Hebrew & Greek, made readable

Don't settle for any translation.
Read the Word itself.

You've read the verse a dozen times and still felt like you were missing something. It isn't you — every translation, however faithful, is one angle on the original.

A translation is one faithful person's choice of words. DeepWord puts the original Hebrew and Greek one tap away — made readable — so you're studying Scripture, not someone's rendering of it.

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No Hebrew or Greek required — tap any word and it's already in plain English.

The idea

Every translation is a choice.

Open Genesis 1:1 in ten English Bibles and you'll read it ten slightly different ways. Most say "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The Bible in Basic English says "At the first God made the heaven and the earth." Every translator was faithful. Every one of them still had to choose.

ASVIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. BBEAt the first God made the heaven and the earth.

Those choices are good and necessary — but they sit between you and the text. The word Moses wrote was בְּרֵאשִׁית, reshit: beginning, yes — but also firstfruits, and the chief or choicest part. One word, carrying more than any single English word can hold.

"The words of the LORD are pure words" (Psalm 12:6) — and the words David sang were Hebrew. DeepWord doesn't hand you a thirty-first translation. It gives you the pure word underneath all of them — the Hebrew and the Greek — restructured from the great scholarly lexicons into plain English, one tap from any verse. It's the scholars' own work — Strong's, BDB, Abbott-Smith, Thayer's — reorganized for readability, not an AI's guess at what the text means.

You don't go around the translation.
You go through it — to the source.

Why read the original

A translation gives you one meaning.
The original gives you all of them.

Behind every word of Scripture sits a whole range of meaning. A translation has to pick just one — and quietly drops the rest. Read the original and every meaning stays in view — so you decide what the verse is really saying.

Original text · Greek · G3056
λόγος
logos — Noun · nominative · singular · masculine
3 senses · 9 same-root words · 332× in Scripture
John 1:1  ·  Hebrew א   Greek Ω
Each translation picks one English word for it. The source keeps them all.
“Word”
a translation
“Reason”
a translation
“Account”
a translation
“Message”
a translation
“Principle”
a translation
Reading translations→
Each version just hands you one English word:
“Word”“Reason”“Account”“Message”“Principle”?
Five conclusions that disagree — with no sense of how they connect, and no way to tell which one the writer meant.
Reading the source→
Meanings
I
speech, language, utterance — that by which inward thought is expressed
II
reason, account, reckoning — the inward thought itself
III
the Divine Word (Logos) — the personal wisdom & power of God, in John
Same root
λέγωsay ῥῆμαdeclaration λογίζομαιcount λαλέωspeak λόγιοςlearned
The whole entry opens up — every sense, the word-family, and the scholar’s notes (see the app) to weigh which one fits this verse. Not one translator’s pick, but the evidence to see for yourself.
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Don’t settle for one meaning. See them all.

Every original word — its full range of meaning, its word-family, and the scholar’s notes — right in your pocket.

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DeepWord: John 1:1 rebuilt as a grid of original Greek word cards DeepWord word study: the meanings of λόγος (logos) with Scripture references DeepWord: cross-references for John 1:1 DeepWord: every verse where λόγος appears, synonym-highlighted DeepWord: John 1:1 across ten English translations
A live demonstration

See it work.

Open John 1:1 and tap straight down — every word as its original Greek card, then each word's meanings, how different sources render it, everywhere it appears, and the cross-references. One verse, all the way to the source.

Read the original

The whole verse, word for word.

Switch on the interlinear and every verse shows the Greek or Hebrew in its original order — each word with its plain-English meaning right beneath the line. You're following the source itself, not a rearranged translation.

  • Every original word with its meaning underneath, in reading order.
  • Tap any word to open its full study — meanings, lexicon, every occurrence.
  • Long-press an underlined word to reveal exactly what it points back to.
DeepWord interlinear view of John 1 — Greek words with English glosses beneath, underlined pronouns linked to what they refer to
What the translation left out

See what your translation had to leave out.

Every English rendering is a faithful choice — and every choice quietly dropped something. Walk through John 1:1 and get it back, word by word.

Which one do you trust?

See exactly where the ten part ways.

Read John 1:1 across all ten translations at once. ASV: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." BBE: "From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God." Same Greek. Different English. Now you can see exactly where the choices were made — and go beneath them.

John 1:1 shown side by side in ASV, BBE, BSB and Darby
The English is only a slice

The whole verse, in the original.

John 1:1 laid out as a grid of cards in English reading order — en, archē, logos — each with the original Greek word, its Strong's number, the transliteration, and a plain-English meaning. The English you've read your whole life, mapped card-by-card to the Greek underneath it. Flip the layout with one tap.

John 1:1 Study screen — Greek word cards with transliteration and glosses
They kept one meaning, dropped the rest

One word — all of its meanings.

Not just the one your translation chose. Logos is speech, language, or utterance — that by which inward thought is expressed; a saying, statement, or declaration (logoi alēthinoi, "true words"); a reason or account; and, in John, the Divine Word himself. Each meaning laid out with its own Scripture references, every one tappable.

Meanings for logos — speech, a saying or declaration, reason, the Divine Word
The real lexicons are a wall of jargon

A scholar's dictionary you can actually read.

Tap reshit and the Brown-Driver-Briggs entry opens, rebuilt into clean readable notes instead of a wall of abbreviations: how the word carries both beginning in time and chief or choicest in rank, with a plain etymology tracing it to the root for "head." Real depth, no jargon — the one thing the free apps never made readable.

Restructured BDB scholarly notes and etymology for reshit
A word you never thought to question

"Christ" isn't a name. It means "anointed."

The Greek works exactly like the Hebrew. Tap Christos and read it plainly: the anointed one, from chriō, "to anoint" — with its Hebrew equivalent mashiach right there beside it. Hebrew and Greek, decoded the same readable way, so a familiar word opens up into what it actually says.

Word study for Christos — anointed one, from chriō, Hebrew equivalent mashiach
Rare word, or everywhere?

Follow a word everywhere it's used.

Logos appears 332 times across 24 books — and DeepWord shows you the whole footprint, book by book, ranked at a glance: Acts, John, Luke, Matthew. Sort by most-mentioned or Bible order, tap any book, and jump straight to every verse where the word appears.

Where it appears — logos distribution across 24 books, 332 occurrences
One word, hidden behind different English

Watch every rendering light up.

Tap a book and each occurrence opens in context, the word highlighted in every verse. Logos turns up 65 times in Acts alone — rendered "account," "words," "saying," "message" — and every one lights up, because they're all the same Greek word. The footprint becomes a reading list.

Concordance — every occurrence of logos in Acts, each rendering highlighted
Threads you'd never spot alone

344,799 cross-references, built in.

Follow any thread across both Testaments. From John 1:1, jump to Genesis 1:1, to "the Word became flesh" in John 1:14, to Revelation 19:13 where his name is called the Word of God. Tap a reference and the reader opens there; tap a word inside that verse and keep going — the back button walks the chain in reverse.

Cross-references for John 1:1 spanning both Testaments
Names that read like noise

Every name and place, explained.

A built-in Bible dictionary for the people and places of Scripture. Tap Eden — "Delight" — and read who they were and where it was, the same plain-English way as the lexicon. The story behind the names, without leaving the verse.

Bible dictionary entry for Eden, meaning Delight
Study you rent, never own

Your own study — yours forever.

Save verses to color-coded lists with tabs, so your study stays organized at a glance. No subscription, no ads, no account, no tracking — and it all works fully offline. Yours to keep.

John 1:1 saved to a colored study list, marked by a spine tab in the reader

One verse. A few minutes.
Depth you didn't know was a tap away on your phone.

How it connects

Tap to go across. Scroll to go deeper.

Everything starts on the main screen. From there you tap across to a new screen, or scroll down the one you're on. That's the whole app.

→ Tap — opens a new screen ↓ Scroll — same screen, further down
Interlinear reader
InterlinearThe original under every word
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Saved verse lists
Saved listsColor-coded, yours to keep
save a verse←
The main screenReader showing John 1
The readerHome base — every chapter
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Study the verse
The verse across ten translations
All ten translationsThe first thing you see
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The verse as original-word cards
Every word, cardedThe original, word by word
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Cross-references for the verse
Cross-referencesWhere this verse leads
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Study a word
Word study: meanings
What it meansEvery shade of the word
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Scholar's dictionary notes
Scholar's notesBDB & Thayer's, plainly
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Where the word appears, book by book
Where it appearsBook by book
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Each verse with the word highlighted
Highlighted in contextA separate screen
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Bible dictionary for names and places
Names & placesA dictionary, for some words

All of these features — and still unbelievably easy to use.

No menus to learn. Tap across for a new view, scroll down for more on the same one — then tap back, exactly where you were.

Everything inside

One app, the whole study desk.

Translations, the original languages, lexicons, cross-references — and now tools that read the sentence, not just the word: what each verb is doing, how the logic words carry the argument. In your pocket, fully offline.

Genesis 1:1 shown across translations
10 English translations
Compare every rendering at a glance.
Original Hebrew word cards with glosses
Hebrew & Greek — all 66 books
The source beneath every verse.
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Strong’s on every word
Look up any word with confidence.
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The logic words, flagged
“For,” “therefore,” “but” — explained in place.
Plain-English BDB definition of a Hebrew word
19,570 word definitions
BDB, Thayer’s & Strong’s, rewritten to read plainly
DeepWord interlinear reader showing John 1 in Greek with glosses and linked pronouns
Go to the source.
Hebrew & Greek study, made readable.
Cross-references listed for Genesis 1:1
344,799 cross-references
ranked by closeness — with promises tied to their fulfillment
Greek words with English glosses beneath, interlinear
Interlinear reading
Read the original — no Greek needed.
A pronoun underlined and linked to the word it refers to
66,744 word connections
Always know who “he” or “it” means.
Word study panel for the Greek word Christos
Tap any word to study it
Go deep on any word in one tap.
NEW Grammar of the form, explained in plain English
Grammar in plain English
Tense, voice — and what the verb is really doing.
Bible dictionaries
Every name and place, explained.
Bar chart of where a word appears across books
Where each word appears
Follow one word across all of Scripture.
A verse marked with a colored saved-list spine tab
Save & color-code verses
Keep your study organized.
Works fully offline
no account, no internet needed
An honest comparison

Where DeepWord lands.

The free apps are great for reading. The serious tools are powerful — but expensive, desktop-shaped, or stuck in 2013. DeepWord sits in the gap. Here's the honest picture.

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One-time price$9.99$9–200/moPaid packagesÀ-la-carteFreeFree
Synonym-mapped highlighting✓—————
A scholar's dictionary for every wordHebrew & Greek — Strong's, BDB, Abbott-Smith, Thayer's✓✓✓Add-on✓—
Those dictionaries rewritten in plain EnglishReadable sections, not a wall of abbreviations✓—————
Readable interlinear — plain-English meaning per word✓Paid, desktopPaid, desktopPaid add-onParsing codes—
Cross-references included344,799✓✓✓✓—
Works fully offline✓—✓✓—Text only
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Pricing

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No subscription. No in-app upsells. Free updates, for as long as DeepWord exists.

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Perfect for word nerds. DeepWord was made for a particular kind of reader — the one who taps a single word and looks up an hour later, three verses deep in a word family. If you've ever stopped mid-verse and wondered “what does that word really say?” — you're one of us, and this app was built for you.

FAQ

Common questions.

Everything you'd want to know before buying.

Do I need to know Hebrew or Greek to use DeepWord?
No. DeepWord is built for serious students who read English. Tap any word in your translation and the Hebrew or Greek behind it appears with its meaning, lexicon entry, and every other verse where the same root shows up. The original languages do the work — you stay in English.
Why only ten translations instead of dozens?
Because a thirty-first English rendering doesn't get you closer to Scripture — the original language does. The ten translations in DeepWord are solid and varied, and rather than padding the list, we put the Hebrew and Greek beneath every word, one tap away, made readable. Going to the source is the whole point of the app.
Which translations are included?
Ten: KJV, ASV, WEB (World English Bible), BSB (Berean Standard), NHEB (New Heart English Bible), YLT (Young's Literal), BBE (Bible in Basic English), Darby, RNKJV (Restored Name KJV), and LEB (Lexham English Bible). All public domain or freely licensed. No subscription or in-app purchase to unlock more.
Is there an Android version?
Not yet. iOS only for now. Shipping one excellent experience beats shipping two compromised ones. Android may come later.
How is this different from the free Bible apps I already have?
Free apps give you the text. DeepWord gives you the structure beneath it. Tap any word and see the original Hebrew or Greek, the full lexicon entry — BDB for Hebrew, Abbott-Smith and Thayer's for Greek, restructured into clean labeled sections instead of dense walls of reference-work prose — every verse where the same root appears, and how different translators rendered it. The synonym-mapped highlighting is the part no other Bible app does.
What is "synonym-mapped highlighting" exactly?
Translators don't always agree on which English word to use. KJV says "raiment"; BSB says "clothes." DeepWord knows these came from the same Greek word and treats them as one — so when you tap that Greek word, every place it appears across every translation lights up, regardless of how the translator phrased it.
Will I keep getting updates after I buy?
Yes. $9.99 once, lifetime updates. New features, expanded data, bug fixes — all included. No "Pro" tier, no future paywall.
Can I read it offline?
Yes. Everything ships inside the app — Hebrew, Greek, Strong's, BDB, Abbott-Smith, Thayer's, all ten translations, the Bible dictionary, and 344,799 cross-references. Once installed, it works fully offline.
Is DeepWord the same as DeepRoots Bible?
No — DeepRoots Bible (deeprootsbible.com) is an online Bible curriculum for Christian schools. If you're a student or teacher looking for your school's DeepRoots login, you'll find it at deeprootsbible.com/login. DeepWord is something different: an iOS Bible study app that puts the original Hebrew and Greek one tap beneath every verse. Similar names, different tools — though if you're curious about the words beneath your translation, we'd be glad to have you look around.
Is DeepWord "The Pure Word" Bible?
No — The Pure Word is a separate New Testament translation from One Path Publishing. DeepWord takes the other road: rather than giving you one more English rendering to trust, it leaves your Bible's text alone and shows you the original Greek or Hebrew word itself — its meaning, its lexicon entry, and every verse where it appears — so you can weigh the fuller meaning for yourself. "The words of the LORD are pure words" (Psalm 12:6), and they were written in Hebrew and Greek.
Can I use it to prepare for a small group or class?
Yes. Trace a word to its root and across Scripture in a few minutes, and walk in with something true you found yourself — not borrowed from a commentary. Every meaning traces back to a named source (Strong's, BDB, Abbott-Smith, Thayer's), so you can check your ground before you teach it.
Is this affiliated with any denomination or theological tradition?
No. DeepWord is a study tool, not a curriculum. The translations and lexicons included represent a range of traditions. Whatever you bring to the text, the original languages and cross-references are there to help you go deeper.