Selah Bible API
Free forever. 88+ endpoints across 19 features — Scripture text, Strong's concordance, interlinear, commentary, biblical people/places/objects, dictionary, and more. Pick a feature below for full docs.
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Embeddable Widget
Add hover/tap Bible tooltips to any website with one <script> tag. Verse references (e.g. John 3:16) and the names of biblical people, places, and things are detected automatically…
Scripture Text
The foundational layer. Full biblical canon across translations and original languages. Every book, chapter, verse, and passage is queryable in multiple formats.
Search & Concordance
Search Scripture (full-text over a Postgres tsvector with websearch syntax: "exact phrase", word OR word, -excluded) or any entity type, plus meaning-based semantic search, a unifi…
Original Languages
Complete Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — all 8,674 Hebrew (H1–H8674) and 5,623 Greek (G1–G5624) entries with original script, transliteration, pronunciation, definition, and KJV …
Bible Dictionary
5,998 terms from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) and Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863) — the two most comprehensive public-domain Bible references. Each entry includes the definitio…
Commentary & Study Notes
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary (1714) covering every chapter of the Bible, queryable by chapter or verse range. More traditions coming: Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Adam Clarke, Jo…
Cross-references (TSK)
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — the classic 19th-century cross-reference work, ~299,000 verse-to-verse connections returned in canonical order. Click any cross-reference to navig…
Themes & Topics
1,900+ biblical topics from a topical index — grace, covenant, redemption, prayer, suffering — each mapped to the verses that speak to it. Bidirectional: topic→verses and verse→top…
People, Places & Things
Every named person (3,000+), location, and significant object in the Bible as structured relational data — family trees, coordinates, historical descriptions, and verse references.
Books & Canon Metadata
Comprehensive metadata for every book across Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Ethiopian Orthodox canons — including deuterocanonical books.
Daily — Verse & Person of the Day
The daily endpoints every Bible app needs: today's Verse of the Day and Person (Character) of the Day, each on a stable day-of-year rotation with an admin-pinned override.
Translation Comparison
Detailed metadata per translation plus side-by-side comparison. Request any passage in all translations at once, ranked by reading level.
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Timeline & Historical Context
Structured chronological data from creation to the apostolic age. Every major event dated, linked to scripture, and placed in world-historical context.
Reading Plans
A library of structured Bible reading plans — Bible in a year, thematic series, lectionary-aligned plans — delivered as daily-reading API data.
Devotionals
Daily devotional entries — anchor verse, reflection, closing prayer, and related passages. Queryable by date, verse, theme, or random.
Audio Metadata
Structured metadata for publicly available audio Bible recordings — linking book-chapter pairs to audio sources across readers, languages, and recording styles.
Maps & Geography
Geographic dataset of the ancient biblical world — coordinates, empire boundaries, Paul's missionary journey routes, tribal territories, and major trade routes as GeoJSON.
Webhooks & Real-time
WebSocket verse push for live displays, webhook subscriptions for scheduled delivery, and real-time collaborative study sessions.
Developer Experience
REST + GraphQL, official SDKs in 5 languages, interactive API explorer, Postman collection, sandbox environment, and consistent error envelopes.