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The Bible is more than the words inscribed in ancient scrolls, bound volumes or computer screens. Translation studies, definitions, grammar and sentence diagrams tell us little about the settings, characters, their relationships and activities. Full comprehension requires a different set of tools and a new kind of database.

Download Bible Data

All of the information I have gathered to support this website and other projects is free to download from GitHub as part of the open-source Theographic project, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is structured to link every piece of information to related data. For example, a verse that mentions a person or place is tied to a record with details about that named entity. An entry in the events table links back to the verses that describe the event, the people involved, and the place where it happened. Below is an overview of what's in the database:

  • Books, Chapters, and Verses: The text of the King James Version of the Bible (1769 edition), with all 31,102 verses linked to the writer and to the people, places, and events each verse describes.
  • People and groups: Biographical details about 3,067 unique individuals, including alternate names, birth/death place and year (if known), family relationships, and the verses that mention the person by name. Individuals who can be identified with key groups such as a tribe of Israel, the disciples, or those in Jesus' genealogy are tagged as members of those groups.
  • Places: 1,274 places with coordinates derived from openbible.info/geo, augmented with classification (region, city, water, etc.) and linkage to other databases of historical places such as Pleiades and GeoNames. Most locations are tagged with verse references, people who have been there, and events which occurred in that place.
  • Events: A timeline of 450 events from Creation through Acts, with dates, duration, predecessors, participants, locations, and verses. Dates follow the chronology of Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones, The Chronology of the Old Testament, and dates in Acts follow timelines from Todd Atwood, ThM.
  • Easton's Bible Dictionary: 6,519 dictionary entries linked to the people and places they describe.

Formats

  • JSON and CSV files for every table, plus a word-level index of the KJV.
  • GraphQL API for querying the data live, with no download required.
  • Neo4j import scripts that build a graph database you can explore with Cypher.
  • GeoJSON for mapping, including the routes of Paul's journeys.
  • Airtable for browsing and filtering the data in a spreadsheet-like view.

A field-by-field description of every table, along with the source bibliography and notes on how dates are numbered, is in the documentation. If you have questions or find an error, please open an issue on GitHub or email me.