Reading Mode

A structural English gloss layer is planned and will activate the English and Both display modes once it ships.

What Are Sense-Lines?

Each line in this edition represents one thought, one breath, one image. The Hebrew Bible was composed for oral delivery, not silent reading.

Modern paragraph formatting can obscure the original compositional structure. This edition recovers it by following the te'amim — the Tiberian cantillation accents preserved by the Masoretes — which encode a hierarchical sense-unit system more than a thousand years old. Editorial judgment refines accent-induced breaks where the four override criteria (atomic thought, single image, breath unit, Hebrew syntax) warrant a different break point.

Two accent systems are in use: the prose accents (in 21 books) and the Sifrei Emet accents (in Psalms, Proverbs, and the poetic body of Job). Each book is rendered with the appropriate parser.

Navigation

• Tap the book name or chapter number in the top bar to open the navigation panel.
• Tap a chapter number, then select a verse to jump directly to it.
• URL format: #book-chapter-verse (e.g., #jonah-1-3).
• Tap the home icon or “Tanakh Reader” text to return to the landing page.
• Use arrow keys or the floating arrows at screen edges to move between chapters.

Versification

Hebrew versification is primary. Where Christian editions use a different chapter or verse number (Jonah 2:1 in Hebrew = Jonah 1:17 in most English Bibles), the Hebrew reference is shown.

Settings

• Verse numbers: Show or hide verse reference numbers.
• Text size: Small, Medium, or Large.

About

Base text: STEPBible TAHOT, derived from the Westminster Leningrad Codex, licensed CC-BY-4.0.

Method: Sense-lines driven by the Masoretic te'amim with editorial override discipline. The project is a colometric reading edition based on a single textual tradition (Tiberian Masoretic Text, Leningrad recension); it is not a critical or eclectic edition.

For more information, see the project on GitHub.

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