Licenses & Attribution

ZVBible is forged to be freely distributable — installable as a PWA and shareable without licensing fees or per-seat agreements. Popular modern translations such as the NIV, ESV, NASB, and NLT are excellent texts, but they are copyrighted and cannot be bundled or redistributed in an open study tool without publisher permission and royalty arrangements. That would fracture the mission: the sword forged for every believer, and the harvest gathered without tolls. KJV, WEB, and BSB are complete, reverent English renderings placed in the public domain so the connecting work of Scripture can flow unhindered. Optional language packs are free editions published as static files with the site (pipeline from open sources such as HelloAO/eBible); Globe install stores text and fonts offline in this browser, and Settings selects among packs already installed.

Progressive synonym and antonym expansion on Search uses a compact offline map (data/search-thesaurus.en.json), built at generate-time from Open English WordNet (OEWN, CC-BY 4.0) when available, or a WordNet-compatible extract / curated seed. Every headword, synonym, and antonym is pruned to tokens that appear in KJV, BSB, or WEB after the same normalization as Bible text search. Antonyms omit tokens already listed as synonyms for the same lemma. Optional secondary synonym coverage may include Moby Thesaurus (public domain). Curated emoji and chat-slang seeds (e.g. ❤️ → love, tho → though) only rewrite the expansion lemma; they never alter licensed verse bodies.

Regenerate with npm run data:build:search-thesaurus; pass OEWN_JSON=… for a full OEWN build.

Choose among these in Settings. KJV verse numbers are authoritative for navigation everywhere.

Optional language packs are not bundled in the default install. Discover and install them on Globe (Settings selects among packs already installed). Each pack is free text from the HelloAO Free Use Bible API plus a matching open-source font (Noto, SIL OFL), stored offline in this browser.

Hebrew text, morphology, and embedded Strong's numbers from Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb) — Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) basis.

Strong's dictionary glosses from openscriptures/strongs.

Optional Paleo-Hebrew display font: Robo-PaleoHeb (Apache 2.0).

Letter pictograph meanings follow traditional Paleo-Hebrew study (interpretive aids, not lexicon replacements). See the Hebrew reader Sources section for fuller context.

MorphGNT SBLGNT Edition — SBL Greek New Testament text; morphology CC BY-SA 3.0.

Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT) — see LogosBible/SBLGNT for license terms. Parsed data: MorphGNT SBLGNT Edition.

Red-letter (words of Jesus) markers from Berean Standard Bible USFM \wj tags (public domain), aligned to each verse word list.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge cross-reference edges from OpenBible.info.

Search can surface subjects from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1896/1897) — a classic public-domain topical concordance. Topic titles and scripture references are redistributed so you can add or remove topics from a search. Related-topic chips (similar / opposite) are study aids generated for navigation — not Scripture text. ZVBible does not alter licensed verse bodies; topic rows only point to references.

Structured CSV packaging from bradystephenson/bible-data (CC BY 4.0). Regenerate with npm run data:fetch:naves; related map via npm run data:build:naves-relations and npm run data:verify:naves-relations.

Blue Letter Bible opens in a new tab for Strong's lookups and interlinear context. ZVBible does not bundle BLB content.

© 2026 ZVInfinite LLC · ZVBible — Encounter The Word. Source code: github.com/brianmcconnel/zvbible-beta.

This app is a study tool, not an authoritative translation. All scripture datasets are programmatically refreshed from upstream open sources — see npm run data:fetch in the repository.