What this is

Hive Scribe is a free interlinear Bible study app by Codex Hive Labs (formerly BIBLE SCOL). Logo and app icons: Valentin's Hive Scribe brand art. The whole 73-book Catholic canon, loaded chapter by chapter. Labels on each verse show where each piece of data comes from.

Coverage

Data sources and licenses

• English (all 73 books): World English Bible, 2020 stable text, with the deuterocanonical books (eBible.org “eng-web”), public domain. Esther uses the WEB's Greek Esther (with the additions) and Daniel the WEB's Greek Daniel (with the Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon), as in Catholic Bibles. Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah. Chapter and verse numbers follow the WEB (English tradition), so a few differ from the NABRE (e.g. Joel has 3 chapters and Malachi 4).
• Hebrew and Aramaic OT (39 books): STEPBible TAHOT (Translators Amalgamated Hebrew OT), © Tyndale House Cambridge / STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0, from STEPBible.github.io/STEPBible-Data. Its Hebrew is the Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC 4.20, public domain) via OpenScriptures, with Tyndale corrections toward the Leningrad Codex. Morphology is ETCBC parsing written in the OpenScriptures (OSHB) code format; lemmas are extended Strong's numbers; the small English under each word, the transliteration and the Qere/Ketiv marks are TAHOT's. Psalm titles (Hebrew verse 1, or 1–2) are shown with English verse 1, as the WEB prints them. Changes: words regrouped by WEB verse; slash separators removed for display.
• Greek NT (27 books): SBL Greek New Testament text, © 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, used under the SBLGNT license; morphology and lemmas from MorphGNT, CC BY-SA 3.0. English word glosses, transliteration and Strong's numbers from STEPBible TAGNT (CC BY 4.0, Tyndale House / STEPBible.org), matched word by word to the SBLGNT text (words TAGNT lists for the SBL edition only). The WEB follows the Majority Text, so a few WEB verses (e.g. John 7:53–8:11, Acts 8:37) have no SBLGNT text.
• Septuagint Greek (OT and deuterocanonical books): Greek text of Brenton's Septuagint with Apocrypha (eBible.org “grcbrent”), public domain. No openly licensed, morphologically tagged LXX was found: the tagged Rahlfs texts (CCAT-based, e.g. eliranwong/LXX-Rahlfs-1935) are CC BY-NC-SA or carry the CCAT user agreement, so they are not used. The LXX therefore has no word glosses, lemmas or parsing here. Because the Septuagint numbers and orders many chapters differently, each LXX verse was placed next to the WEB verse automatically by comparing the WEB with Brenton's public-domain English translation of the same Greek; the LXX reference is always shown. Placement is least reliable in Jeremiah, 1 Kings (3 Kingdoms), Nehemiah, Proverbs 24–31, Exodus 35–40 and Sirach 30–36; about 2% of OT verses have no LXX match.
• Targum: Targum Onkelos on the Torah (Sefaria “Onkelos Genesis…Deuteronomy”, source toratemetfreeware.com, public domain) and Targum Jonathan on the Prophets, Joshua–Kings and Isaiah–Malachi (Sefaria “Mikraot Gedolot”, public domain), from the Sefaria API. Hebrew verse numbers were converted to English ones with TAHOT's verse map. No Targum is included for the Writings (Ruth, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song, Lamentations, Daniel): Sefaria's versions there are not clearly openly licensed or were not checked. Targum text only: no glosses or parsing.
• Lexicon: STEPBible TBESH (Hebrew/Aramaic) and TBESG (Greek) brief lexicons, CC BY 4.0. Definitions are shortened to about 300 characters. Occurrence counts are computed from the Hebrew and Greek NT texts above (not the LXX or Targum, which are not lemmatized here).
• Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0 (data file dated 2026-11-09). Top 10 per verse by votes, zero and negative votes dropped. OpenBible.info has no data for the deuterocanonical books.
• Gematria / isopsephy: computed in the app with the standard letter values (Hebrew: final letters same as regular; Greek: accents, breathings and iota subscript ignored after Unicode decomposition).
• Logos Bridge notes are hand-written study notes, not sourced data.
• Fonts: Noto Serif and Noto Serif Hebrew (© The Noto Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1), bundled so the app works offline.

Known limits

• The full Bible needs the app served over http(s) (it loads chapters on demand). The single-file version contains Genesis 1 and John 1 only.
• Your view and notes are saved on this device when the browser allows it.
• Dyslexia reading mode uses wider spacing, a sans-serif face and higher contrast (OpenDyslexic is not bundled).