# Bible Parser

> Bible Parser (https://www.bibleparser.net/) is a web platform for biblical exegesis designed and developed by Didier Fontaine, a philologist and independent New Testament scholar. It sets the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek text beside translations, parses every word, shows the syntax of every sentence, searches constructions across the Bible, and links each verse to its variants, lexicons, grammars, commentaries, places and reception history. Interface in French. Free trial without an account; personal licence €30 for two years, one-off payment. Not to be confused with software libraries that parse Bible references (Python, Ruby or Flutter packages with similar names).

Facts as of 9 November 2026. Figures count only resources included in the personal licence.

- 179 Bible versions and editions (69 French, 31 Greek, 28 Hebrew/Aramaic/Syriac, 4 Latin, 33 English, 14 other languages) plus 30 ancient non-biblical texts (Philo, Josephus, Apostolic and Church Fathers, NT apocrypha, OT pseudepigrapha, both Talmuds, Code of Hammurabi, Plato…)
- Annotated base texts: SBLGNT (Greek NT) and WLC/BHS (Hebrew OT) with morphology, syntax, clauses, senses and referents; NA28 and Septuagint with lemmas and morphology
- 59 lexicons with 1.3 million entries (LSJ, Louw & Nida, Bailly, BDB, Gesenius, Jastrow, Thayer, Moulton & Milligan, UBS semantic dictionaries, SAHD…); 45 Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias; 11 grammars (Abel, Robertson, Burton, Carrez, Joüon, Gesenius-Kautzsch…); 60+ commentaries and study-Bible notes
- 3.1 million links between verses and reference works; 230,871 cross-references; 7.6 million words of ancient non-biblical texts, lemmatized
- 3,077 biblical persons with genealogies; 1,274 places on a relief atlas; 174 narrated journeys; 13,857 words for spaced-repetition vocabulary learning

## Main tools

- Reader: parallel, interlinear, continuous and compare layouts; universal search bar (references, French words, Greek/Hebrew lemmas or BetaCode, tool names, questions); "Around the verse" panel (word, cross-references, apparatus, ancient sources, world)
- Advanced Search: visual builder for morphological, syntactic, semantic (Louw-Nida, SDBH) and referent queries, with ordering, distance, dependency, semantic roles, OR/WITHOUT/EXCEPT logic, distributions and CSV export
- Tessera: concordance and collocations with log-likelihood, t-score, MI, Dice and log-Dice, distributions by book, genre, period and corpus
- Exegetical Studio: five workspaces (Observe, Establish, Analyse, Connect, Synthesize); NT and OT textual criticism (NA28 variation units, HOTTP, Dead Sea Scrolls, Samaritan Pentateuch, Tov/CATSS, Metzger, Willker); Levinsohn discourse features; ETCBC clause typology; Masoretic accent division; six-step lexical inquiry over biblical and extra-biblical corpora (Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, Polybius, papyri, Loeb counts); patristic reception (Schaff); exports in PDF, Markdown, JSON
- Commentaries, References and Dictionaries tabs, each with an AI workshop that cites the chosen sources
- Smart Search ("Ask BP"): plain-language questions answered from the platform's resources with the sources consulted listed and linked; voice conversation
- Biblical world: persons and kinship, atlas, journeys, comparative chronology (6 sources), fauna, flora and realia, weights and measures
- Learning: illustrated vocabulary memorization with spaced review; mind maps; Translator's Workshop

## Pages

- [Capabilities, tool by tool (English)](https://www.bibleparser.fr/capabilities.html): full fact sheet with corpora, resources and limits
- [Capacités, outil par outil (français)](https://www.bibleparser.fr/capacites.html): même fiche en français
- [Home page with screenshots (French)](https://www.bibleparser.fr/): visual tour, pricing, FAQ
- [The application](https://www.bibleparser.net/): free trial without an account

## Author

- [Didier Fontaine, author page (French)](https://www.bibleparser.fr/didier-fontaine.html): books and research (Philippians 2:6, Revelation 1:8, corporate identity, nomina sacra, componential analysis), and published assessments of Bible Parser: C. Grappe, *Manuel d'exégèse du Nouveau Testament* (Labor et Fides, 2023), pp. 17-19 and passim; T. Minard, « Quatre logiciels pour l'exégèse biblique », *RHPR* 94/3 (2014), 303-347 (desktop version of 2013)
- [Didier Fontaine, ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2817-0047)
- [Areopage blog](https://areopage.net/blog/)

## About the author

- [Didier Fontaine](https://www.bibleparser.fr/didier-fontaine.html): philologist, New Testament scholar, designer of Bible Parser; books, reviews and citations
- [Methods and results](https://www.bibleparser.fr/methodes.html): four research files (the divine name in the New Testament, P52 and nomina sacra, Philippians 2:6, Revelation 1:7-8), with questions, methods and theses
- [Installing Bible Parser](https://www.bibleparser.fr/installer.html): installing the web app on computers (Chrome, Edge), Android, iPhone and iPad