BHS (HMT) - Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

BHS is now available for iPhone! Check the iPhone information page for details on which BibleReader Apps are Greek & Hebrew enabled.

Compiled and preserved by Jewish scribes (Masoretes) of the fifth through tenth centuries AD, the accuracy of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) is confirmed by its consistency with both the Greek Septuagint (LXX) version and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Masoretes are said to have standardized the Jewish text, putting in the vowel points that are familiar to Hebrew readers today. They were devoutly religious in their meticulous copy work, willing to destroy a whole manuscript if it was discovered to contain a single error. The result of their work is a collection of manuscripts which, though relatively few in number, displays remarkable accuracy. The BHS is also sometimes referred to as the Hebrew Masoretic Text (HMT).

This product does not contain parsing information. If you would like this feature, see also Groves-Wheeler Westminster Hebrew Morphology - BHS Add-On.

Unicode Text samples

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Now updated with new Unicode Font support for Palm! What can you expect with this update? Accurate positioning of vowel pointers and accents, plus a cleaner, crisper font display. Detailed screenshots are below. For specifics on what is included with the updates, check out these Olive Tree blog articles: Unicode on Palm, and Hebrew and Aramaic Developments.

If you have previously purchased this product from Olive Tree, you can download the update from your Personal Library.

Please note this update will only work on devices running the following operating systems: WM 5.0 PPC, WM 5.0 Phone Edition, WM 6.0 Classic, WM 6.0 Pro, Palm 5.x (not Sony Clie running Palm OS 5.x). Devices with other operating sytems will have to install the older verion of these files without the Hebrew Unicode support.