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About Fisher Study
Fisher Study is a Bible-focused Discord server with a bot designed to help you explore scripture deeply and interactively. Whether you're studying alone or with a group, the bot provides tools to look up verses, search by phrases, hear chapters read aloud, and uncover cross-references to expand your understanding of the Word.
Inspired by the calling to be "fishers of men," this project aims to make Bible study accessible, engaging, and rooted in spiritual growth — all from within your Discord community.
Features
- Verse Lookup: Find any Bible verse instantly across 14 translations.
- Phrase Search: Search for key words or phrases.
- Cross References: Discover related passages.
- Topical Search: Find top verses for any topic like hope, forgiveness, or marriage.
- Biblical People & Places: Look up who someone was, where a place is, and every verse they appear in.
- Bible Dictionary: Classic Easton's definitions for people, places, and theological terms.
- Original-Language Word Study: Every verse tagged with the underlying Greek or Hebrew word, transliteration, gloss, and Strong's number.
- Morphology Decoder: Expand cryptic parsing codes like
V-AAI-3Sinto plain English. - Memorization Helper: Fill-in-the-blank games for scripture memorization.
- Voice Channel Reading: Read chapters aloud in your voice channel.
- Chapter Queue: Queue multiple chapters for continuous reading.
- Supported Translations: 14 public-domain English translations
- BSB – Berean Standard Bible
- KJV – King James Version
- ASV – American Standard Version
- AKJV – American King James Version
- CPDV – Catholic Public Domain Version
- DBT – Darby Bible Translation
- DRB – Douay-Rheims Bible
- ERV – English Revised Version
- JPS – JPS Tanakh 1917 / Weymouth NT
- NHEB – New Heart English Bible
- SLT – Smith's Literal Translation
- WBT – Webster Bible Translation
- WEB – World English Bible
- YLT – Young's Literal Translation
- Default Translation: WEB is used if no version is specified.
▸📘 Bot Commands (Click to Expand)
This bot supports reading Bible verses, searching for phrases, playing audio, and exploring cross-references.
🔎 !verse [version] Book Chapter:Verse
!verse John 3:16
!verse ylt John 3:16
🎲 !randomverse [version]
!randomverse
!randomverse ylt
🔁 !crossref [version] Book Chapter:Verse
!crossref John 3:16
!crossref ylt John 3:16
🔍 !findphrase [version] phrase
!findphrase everlasting life
!findphrase ylt kingdom
🌐 !allversions Book Chapter:Verse
!allversions John 3:16
🧠 !strongs Book Chapter:Verse:WordPosition
Look up the Nth original-language word in a verse. WordPosition is the Greek word index for New Testament books and the Hebrew word index for Old Testament books — not the English word position. Returns the original word, transliteration, gloss, Strong's number, grammar, and the full lexicon entry.
!strongs John 3:16:3
!strongs Genesis 1:1:1
📜 !versestg Book Chapter:Verse
Show an entire verse with Strong's tags on every original-language word. Displays the English translation first, then a word-by-word Greek (NT) or Hebrew (OT) breakdown with transliteration, gloss, and Strong's numbers.
!versestg John 3:16
!versestg Genesis 1:1
🔤 !morph Code
Expand a Greek or Hebrew morphology code like V-AAI-3S or HNcmsa. Compound Hebrew codes joined with / are expanded component-by-component.
!morph V-AAI-3S
!morph HNcmsa
!morph HTd/Ncmsa
🔖 !topic keyword
Find the most relevant verses for any topic (e.g. hope, forgiveness, marriage, prayer). Backed by OpenBible.info's community-voted topic scores across thousands of topics.
!topic hope
!topic forgiveness
👤 !who Name
Look up a biblical person. Returns a short biography, parentage, Strong's number for their name, and the number of verses they appear in. Disambiguates when multiple people share a name.
!who Moses
!who Mary Magdalene
!who David
📍 !place Name
Look up a biblical place. Returns geographic coordinates (when known), a link to Google Maps, and the list of verses where the place is mentioned.
!place Bethlehem
!place Mount Sinai
!place Jericho
📖 !dict Term or !define Term
Look up a term in Easton's Bible Dictionary — a classic 19th-century reference with nearly 4,000 entries covering people, places, objects, and theological concepts.
!dict faith
!define propitiation
!dict sanctification
🧠 !memorize [version] Book Chapter:Verse
Fill-in-the-blank memorization helper. Blanks out about a third of the words in a verse, hides the full answer behind a Discord spoiler so you can try to recall it first, then reveal.
!memorize John 3:16
!memorize kjv Psalm 23:1
🔊 !readchapter Book Chapter
!readchapter Genesis 1
🎧 !readrandomchapter
!readrandomchapter
📚 !readqueue Book Chapter1,Chapter2,...
!readqueue Genesis 1,2,3
📖 !listbooks
!listbooks
📄 !listchapters Book
!listchapters John
Credits & Data Sources
Fisher Study is built on the generous work of several open Bible data projects. None of this would exist without them — please consider supporting them.
- English Bible Translations (all 14): Sourced from OpenBible.com. All 14 translations are in the public domain.
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Cross-References:
The cross-reference dataset from
OpenBible.info
(Creative Commons Attribution License).
Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Contact: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com.
- Strong's Hebrew & Greek Lexicons: Tyndale Brief lexicons of Extended Strong's (TBESH & TBESG), distributed by STEPBible.org under CC BY 4.0.
-
Original-Language Word Data (Hebrew OT & Greek NT):
Translators Amalgamated Hebrew OT (TAHOT) and Greek NT (TAGNT), from
STEPBible
(CC BY 4.0). Based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge.
These power the
!strongsand!versestgcommands with word-by-word Strong's, glosses, and morphology. -
Morphology Code Expansions:
Translators Expansion of Greek & Hebrew Morphology Codes (TEGMC & TEHMC), from
STEPBible
(CC BY 4.0). Powers the
!morphcommand by translating parsing codes likeV-AAI-3Sinto human-readable grammar. -
Biblical People:
Translators Individualised Proper Names with all References (TIPNR), from
STEPBible
(CC BY 4.0). Disambiguates each biblical person by birth reference and provides
biographies used by the
!whocommand. -
Topical Search:
OpenBible.info Topic Scores
(CC BY) — a community-voted dataset ranking verses by topic. Powers
!topic. -
Biblical Places & Geography:
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding
(CC BY). Coordinates and verse references for every named biblical place. Powers
!place. -
Bible Dictionary:
Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain, 1897), pre-parsed from CCEL ThML XML via the
neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset
project. Powers
!dictand!define.
Distributed data is used in accordance with the respective licenses. Attribution links above are the canonical sources for these datasets.