bibcli

A handy dandy CLI for sifting through different translations of God's Holy Word!

Translations Supported

• KJV (King James Version - of course)
• NASB95 (New American Standard Bible 1995)
• NKJV(New King James Version)
• ESV (English Standard Version)
• AMP (Amplified Version)

Installation

npm i bibcli

Usage

• Searching for a pattern in available translations bibcli --phrase "morning star" or bibcli -p "morning star"

--- Search Results for 'morning star' in './data/en' ---

File: data/en/esv.txt
  [JB3807] Context: "Jb3807 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted fo..."
  [2P0119] Context: "...ning in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,  "
  [RV0228] Context: "Rv0228 And I will give him the morning star.  "
  [RV2216] Context: "... the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”  "

File: data/en/kjv.txt
  [JB3807] Context: "Jb3807 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted f..."
  [RV0228] Context: "Rv0228 And I will give him the morning star.  "
  [RV2216] Context: "...ot and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.  "

File: data/en/nkjv.txt
  [JB3807] Context: "Jb3807 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted f..."
  [2P0119] Context: "...ines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;  "
  [RV0228] Context: "Rv0228 and I will give him the morning star.  "
  [RV2216] Context: "...e Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”  "

Search complete! Found 11 total match(es) in 3 file(s).

• Searching for a pattern using a translation filter bibcli --phrase "morning star" --translation kjv or bibcli -p "morning star" -t kjv

--- Search Results for 'morning star' in './data/en' ---

File: data/en/kjv.txt
  [JB3807] Context: "Jb3807 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted f..."
  [RV0228] Context: "Rv0228 And I will give him the morning star.  "
  [RV2216] Context: "...ot and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.  "

Search complete! Found 3 total match(es) in 1 file(s).

• Available options bibcli --help or bibcli -h

Usage: bibcli [options]

CLI tool for scavaging patterns in different translations of God's Holy Word.

Options:
  -V, --version        output the version number
  -d, --debug          output extra debugging
  -l, --lang <string>  language (default "en")
  -p, --phrase <string>  phrase to search for
  -t, --translation <string> translation filter (default '')
  -h, --help           display help for command

Development

• git clone
• cd
• npm link

LICENSE

Copyright 2025 Erik Yuzwa

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