Bible Research Engine for AI — Hebrew & Greek MCP

A page of Codex Sinaiticus, a fourth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible, showing Matthew 6 written in continuous Greek capitals in four narrow columns. — Codex Sinaiticus, Matthew 6 — fourth century. Darash reads the Byzantine Greek and the Leningrad Codex, not a summary of them. Public domain

Why it is built this way

“They searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”

The name is a Hebrew verb — דָּרַשׁ dāraš H1875, to seek, to inquire, to study, to search out. It is what the Bereans did, and why Luke calls them noble.

Acts 17:11 · KJV

“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”

They did not simply accept what they were told. Darash is built for that posture: not “take my word for it,” but “see whether these things are so.” Every verse it quotes, every Strong’s number, every cross-reference traces back to a source you can inspect. Nothing rests on its own say-so.

What English hides

English runs out of words. The original does not.

In John 21, Jesus asks Peter three times whether he loves him. Every English Bible uses the same word all five times. The Greek uses two — and the weight of the passage sits in the difference.

get_morphology("John 21:15–17") · Byzantine Greek text

Verse	Jesus asks	Peter answers	KJV renders both
21:15	ἀγαπᾳς G25	φιλῶ G5368	“lovest thou me” / “I love thee”
21:16	ἀγαπᾳς G25	φιλῶ G5368	“lovest thou me” / “I love thee”
21:17	φιλεῖς G5368	φιλῶ G5368	“lovest thou me” / “I love thee”

Twice Jesus uses ἀγαπᾶω; twice Peter answers with φιλέω. The third time Jesus comes down to Peter’s word, and the text records that Peter “was grieved because he said unto him the third time.” One question surfaces all five verbs, parsed.

…and the same call returns three more pairs nobody asked it about

What varies	21:15	21:16	21:17
love	ἀγαπάω G25	ἀγαπάω G25	φιλέω G5368
feed / tend	βόσκω G1006	ποιμαίνω G4165	βόσκω G1006
lambs / sheep	ἀρνίον G721	πρόβατον G4263	πρόβατον G4263
know	εἴδω G1492	εἴδω G1492	εἴδω G1492 + γινώσκω G1097

John varies four word-pairs across these three verses, not one. Whether the love-pair carries the weight of the passage, or is simply how John writes, is a judgement careful readers have divided over for a very long time — and it is not ours to make for you.

That is the point. We could have shown you one row and a conclusion. Darash hands you all four pairs, because that is what the text contains — and then you see whether those things are so.

Every word parsed

Word-by-word morphology across 31,167 verses. V-PAI-2S becomes “Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd Person, Singular.”

Cited, never recalled

Every answer traces to a text, a Strong’s number or a named lexicon. Your AI reads the sources instead of remembering them — which is the whole difference.

Follow the thread

446,544 cross-references, etymology trees, a 105,668-edge synonym graph, and every other place the same root stands.

Who is behind it

Ten years, not ten months.

We are not an AI startup riding a wave. Since 2016 our publication engine has produced 4,268 digital parallel Bibles and study Bibles in 31 languages — the study Bibles with every word wired to Strong’s, gematria and cross-references — sold worldwide through Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. The same sources now answer your questions. AI is the newest tool in an old workshop.

The scholarly lexicons come with it — Brown-Driver-Briggs, Liddell-Scott-Jones and Abbott-Smith — included by default rather than sold as expensive add-ons. Plans, pricing and the free tier live on the store, one place, always current.

See plans and pricing See it answer a real question

The publisher

Darash Is Built by Publifye AS, a Bible Publisher in Oslo

Publifye AS is a Norwegian publishing house registered in Oslo, organisation number 826 774 622. It publishes Bibles and study Bibles, it builds the tools those Bibles are studied with, and it runs publishing infrastructure for churches and ministries. Darash is the research half of that work: the Hebrew and the Greek, handed to whatever AI you already use — raw materials and citations, not conclusions.

Research

Darash — this engine. The Bible research engine your assistant calls over MCP: 59 texts, Strong’s Hebrew and Greek, morphology, 446,544 cross-references and 13 dictionaries.

Writing

Junifye — write and publish a book by talking to your AI. Your assistant edits the actual document, and every version is kept.

Dictionaries

Lexifye — build your own dictionary and publish it. Define a word once and it stays in step across every work that links to it.

Printed Bibles

Tringine — design your own Bible and print it anywhere. Choose the translation, scope and trim; get a print-ready PDF and an EPUB3.

The bookshelf

TruthBeTold Ministry — multilingual ePub Bibles. King James with Strong’s, parallel translations, thousands of editions — the catalogue the same sources were built for.

The company

About Publifye AS — the Oslo publishing house behind Darash. Bibles since 2016; the AI tooling is the newest part of an old workshop, not the other way round.

On the road

Ask It Out Loud, Hands on the Wheel

It is Thursday evening. You are driving to a hospital visit, Sunday’s text is still unsettled, and the one question you actually need answered is what a single Hebrew verb is doing. You cannot open a lexicon at seventy kilometres an hour.

So you ask out loud. Claude calls Darash, reads the real entry, and tells you — the word, the stem, the Strong’s number, so you can check it when you park. Jørn Halseth, founder of Publifye AS, tested exactly this on his own phone. It works.

Set it up once on the web and it is simply there afterwards. Anthropic documents the carry-over: connect a service on Claude or Claude Desktop and “it will be available to use the next time you log in to your account on Claude for iOS or Android.” Nothing to install on the phone, nothing to sign in to twice.

And a tool beats a memory. Asked unaided, an assistant will produce a confident Strong’s number that does not exist. Pointed at Darash it stops guessing and reads. That is the largest single reduction in hallucination available to you — and by voice it costs nothing.

Three steps, once

Add Darash as a connector in Claude on the web.
Open Claude on your phone — same account, already connected.
Start voice mode and ask.

Grok works too. xAI documents custom MCP connectors at grok.com/connectors — add the server URL, complete its sign-in, and Grok discovers the tools. Connectors are live on Grok web, iOS and Android. Whether Grok’s voice mode reaches them is not documented, so we do not claim it.

ChatGPT cannot, yet. OpenAI documents MCP apps as “web only”, and voice mode as not supporting them.

Connection instructions

What is inside it

What You Get Inside Darash

Not a vague promise of “dictionaries and translations”. This is the actual list of what ships inside Darash — every Bible, every lexicon, every reference book. Search it or filter it here.

Originals: the Leningrad Codex (Hebrew, c. 1008) and the Byzantine Greek text. KJV Strong’s is tagged word-by-word, so an English word links straight to its Hebrew or Greek entry.

Performance

Fast enough to happen mid‑sentence.

The engine answers in tens of milliseconds, so the lookup lands inside the conversation — your assistant checks the Hebrew mid-answer and keeps talking. Darash stops being a place you go and becomes part of the discussion.

Cross-references for a verse34ms
Parse a verse word-by-word37ms
Psalm 119 — all 176 verses40ms
Search all 13 dictionaries52ms
A complete word study75ms
A human blink100ms

These are Darash’s own timings — median of seven runs measured at the engine, which is the part that actually belongs to us: finding, parsing and returning the answer. Bars are to scale against the blink.

Your round-trip sits on top. How much depends on where you are, your connection and how your traffic is routed — from the same region that is usually tens of milliseconds; from the other side of the world it can be a few hundred. That part is distance, and distance is physics rather than software. We publish our share because it is the share we can answer for.

How the connection works

Your Assistant Signs In As You, and Works On Your Behalf

Inside Claude, Grok or any MCP client there is a connectors page. You add Darash there once and complete a normal sign-in — the same OAuth handshake you already use when a site offers “continue with Google.”

From that moment your assistant holds a key issued to you. It is not using our demo account or some shared pool; it is authenticated as you, with your entitlements and your quota. When it looks something up, it does so on your behalf — and the same handshake covers the other two: Junifye for writing and publishing, Lexifye for your dictionaries.

That is what turns a chat window into a study. You are no longer copying answers out of a tool and pasting them somewhere else. You ask; your agent goes to the library, reads, comes back, writes it up in your document, and files the term in your dictionary — all under your own name, all without leaving the conversation.

Revoke it whenever you like, from the same page you added it on. Nothing is installed and nothing is left behind.

A page of the Aleppo Codex showing Deuteronomy, written in Hebrew with Masoretic vowel points and cantillation marks. — Aleppo Codex, Deuteronomy — c. 930. This is the kind of text your assistant is actually reading. Public domain

What your agent can do once signed in

Darash — read any of the 59 texts, parse the Hebrew or Greek, pull the lexicons and follow 446,544 cross-references.
Junifye — turn what it found into a typeset document or book at a permanent link, under your name.
Lexifye — record the words you keep returning to as your own dictionary, coupled to that document so a reader can click a term and read your definition.

One sign-in, three services, and an assistant that can move between them without asking you to fetch anything.

The other half — Junifye

Ask It to Write, and It Writes — Into Your Actual Document

Research that stays in a chat window evaporates. Junifye is the other half of the workshop — it holds your book the way Darash holds the Bible. So your assistant does not hand you text to copy: it opens your document and edits it, and the change is there next time you look.

What “it edits it” actually means

Junifye exposes your book to your AI the way Darash exposes the Bible. So an instruction in plain words becomes a real edit:

You say	It does
“Add a paragraph on kaphar to chapter three”	writes the paragraph into that chapter
“Tighten that last sentence”	patches the text in place
“Quote Leviticus 16:30 there, properly”	inserts the verse as a real citation
“What changed since yesterday?”	shows you the diff
“No — put it back”	reverts to the previous version
“Send me the PDF”	typesets and exports it

Every version is kept, so nothing your assistant writes is unrecoverable. You can always see what changed and undo it.

And this works on your phone

This is the part people do not expect. The connector follows you to the Claude app, and voice mode reaches it — so you can dictate an edit to your own book while you are driving.

A line occurs to you on the way home. You say it out loud. Your assistant checks the Hebrew in Darash, writes the paragraph into the right chapter of your document in Junifye, and files the term in your Lexifye dictionary so a reader can click it. By the time you are at your desk the work is done and waiting, with the version history to prove what changed.

It does not have to start as writing, either. Talk the topic through on the drive — argue with it, test a reading, chase a word — and as you go, have it drop the terms you settle into Lexifye. You are not composing yet; you are thinking out loud and leaving a trail.

Then, when the thinking has a shape, couple that dictionary to the document. The terms you defined along the way become the underlying notes for the piece — a sermon, a group study, a chapter — each word already defined, sourced and clickable for whoever reads or sits under it. The conversation you had in the car turns out to have been the preparation.

No laptop, no copy-paste, no “I’ll write that down later” — which is where most study actually dies.

See Junifye See Lexifye

Which plans. Junifye and Lexifye come with the Complete Trio and with Darash for Organizations. Darash Solo is the research engine on its own — you can upgrade to the bundle at any time.

Getting started

You Don’t Operate It. Your AI Does.

Darash is a research engine with dozens of tools, Strong’s codes and morphology tags underneath it — and you never touch any of that. You ask in plain words; your assistant picks the right tool, reads the sources and brings back the answer with its references. Darash is for people who study Scripture, not people who administer software.

Start free

250 calls a day for 90 days, no card — counted from your first connection, not from sign-up. Enough to work through many passages properly before you decide anything.

A name and a URL

In Claude — on the web or on your phone — open connectors, give it a name and the URL https://darash-api.publifye.pro/mcp, and sign in. Claude registers itself: there is no key to copy, no config file, nothing to install. Other assistants, and anyone self-hosting, install the engine themselves — the connect page walks through that.

Ask, then check

“What’s the Hebrew behind ‘living water’ in Genesis 26:19?” The answer arrives with the word, its Strong’s number and where else it stands — so you can verify it yourself.

Who it is for

For the One Preparing to Teach on Thursday Night

Pastors & teachers

Check the word before you preach it. Find every other place the root stands, and see how the passage reads across 59 texts — in minutes, not an evening.

Seminary students

Sit under Brown-Driver-Briggs, Abbott-Smith and Liddell-Scott-Jones without owning a shelf of them. Ask why a form is what it is, and get the parsing with the answer.

Bible translators & writers

Compare renderings across 36 languages, settle a word against the text rather than a hunch, and quote it correctly the first time.

Believers who love the Book

No Hebrew, no Greek, no training required — only the willingness to look. You bring the question; the library and your AI do the reaching. You will finish knowing more than you did.

Developers who want a Bible API

Darash is an MCP server over HTTP at darash-api.publifye.pro/mcp — 33 tools covering the text, Strong’s, morphology, cross-references and the dictionaries. Point Claude Code, Cursor or your own agent at it with a personal API key. No SDK to learn and no corpus to ship.

Churches, colleges & ministries

Teams who need the engine for a group rather than a person: everyone gets full research access without each buying a subscription, and without your usage metered call by call. That is Darash for Organizations, quoted to your size.

Questions people actually ask

Darash, Answered Plainly

What is Darash?

Darash is a Scripture research engine for the Hebrew and the Greek, built by Publifye AS, a publishing house in Oslo. It speaks the Model Context Protocol, so the AI assistant you already use — Claude, Cursor, Claude Code or your own agent — reads the primary texts alongside you: 59 Bible translations in 36 languages including the Leningrad Codex and the Byzantine Greek, Strong’s Hebrew and Greek, word-by-word morphology, 446,544 cross-references, four scholarly lexicons and 13 reference works. It hands you the raw materials with their citations attached, and your AI works through them beside you — following the threads you ask it to follow and showing its working, so every claim lands back on the text where you can check it.

Which AI assistants can use Darash?

Any MCP client. In Claude you add it on the connectors page and it follows you to the phone app, voice mode included. Grok documents custom MCP connectors on web, iOS and Android, though whether its voice mode reaches them is not documented, so we do not claim it. OpenAI documents MCP apps in ChatGPT as web only, and not in voice. Cursor, Claude Code and your own agent connect with a personal API key.

Is this a Bible reader?

No. It is a research engine. A reader hands you someone’s conclusion; Darash hands you the text and the data underneath it — the Hebrew and Greek, the parsing, the lexicons, the cross-references — so you can see whether those things are so. If you want something to read on a phone, this is the wrong product.

Do I need a special app?

No, and that is the point. Darash is an MCP server, so it plugs into the AI you already use — you keep your assistant, your habits and your notes, and it gains the scriptures. You paste one URL and your key. There is nothing to install and no second place to keep your work.

What does the subscription actually get me?

Read access to the whole engine over MCP with your own API key: 59 Bible texts in 36 languages, Strong’s Hebrew and Greek with the full lexicons behind them, morphology on every word, 446,544 cross-references, 13 reference works, semantic search, gematria and etymology. There is no smaller tier that holds some of it back — Solo is the engine.

Can I try it before paying?

Yes — 90 days free, 250 calls a day, no card. That is the real engine, not a demo corpus: the same 59 translations, the same lexicons, the same cross-references. 250 calls a day is a working day of study, not a teaser. When the trial ends, or you outgrow the daily limit, the current price is shown on the store.

Can my church or school buy this for everyone?

Yes — that is Darash for Organizations, which is priced by arrangement rather than off the shelf, because a seminary and a small congregation are not the same purchase. Ask for a quote from the store and say roughly how many people it is for.

Can we run it on our own servers?

Yes — that is the point of it. Self-hosted puts the binary inside your own network and your own infrastructure, so scripture queries from your students or staff never leave it. We also host it for you if you would rather not run anything. To be exact about what does leave: the instance checks its licence with us, and periodically reports an aggregate call count — a number, for licence administration. No query, reference, search term or result is ever sent.

Can I cancel?

Any time, from your account. It is a monthly subscription, so cancelling stops the next charge and your key keeps working to the end of the period you have already paid for. Nothing you have already studied or exported is taken away.

Every plan, what each one includes and the current price live on the store — one place, always current. See Darash plans and pricing