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Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) MCP

A public, no-auth MCP server providing access to the complete Tanakh (Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim) in Hebrew and 10 languages. It supports reading verses and chapters, browsing topical study plans, and accessing interlinear morphology and pre-recorded audio links. Tools include list_books, get_chapter, get_verse, list_subjects, browse_subject, and get_plan.

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Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) MCP logo, by hebrewbible.appCommunity listingStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-06Published by hebrewbible.app
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://hebrewbible.app/mcp
Vendor documentation

What its tools do

6 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.

Not annotated (6)

6 of 6 have a description · 0 of 6 declare behavior hints · 6 of 6 with parameters document them all

Checks and signals

Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.

  • Passed Endpoint answered the live check ·
  • Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days

What you can do with it

  • Read any chapter or verse in 11 languages
  • Browse guided study plans by topic
  • List all books of the Tanakh
  • Get specific verse details with morphology

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 1.0.0
mcp-registry: io.github.moshecohen90/hebrew-bible@1.0.0Source repository
Maintenance checked

Protocol and capabilities

Server
hebrew-bible 1.0.0
MCP protocol negotiated in check
2025-06-18
Tools
6 advertised
Resources
Not advertised
Resource templates
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Prompts
Not advertised
Server-advertised capabilities
{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": false
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

Tools to read the Hebrew Bible / Tanach (and related corpora) and browse its study plans and articles. To read text: call list_books for valid book names, then get_chapter or get_verse. To browse: call list_subjects, then browse_subject, then get_plan for one plan's day-by-day schedule. Every result links back to the source page; cite that link.

Tools

6 advertised

get_chapter — Get a Bible chapter
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Return the full text of a chapter (every verse) from the Hebrew Bible / Tanach. Use list_books first to get valid English book names; see the language enum for available languages.

get_chapter input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "book",
    "chapter"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "book": {
      "enum": [
        "Genesis",
        "Exodus",
        "Leviticus",
        "Numbers",
        "Deuteronomy",
        "Joshua",
        "Judges",
        "I Samuel",
        "II Samuel",
        "I Kings",
        "II Kings",
        "Isaiah",
        "Jeremiah",
        "Ezekiel",
        "Hosea",
        "Joel",
        "Amos",
        "Obadiah",
        "Jonah",
        "Micah",
        "Nahum",
        "Habakkuk",
        "Zephaniah",
        "Haggai",
        "Zechariah",
        "Malachi",
        "Psalms",
        "Proverbs",
        "Job",
        "Song of Songs",
        "Ruth",
        "Lamentations",
        "Ecclesiastes",
        "Esther",
        "Daniel",
        "Ezra",
        "Nehemiah",
        "I Chronicles",
        "II Chronicles"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "English book name, e.g. \"Genesis\", \"Psalms\", \"Isaiah\"."
    },
    "chapter": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Chapter number (1-based)."
    },
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "he",
        "fr",
        "ru",
        "de",
        "it",
        "pl",
        "ko",
        "es",
        "pt",
        "yi",
        "id",
        "tl"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO language code (default \"en\"). Use \"he\" for Hebrew."
    }
  }
}
get_verse — Get a single Bible verse
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Return the text of one specific verse from the Hebrew Bible / Tanach, e.g. Genesis 1:1. Use list_books for valid English book names.

get_verse input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "book",
    "chapter",
    "verse"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "book": {
      "enum": [
        "Genesis",
        "Exodus",
        "Leviticus",
        "Numbers",
        "Deuteronomy",
        "Joshua",
        "Judges",
        "I Samuel",
        "II Samuel",
        "I Kings",
        "II Kings",
        "Isaiah",
        "Jeremiah",
        "Ezekiel",
        "Hosea",
        "Joel",
        "Amos",
        "Obadiah",
        "Jonah",
        "Micah",
        "Nahum",
        "Habakkuk",
        "Zephaniah",
        "Haggai",
        "Zechariah",
        "Malachi",
        "Psalms",
        "Proverbs",
        "Job",
        "Song of Songs",
        "Ruth",
        "Lamentations",
        "Ecclesiastes",
        "Esther",
        "Daniel",
        "Ezra",
        "Nehemiah",
        "I Chronicles",
        "II Chronicles"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "English book name, e.g. \"Genesis\"."
    },
    "verse": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Verse number (1-based)."
    },
    "chapter": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Chapter number (1-based)."
    },
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "he",
        "fr",
        "ru",
        "de",
        "it",
        "pl",
        "ko",
        "es",
        "pt",
        "yi",
        "id",
        "tl"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO language code (default \"en\"). Use \"he\" for Hebrew."
    }
  }
}
list_books — List the books
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

List every book available in this corpus with its English name, localized name, and the link to its first chapter. Call this to discover valid book names for get_chapter / get_verse.

list_books input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "he",
        "fr",
        "ru",
        "de",
        "it",
        "pl",
        "ko",
        "es",
        "pt",
        "yi",
        "id",
        "tl"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO language code for the localized names (default \"en\")."
    }
  }
}
list_subjects — List browseable subjects
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

List the subjects (categories) you can browse, such as the Weekly Torah Portion, Holidays, Daily Study, Psalms (Tehillim), Bible Stories, and Characters. Each returns a code to pass to browse_subject. Call this to discover what is available before browsing.

list_subjects input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "he",
        "fr",
        "ru",
        "de",
        "it",
        "pl",
        "ko",
        "es",
        "pt",
        "yi",
        "id",
        "tl"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO language code (default \"en\"). Subject browsing is curated per language."
    }
  }
}
browse_subject — Browse a subject
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

List study plans and articles for a subject or topic. Pass a subject code from list_subjects (for example "parsha", "holidays", "tehillim", "stories"), or any topic tag (for example "jonah", "purim", "psalm 23"). Results are paginated; pass the returned cursor to get more.

browse_subject input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "subject"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "cursor": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pagination cursor returned by a previous browse_subject call."
    },
    "subject": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Subject code from list_subjects, or any topic tag."
    },
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "he",
        "fr",
        "ru",
        "de",
        "it",
        "pl",
        "ko",
        "es",
        "pt",
        "yi",
        "id",
        "tl"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO language code (default \"en\")."
    }
  }
}
get_plan — Get a study plan
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Get the full detail of one study plan: its title, description, total length, and the day-by-day study schedule (first 7 days shown). Pass a plan id from a browse_subject link (the final path segment, e.g. "jonah_and_the_whale").

get_plan input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "plan"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "plan": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Plan id, e.g. \"daily_chapter\" or \"parashat-korach-weekly-torah-portion-study-11a6e434\" (the final segment of a plan link)."
    },
    "language": {
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "he",
        "fr",
        "ru",
        "de",
        "it",
        "pl",
        "ko",
        "es",
        "pt",
        "yi",
        "id",
        "tl"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ISO language code (default \"en\")."
    }
  }
}

Prompts

Not advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

Not advertised

No resource definitions available.

90-day uptime

A lightweight connection check about every six hours, sampled on hosts with many listings. It shows the server answered, not that its tools work.

Too few checks for a percentage yet (2 of 2 answered).

  1. 2026-11-06: 1 of 1 checks answered
  2. 2026-11-07: 1 of 1 checks answered

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
738 ms
95th percentile latency
738 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 738 ms · metadata changed · 6 tool(s)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http hebrew-bible-tanakh-mcp https://hebrewbible.app/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add hebrew-bible-tanakh-mcp --url https://hebrewbible.app/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable hebrew-bible-tanakh-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hebrew-bible-tanakh-mcp": {
      "url": "https://hebrewbible.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hebrew-bible-tanakh-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://hebrewbible.app/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start hebrew-bible-tanakh-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "hebrew-bible-tanakh-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hebrewbible.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http hebrew-bible-tanakh-mcp https://hebrewbible.app/mcp

Claude Desktop

Open Claude Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, enter this server URL and enable it for the conversation. This is a manual remote-connector handoff, not a desktop JSON configuration.
Claude Desktop configuration
https://hebrewbible.app/mcp

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hebrew-bible-tanakh-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://hebrewbible.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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