Articles
How Open Word Bible is made, and the reasoning behind particular passages. Like the translation, the articles are drafts until a reviewer has checked them.
- Why another Bible translation?Most modern translations are copyrighted, and almost all of them hide their reasoning. Open Word Bible sets out to change both.
- Showing our work: what a reasoning record isEvery sentence in Open Word Bible carries a record of the original words, a gloss, three translations and every decision behind them.
- Literal, Balanced, Readable: three levels, one meaningThe same sentence translated three ways, for three kinds of reading, without ever changing what it means.
- Settings change wording, never meaningInclusive or traditional, Christ or Messiah, he or He. Why these are settings, and why disagreements about meaning never are.
- “The Word was God”: translating John 1:1Why Open Word Bible reads “the Word was God”, not “a god” or “divine”, and what the Greek word order is doing.
- “One and only” or “only begotten”?John 1:14 and 1:18 use a word older Bibles rendered “only begotten”. Here is why Open Word Bible says “one and only”, and what it does with a famous textual question in verse 18.
- Grace upon grace: when a decision is marked uncertainSome translation choices are close calls. Open Word Bible says so openly. Two examples from John 1.
- The peace that stands guard: Philippians 4:6–7Paul’s words on anxiety and prayer, read closely. A military verb, a promise rather than a payment, and thanks that does not wait for the answer.
- Why we never type Greek or Hebrew by handOne firm rule protects the accuracy of everything Open Word Bible shows of the original languages. Here is the rule, and how the software enforces it.
- AI drafts and human review: how a sentence becomes “reviewed”Everything on this site today is drafted with AI. Here is what that means, what it does not mean, and how a sentence moves from draft to reviewed.