Set Apart Fellowship — Obsidian Vault

Biblical research tools for studying scripture on its own terms — comparing translations, reading original languages, and looking up verses without leaving your notes.

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What You Need First

Before anything else, you need two free things installed on your computer:

1. Obsidian — a note-taking app that stores everything as plain text files on your computer (nothing goes to a cloud you don't control). Download at obsidian.md.

2. The Templater plugin — a plugin for Obsidian that lets you run the lookup scripts in this vault. Instructions for installing it are in the Setup section below.

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Step 1 — Get This Vault onto Your Computer

You have two options:

Option A — Download as a ZIP (easiest)

1. Click the green Code button at the top of this GitHub page
2. Click Download ZIP
3. Unzip it somewhere on your computer (e.g. your Documents folder)

Option B — Clone with Git (if you know what that means)

git clone https://github.com/Set-Apart-Fellowship/obsidian-vault.git

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Step 2 — Open the Vault in Obsidian

1. Open Obsidian
2. On the startup screen, click Open folder as vault
3. Navigate to the folder you downloaded/unzipped and select it
4. Click Open

You should now see the vault files in the left sidebar.

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Step 3 — Install the Templater Plugin

Templater is what makes the scripts run. Without it, the scripts are just text files that do nothing.

1. In Obsidian, open Settings (gear icon, bottom-left)
2. Click Community plugins in the left menu
3. If it says "Safe mode is on," click Turn on community plugins
4. Click Browse
5. In the search box, type Templater
6. Click on Templater by SilentVoid13
7. Click Install, then click Enable
8. Close the plugin browser

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Step 4 — Point Templater at the Scripts Folder

Templater needs to know where the scripts live.

1. Go back to Settings
2. Click Templater in the left menu (it should now appear under "Community plugins")
3. Find the field labeled Template folder location
4. Type: Utilities
5. Close Settings

That's it. The scripts are now ready to use.

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Using the Scripts

How to run any script

1. Open any note in Obsidian (or create a new one)
2. Place your cursor where you want the output to appear
3. Press Cmd+P (Mac) or Ctrl+P (Windows) to open the command palette
4. Type Insert Template and select Templater: Insert Template
5. Pick the script you want from the list
6. A small prompt box will appear — type your input and press Enter
7. The result appears in your note

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verse-lookup

Looks up a Bible verse (or range of verses) across every translation at once, plus the original Hebrew or Greek interlinear.

How to use it:

Run the script and type a reference into the prompt:

What you type	What you get
John 3:16	All translations + interlinear table
Genesis 1:1-3	Verses 1–3 across all translations
John 3:16 BSB	BSB text only
Genesis 1:1 KJV	KJV text only
John 1:1 INTERLINEAR	Just the Greek interlinear table

Available translation codes:

BSB KJV YLT ASV DARBY WEYMOUTH INTERLINEAR

If a translation file is missing from your vault, it's silently skipped — no error, just not shown.

The Greek Septuagint (LXX) and Brenton's English Septuagint (BRENTON) are not part of verse-lookup. To read those, use lxx-word-search or lxx-lemma-search below.

What the interlinear looks like:

Each word in the original Hebrew or Greek gets its own row showing the original text, how to pronounce it, what it means in English, its Strong's number, and its grammatical parsing.

H0 in the Strong's column means the word has no Strong's number. It's almost always a one-letter Hebrew preposition (ל "to/for", ב "in", כ "like") carrying a pronoun ending, such as לָנוּ "to us" — Strong's never numbered these.

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lxx-word-search

Searches the Greek Septuagint (the ancient Greek Old Testament) for any Greek word or root. Type a Greek word — accents are optional — and it returns every verse containing that string, with the Brenton English translation alongside.

How to use it:

Run the script and type any Greek word or partial word into the prompt. Example: βδελυγμ finds every occurrence of words built on that root.

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lxx-lemma-search

More powerful than word search — this finds every occurrence of a Greek word across all its different grammatical forms. For example, searching for any form of the verb "to say" (εἶπεν, εἶπον, λέγει, etc.) finds them all, because they all share the same underlying lemma.

One-time setup required: This script needs a lemma index that you build yourself. The index isn't included in the vault because its lemma and gloss data come from CCAT-derived sources that can't be redistributed here.

Before you build it — the CCAT user declaration. The lemma data comes from eliranwong/LXX-Rahlfs-1935, which is derived from the CCAT LXX morphology (University of Pennsylvania) and licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (non-commercial). That project asks everyone to agree to and send the CCAT user declaration before downloading its data. Read the declaration here and follow its instructions: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/gopher/text/religion/biblical/lxxmorph/0-user-declaration.txt

Running the build script downloads that data, so only run it once you've agreed to those terms. The index you build falls under those same terms.

To build the index (needs Python 3 and an internet connection; takes a few minutes):

1. Open your Terminal (Mac) or Command Prompt (Windows)
2. Navigate to your vault folder
3. Run: python3 import_lxx_morph.py (on Windows you may need python import_lxx_morph.py instead)

This creates Utilities/data/lxx-lemma-index.json. After that, the script works instantly every time.

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What's Included

Bible Versions/ — Public domain translations:

Code	Translation
BSB	Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023)
KJV	King James Version
ASV	American Standard Version
YLT	Young's Literal Translation
DARBY	Darby Translation
WEYMOUTH	Weymouth New Testament (NT only)
LXX	Swete Greek Septuagint (1909–1930), from eliranwong/LXX-Swete-1930 — GPL-3.0, see below
BRENTON	Brenton's English LXX (1851)
INTERLINEAR	Hebrew/Greek with transliteration, Strong's, and morphology
INTERLINEAR (NT)	Greek text from bereanbible.com. Not the Textus Receptus: Mark 7:19 reads καθαρίζων (TR: καθαρίζον).

BASIC (Bible in Basic English) is not included in this repo. It is public domain in the United States, but its copyright status outside the US is ambiguous due to GATT restoration and UK considerations. Users who want BBE can source it themselves and add it locally.

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Bible Versions Folder Structure

Each translation follows this pattern:

Bible Versions/
  {TRANSLATION}/
    {NN} - {Book Name}/
      {Book Name} {Chapter}.md

Example: Bible Versions/BSB/01 - Genesis/Genesis 1.md

Inside each chapter file, verses look like this:

v1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
v2 Now the earth was formless and empty...

Interlinear entries look like this (one token per line):

v1 בָּרָא|bā·rā|created|H1254|V-Qal-Perf-3ms

That's: Original | Transliteration | English gloss | Strong's number | Grammatical parsing

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License

CC0 1.0 Universal — dedicated to the public domain. Use it however you like.

Exception: Bible Versions/LXX/ is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. The Swete text itself is public domain; this digital edition comes from eliranwong/LXX-Swete-1930 by Eliran Wong, which is released under GPL-3.0. You can redistribute that folder freely, but under GPL-3.0 terms, not CC0.