About word.wiki

word.wiki is a free, modern encyclopedia of the Bible. Every person, place, event, book, and chapter has its own page, linked to everything related to it, cited to the verses it comes from, and placed on timelines and maps.

It starts from a structured map of Scripture, built from open scholarly datasets: who is related to whom, where each place was, when things happened, and which verses mention each of them. The articles are written on top of that map, so the connections, timelines, and maps come from data, not guesswork.

Free, with no ads

There are no ads, no tracking, and no paywall, and you don’t need an account to read. Analytics are cookieless.

How it’s made

Read our approach for how we handle Scripture, tradition, and scholarship, and how AI writing and illustrations are checked and labeled.

Credits

• Bible text: the Berean Standard Bible, the King James Version, and the World English Bible (public domain).
• People, places, events, and dates: Theographic Bible Metadata by Robert Rouse (CC BY-SA 4.0).
• Names told apart verse by verse, and the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words with their glosses, grammar, and lexicon: STEPBible Data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
• Place locations and cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
• More cross-references: the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
• Reference material: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897, public domain).
• Base maps: Natural Earth (public domain).