Our Sela App is Live!
After the Hebrew Bible was translated, much of its poetics were unfortunately rendered invisible. Fortunately, analysis of poetic devices can be aided by a Bible study web app.
Our Vision
Explore Hebrew Poetic Devices
Without learning Hebrew
Engage an English Text
in Hebrew Word Order
Preserving Hebrew word order and word count makes poetic parallelism, emphasis, and line correspondence visible even when working in English.
Divide the Text
into Literary Units
Organizing the passage into lines, strophes, and stanzas allows units to be compared side by side, clarifying structure and poetic development.
Track Layered Observations
with Color Layers
Preserving Hebrew word order and word count makes poetic parallelism, emphasis, and line correspondence visible even when working in English.
Instantly Find
Repeated Words and Ideas
Tracing true lexical repetition in Hebrew, regardless of English translation, highlights thematic emphasis, structural cohesion, and deliberate poetic design across units.
Explore Patterns
in the Hebrew Syntax
Using Hebrew grammatical data, the tools automatically identify and highlight clause structures, revealing syntactic parallelism, variation, and progression across poetic lines.
Access Word Parsing
and Lexical Information
Immediate access to morphology and lexicon while reading and working in the text supports precise grammatical and semantic analysis without interruption.
Annotate Observations
and Label Literary Units
Add titles and concise notes to strophes and literary units to organize observations, summarize sections, and preserve interpretive reasoning over time
See the Poem
as a Unified Whole
Step back to observe the poem’s big-picture design, structural architecture, flow of ideas, and recurring literary features that run through the work from beginning to end.
Study Demo
We currently have a small team of
volunteer developers
and we are working hard on it!
More Features Coming Soon…
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When New Features are ready, we would love for you to join us for Testing! Your feedback and input is important in helping us know how the tool can serve God’s people best. In addition to development updates, we will also be sharing how God provides when we encounter challenges along the way. How Exciting!
