About Tiqvah

Every cross-reference in the Bible, drawn as a thread you can follow. Tiqvah is a free research tool for exploring how Scripture interprets, quotes and echoes itself.

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What it does

• Arc, circle, timeline and sunflower layouts of about 390,000 cross-references
• OpenBible.info and Treasury of Scripture Knowledge sources, compared side by side
• Protestant, Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, Catholic and Orthodox canon orders
• Traditional and critical dating, eras and a timeline
• Hebrew and Greek word study with lexicon and parsing
• Name Constellation, Names Across Scripture, a map of biblical places and a topical index
• Network analysis: PageRank, betweenness, clusters and genre flows
• Citations (SBL, APA, BibTeX), methods paragraphs and PNG, SVG, CSV and GraphML exports
• Eight interface languages, light and dark themes, and phone layouts

Inspiration

Tiqvah was inspired by Bible Cross-References by Chris Harrison and Pastor Christoph Römhild (2007), whose arc diagram of 63,779 cross-references showed the Bible’s interconnection in a single image. The name Tiqvah (תִּקְוָה) means both “cord” and “hope”.

Frequently asked questions

What is Tiqvah?

Tiqvah is a free, interactive web tool that draws every cross-reference in the Bible as an arc, so you can see, filter and follow how passages connect. It is built for pastors, seminary students and researchers.

Is Tiqvah free?

Yes. Tiqvah is 100% free, with no account, no ads and no tracking.

Where do the cross-references come from?

From OpenBible.info (344,799 links rated by readers, CC BY) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (about 377,000 links, public domain). You can view either source, both, or compare where they agree.

Which Bible translations are available?

Eleven public-domain translations are included (KJV, WEB, BSB, Reina-Valera 1909, Almeida, Louis Segond, Luther 1912, Riveduta, Synodal, Chinese Union Version and Korean Revised). The ESV, NIV, NLT and CSB load from their publishers’ official services.

Can I study the Hebrew and Greek?

Yes. Each verse can be shown word by word in Hebrew or Greek with glosses, Strong’s numbers, parsing and lexicon entries (STEPBible.org, Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), and every occurrence of a word can be marked across the Bible.

How do I cite Tiqvah in a paper?

Open Cite & export in the explorer. It gives a permanent link to the exact view, a figure caption, SBL and APA citations, BibTeX entries and a methods paragraph, plus PNG, SVG, CSV and GraphML downloads.

What inspired Tiqvah?

Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild’s 2007 visualization Bible Cross-References, an arc diagram of 63,779 cross-references.

What does the name mean?

Tiqvah (תִּקְוָה) is Hebrew for both “cord”, as in the scarlet cord of Joshua 2:18, and “hope”.

Data and licences

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC BY) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain). Hebrew and Greek: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Places and topics: OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0); base map from Natural Earth. Bible text: public-domain translations; the ESV, NIV, NLT and CSB are provided by their publishers’ APIs under their terms.

Also from the maker of Tiqvah

The Church at Song — an interactive learning resource on the history of Christian worship and congregational song.