Text-Fabric AI
Ask a research question about the Hebrew Bible or the Greek texts, and get an answer backed by searches you can check.
- Year
- 2026
- Runs on
- Web app
- Built with
- Python, JavaScript, Claude API, Gemini API, RAG, Linux hosting
The problem
Text-Fabric is an open-source tool scholars use to search the Hebrew Bible and Greek texts word by word, with the grammar of every word attached. It’s powerful, but its query language takes a long time to learn. General AI chatbots, meanwhile, answer questions about the original languages confidently and often wrongly.
What I built
I added AI to my fork of Text-Fabric. The research chat answers a question by running real searches against the texts (the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament) and shows every search it ran, so you can load one and check the evidence yourself. When it can’t establish something from the text, it says so.
The query generator turns a plain-English description into a Text-Fabric query, runs it, and repairs it until it works. I also mapped Strong’s numbers onto the text, linked references between the Hebrew and the Septuagint, and made the whole browser usable on a phone. You bring your own API key, and it shows what each question costs.
Result
It runs on my own server, and anyone can try it.