Tools
A growing set of free, browser-based tools to help you read scripture with more of what’s there in the original languages. All free, no signup, no ads in the tool itself.
Word Quiz
Eight familiar English Bible words — fear, helper, Lord, blessed, and more — that quietly lost something in translation. Can you hear what the Hebrew and Greek actually carried? A quick, eight-question quiz with the answer (and the chapter behind it) revealed each time. Fun to share; harder than it looks.
Lexicon
Every Hebrew and Greek word in the Bible, with the standard reference data — original-language form, transliteration, definition, English renderings — and, for featured words, the Hearing Scripture treatment of what the first audience would have heard. Built on James Strong’s Concise Dictionary (public domain) plus our own deep-dive content for the words our chapters cover.
The “Where the KJV renders it” feature shows, at a glance, every distinct English word the King James translators chose for a single Hebrew or Greek term — making it instantly visible how often English flattens what the original held together.
Interactive Gospel
Read a Gospel in every rendering scholars consider fair — not one translation, but all the legitimate ones, side by side. Switch between interpretive lenses (literal, mystic, imperial, Hebraic, and an “oldest manuscripts” reading) to re-read the text the way different traditions of scholarship hear it, then tap any phrase to see each defensible option and the source behind it. Starting with the Gospel of John; more to come.
Amplified Gospel
Read a Gospel the way its first audience heard it. This isn’t a translation or a paraphrase — it keeps the Gospel’s own words as the spine and weaves in the background a first-century hearer already carried in their head: the Genesis echoes, the festivals, the Targum and Temple resonance, the weight of a Hebrew or Greek word. A toggle drops the additions to show the plain text. Starting with the opening of John; more on the way.
More tools in development. Suggestions welcome — email soulshepherdpodcast@gmail.com.