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Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) MCP Server

io.github.moshecohen90/hebrew-bible
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Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 14 Jun 2026.

Read Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) verses & chapters in 10 languages, plus guided study plans.

Uptime history 39 hours of history
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
295 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 14 Jun 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add hebrew-bible --transport http https://hebrewbible.app/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hebrew-bible": {
      "url": "https://hebrewbible.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.hebrew-bible]
url = "https://hebrewbible.app/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hebrew-bible": {
      "url": "https://hebrewbible.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hebrew-bible": {
      "url": "https://hebrewbible.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

books
list_books
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.
browse
browse_subject
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.
chapter
get_chapter
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.
plan
get_plan
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").
subjects
list_subjects
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.
verse
get_verse
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.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://hebrewbible.app/mcp streamable-http answering 372 ms 6 min ago

Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: browse_subject, get_chapter, get_plan, get_verse, list_books, list_subjects. 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 Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) 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 295 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)?
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 Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) need an API key?
No. Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)?
It answers our handshake in 295 ms on average, which is faster than 47% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) open source?
Yes — 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.