Open Word Bible for · Preachers & teachers
Preach from the original, with the reasons in view
Every sentence carries the Hebrew or Greek behind it, a literal gloss and each decision its translators made, with the alternatives and why one was chosen. When you say “this word could also mean…”, you can show where that comes from.
Start here
- Read with the reasoning openOpen John 1 at the Literal level and tap any verse: the original words, the gloss and every decision behind the wording.
- Set a verse beside other BiblesJohn 1:1 in our three levels and in other translations, with the decisions that explain how ours reads.
- Follow a key wordHow each recurring word is translated, with every place it is used.
Read these first
All articles- How it is madeShowing 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.
- How it is madeLiteral, Balanced, Readable: three levels, one meaningThe same sentence translated three ways, for three kinds of reading, without ever changing what it means.
- How it is madeWhen the manuscripts disagree: how Open Word Bible handles textual variantsNo two handwritten copies of the New Testament are exactly alike. Here is how the translation chooses a text, when it gives a footnote, and what it does with John 5:4, the woman caught in adultery and the end of Mark.