Bible Whale

Bible Whale

Read the Bible in the words it was actually written in. Every Hebrew and Greek word tagged, defined and traceable — and all of it works with no internet at all.

No account. No subscription. Nothing is tracked.

305,652
Hebrew words tagged
142,096
Greek words tagged
22,720
Lexicon entries
376,834
Indexed references
5
Translations
Why this exists

Most study apps guess. This one doesn't.

Plenty of apps will show you a Greek word and a definition. The question nobody asks is where that definition came from. If it was generated on the fly, it will be right most of the time and quietly, confidently wrong the rest — and you will have no way to tell which.

Bible Whale doesn't generate any of it. Every word, parsing and definition comes from published scholarly datasets that ship inside the app. The same word gives the same answer every time, whether you are online or not.

Generated on demand

  • Definitions invented per request
  • Different answer on a different day
  • Plausible-looking mistakes you cannot spot
  • Nothing works without a connection
  • Every lookup costs money

Bible Whale

  • Published lexicons, shipped with the app
  • Identical every time, by construction
  • Every word traceable to its Strong's number
  • Full function with no internet
  • Free to use, forever
Word by word

Tap any word. See exactly what it says.

Hebrew builds words out of pieces — a prefix, a root, sometimes an ending. Bible Whale splits them apart and labels each one, instead of pretending the whole thing is a single dictionary entry.

Genesis 1:1 — Hebrew
GENESIS 1:1 · WESTMINSTER LENINGRAD CODEX
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
בְּרֵאשִׁ֖יתbe·re·Shitin · beginningH7225
בָּרָ֣אba·Ra'he createdH1254
אֱלֹהִ֑ים'E·lo·HimGodH0430
אֵ֥ת'et<obj.>H0853
הַשָּׁמַ֖יִםha·sha·Ma·yimthe · heavensH8064
וְאֵ֥תve·'Etand · <obj.>H0853
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ha·'A·retzthe · earthH0776
Tapping בָּרָ֣א gives you: Qal perfect, third person masculine singular — explained in plain English, not just as a code — the full lexicon article, and all 45 places in the Old Testament where that exact word appears.
What you get

Built for actually studying

Honest language options

Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek appear only where they genuinely exist. Daniel switches to Aramaic mid-chapter and the app switches with it. A verse that isn't in the Greek behind your translation simply doesn't offer Greek.

Explanations that follow a shape

Historical setting, then the immediate context, then what it means, where interpreters differ, any second fulfilment, why it matters, and how it points to Jesus. Simple or Advanced, your choice.

Genuinely offline

Scripture, the tagged Hebrew and Greek, the lexicons and the concordance all live on your device. On a plane, in a basement, with the wifi off — everything still works.

Search that keeps its place

Exact phrases, excluded words, or a Strong's number to find every occurrence of an original word. Open a result, read it, press back — your results are still there.

Notes and highlights

Five highlight colours, notes attached to verses, and colour-coded folders to group a study or a sermon series. Stored on your device, not on someone's server.

The text as the translators marked it

Words the translators added are shown in italics rather than dumped on screen in brackets. Words of Christ in red. Paragraph breaks where the editors put them.

Installing

Three ways to keep it

📱 iPhone & iPad

Open the app in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen. It gets its own icon and opens without any browser bars.

🤖 Android

Open the app in Chrome and tap Install app when it offers — or the menu, then Add to Home screen.

💻 Windows & Mac

Open the app in Chrome or Edge and click the install icon in the address bar. Or grab the Windows installer below for a proper Start-menu program.

Whichever way you install it, open Settings once and tap Download everything to take the full library offline.

Where the data comes from

Every claim has an address

Nothing here is anonymous. These are the datasets the app ships, and the licences they are used under.

CC BY 4.0

STEPBible — Tagged Hebrew Old Testament & Greek New Testament

Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge. Every word of the Hebrew Bible and Greek New Testament, tagged with its Strong's number, full morphology and a scholarly gloss.

CC BY 4.0

STEPBible Brief Lexicons of Extended Strong's

Greek definitions from Abbott-Smith, Hebrew from the Brown-Driver-Briggs tradition, edited and extended by Tyndale scholars.

Public domain

Berean Standard Bible

A modern, highly literal translation dedicated to the public domain — the default reading text.

Public domain

King James Version

The 1611 translation, complete with its paragraph marks, italicised supplied words and red-letter markings.

Licensed

ESV · NASB · NKJV

Included in this private preview only. These translations are copyrighted and are not part of any public release.