Orthotomeo MCP Server

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Orthotomeo is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 12 tools. Last commit 28 Jul 2026.

Read-only scripture-study engine: complete-or-fail concordance over Greek NT, Hebrew OT, LXX.

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 99%

52 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

239 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 28 Jul 2026

What the code does

We read the source, 20 h ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Builds a database query by concatenation align/align.go:252

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This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add orthotomeo --transport http https://orthotomeo.app/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orthotomeo": {
      "url": "https://orthotomeo.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.orthotomeo]
url = "https://orthotomeo.app/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orthotomeo": {
      "url": "https://orthotomeo.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "orthotomeo": {
      "url": "https://orthotomeo.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 12

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

concord

concord_lemma

Complete-or-fail concordance: every words row in corpus whose lemma, dStrong, or (with by="surface") exact inflected surface form matches query. Route lemma/Strong's-number/surface-word lookups here, never by writing SQL or guessing occurrences from memory. This deployment caps one concordance result at 2000 occurrences and refuses anything broader, reporting the exact match count in the error. Call count first when a query might be broad - count is never capped.

concord_phrase

Complete-or-fail multi-word concordance: every occurrence, within one verse, of tokens (lemma strings) appearing in order within window intervening words of each other (window=0 = strictly adjacent). This is the tool for a phrase query like εἰς ἄφεσιν. This deployment caps one concordance result at 2000 occurrences and refuses anything broader, reporting the exact match count in the error. Call count first when a query might be broad - count is never capped.

attestation

attestation

Returns the WHNT-style Type/Editions manuscript-tradition columns as neutral text-critical data (e.g. Mark 16:9-20 = Type KO) - which editions carry a word, with no argument for or against a variant.

cite

cite

Renders Citations (from any of the above tools) as quoted, fully-attributed Markdown bullets - the only sanctioned bridge from a query result to pastable study-document text.

count

count

Occurrence tally (total + per-book breakdown) for the identical query concord_lemma would match. count.Total always equals len(concord_lemma(...)) - use this to sanity-check a concordance result, or when only the number matters.

interlinear

interlinear

Returns a row-aligned reading view for every word in a verse (or one word, if word is given): original text, transliteration, gloss (via lexicon_lookup), grammar, and manuscript attestation stacked per word - the composed display shape for a study reading view, built on parse and lexicon_lookup rather than any new query. This is the most complete per-word view; use parse or attestation when you want only one of those facets.

lemmatize

lemmatize

Returns the ordered lemma list for a verse (words with no lemma are omitted, not fabricated).

lexicon

lexicon_lookup

Resolves a disambiguated Strong's number (dStrong) to its lexicon entry: lemma, transliteration, gloss, and - for a Greek entry only - a fuller definition (Abbott-Smith 1922, Public Domain). A Hebrew entry's definition field is always omitted: it is abridged BDB via Online Bible, which requires permission not yet obtained, so only its gloss is ever returned. Not to be confused with the get_verse/get_passage tools, which resolve a Ref to translated verse text, not a dStrong to a dictionary entry.

parse

parse

Returns dStrong + expanded morphology (via the T6 morph_codes table) for every word in a verse, or one word if word is given. LXX corpora (Swete, OSS-LXX-lemma) are always Flagged - neither carries morphology.

passage

get_passage

Returns get_verse's result for every canonical verse in a contiguous, single-book range, in order - verse boundaries preserved, never concatenated into one blob.

resolve

resolve_ref

Reports, for every per-verse content edition (KJV, ASV, WEB, BSB, Brenton, TAGNT, TAHOT, Swete, OSS-LXX-lemma), whether a canonical reference has a counterpart there and where. Cross-edition divergence (a T4b merge/renumber/divide, or a reference simply missing from an edition) is reported as Caveats - never a silent shift.

verse

get_verse

Returns verbatim verse text with provenance for one canonical reference, one Citation per requested edition (KJV, ASV, WEB, BSB, Brenton).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://orthotomeo.app/mcp	streamable-http	answering	247 ms	2 min ago

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Orthotomeo — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Orthotomeo do?

It exposes 12 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: attestation, cite, concord_lemma, concord_phrase, count, get_passage and 6 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Orthotomeo working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 239 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Orthotomeo?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Orthotomeo need an API key?

No. Orthotomeo completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 12 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Orthotomeo?

It answers our handshake in 239 ms on average, which is faster than 70% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Orthotomeo open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Go and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.