Each source is used as published. The app’s own changes are format conversions (into SQLite databases), indexes, and the alignment of English words to the Greek and Hebrew. Where a licence is share-alike (CC BY-SA), the app’s adapted copy is shared under the same licence.
Texts
- SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- Michael W. Holmes, ed. Copyright 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Licensed CC BY 4.0 (since v1.1, 2022). github.com/Faithlife/SBLGNT
- MorphGNT: SBLGNT Edition (morphology and lemmas)
- J. K. Tauber, ed., version 6.12, github.com/morphgnt/sblgnt, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.376200. CC BY-SA 3.0. The app's gnt.db is a derived database and is shared under the same licence.
- Westminster Leningrad Codex with the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology
- “Original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb”. CC BY 4.0; the WLC text is in the public domain.
- Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
- Public domain (dedicated 2023), bereanbible.com, with its translation tables (English–Hebrew/Greek word links).
- World English Bible (WEB, Classic, with deuterocanon)
- Public domain. eBible.org (eng-web).
- King James Version (1769, with Apocrypha)
- Public domain outside the United Kingdom (in the UK the text is under Crown patent). eBible.org / CrossWire, with KJV2006 Strong's tagging.
- Versification
- Verse mapping between numbering systems from STEPBible TVTMS (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, www.STEPBible.org.
Lexicons
- A Public Domain Dictionary of New Testament Greek (John Jeffrey Dodson)
- Public domain; repository dedicated CC0 1.0. github.com/biblicalhumanities/Dodson-Greek-Lexicon (from Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen's conversion).
- G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922)
- Public domain. TEI edition by the translatable-exegetical-tools project, github.com/translatable-exegetical-tools/Abbott-Smith.
- Strong's Greek Dictionary (James Strong, 1890)
- Public domain. XML e-text prepared by Ulrik Petersen (2006), distributed by Open Scriptures (github.com/openscriptures/strongs).
- Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (James Strong, 1890)
- Public domain text; Open Scriptures digital edition (github.com/openscriptures/strongs), CC BY-SA. Also the source of the short Hebrew glosses.
- H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, R. McKenzie, A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed. (Oxford, 1940) — LSJ
- Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence by the Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/lexica (commit 1c34cdf) on 27 October 2026. Converted from Beta Code to Unicode and reformatted for this app; the converted text is shared under the same licence.
- H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford, 1889) — "Middle Liddell"
- Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence by the Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the Annenberg Foundation. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk (commit 02768b0) on 27 October 2026. Reformatted; same licence.
- C. T. Lewis and C. Short, A Latin Dictionary (Oxford, 1879)
- Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence by the Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/lexica (commit 1c34cdf, lat.ls.perseus-eng2) on 27 October 2026. Reformatted; same licence.
- C. T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary (New York, 1890)
- Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence by the Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from a gift in the name of Carol F. Ross. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/lexica (commit 1c34cdf) on 27 October 2026. Reformatted; same licence.
- J. H. Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, corrected ed. (1889)
- Public domain. Digital text of the 1889 print by the thayers-greek-lexicon-dataset project (github.com/nigelmsipa/thayers-greek-lexicon-dataset), dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Machine-read text: occasional errors.
- J. H. Moulton and G. Milligan, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament (1914–1929)
- Public domain. Text read by the Ad Fontes research engine (Tesseract OCR) from the scan of the University of Toronto's copy at the Internet Archive (archive.org/details/vocabularyofgree00mouluoft). Greek not proofread.
- F. Brown, S. R. Driver, C. A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906) — BDB
- Public domain text. Digital edition by the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (github.com/openscriptures/HebrewLexicon), CC BY 4.0. That edition is a work in progress: many entries give the definitions without BDB's full discussion.
- TBESG and TBESH: Translators Brief lexicons of Extended Strongs for Greek and Hebrew
- Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0. Source: github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data (commit be4191f). Reformatted for this app.
- Not included
- Only lexicons whose digital text is clearly open are here. Not (yet) included: Autenrieth's Homeric Dictionary (the Perseus file states no licence), Jastrow (no clearly licensed bulk text), Sophocles' Byzantine lexicon and Yonge's English-Greek lexicon (no open digital text yet), and every lexicon still under copyright (BDAG, HALOT and others).
Fonts
- Gentium Plus, Ezra SIL
- Copyright SIL Global. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- Noto Sans (Coptic, Imperial Aramaic, Phoenician, Ugaritic)
- Copyright Google LLC and the Noto Project Authors. SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Software
- Python 3.15 (CPython iOS framework, python.org)
- Python Software Foundation License.
- PDF.js (Apache 2.0) · Chart.js (MIT) · Leaflet (BSD-2) · pdf-lib (MIT) · epub.js (BSD-2) / JSZip (MIT)
- Licence texts are in the app's LICENSES folder.
- Apple PDFKit and Vision
- Reading and on-device OCR of imported PDFs.
OCR
- Tesseract OCR 5.5.3
- Copyright the Tesseract OCR authors. Apache License 2.0. github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract. Built into the app for on-device OCR of imported PDFs.
- Tesseract language models: tessdata_fast (Ancient Greek, Latin, English) and tessdata_best (Hebrew)
- Copyright the Tesseract OCR authors. Apache License 2.0. github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_fast, github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best.
- Leptonica 1.87.0
- Copyright (C) 2001-2020 Leptonica. All rights reserved. BSD 2-Clause License. leptonica.org. The image library inside Tesseract.
Lexicon sources (pinned)
The exact versions the app’s lexicons were built from.
| Lexicon | Licence of the digital text | Source |
|---|---|---|
| LSJ, 9th ed. 1940 | CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library; NEH) | github.com/PerseusDL/lexica @ 1c34cdf |
| Middle Liddell, 1889 | CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library; Annenberg Foundation) | github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk @ 02768b0 |
| Lewis & Short, 1879 | CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library; NEH) | github.com/PerseusDL/lexica @ 1c34cdf (lat.ls.perseus-eng2) |
| Lewis, Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1890 | CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library; gift in the name of Carol F. Ross) | github.com/PerseusDL/lexica @ 1c34cdf |
| Thayer, 1889 | public domain; digitization CC0 1.0 | github.com/nigelmsipa/thayers-greek-lexicon-dataset @ e4a42b1 |
| Moulton–Milligan, 1914–1929 | public domain; OCR by Ad Fontes | archive.org/details/vocabularyofgree00mouluoft |
| BDB, 1906 | public domain text; Open Scriptures XML CC BY 4.0 | github.com/openscriptures/HebrewLexicon @ 21c9add |
| TBESG, TBESH | CC BY 4.0 (www.STEPBible.org, Tyndale House, Cambridge) | github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data @ be4191f |
| Abbott-Smith, 1922 | public domain | github.com/translatable-exegetical-tools/Abbott-Smith |
| Dodson | public domain / CC0 1.0 | github.com/biblicalhumanities/Dodson-Greek-Lexicon |
| Strong’s Greek and Hebrew, 1890 | public domain (Hebrew: Open Scriptures edition) | github.com/openscriptures/strongs |
The Perseus texts were converted from Beta Code to Unicode and reformatted; that adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections are offered back to the Perseus Digital Library.
This website
- Gentium Plus and Ezra SIL
- Copyright SIL Global. SIL Open Font License 1.1. Served from this site; no font services are used.
- The Hermeneus icon and wordmark
- Drawn for the app. The wordmark is set in Gentium Plus (SIL Open Font License) and converted to outlines.
- Screenshots
- Taken from the app. The texts shown are the SBLGNT, the WLC, the BSB and the lexicons credited above.
Licence texts
The full licence texts that ship with the app:
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (MorphGNT)
- CC0 1.0 (Dodson)
- Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible licence
- Lexicon sources and licences
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Python Software Foundation License
- Apache 2.0 (Tesseract)
- Apache 2.0 (tessdata)
- BSD 2-Clause (Leptonica)
- Apache 2.0 (PDF.js)
- MIT (Chart.js)
- MIT (pdf-lib)
- BSD 2-Clause (Leaflet)
- BSD 2-Clause (epub.js)
Bible names and titles are used to identify the texts; Hermeneus is not endorsed by any of their publishers or editors.