Site Update: Six Ways to Read the Bible

I've been working on the Bible reader for the last couple of weeks, and it's a very different tool now than it was at the start of the month. The short version: there are now six ways to read any passage, including raw Hebrew and Greek, a side-by-side parallel view, and a full interlinear mode with morphology tooltips and concordance data.

Let me walk through what changed.

Six Translation Modes

The Bible reader originally shipped with two options — styled and literal. Both are outputs from the v2.0 translation pipeline, and they're still there. But two was never enough.

The reader now has six modes: Final, Raw, Clear, Original, Parallel, and Interlinear. You can switch between them from the dock at the bottom of the reader, and your selection persists as you navigate between passages. No more resetting to styled every time you move to the next pericope.

Original shows the raw Hebrew or Greek source text. Hebrew renders right-to-left with proper script support. It's exactly what the translation engine was given as input — no AI, no interpretation, just the text.

Parallel puts the original language on the left and the English on the right, side by side. For anyone who wants to check the translation against the source, this is probably the most useful mode. On mobile it stacks vertically, which isn't quite as elegant, but it works.

Interlinear is the one I'm most excited about. Every word in the original language is displayed with its English gloss directly underneath. Hover over any word, and you get a tooltip with the lemma, transliteration, part of speech, decoded morphology tags, and how frequently that word appears across the entire text. Click a word in the exegesis drawer's morphology section and you get a full concordance lookup — every book it appears in, total occurrences, the works.

This was something I wanted from the beginning of the project. If you're going to show someone the Greek and Hebrew, you should give them the tools to actually dig into it. The concordance was built from the full morphological dataset, so the frequency data is real, not estimated.

Notes, Bookmarks, and Collections

On the organizational side, I added three things that were requested.

You can now write personal notes on any Bible verse. They show up at the top of the exegesis drawer when you open that verse. You can also bookmark verses and reports. Both show up in a new saved section on the dashboard, along with a "Continue Reading" link that picks up wherever you left off.

Report collections let you group reports into folders — useful if you're working through a series or studying a particular book over time.

These are small features, but they make the site usable for ongoing study instead of just one-off report generation.

Everything Else

I went through and added a handful of things that should have been there from the start. Keyboard navigation — arrow keys for previous and next passage, Escape to close drawers. Adjustable font size that saves in your browser. Skip-to-content links, ARIA labels, and keyboard focus management for accessibility. A welcome modal for first-time users. Guided prompts on empty pages so new users aren't staring at a blank screen.

Copy-to-clipboard on reports preserves formatting, so you can paste directly into a document. Verse sharing lets you copy a direct link to any verse. Gold dots appear on verses where you've left notes.

If you find any bugs, let me know.

God bless, everyone.