What is MetaV?
MetaV is the name given to the underlying database used to build the visual Bible explorer on our website and several other infographics on our blog. It contains the “Who, Where, and When” of every single passage in the Bible at word-level detail. This database is specially structured to simplify complex “big picture” analysis or visualizing biblical information.
What’s new in Version 2.0?
Version 1.0 simply contained the Biblical text and some readability statistics. People, Places, Topics, Years, Strong’s Concordance, and Writers are new in this version.
Can I trust this information?
Above all, the Bible represents absolute truth given from God. The electronic source text of the Bible has been checked for accuracy against multiple other electronic sources of the King James Version using modern text comparison software. The rest of the information in MetaV is nothing more than well-studied conclusions about the Bible formulated and trusted by faithful Christians over the centuries. For more details on original sources, reference the database documentation available in the readme file (included in the downloads below).
How should I navigate the data?
This database is structured so that anyone familiar with spreadsheet applications such as Microsoft Excel can make good use of the information in a variety of ways. Those who have experience with data manipulation and queries will find it simple to perform more advanced analysis. The readme file and schema diagram included in these downloads give an overview of the tables and fields as well as how they are related to each other.
Can I share it with others?
Please do! Our goal is to get the Bible and helpful related information into the hands of as many people as possible. Therefore, MetaV is free to use and copy under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. Please see the details on individual source files (available at the links below) for more specific usage guidelines.
Click below to download all files.
Or, choose individual files form the table below.
| File Name | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Readme.txt | 8 KB | Complete source and licensing details and field names for all tables. |
| Schema Diagram.pdf | 30 KB | Visual Layout of the relationships between the tables listed below. |
| BookAliases.csv | 5 KB | Correlates all known book titles and abbreviations to a specific book ID |
| Books.csv | 2 KB | Standardizes all Bible book names with a given numerical ID |
| CrossRefIndex.csv | 4.74 MB | Compilation of cross references obtained from R.A. Torrey’s Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Public Domain) and a cross-reference table obtained from Christoph Romhild. Duplicate cross-references have been excluded. |
| MetaV.csv | 47.97 MB | The main index associating the various tables in this database with individual words. Text used: 1769 Cambridge Edition of the King James Version, also known as the Authorized Version (Public Domain) |
| People.csv | 73 KB | Listing of all people in the Bible and key facts about them. this is a mashup of data found at complete-bible-genealogy.com and www.marshallgenealogy.org/bible. Name spelling has been updated to match the source bible text. |
| PeopleAliases.csv | 55 KB | All known aliases by which a person is referred to in the KJV as well as variant spellings from the source websites. |
| PeopleRelationships.csv | 54 KB | All known relationships between people listed in the KJV. Note: “Father” may refer toa more distant ancestor. This and “spouseOrConcubine” relationships will be disambiguated in a later revision. |
| PlaceAliases.csv | 26 KB | All names by which a particular place is referred to in the KJV & variant spellings from the ESV. |
| Places.csv | 68 KB | All identifiable places mentioned in the bible. Locations may be approximate. Source: openbible.info/geo (Creative Commons Attribution License). Place references in time periods prior to Noah’s Flood have been removed. |
| Strongs.csv | 3.31 MB | Strong’s Concordance in Hebrew and Greek. Source: openscriptures.org (https://github.com/openscriptures/strongs) License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 |
| StrongsIndex.csv | 5.25 MB | Correlates Stong’s Number(s) with individual words in the KJV. |
| Topics.csv | 1.44 MB | Mashup of Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Public Domain. |
| TopicIndex.csv | 1.83 MB | Correlates topics with each verse in the KJV. |
| Verses.csv | 4.65 MB | Full text of each verse in the King James Version of the Holy Bible. |
| Writers.csv | 1 KB | Lists authors of each book of the Bible. Where one book may have had more than one writer, the primary author’s name is used. |
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