The Biblical Knowledge Graph API

People, places, events, cross-references, Strong's concordance, Hebrew morphology, and semantic search — all through a single REST API.

3,000+ People
1,200+ Places
900+ Events
70,000+ Cross-References

Everything you need to build Bible software

People & Places

3,000+ biblical figures with family trees, birth/death locations, and verse references. 1,200+ places with coordinates.

Events & Timeline

900+ events with participants, locations, chronological ordering, and hierarchical relationships.

Cross-References

70,000+ verse-to-verse cross-references with community voting scores from the Scrollmapper dataset.

Strong's Concordance

Complete Hebrew and Greek lexicon entries with lemmas, transliterations, definitions, and KJV usage notes.

Hebrew Morphology

Word-level Hebrew text with morphological tags, lemmas, and Strong's number linkage for every OT verse.

Semantic Search

Natural language queries powered by vector embeddings. Find passages by meaning, not just keywords. Coming soon.

Simple to use

Request
curl https://api.gnosistools.com/v1/people/abraham \
  -H "X-API-Key: gn_your_key_here"
Response
{
  "data": {
    "slug": "abraham",
    "uuid": "a1b2c3d4-...",
    "name": "Abraham",
    "gender": "Male",
    "birth_year_display": "1998 BC",
    "birth_place": "ur",
    "father": "terah",
    "children": ["isaac", "ishmael", "zimran", "jokshan", ...],
    "verse_count": 290,
    "name_meaning": "Father of a multitude"
  }
}

Built on open data

The Gnosis dataset is open source under CC-BY-SA 4.0. Download the raw JSON or SQLite database from GitHub and use it however you want. The API adds convenience, auth, rate limiting, and upcoming semantic search.