Go deeper at TheophilusBible

There are two places to go, and they are different kinds of thing.

• theophilusbible.comThe research platform. The Hebrew and Greek text of every chapter, with glosses, parsing, audio, structures and diagrams. The menu can be switched into sixteen languages.
• explore.theophilusbible.comEnglish onlyA reader rather than a toolkit: Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (1902), laid out on the structures E. W. Bullinger drew for The Companion Bible, with notes at the verses they belong to.

What is free. Reading is free on both, with no account: the whole Bible, the structures, the diagrams, the commentary that is already written, the audio and the daily devotional. What needs an account is anything that uses AI to write something new for you, which is paid for per use with credits (there are no subscriptions), and anything that keeps your own work, like research projects or flashcards.

The menu down the side is grouped into four areas. You do not need to learn them all. Hover over any item in the menu and a bubble says what it is for, and Help has a tour of every tab with an example to try.

• HomeType a question or a passage, and you are taken to the right tool. The easiest way in.
• Daily DevotionalOne short reading a day, each built on something in the Hebrew or Greek that is hard to carry into English. No account needed.
• Daily VideosOne Hebrew Bible passage taught each day, in order. Opens the video channel.
• Bible LibraryAny chapter in Hebrew or Greek with English glosses, word parsing and audio. Turn on the fluent KJV translation to read the English alongside.
• SearchEvery verse that uses a word or phrase, in the original or in English.
• StructuresMaps of how a passage is built, such as chiasms and parallel lines, each with how strongly the data supports it.

• Guided StudyRead a passage slowly: mark what you notice, lay out the lines, connect and draw, then replay it as slides.
• DiagramEvery sentence of the Hebrew Bible and Greek New Testament diagrammed.
• SkyThe whole Bible drawn as a night sky: chapters as stars, rare shared words as threads between them.
• TimelineScripture, doctrine, empire and the wider world on one chart.
• VocabularyaccountYour own Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek flashcards from words you meet while reading, with spaced review.
• Ministry Preparationaccount · creditsFrom a topic or passage to a finished lesson, sermon or devotional. You can also have a sermon read and its claims about the Hebrew or Greek checked, or plan a whole series.
• Exegesisaccount · creditsReady-made focus questions on a passage, such as where it turns and what English loses, answered by AI.
• ResearchaccountProjects taken stage by stage, with every claim linked to its evidence and sources.

Explore is in English only. Its text is Rotherham's 1902 translation and its menus are not translated, so if you would rather read in another language, use theophilusbible.com instead.

1. Pick a book and chapter from the chooser at the top. The arrows move to the previous or next chapter.
2. Click the dots beside a verse number for more notes and information on that verse. Each colour is a different layer: commentary, theology, cross-references, the lexicon, notes from the Hebrew manuscripts, devotionals and archaeology. Hover over the dots first to see how many of each there are.
3. Read the structure panel beside the text. It shows how the passage is built, and a rule drawn across the text marks the seam where one part ends and the next begins. Structure in the toolbar shows or hides it.
4. Watch for labelled markers in the text. They flag passages where interpretations are contested, and open a note setting out the positions.
5. Try the other toolbar buttons. Notes opens the notes panel, Figures lists Bullinger's figures of speech, and Marks explains Rotherham's own markings, each of which you can switch off.
6. Original shows the Hebrew or Greek under the English, coloured by grammar. It is the one feature that asks you to sign in, at theophilusbible.com, which sends you straight back to the chapter you were reading.
7. When a teaching video covers the passage, a card above the text links to it.

Every verse reader on this site, the one under each panel in the Illustrated Bible, is a taste of the Bible Library. When a reader makes you curious about a word, open the same chapter in the Bible Library to see the whole context, or in Explore to see where it sits in the structure of the book.

And if a Conversations or Controversies page leaves you with a question, that is the point. Take it to Search or Guided Study and see what the text itself says.