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

Church directory

Churches listed for what they confess or how they say they preach, never for how big they are. Checked by hand, free to browse, and free to be listed in.

Browse the directory

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

Every book has a short path, group sessions, deeper context, and a printable PDF.

Browse 66 guides, 333 sessions

Bible questions

The Bible's strangest moments, explained

Passages that confuse people on first read, each with a short video, the text, and a one-session discussion guide to print.

See 1 question

Contribute

The one thing here we cannot make on our own.

Protos Illustrated

Illustrate a page of Scripture

Protos marks 4,186 people, places and things on the verse and 363 of them have a picture. Paint one and your work goes in the app with your name under it.

3,823 subjects have no picture

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 66 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: 333 sessions across Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Revelation, 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.