About the portal

The Institute for Biblical Content makes the text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex available online, along with its verse-by-verse gloss translations, syntax markup and analytical lexicon.

Lemma and morphology data are licensed under CC4 Int. (credit the OSHB Project), the WLC text is in the Public Domain

Biblical Hebrew for Linguists: Multilingual Open Access Tools

— Westminster Leningrad Codex
— Gloss translations · Syntax markup · Analytical lexicon
— English, French, Russian sections

Url: https://wlc.ibc.oarc.science

The corpus benefited from all the heavy-lifting done by David Troidl and Daniel Owens for the OSHB project (github).

The original texts are marked up in OSIS XML.

— The verse engine https://gloss.ibc.oarc.science/en high­lights the syn­tac­tic tree struc­tu­re ba­sed on the Ma­so­re­tic can­til­la­tion mark­up as well as morphologial parsing.

— The lexicon engine https://lex.ibc.oarc.science/en groups lem­mas by Strong num­ber and traces their occurrences in the biblical text.

Data documentation. The data makes use of the Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon and of the Strong’s dictionary data from 2LetterLookup.

(1) Dataset description, (2) morphology codes, (3) parsing principles.

Further reading

Helmut Richter, Hebrew Cantillation Marks And Their Encoding, 1999.
William Wickes, A treatise on the accentuation of the twenty-one so-called Prose Books of the Old Testament, 1887.
William Wickes, A treatise on the accentuation of the three so-called Poetical Books, Psalms, Proverbs, and Job, 1881.
Jesse Griffin, Morphology For the Masses by the Masses, 2019.