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open the reader and you land on today's verse. use the book, chapter, and verse pickers to go anywhere — genesis to revelation, 31,102 verses. the english sits on top; the original language waits underneath, word by word.

tap any original-language word and a card opens with its part of speech, strong's number, transliteration, root, and a short gloss. hebrew and greek words carry a doorway onward to BibleHub if you want to go deeper. treat glosses as a doorway, not a verdict.

tap the moon and everything clears but the verse. move between verses with the chevrons, or a slow swipe. it is the app at its quietest — the mode the whole thing was built around.

the magnifier opens search. give it an english word, a transliteration, a strong's number, or a reference like john 3 16 — tap a result and you are there.

one verse, once a day. in the app's settings you can choose a time and it arrives as a gentle notification — that is the only notification undertext will ever send, and only if you ask for it. a fresh open of the reader lands on the same verse.

the iphone app launches offline, and every chapter you have opened stays on your device. new chapters need a connection once — scripture is fetched from undertext.org and then kept.

on new testament verses the aramaic peshitta sits closest to the english — the language Jesus spoke, nearest the surface. the greek follows. old testament verses are hebrew; the peshitta is a new testament text, so it does not appear there.

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the king james version on the surface; beneath it, open scholarly datasets for the hebrew, greek, and aramaic — every one named and cited under sources & licenses. nothing is generated. nothing is invented.

it is a prayer for later. modern translations live under publishers' licenses, and undertext will only ever carry them with permission and with their terms honored — the same care the aramaic receives today.

the language beneath the verse. the english you know is the surface; undertext is what has been holding it up the whole time.