bible
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
No arguments | |||
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| prompts | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| resources | {
"subscribe": false,
"listChanged": false
} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| passageA | Verse text (BSB) and original-language text for a reference such as 'John 3:16', 'Rom 8:28-30' or 'Ps 23'. With interlinear=true, each word with transliteration, gloss, Strong's number, lemma, lexicon gloss and parsed morphology. Every text carries its source citation. |
| wordA | Word study for a Strong's number (G26, H7225, H7225G) or lemma (agape, λόγος, reshit): lexicon entries (STEPBible brief lexicons, LSJ, Abbott-Smith, Dodson, Strong's, BDB glosses), UBS semantic senses with Louw-Nida domains and the other words in the same semantic field, occurrence count, distribution by book, renderings, grammatical forms, and references. |
| searchB | Full-text search, accent- and case-insensitive. scope: all, translation (BSB text), lexicon (lemmas, transliterations, glosses, definitions), original (Greek/Hebrew words), commentary (all commentary text). |
| commentaryA | What each public-domain commentary in the library (Matthew Henry, JFB, Barnes, Clarke, Keil and Delitzsch, Calvin, Robertson's Word Pictures, ...) says on a passage, quoted with citations. Notes covering several verses are filed under the first; entries marked nearest_preceding may cover the verse asked about. modules limits the set (names from commentary_modules). |
| commentary_modulesA | Commentary modules in the library with entry counts and licenses. |
| dictionaryB | Look up a headword or Strong's number in the dictionaries and lexicons in the collection: Easton, ISBE, Smith, Nave, Torrey, Hitchcock (topics, people, places) and Abbott-Smith, Dodson, Strong's, BDB glosses (Greek and Hebrew words). Falls back to full-text search when no headword matches. |
| dictionary_modulesB | Dictionary and lexicon modules with entry counts and licenses. |
| church_fathersA | Church fathers and other historical writers on a passage (ANF/NPNF and similar, from the Historical Christian Faith database), oldest first, each quote with its work and citation. author filters by name substring (e.g. 'Augustine', 'Chrysostom'). |
| translation_notesA | unfoldingWord Translation Notes (CC BY-SA) on a passage: for each Greek or Hebrew phrase, what it means and how it can be rendered (translation and lexical issues, not doctrinal commentary). Their key-term articles (Translation Words) are in the dictionary tool. |
| xrefsB | Cross-references for one verse from OpenBible.info, ranked by community votes. |
| check_quoteA | Check a quotation against the sources. verdict 'exact' = appears verbatim; 'normalized' = matches only if accents, punctuation and case are ignored (so it was altered); 'not_found'. |
| sqlA | Read-only SQL (SQLite) against the index, for questions the other tools don't cover, such as
morphology patterns. Call |
| schemaA | The index schema (CREATE statements) and the design notes from docs/SCHEMA.md. |
| sourcesB | Sources in the index with versions and licenses, row counts, and whether the library currently verifies against its manifests and matches the index. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| passage_guide | Gather everything the library holds on a passage, cited, without interpretation. |
| word_study | A full word study for a Strong's number or lemma, cited, without interpretation. |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
TDQS
Scored across 14 tools
Most tools target clearly distinct resources: passage (text), word (Strong's/lemma study), commentary, church_fathers, translation_notes, xrefs, dictionary, and search each have a distinct corpus or action. There is mild overlap between word and dictionary (both return lexicon entries for a Strong's number/lemma) and between search and dictionary (dictionary falls back to full-text search), plus four tools that all answer 'what does X say about this passage' — differentiated only by corpus, which the descriptions do clarify.
Names follow a consistent resource-oriented convention (passage, word, search, commentary, dictionary, xrefs, sources, schema), with the *_modules suffix used predictably for commentary_modules and dictionary_modules. Minor deviations are check_quote (verb_noun) and the sql/schema escape-hatch pair, but everything remains readable and predictable.
14 tools sits squarely in the well-scoped 3-15 range for a domain as broad as Bible study. Each tool covers a distinct corpus or operation, and the schema/sql pair serves as a deliberate escape hatch rather than filler.
Coverage is strong: text, original language, interlinear morphology, word studies, full-text search, three commentary corpora, dictionaries, cross-references, translation notes, provenance (sources), and a SQL fallback for anything uncovered. Minor gaps: passage appears to expose only the BSB translation even though sources tracks multiple versions, and grammatical/morphology search is only reachable through raw sql rather than a first-class tool.