What the word sheet shows
- The word as it stands in the verse, in Greek or Hebrew script, with a transliteration so you can say it.
- The dictionary form (lemma) and a short English gloss.
- A parsing in plain English — “Verb, aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular,” not a code like
V-AAI-3S. - The Strong’s number, the standard reference number for the word (what is a Strong’s number?).
- Lexicon entries: the unabridged Brown-Driver-Briggs for Hebrew and Aramaic, Thayer’s for Greek, and Strong’s dictionaries for both, quoted as published.
- Every occurrence of the same word across the Bible, so you can see how it is used elsewhere.
An example: “be transformed” in Romans 12:2
Paul writes, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Tap be transformed and the word sheet opens on μεταμορφοῦσθε (metamorphousthe), from the dictionary form μεταμορφόω, Strong’s G3339.
The parsing reads “Verb, present middle or passive imperative, 2nd person plural”: a command, addressed to more than one person. Thayer’s defines the verb as “to change into another form, to transfigure, transform,” and notes that in Romans 12:2 it is “used of the change of moral character for the better.”
“Every occurrence” shows the word only four times in the New Testament: twice of Jesus at the transfiguration (Matthew 17:2, Mark 9:2), here in Romans 12:2, and in 2 Corinthians 3:18, “are being transformed into His image.” Those four verses, side by side, are a word study in themselves. Follow the full method in our Greek word study guide.
Hebrew works the same way
Open Genesis 1:1 and tap In the beginning. The sheet shows בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית (bə·rê·šîṯ), parsed as “Preposition + Noun, feminine, singular,” from רֵאשִׁית, Strong’s H7225, which Brown-Driver-Briggs glosses “beginning, chief.” It occurs 51 times. The Hebrew keeps its vowel points and cantillation marks, and the Aramaic passages in Ezra and Daniel are tagged as Aramaic.
Where the answers come from
Nothing on the word sheet is generated. Parsings are decoded from tagged morphology — the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, MACULA Greek with the SBL Greek New Testament, and the Berean interlinear — and every definition is quoted from a published lexicon. If the data does not say something, Rightly does not either. Every source is open or public domain, and credited.
Who it is for
Pastors checking a word before Sunday, seminary students who want the parsing without the paradigm chart, small-church Bible teachers, and anyone who has wondered what a word “really means” and wants to look for themselves. The word sheet works entirely offline, and it is free.