Linked Word

Find KJV verses that use a Strong's number, in canonical order. lang=h for Hebrew, lang=g for Greek; id is the number without the H/G prefix (H7225 is lang=h, id=7225). Results are paged verse text plus citation URLs, not the lexicon entry. page_size defaults to 20, maximum 100.

find_verses_by_strongs

Look up a King James verse or chapter. book is a lowercase abbreviation (gen, john, 1john; list_books has all 66). Give verse for one verse, verse and end_verse for a range (John 3:16-18 is verse 16, end_verse 18), or omit both for the whole chapter. Default result is the passage text plus one citation URL — no per-word Strong's data. Set include_strongs=true only when the user asked for Strong's numbers or word-level links. Long chapters are paged: page_size defaults to 20 and cannot exceed 100.

get_passage

Commentary on a Bible reference from the loaded commentaries, in full text. book is a lowercase abbreviation (gen, john, 1john). Give chapter and verse (and end_verse for a range) for the notes that cover those verses; a note on John 3:1-21 comes back for 3:16. Omit verse for everything on the chapter, starting with its introduction. chapter 0 returns the book's introduction. Long notes arrive in parts (part 2 of parts 27). Results come one commentator at a time, so read found first: it lists every commentator with notes on the passage and how many parts each has, so none is missed behind a long note. By default every commentary answers; to hear particular voices pass works (slugs) or authors (a surname such as henry or calvin), and to leave some out pass exclude_works or exclude_authors. Always attribute each note to its author. page_size defaults to 5, maximum 20, because notes are long.

get_commentary

List the 66 KJV books with abbreviations and chapter counts. Use this to turn a book name into an abbreviation (Genesis → gen).

list_books

List the Bible commentaries loaded here (Matthew Henry, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Keil & Delitzsch, Calvin) with author, tradition, books covered and notes on authorship. Use it to offer the user a choice of commentators, or to find the slug and author name that the works, exclude_works, authors and exclude_authors filters of get_commentary and search_commentary take.

list_commentaries

Look up one Strong's Hebrew (lang=h) or Greek (lang=g) lexicon entry by number. id is the number without the H/G prefix. Returns the full lexicon entry, the word in its original script, Strong's definition, and a citation URL. `renderings` lists the English wordings tagged to this number in the KJV text, with each one's occurrence count, how many verses contain it, and the URL of a page listing exactly those verses.

get_strongs

Reverse lookup: find Strong's numbers whose KJV usage/gloss is the given English word (e.g. flesh, love, beginning). Matches the English word the KJV uses, not the long definition text. Returns only the number and a short definition. Use this when several Hebrew or Greek words share one English rendering. `match` controls how the keyword is compared: "exact" (the default) matches whole words only, so "love" will not reach "loved"; "stemmed" folds word endings, so "love" also finds "loved", "loveth" and "loving" -- widen to "stemmed" when an exact search comes back empty or looks short. The response echoes the mode it used. Results are paged: page_size defaults to 20, maximum 100.

reverse_strongs

Search the text of the loaded commentaries for a topic or doctrine, e.g. 'predestination', 'new birth', 'the sabbath'. Stemmed full-text search (election matches elect), plus semantic search where available. Returns the best 50 or so matches as ranked snippets with the work, author and verse range, so total is capped and a common word has more matches than it shows; narrow with book or a filter. Follow up with get_commentary on the best references to read the full notes. For 'what did X say about Y', pass authors=['x']. To include or leave out commentators use works, exclude_works, authors, exclude_authors (see list_commentaries). A doctrine is usually spread over several passages, so read the top few references before summarizing, and attribute each excerpt to its author. page_size defaults to 5, maximum 20.

search_commentary

Full-text search of the KJV English text. Every word must appear in the verse, in any order ('still waters' also matches 'waters ... still'); it is not an exact-phrase search. By default each word matches all its KJV forms, so you can search in modern English: 'repent' finds repenteth, repented and repentance; 'sin' finds sinned and sinneth; 'have' finds hath; 'mercy' finds mercies and merciful. Related words that are not forms of one another (sin and sinner, faith and faithful) are separate searches. Set match='exact' for whole words only. Set match='meaning' for a theme, a question or synonyms ('God forgives the repentant', 'everlasting life'): it adds semantic search, so verses about the idea come back even without the words, ranked by relevance; its total counts only the top candidates, not every match. With the default match, search the words a verse would use (forgive sins), not a question about it. Results are ranked and paged: page_size defaults to 20, maximum 100. This does not search Strong's numbers or lexicon entries.

search_verses

Search section headings (pericopes) for topics such as 'The Sermon on the Mount' or 'The End Times'. Combines stemmed full-text search (prophesy matches prophecy) with semantic vector search (end of the world can match The Day of the Lord). Returns matching topics with verse ranges and Linked Word URLs. page_size defaults to 20, maximum 100.

search_topics