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The Chinese Union Version beside the King James Version, with pinyin over every character and Strong's numbers back to the Hebrew and Greek. Free, offline, no ads.

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Loqu8 Bible showing John 1: tapping "the Word" marks 道 in the Chinese and λόγος in the Greek, with pinyin over the Chinese and the Strong's entry for G3056 open beside it

Tap a word and it lights up in every language on the page. Tap “the Word” in John 1, and 道 and λόγος are marked with it while the lexicon entry opens.

What it does

Chinese and English, verse by verse

The Chinese Union Version sits beside the King James Version, so each Chinese verse has its English beside it.

Pinyin over every character

Pinyin sits above the Chinese, with tone colors if you want them. Tap a Chinese word to see its meaning. Read in simplified or traditional characters.

Strong's concordance

The King James text carries Strong's numbers. Tap one to read the Hebrew or Greek entry: the original word, its transliteration and pronunciation, the definition, the ways the KJV translates it, and how many verses use it.

Hebrew and Greek

The original text runs under each verse, word by word, with a transliteration below every word. Hebrew reads right to left for the Old Testament, and Greek for the New.

Three ways to read

Reader for devotional reading, Student with tone colors and the original language, and Scholar with Strong's numbers and traditional characters. Each layer can also be turned on or off by itself.

Private by design

There is no account and there are no ads. The whole Bible is inside the app and works offline. The app does not report what you read or search for, and anonymous usage data stays off unless you turn it on.

Data Sources & Credits

Bible Texts
KJV (1611) — Public Domain
CUV (1919) — Public Domain
Arabic SVD (Smith and Van Dyck, 1865) — tagged text by STEPBible.org and Arabic Bible Outreach Ministry, CC BY-SA 4.0. Romanization and pronunciation guides by Loqu8.
Strong's Concordance
FHL bible.fhl.net — GNU FDL 1.1
STEPBible, Tyndale House — CC BY 4.0
Dictionary
Loqu8's own Chinese dictionary, machine-assisted definitions — CC BY-SA 4.0, created with reference to CC-CEDICT, HanDeDict, CFDICT, CC-CIDICT, JMdict and Wiktionary
Pinyin
WordProject — free for evangelization
Fonts
Google Noto — OFL 1.1

Support

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