Bible reading companion

Everything you study,
in one place you own.

Lamp Bible puts translations, lexicons, commentaries, reading plans, your notes, writing and highlights behind a single reader — working offline, with no account, and stored in an open format you can export at any time.

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Mac version in development.

Features

Built for reading closely

Not a verse-of-the-day app. Lamp Bible is for people who read a passage, look up a word, check a commentary, and write down what they found.

A study-grade reader

Nine public-domain and openly licensed texts — English translations, the Hebrew and Greek, and the Septuagint in Greek and English — most tagged with Strong’s numbers and morphology. Tap a tagged word for its lexicon entry. Red letters, headings, poetry and paragraphs are kept as published.

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KJVsJohn 1

John

Chapter 1

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Word

Strong’s Greek

λόγοςlógos

G3056314×Analyse

Sense

something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ)

Derivation

from G3004 (λέγω)

Study tools beside the text

Commentary, cross-references, your notes or your own writing in a panel beside the passage, scrolling with the verse you are on.

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KJVsRomans 8

28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Enhanced)

v. 28

we know: Rom 8:35-39; Rom 5:3; Rom 5:4; Gen 50:20; Deut 8:2; Deut 8:3; Deut 8:16; Ps 46:1…

them: Rom 5:5; Exod 20:6; Deut 6:5; Neh 1:5; Ps 69:36; Mark 12:30; 1Cor 2:9…

the called: Rom 8:30; Rom 1:6; Rom 1:7; Rom 9:11; Rom 9:23; Rom 9:24…

Reading plans that keep up

Three public-domain Companion plans, or one you make from the passages you want to read: tick off each reading, see the day and the week at a glance, know how long the day will take at your pace, and get a reminder and a widget.

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Friday, November 6

Daily ReadingManage

DAY 310 OF 365

The Bible Companion

3 readings · 15 min1 of 3 read

UP NEXT · HOSEA 3:1

Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress…

3 Readings

2 Chronicles 35

History · 5 min

27 verses

Hosea 3

Prophets · 1 min

5 verses

Acts 18-19

Acts · 9 min

69 verses

Highlights with meaning

Four styles and any colour, kept in sets. Name a colour — “Promises”, “Calling” — and the meaning travels with your highlights.

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KJVsRomans 8

28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Notes anchored to verses

Write on a verse, a range or a whole chapter, in formatted text that sits beside the passage and exports as plain markdown.

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KJVsRomans 8

28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God…

My Notes

vv.28-30

Called is the word Paul uses of himself in 1:1.^[1] Those he called he also justified — the chain never breaks.

[1]κλητός, G2822 — invited, appointed.

Sync on your terms

Keep everything on the device, sync through iCloud Drive, or use your own WebDAV server. No account, ever.

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Settings

Lamp Bible

16 modules · Syncs with iCloud Drive

Sync

Sync MethodiCloud Drive

StatusConnected

Modules16 modules

Sync Now

Modules sync via iCloud Drive.

Search that reaches everything

One index across translations, lexicons, commentaries, books, notes, writing, plans, quizzes and highlights — by word, part of a word, phrase or Strong’s number, narrowed by book, module, tag or highlight colour.

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KJVs· John

G3056

36 resultsAnalyse

John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:14

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory…

John 2:22

…and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

John 4:37

And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

John 4:39

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman…

See how a word is used

Open the analysis from a word’s lexicon entry or a Strong’s search, and Lamp Bible counts that word across the translation: how often it occurs, how translators rendered it, where it gathers and what it keeps company with. The King James renders ἀγάπη “love” 86 times — and “charity” 27.

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Rendered as
Every English word translators chose for it, commonest first, as a list or a ring.
By book
Where it falls, with each book marked when it holds more or fewer than its length predicts — by a margin chance would rarely give.
Found with
The words that share its verses, the most certain first. Tap one to study it next.
Every verse
Tap a rendering or a book to list just those verses, each with the word marked.

Coming to Mac

More room for it on the Mac

Beside a Strong’s search: compare every translation that tags the word, read its forms and grammar, chart it by book, section or chapter, and put the chart on a slide.

G26

G26ἀγάπηagápē

Generally, love as in 1 Cor. 4:21, “Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love,” means full of…

117 occurrences in 106 verses · 0.85 per 1,000 tagged words · KJVs

1 John

OverviewSpreadCompanionsCompare

More than chance↑As expectedFewer than chance↓

1John 18

MatthewRevelation

Word Analysis

ἀγάπηG26

agápēlove

Occurrences

117

Verses

106

Books

24of 27

18 times

1 John

GospelsPaul’s LettersGeneral Letters

More than expectedFewerAs expected

About 0.8 in every 1,000 tagged Greek words of the KJVs.

Rendered As

ListRing

love86

the love, of love, in love

charity27

in charity, of charity, the charity

Once each

charitablydearfeasts of charitythe

Writing

Write, then present

Devotionals, sermons and studies get a proper editor rather than a notes field, and go from manuscript to slides without leaving Lamp Bible.

On iPhone and iPad

Footnotes that keep count
Numbered in order of first mention, with any label you like. Tap a marker to reach its note.
Tables and scripture
Quote a passage, link a reference, and lay a comparison out in a table.
Pictures and recordings
Add photos, or record audio straight into the piece.
Present mode
Full screen, at a size you can read from a lectern.
Slides in your pocket
Open decks made on the Mac, and run a Mac presentation as its remote, with speaker notes, a timer and black-out.

Writing on iPhone and iPad →

Devotional · November 7, 2026

Abide in the Vine

John 15:1–8

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit.

John 15:5

Fruit is never the branch’s own work; it is what the vine does through it.^[1]

AbideBear fruitv. 4vv. 5, 8

🎵Audio

1. Compare 1 John 2:6.

AaBI

Coming to Mac

An agent at your writing desk

Open a workspace beside any piece of writing and work on it with the AI you already use — Codex, Claude Code or OpenCode, signed in with your own account. It works on the same text you do, and looks things up in your library through read-only tools.

The workspace syncs with your library, so it follows the writing to your other Macs. Your messages go to the provider you choose, never to Lamp Bible.

Chat
Ask for a draft, a cut or a check, on the model and effort you choose for that chat. Its edits go straight into the draft, and every one lands in Revisions, where you can undo it.
Terminal
Your provider’s own tool, continuing the same session.
Context
Sources, an earlier talk, research notes — read-only copies for the agent to work from.
Workspace Skills
Instructions it can follow. Three come built in: one turns the writing into slides, one checks what scripture establishes against what the writing infers, and one examines the Hebrew and Greek behind a claim.

Abide in the Vine

Main Proseoutline.md

Body BIInsert

Abide in the Vine

Fruit is never the branch’s own work. It is what the vine does through a branch that stays.^[1]

1 Compare 1 John 2:6.

Up to date642 words · 4 min read

Default modelDefault effort

ChatTerminal

Draft

Live sync is activeRevisions (3)

Context

earlier-talk.md12 KB

Workspace Skills

build-lamp-deckBuilt-in

original-languagesBuilt-in

sola-scripturaBuilt-in

Connected

Tighten the opening, and find where else John uses “abide”.

Shortened the first sentence. The cross-references tie verse 4 to 1 John 2:6, so I added it as a footnote.

diffCopy

- Jesus says a great deal in this chapter about fruit.

+ Fruit is never the branch’s own work.

Message Claude

Or bring Lamp to the AI app you already use

Turn on Allow other apps to read my library in Settings, and Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor or opencode can search your library, read passages and commentary, analyse a word, and check and draw a deck — the same read-only tools a workspace agent has.

Turn on Allow other apps to change my writings as well, and an agent there can rewrite a writing’s draft too. Lamp takes the new draft in when you next open that writing’s workspace, and never lets it overwrite an edit of yours it hadn’t seen. With Allow other apps to add reading plans, it can make you a plan over the passages you name.

Claude Desktop installs Lamp in one step and asks first; the others take a snippet you paste. What those apps read goes to the AI provider they use.

AI & Agents

Use Lamp in Other Apps

Allow other apps to read my library

Separate from writing: these apps can read, and nothing more. What they read goes to whichever AI provider that app uses, not to Lamp’s.

Allow other apps to change my writings

An agent in another app can rewrite a writing’s draft, which Lamp takes in when you next open that writing’s agent workspace. It cannot write over an edit of yours it had not seen.

Allow other apps to add reading plans

An agent in another app can ask for a reading plan over the passages you name, which Lamp lays out and adds when it next reads its library.

Claude DesktopAdd to Claude Desktop…

opencode~/.config/opencode/opencode.jsonCopy

Codex~/.codex/config.tomlCopy

Cursor~/.cursor/mcp.jsonCopy

Paste each one into that app’s own configuration file yourself.

Coming to Mac

A writing desk on the Mac

Visual and Markdown editing, find and replace, a Details pane for series, tags and key scriptures, footnotes edited beside their marker, companion files as tabs, and a Revision History for every change.

Abide in the Vine

abideAa ab2 of 4Done

remainReplaceReplace All

A branch bears fruit only while it abides in the vine. Abide in me, he says, and the fruit takes care of itself. To abide is to stay.

Up to date642 words · 4 min read

Details

Title

Abide in the Vine

Date

2026-11-07

Slide Studio

Build a deck from the writing — scripture, quotations, charts of how a word is used, and speaker notes drawn from the manuscript — in eight layouts. Present full screen, export a PDF, and drive it from your iPhone.

Abide in the Vine

Play

“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit…”

John 15:5

Presenter Notes

Begins at “I am the vine”

I am the vine, he says, and we are the branches — not the gardener, and not the fruit.

Saved

The module system

Every piece of content is a module

Translations, dictionaries, commentaries, books, reading plans, quizzes, highlights, notes and devotionals all use the same container: a compressed SQLite package with a .lamp extension. The app treats what ships with it and what you make yourself exactly the same way.

That has a practical consequence. Your notes are not rows locked inside an app database — they are a module you can export, edit as markdown, back up to your own server, and import somewhere else. So are your highlights, with the colour meanings you gave them.

It also means the library is extensible. Build a .lamp file from the published JSON schemas and the app will install it, index it for search and show it in the reader beside everything else.

Or bring what you already own. Import a Bible as USFM, OSIS, Zefania or a SWORD module — locked ones included — and it gets the same word lookups and search as the bundled translations. Long-form books install the same way, with their contents, footnotes and live scripture references.

How modules work Authoring reference

Module types

Translation: Verse text with Strong’s, morphology, headings and footnotes; Read-only
Dictionary: Lexicon entries keyed by Strong’s number or lemma; Read-only
Commentary: Verse- or pericope-keyed exposition, grouped into series; Read-only
Book: Long-form publications in chapters and sections; Read-only
Plan: Dated reading assignments across the year; Read-only
Quiz: Age-graded questions tied to a plan’s readings; Read-only
Notes: Your verse-anchored study notes; You edit
Devotional: Your long-form writing, with media; You edit
Highlights: Your highlight spans and colour themes; You edit

Your data

No account. No tracking. No network required.

The app has no sign-in and collects nothing about you. Bundled content is on the device after install, so the whole library works in airplane mode.

Offline by default

Translations, lexicons, cross-references, commentaries and plans ship inside the app. Nothing you read requires a connection.

Sync you control

Choose local-only storage, iCloud Drive — where your files stay visible in the Files app — or your own WebDAV server such as Nextcloud or Synology.

Exit at any time

Notes and devotionals round-trip through plain markdown. Modules export as .lamp packages. Nothing is trapped.

Start reading

Free, with a library included. iPhone & iPad.

Questions or a feature request? Open an issue or email lampbibleapp[at]gmail[dot]com.

Everything you study,in one place you own.

Built for reading closely

A study-grade reader

Study tools beside the text

Reading plans that keep up

Highlights with meaning

Notes anchored to verses

Sync on your terms

Search that reaches everything

See how a word is used

Write, then present

An agent at your writing desk

Or bring Lamp to the AI app you already use

A writing desk on the Mac

Slide Studio

Every piece of content is a module

Module types

No account. No tracking. No network required.

Offline by default

Sync you control

Exit at any time

Start reading

Everything you study,
in one place you own.