Open Word Bible for · Bible translators
A documented starting point for your translation
Open Word Bible writes down what each sentence means once, apart from how any language words it. The meaning decisions, key terms and flagged uncertainties are public domain: use them as a reference for a translation in your own language without asking. Every sentence stays marked as a draft until a named reviewer approves it.
Start here
- Read the meaning decisionsOpen John 1 and tap a verse: the meaning decisions hold for every language; the wording decisions show how one language says it.
- Check the key termsThe settled translation of each recurring word, with every place it is used.
- Take the dataEvery sentence record as USFM or JSON, free to use in your own project.
Read these first
All articles- The Bible in translationTranslating for every language todayHow the twentieth century turned Bible translation into a worldwide, linguistically trained and increasingly locally led enterprise, from Cameron Townsend and Eugene Nida to sign languages and openly licensed resources, and what the numbers do and do not tell us.
- How it is madeWhy 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.
- How it is madeAI-assisted translation and human review: how a sentence becomes “reviewed”Everything on this site today is translated with AI assistance. Here is how a sentence is drafted, what its record holds, what AI drafting cannot do, and how a sentence moves to reviewed.