About BibleHouse

What is BibleHouse?

BibleHouse is a free online resource dedicated to serious study of the King James Bible. Our flagship tool is Samuel's Index — a bilateral contextual concordance unlike any other reference work ever produced for the KJV.

What is Samuel's Index?

A bilateral concordance displays every word in the Bible alongside its surrounding context — the words that come before it and the words that come after it — and sorts those entries in two directions simultaneously:

• Book I (Left-Sorted): All 787,843 entries sorted A–Z by what precedes the target word. This groups similar approaching phrases together, revealing patterns in how the language leads into a word.
• Book II (Right-Sorted): The same entries sorted A–Z by what follows the target word. This reveals what the word declares, introduces, or resolves.

Together, the two books create a lens no other concordance offers. You can see not just where a word appears, but what surrounds it — and what those surroundings mean when clustered together.

Why the King James Bible?

The King James Version (1611) remains the most widely studied English translation of Scripture. Its language is precise, its cadence is distinct, and its vocabulary is consistent — qualities that make it uniquely suited for word-level concordance study.

Red Letters

Throughout Samuel's Index — in the Pray tab, the Read tab, the Obey tab, and within search results — the words of Jesus Christ are displayed in red, following the traditional red-letter edition convention. Where Jesus speaks, his words are always marked.

Who built this?

Samuel's Index was conceived and built by the BibleHouse team as a free public resource. The entire tool — the concordance engine, the database of 787,843 entries across 12,536 unique words, and the web application — is freely available online with no accounts, subscriptions, or paywalls.

Is it really free?

Yes. Everything at BibleHouse is free. The Word of God belongs to everyone.