Data attributions.
Bible CLI is built on the work of the projects below. Attribution wording is reproduced as it ships in the databases.
Code
The Bible CLI source code is released under the
MIT License. That license covers
the code only. Each data source below keeps its own license. The same
list ships inside the databases: run bible licenses.
Changes to the data
Bible CLI converts these sources into SQLite databases, and that work changes them. We parse and reformat each source, remove footnotes, cross-references, and section headings from the translations, convert lexicon entries from HTML to plain text, normalize Greek text for searching, map verses to a shared numbering, build search indexes, and add computed data such as usage counts, quotation links, and parallels.
We keep only part of some sources. The Septuagint database has the books that match the 39-book Protestant Old Testament, the MACULA data is reduced to clause structure, roles, lemmas, and Strong’s numbers, and the AI-generated article fields in TIPNR are left out.
These changes are ours and are not endorsed by the original authors. The build code is public in the bible-cli pipeline folder.
English translations
World English Bible (WEB)
License: Public domain
World English Bible (WEB), public domain. “World English Bible” is a trademark of eBible.org.
King James Version (KJV, 1769 text)
License: Public domain (no license deed)
King James Version, public domain in most of the world (Crown patent applies within the UK).
American Standard Version (1901)
License: Public domain (no license deed)
American Standard Version (1901), public domain.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
License: Public domain
The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB. Produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, unfoldingWord, Bible Aquifer, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. Dedicated to the public domain.
Hebrew and Greek texts
STEPBible data on this page is credited to STEP Bible.
STEPBible TAHOT — Translators Amalgamated Hebrew OT
License: CC BY 4.0
TAHOT data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Source: github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data.
STEPBible TAGNT — Translators Amalgamated Greek NT
License: CC BY 4.0
TAGNT data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Source: github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data.
Lexicons
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (Enhanced)
License: Public domain (BDB) + CC BY (enhancements)
Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon of the Hebrew Bible (public domain); sense/stem enhancements CC BY — https://github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced.
Maintained by unfoldingWord. The upstream license statement says CC BY without naming a version, so the 4.0 deed is linked for reference.
STEPBible TBESG — Brief Greek Lexicon (extended Abbott-Smith)
License: CC BY 4.0
TBESG data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Dodson Greek-English Lexicon
License: CC0 / public domain
Public Domain Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament by John Jeffrey Dodson (CC0).
Names and cross-references
STEPBible TIPNR — Translators Individualised Proper Names
License: CC BY 4.0
TIPNR data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Syntax trees
The clause-level syntax search is built from the MACULA treebanks. The Greek trees use the SBLGNT stream because its base text is CC BY 4.0. Semantic domain and word sense data that MACULA marks “used with permission” (SDBH in Hebrew, MARBLE in Greek) is not included.
MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets (WLC syntax trees)
License: CC BY 4.0
MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/ — (C) 2022-2024 Biblica, Inc, CC BY 4.0. Westminster trees (C) J. Alan Groves Center (CC BY 4.0); base text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us, unrestricted).
Upstream credits, including the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (CC BY 4.0), are in the MACULA Hebrew license file.
MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets (SBLGNT syntax trees)
License: CC BY 4.0
MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/ — (C) 2022-2024 Biblica, Inc, CC BY 4.0.
SBL Greek New Testament (base text of the MACULA Greek trees)
License: CC BY 4.0
SBLGNT, edited by Michael W. Holmes — Logos Bible Software and the Society of Biblical Literature, CC BY 4.0.
Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software.
STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT alternate references (versification mapping only)
License: CC BY 4.0
Native-tradition to English-spine verse mapping derived from TAHOT/TAGNT data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Septuagint
Septuagint — Swete edition (lxx-swete digitization)
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint (H.B. Swete). Digitization derived from the Open Greek and Latin First1KGreek project via github.com/nathans/lxx-swete, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distributed as a separate artifact (bible-lxx.db) under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Septuagint and the quotation links computed from it are kept in that separate database. It is optional for local installs (bible db download-lxx) and is included on the hosted server.