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Bíblia (biblia-cli)

Bíblia (biblia-cli)

Rodrigo Casara

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Bible verses in several translations, with the original Hebrew/Greek, Strong's numbers, dictionary senses and parallel passages — through the biblia command-line tool. Versículos em várias traduções, original, Strong e paralelos.
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Bíblia (biblia-cli)

Look up Bible verses without leaving the editor: in several translations at once, with the original Hebrew/Greek, Strong's numbers, dictionary senses and parallel passages, and insert them into Markdown or Typst ready to cite. Built around Portuguese references and translations (ARA, NVI, NAA...), but English, Spanish and the other translations of Bíblia Online work too. The commands and the program's output are in Portuguese.

Leia isto em português.

In a Typst file, the reference Rm 8.28 becomes the "conferido" comment and the #bref quotation; in a Markdown file, a quotation with the reference

Requirement: the biblia program

This extension is a front end: every lookup is done by the biblia command-line program, which has to be installed separately. Without it, the commands report executável não encontrado (executable not found).

  1. Download it from the releases page:

    • Linux: biblia_<version>_linux_amd64.tar.gz (or arm64);
    • macOS: biblia_<version>_darwin_arm64.tar.gz (Apple silicon) or darwin_amd64 (Intel);
    • Windows: biblia_<version>_windows_amd64.zip.

    Unpack it and put biblia (biblia.exe on Windows) in a folder on your PATH, such as ~/.local/bin.

    Or, with Go installed: go install github.com/casara/biblia-cli/cmd/biblia@latest.

  2. Check it in a terminal: biblia jo 3.16 should print John 3.16.

  3. Optional: biblia dados baixar downloads the original-language texts, dictionaries and parallel passages (about 220 MB, or 75 MB with -enxuto). Without them, verse lookups work, but the parallel-passage commands do not.

The extension looks for biblia on the PATH and then in ~/.local/bin and ~/go/bin. Anywhere else, set its full path in biblia.executavel.

Commands

Command Shortcut What it does
Bíblia: consultar referência selecionada Ctrl+Alt+B shows the text in the Bíblia output panel, leaving the file alone
Bíblia: inserir texto no lugar da referência Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B replaces the selected reference with its text
Bíblia: consultar… — asks for a reference and shows its text
Bíblia: passagens paralelas da referência selecionada Ctrl+Alt+L shows the text and the list of parallel passages (Old Testament quotations in the New, Gospel parallels...)
Bíblia: inserir o texto das passagens paralelas Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L keeps the reference and inserts, on the lines after it, the text of each parallel passage, saying what it is
Bíblia: consultar com o original (hebraico/grego e Strong) Ctrl+Alt+O opens a read-only tab with the text and, word by word, the Hebrew/Greek original, transliteration, Strong number, gloss and grammar
Bíblia: Strong… — the lexicon entry of the Strong number under the cursor (G25, H7451b); otherwise asks for a number, transliteration or gloss
Bíblia: consultar em outras traduções… — asks which translations to use this time, then works like consultar
Bíblia: inserir texto em outras traduções… — asks which translations to use this time, then works like inserir

With no selection, the cursor line counts. References are typed the Brazilian way: Jo 3.16, 1 Co 13.4-7, Rm 5.8; 6.23, Sl 23.

The Strong numbers in the original tab are links: Ctrl+click (Cmd+click on macOS) opens the entry beside it in the same group, leaving the interlinear open; so does Bíblia: Strong… with the cursor on a number. The gloss search uses the dictionaries' language: Portuguese for Hebrew, Spanish for Greek (the UBS has no Portuguese Greek dictionary yet). The translation picker remembers the last choice; biblia.versoes stays as it is. The original and Strong commands need biblia dados baixar. Ctrl+Alt+B replaces VS Code's own shortcut for the secondary side bar; change any of them under Keyboard Shortcuts.

The interlinear of Jo 3.16 in a tab beside the file: Greek word, transliteration, Strong number, gloss and grammar

Ctrl+click on G0025 in the interlinear opens the lexicon entry in another tab

The translation picker with ara and arc checked

Settings

Setting Default What it does
biblia.executavel biblia the program, by name or full path
biblia.versoes (empty) translations, comma-separated (ara,naa); empty uses the program's config file
biblia.formato auto format of the inserted text: auto, linha, md, typ or a template of your own
biblia.formatosPorExtensao .md → md, .typ → typ for auto: file extension → format

In auto, Markdown files get a quotation with the reference, Typst files get #bref(...) preceded by a // conferido: ARA · ... · date line, and other files use the program's formato_filtro setting. The formats, the template fields and the program's config file are documented in the biblia README.

Sources and credits

  • Bible text: Bíblia Online, through the service the site publishes for programs, at most 5 verses per lookup. Each translation has its own rights holders; neither the extension nor the program ships Bible text.
  • Original languages, lexicons and grammar: STEPBible (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0), downloaded on demand.
  • Dictionaries and parallel passages: United Bible Societies (ubs-open-license, CC BY-SA 4.0), downloaded on demand.

License

MIT. The data keeps its sources' licenses.

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