Mikra - Read Biblical Hebrew

Learn to read Biblical Hebrew aloud, ten minutes a day, from the alef-bet to any verse of the Hebrew Bible in the original.

Mikra is built around one idea: you learn to read a real text, not isolated grammar. Every word deck and every lesson exists to get you reading the Bible.

WORDS
• The alphabet and vowel points as flash cards, each one spoken aloud
• Pronouns, numbers, and the small words that hold a sentence together
• The 1,000 commonest words of the Hebrew Bible in five bands, from the core 100 outward
• Every card shows how to say the word, its part of speech, its gender and number (or the verb's stem), and related words you can hear in place
• Collect words into your own sets with a tap, then study a set as a list or as shuffled cards
• Add to a set from the set itself: search a word and tap it, or scan your notes straight into it
• Scan notes: photograph a word list in English, Chinese or Hebrew, or paste one, and the words Mikra knows become a set
• Listening test: a set reads itself to you, one word at a time

VERSES
• The whole Hebrew Bible, all 39 books, every verse word by word with the translation beside the text
• Jonah, Genesis 1, and five Psalms carry short notes on the words a beginner meets first
• Daily phrases: everyday Hebrew — good morning, how are you, what's the weather today, where is the station — in eight situations, read, heard and tapped word by word like a verse
• Under each word, choose nothing, its meaning, or how to read it
• Hear any word or the whole verse at normal, slow, or slower speed
• Record yourself reading and play it back beside the app's reading

GRAMMAR
• 40 short lessons in five groups: reading the script, little words, nouns and pronouns, verbs, sentences
• Every example is a real verse from the bundled texts; tap one to hear it, then practise the examples as cards

NO STRINGS
• Meanings in English or Chinese (中文), your choice
• Works fully offline: no account, no ads, no tracking, no data collection
• Modern Israeli pronunciation
• Designed for complete beginners

TEXT SOURCES
Hebrew text and morphology from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (Westminster Leningrad Codex), CC BY 4.0. English glosses adapted from Strong's lexicon and the World English Bible (public domain). Chinese verses from the Chinese Union Version (public domain).