k-mktr/peshitta_nt_syr

Peshitta NT (Syriac)

Description

The Peshitta (ܦܫܝܛܬܐ) is the standard version of the Bible in Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic. The New Testament Peshitta is one of the earliest and most important witnesses to the New Testament text, dating from the 5th century. Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus and the Apostles. The Peshitta NT is the authoritative Scripture of the Syriac Christian tradition (Syriac Orthodox Church, Assyrian Church of the East, and Chaldean Catholic Church). This dataset contains the Syriac text in Syriac script.

Dataset Structure

Each row represents one Bible verse.

Column	Type	Description
translation_id	string	Translation identifier
translation	string	Full translation name
language	string	Language code
book_number	int32	Book number (1-27)
book	string	Book name
book_abbr	string	Book abbreviation
chapter	int32	Chapter number
verse	string	Verse number (may include suffixes like 13a)
verse_number	int32	Numeric part of verse
verse_suffix	string	Verse suffix (e.g. a, b) or null
verse_id	string	Unique verse identifier ({book_abbr}_{chapter}_{verse})
text	string	Verse text

Statistics

• Books: 27
• Verses: 7956
• Language: Syriac
• Format: Parquet (ZSTD compressed)
• File size: 0.53 MB

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("k-mktr/peshitta_nt_syr", split="train")
print(dataset[0])
# {'translation_id': 'peshitta_nt_syr', 'book': '...', 'chapter': 1, 'verse': '1', 'text': '...'}

License

Public domain (5th century text, copyright expired).