Free study tools
Free Bible study tools and printable guides
Everything here is free to read, print and share. No account, no email, nothing held back. Every definition names the published work it came from.
Built by the team behind Protos, a Bible study app for people who were never taught how to read it.
Tools
Look something up while you read.
Dictionary
Bible dictionary
What a word, person or place means, and every passage it appears in. Compiled from five published dictionaries, each entry attributed to the one it came from.
Browse 1,129 entries
Directory
Church directory
Churches that teach the Bible verse by verse, in 8 countries. A short checked list rather than every church there is, and free to browse or be listed in.
Browse 46 churches
Commentary
Commentary on every book
Who wrote each book, when, to whom and why, with Tyndale Open Study Notes on the text itself and links to the people and places in it.
Browse all 66 books
Guides
Download, print, hand round a table.
Reading plans
Bible reading plans
Chronological, canonical and the New Testament in 90 days. Balanced by verse count rather than chapter count, so no day is secretly three times longer than the last.
See all 3 plans
Study guides
Small group study guides
Session by session discussion questions for Romans, Mark, James, written to be printed and worked through by a group.
Download 3 guides, 16 sessions
Contribute
The one thing here we cannot make on our own.
Where this comes from
Every word of the reference text was written by a scholar and published before it ever reached us, and every page says which work its definition came from.
- Tyndale House, via STEPBible639 entries · CC BY 4.0
- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible326 entries · Public domain
- Easton's Bible Dictionary111 entries · Public domain
- Smith's Bible Dictionary51 entries · Public domain
- Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia2 entries · Public domain
- Tyndale Open Study NotesBook commentary, 65 of 66 books · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jamieson-Fausset-BrownBook commentary, Judges only · Public domain
- TBESH Hebrew glossesOriginal language · STEPBible, cleared
- Abbott-Smith Greek lexiconOriginal language · Public domain, 1922
Using and citing these
Use them. Quote them, print them, put them in a handout, work through a guide with your group. You do not need permission and you do not need to check with us first.
If you reproduce an entity article at length, the Tyndale House material is licensed CC BY 4.0, which asks you to credit Tyndale House and link the licence. Everything else on this page is public domain. Quoting a line and linking the page needs nothing from you.
Common questions
Are these Bible study tools free?
Yes, all of them. The 1,129 dictionary entries, the commentary on all 66 books, the 3 reading plans and the 3 printable study guides are free to read and download. There is no account, no email required, and nothing is held back behind a signup.
Can I use these with my small group or church?
Yes. The study guides were written for exactly that: 16 sessions across Romans, Mark, James, with discussion questions, printable as PDFs. You do not need permission to use them with a group, and you do not need to tell us.
Can I quote or link to these pages?
Yes, and you do not need to ask. Most of the material is public domain. The Tyndale House entity articles are licensed CC BY 4.0, which asks that you credit Tyndale House and link the licence if you reproduce that text at length. Quoting a line and linking the page needs nothing from you.
Where do the definitions come from?
Published reference works, named on every page they appear on: Tyndale House via STEPBible, Hastings', Easton's, Smith's and Schaff-Herzog for the dictionary, Tyndale Open Study Notes for the book commentary with Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges, TBESH and Abbott-Smith for Hebrew and Greek. Every word of it was written by a scholar and published before it ever reached us. Every entry says which work it came from.
