
get_collocationsReturns the words that keep company with a Hebrew or Greek word: those that appear in the same verse more often than chance predicts (log-likelihood), strongest first, 15 by default (limit 1-25). Pass strongs (H430) or a word ('shepherd'). Pass with=<Strong's id> to read the ver…
get_vocabularyReturns a book's vocabulary. view=summary (default) gives its size, distinct words, hapax legomena (words used once in the whole text), words found only in that book, and its most frequent and most characteristic words; view=hapax, unique or words lists those words (25 per page…
compare_booksCompares two books' vocabularies: the word counts of each, how many words they share, the rare words they share (most of whose uses are in these two books), and the words only one uses, 15 of each by default (limit 1-40). Same language only: two Hebrew books, two Greek ones, or…
get_contextReturns a verse in its setting in one call: the verses before and after (2 each by default, 0-8), the verse itself, or up to 5, word by word, and its cross-references, quotations and parallels. Combines several lookups into one answer. Use when the user asks what surrounds a ver…
trace_themeFollows a passage's connections outward — voted cross-references plus quotations and parallels between books — one to three steps (depth, default 2), and returns the most strongly connected verses (20 by default, limit 1-40) with their text, hops from the start, strength (it gro…
compare_witnessesReturns one verse across the texts side by side: Hebrew, the Septuagint (matched by the app's verse tables, even where numbered differently), the Targumim, and the Greek and Hebrew New Testament, with the quotations that join them and the Greek words a New Testament quotation an…
get_quotationsReturns where the New Testament quotes the Old, in either direction: give a New Testament book, chapter or verse for the Old Testament passages it quotes, or an Old Testament one for the New Testament passages that quote it. Each result carries both English texts and a link; 15…
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| Endpoint | https://besorah.bible/mcp (Streamable HTTP) |
| First published | 12 Nov 2026 |
| Last updated | 12 Nov 2026 |
| Registry name | bible.besorah/besorah |
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