Learn Mode
Meet the Bible’s Hebrew and Greek words while you read
Learn Mode brings a few important Hebrew and Greek words into the Bible you are already reading. You meet them in the text, at your own pace, and you can stop on any one of them to see what it means and where to hear it explained.
Its word list comes from BibleProject’s word studies. This page tells the story behind Learn: how it links to BibleProject, and why their work matters so much to me.
Learn Mode in brief
- You meet a word you are learning in the text itself, while you read in Composite mode.
- Tap it and Word Study shows its meaning and lets you choose how it appears in your Bible.
- Learn keeps a few words in focus at a time, at the pace you set.
See Learn Mode in the feature tour → Read the full Learn help
Where the words come from
The vocabulary in Learn mode comes primarily from BibleProject’s Word Studies. They chose these Hebrew and Greek words because each one opens up a theme that runs through the whole Bible, and I gratefully credit them as the source of the list and of the insights behind it.
Nothing of theirs is copied into the app. Every resource link goes out to bibleproject.com: their podcast episode pages, their videos and their word studies. The short summaries you read in Learn are written by OpenScripture in our own words, to point you towards their work rather than replace it.
We are also adding vocabulary from a New Testament Greek course, so you can learn the most common words alongside the theologically rich ones.
OpenScripture is independent
OpenScripture is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by BibleProject. We use their name to credit them and to link to their public pages. Their logo, artwork and other branding belong to them, and you will not find them here or in the app.
What BibleProject has meant to me
I have spent years listening to the BibleProject podcast and watching their videos. Their word studies changed the way I read.
What stays with me most is how Tim Mackie and Jon Collins slow down. They stop on a single Hebrew or Greek word, turn it over, follow it through the Scriptures, and let it open up the passage in front of them. A word I had read a hundred times would suddenly have depth and connections I had never noticed.
Learn Mode is my attempt to bring that experience into everyday reading: to meet those words in the text itself, and to have their conversations one tap away.
Why I built OpenScripture
BibleProject holds a conviction that I share: the Bible is a unified story that leads to Jesus. It is beautiful, it is worth meditating on, and it is worth learning more about. That conviction is one of the biggest reasons OpenScripture exists.
I built OpenScripture to help ordinary readers see the text more clearly and slow down on it. Every main feature serves that aim, and the feature tour shows each one. The About page says more about the mission.
Try Learn Mode
Open any chapter in Composite mode and tap the Learn button beside the reading-mode bar. Pick a word or two from the Word list, then keep reading.