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The Bible in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic: grammar search, Strong's, Septuagint, Targum. Free, no key.
Remote server: your requests and data go to besorah.bible. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http besorah-the-bible-in-hebrew-greek-aramai https://besorah.bible/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
get_passage — Returns 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 vget_verse_study — Returns 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 search_text — Returns 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-search_words — Finds Hebrew and Greek words (Strong's entries) from an English word, a transliteration ('shalom', 'agape') or the original word. Returns thget_word — Returns one Strong's entry (Hebrew H… or Greek G…): lemma, transliteration, definition, KJV renderings, occurrence count and verses per bookget_word_occurrences — Lists every verse that contains a Strong's number (Hebrew Tanakh, Greek New Testament and Septuagint), in Bible order with the verse text, pget_related_passages — Returns the verses connected to one verse, grouped by kind: voted cross-references, quotations in either direction between books, curated paget_cross_references — Returns the voted cross-references (OpenBible.info) of one verse, each with its reference and link; the first few also carry their English tget_book_connections — Returns the chapters a book, or one chapter, is most connected to elsewhere in the Bible: chapter pairs joined by at least two verse-level clist_books — Returns 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 list_songs — Returns the songs and prayers inside Scripture (the Song of the Sea, Hannah's prayer, the Magnificat…), each with its name, Hebrew title, kilist_questions — Returns 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 get_targum_connections — Returns the curated list of places where the Targumim (the Aramaic translations of the Torah and Isaiah) and the New Testament share an ideaget_parashah — Returns a weekly Torah portion: its name, Hebrew name, meaning and Shabbat date, with its Torah, Haftarah and Besorah (New Testament) readinget_guide — Returns a plain-text guide to Besorah's texts and conventions: the editions, the Hebrew-based verse numbering, Strong's ids (H… Hebrew, G… Gquery_words — Finds 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 aoget_collocations — Returns the words that keep company with a Hebrew or Greek word: those that appear in the same verse more often than chance predicts (log-liget_vocabulary — Returns a book's vocabulary. view=summary (default) gives its size, distinct words, hapax legomena (words used once in the whole text), wordcompare_books — Compares two books' vocabularies: the word counts of each, how many words they share, the rare words they share (most of whose uses are in tget_context — Returns 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 wordtrace_theme — Follows a passage's connections outward — voted cross-references plus quotations and parallels between books — one to three steps (depth, decompare_witnesses — Returns one verse across the texts side by side: Hebrew, the Septuagint (matched by the app's verse tables, even where numbered differently)get_quotations — Returns where the New Testament quotes the Old, in either direction: give a New Testament book, chapter or verse for the Old Testament passaNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.