KoineReveal
Credits & licenses
KoineReveal is built entirely on openly-licensed Scripture, lexicon, and type. With gratitude to the people and projects who made these freely available.
Because the UGNT and ULT are ShareAlike, the Scripture data files KoineReveal produces are themselves available under CC BY-SA 4.0, with attribution to unfoldingWord and a note that the text has been reformatted.
Greek New Testament
- unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament (UGNT)CC BY-SA 4.0
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament, © unfoldingWord, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The base Greek text, reformatted for KoineReveal (USFM parsed to per-chapter JSON, NFC-normalized, with morphology and word alignment).
git.door43.org/unfoldingWord ↗
English translations
- unfoldingWord® Literal Text (ULT)CC BY-SA 4.0
unfoldingWord® Literal Text, © unfoldingWord, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The alignment-backed version — the one that highlights word-by-word against the Greek.
git.door43.org/unfoldingWord ↗ - Berean Standard Bible (BSB)Public domain (CC0)
Scripture quotations marked BSB are from the Berean Standard Bible, dedicated to the public domain (CC0) on 30 April 2023.
berean.bible ↗ - King James Version (KJV)Public domain
Public domain (outside the United Kingdom, where it is under perpetual Crown patent). No attribution is legally required; listed here as good practice.
- World English Bible (WEB)Public domain
A modern public-domain English translation. No attribution is legally required; listed here as good practice.
worldenglish.bible ↗
Word study — lexicon & glosses
- Strong's Greek DictionaryPublic domain · CC BY-SA digital edition
Definitions from Strong's Greek Dictionary (James Strong, 1890; public domain), digital edition © Open Scriptures, licensed under CC BY-SA. Shown in the word-study popover, keyed by Strong's number; where no classic entry exists, the popover says so rather than invent one.
github.com/openscriptures/strongs ↗ - STEPBible TAGNTCC BY 4.0
Glosses from STEPBible TAGNT (Translators Amalgamated Greek New Testament), www.STEPBible.org, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The source of each Greek word's short inline gloss.
github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data ↗
Typeface
- Gentium PlusSIL Open Font License 1.1
The Greek typeface, by SIL International, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Chosen for its full polytonic Koine coverage.
software.sil.org/gentium ↗
Sourcing
- HelloAO Free Use Bible APIDelivery channel
The API used to fetch the freely-licensed English versions (BSB, KJV, WEB). A delivery channel, not a text — each version's own license above governs its text.
bible.helloao.org ↗
KoineReveal’s application code is separate from the Scripture data and is licensed under the MIT License. The prohibited modern translations (ESV, NASB, CSB, NIV, and the like) appear nowhere in this app — only public-domain and Creative-Commons texts.