@metaxia/scriptures-source-stepbible-lexicon

Hebrew and Greek lexicon data from STEPBible for use with @metaxia/scriptures.

Features

• Strong's number lookup for Hebrew and Greek
• Multiple lexicon sources with varying detail levels
• Lemma, transliteration, gloss, and full definitions

Included Lexicons

| ID | Name | Language | Description | |----|------|----------|-------------| | stepbible-tbesh | TBESH | Hebrew | Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Hebrew. Abridged BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs) linked to extended Strong's numbers. | | stepbible-tbesg | TBESG | Greek | Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Greek. Brief definitions using corrected Abbott-Smith for NT, LXX, and Apocrypha. | | stepbible-tflsj | TFLSJ | Greek | Full LSJ (Liddell-Scott-Jones) entries for all Bible words, formatted for easy reading with extended Strong's linking. |

Installation

npm install @metaxia/scriptures-source-stepbible-lexicon

Usage

import '@metaxia/scriptures-source-stepbible-lexicon/register';
import { lookupStrongs } from '@metaxia/scriptures';

// Look up a Hebrew word
const results = await lookupStrongs('H0001');
// Returns entries from all registered Hebrew lexicons

// Look up a Greek word
const logos = await lookupStrongs('G3056');

// Query a specific lexicon
const entry = await lookupStrongs('H0430', { source: 'stepbible-tbesh' });

Data Format

Each lexicon entry contains:

interface LexiconEntry {
  source: string;              // e.g., "stepbible-tbesh"
  strongsExtended: string;     // e.g., "H0001"
  strongsDisambiguated: string;
  strongsUnified: string;
  lemma: string;               // Hebrew/Greek Unicode
  transliteration: string;     // e.g., "av" for אָב
  morphology: string;          // e.g., "H:N-M"
  gloss: string;               // Brief meaning: "father"
  definition: string;          // Full definition text
}

Building from Source

The lexicon data is imported from STEPBible's TSV files:

npm run import   # Download and convert TSV to JSON
npm run build    # Compile TypeScript

Data Source

All lexicon data is sourced from STEPBible-Data by Tyndale House, Cambridge.

Source Files

• TBESH: Lexicons/TBESH - Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Hebrew - STEPBible.org CC BY.txt
• TBESG: Lexicons/TBESG - Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Greek - STEPBible.org CC BY.txt
• TFLSJ: Lexicons/TFLSJ - Translators Formatted full LSJ Bible lexicon - STEPBible.org CC BY.txt

License

Package Code

MIT License - see LICENSE

Lexicon Data

The lexicon data from STEPBible is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

STEPBible Data is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You are free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially

Under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Attribution

When using this data, please attribute:

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org by Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

The underlying lexical works have their own scholarly attributions:

• BDB: Brown, Driver, Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon
• Abbott-Smith: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament
• LSJ: Liddell, Scott, Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon

Related Packages

• @metaxia/scriptures - Core scripture library
• @metaxia/scriptures-source-crosswire-kjv - King James Version
• @metaxia/scriptures-source-openscriptures-ohb - Open Hebrew Bible