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Hebrew · Leningrad Codex, word by word (STEPBible TAHOT)

The Holy Bible

This entry presents the Translators Amalgamated Hebrew Old Testament, or TAHOT, a digital language resource in the STEPBible ecosystem. It builds on the Westminster Leningrad Codex text and adds word-level grammatical and lexical information. The underlying Leningrad Codex is a complete Hebrew Bible manuscript dated 1008–1009 and held by the National Library of Russia.

The reader displays Hebrew and biblical Aramaic words with morphology, dictionary forms and brief English glosses. Those glosses are study aids rather than a full translation or dictionary definition. The prepared edition contains 23,213 references, aligned for navigation with English Bible passages even where the two reference systems divide verses differently.

At a glance

Books: 39
Chapters: 929
Stored passages: 23,213
Stored words: 305,652

Edition type: Original-language edition
Original language and script: Ancient Hebrew · Hebrew script
Tradition: Jewish
Credits: STEP Bible and Tyndale House, Cambridge · editor — Tagged text, morphology, glosses and versification references.
Verse numbering: tahot

Sources for this guide

Sites and rights

Text source — TAHOT Gen-Deu at STEPBible-Data commit b99716b, kept unchanged in the private archive and not republished: STEPBible asks others to fetch the data from GitHub. Retrieved 2026-09-28.
Text source — TAHOT Jos-Est at STEPBible-Data commit b99716b, kept unchanged in the private archive and not republished: STEPBible asks others to fetch the data from GitHub. Retrieved 2026-09-28.
Text source — TAHOT Job-Sng at STEPBible-Data commit b99716b, kept unchanged in the private archive and not republished: STEPBible asks others to fetch the data from GitHub. Retrieved 2026-09-28.
Text source

A digital text based on a medieval codex

The Leningrad Codex is an early complete Hebrew Bible manuscript, dated to 1008–1009. STEPBible describes the Westminster Leningrad text as an electronic edition revised against photographs of the codex. This digital witness carries the manuscript’s consonants, vowels, cantillation and Masoretic reading traditions into a searchable form.

TAHOT adds another layer: word tagging and concise glossing. It is not a page-by-page image of the manuscript, nor does the existence of a medieval complete codex mean every word in the digital resource is an untouched copy of that witness. Readers can distinguish manuscript, electronic text and study data.

Word-level tools rather than a continuous translation

Each unit can expose a Hebrew or Aramaic form, its dictionary form, a grammatical tag and a short English gloss. These features help readers notice inflection and repeated vocabulary. They do not provide all the senses of a word or determine how it functions in context.

A gloss may compress a range of possible meanings into one English word. Use the grammatical tags as information about form, not as a final interpretation. For sustained translation, compare an English Bible and consult a lexicon or scholarly commentary.

STEPBible, TAHOT and related data notes

From a manuscript photograph to a tagged study text

The Westminster Leningrad Codex electronic text began as an electronic transcription of the 1983 Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and was later revised against photographs of the Leningrad Codex. This is an edition history, not a claim that every digital marker came from the medieval manuscript: some paragraph markers in the electronic text are modern editorial representations of manuscript spacing conventions.

TAHOT adds grammatical tags and short glosses to the Hebrew-Aramaic source. The digital layers support word-level study, but tags and glosses are modern annotations, not manuscript contents and not a full translation. The prepared reader’s verse references and search units make the tagged text easier to navigate; they do not replace an image facsimile when scribal layout or physical writing matters.

The Holy Bible

A digital text based on a medieval codex

Word-level tools rather than a continuous translation

From a manuscript photograph to a tagged study text

Hebrew references and English alignment

Editorial readings and restored text