THB
The Translator's Hebrew Bible (THB) is a digital hexapla presenting six textual traditions in parallel columns with word-level morphological analysis. Hover any word to see lemma, parsing, and lexical data. Columns can be toggled, reordered, and resized.
Textual Foundations
Hebrew (Masoretic Text): The Westminster Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible (1008/9 CE), with morphological tagging from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible project.
Greek (Septuagint): Swete's edition of the LXX (1887–1894), based primarily on Codex Vaticanus. The oldest and most complete Greek Old Testament manuscript tradition.
Latin (Vulgate): Jerome's translation completed c. 405 CE, the standard biblical text of Western Christianity for over a millennium.
Samaritan Pentateuch: The Torah as preserved in continuous use by the Samaritan community, with tens of thousands of variants from the Masoretic tradition.
English (KJV): The King James Version (1611), translated from the Masoretic Text for the Old Testament with reference to earlier English and Latin versions.
Qumran (Dead Sea Scrolls): Biblical manuscripts from Qumran (c. 250 BCE – 70 CE), the oldest surviving witnesses to many books of the Hebrew Bible. Because the scrolls are physically damaged, the transcription data encodes the condition of each letter — and the site renders that encoding as color:
- Greyed out — reconstructed letters (lacuna; text restored from context inside [ ])
- Muted gold — uncertain reading (?)
- Amber — damaged letter (#)
- Orange — damaged and uncertain (#?)
- Red-orange — severely damaged (##)
- Strikethrough — scribal cancellation (deleted by the original scribe)
- Blue superscript — supralinear insertion (added above the line)
- Green — ancient correction
- Purple — modern editorial correction
Development Philosophy
Open Access: No subscriptions, accounts, or institutional affiliation required.
Technical Simplicity: Runs entirely in the browser. No server-side processing, no plugins, no installation.
Transparent Sourcing: Every text and dataset is attributed to its origin. Coverage gaps and known limitations are documented. See the license page for full attribution and upstream terms.
About the Author
THB was built by Michael Muzar.