k-mktr/westminster_leningrad_codex_he

Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC)

Description

The Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) — a digital transcription of the Leningrad Codex (Firkovich B19A), the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, dating to 1008 CE. This is the same manuscript that serves as the base text for the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS).

The WLC began as the Michigan-Claremont electronic transcription of the 1983 printed BHS edition and was subsequently modified to conform directly to the photo-facsimile of the Leningrad Codex. It includes all 6 textual elements: consonants, vowels, cantillation marks (te'amim), paragraph markers (pe/samekh), and ketiv-qere variants. Morphological divisions have also been added.

Source: The Westminster Hebrew Institute electronic transcription of the Leningrad Codex.

License: Public Domain.

Dataset Structure

Each row represents one Bible verse.

Column	Type	Description
translation_id	string	Translation identifier: westminster_leningrad_codex_he
translation	string	Full translation name
language	string	Language code: he
book_number	int32	Book number (1-39 for Old Testament)
book	string	Book name (English)
book_abbr	string	Book abbreviation
chapter	int32	Chapter number
verse	string	Verse number
verse_number	int32	Numeric part of verse
verse_suffix	string	Verse suffix or null
verse_id	string	Unique verse identifier ({book_abbr}_{chapter}_{verse})
text	string	Verse text in Hebrew script with niqqud and te'amim

Statistics

• Books: 39 (complete Old Testament / Tanakh)
• Verses: 23,213
• Language: Biblical Hebrew (hbo)
• Format: Parquet (ZSTD compressed)
• File size: 1.66 MB

About the Text

This dataset contains the fully vocalized Masoretic text (consonants + niqqud + te'amim). It is textually identical in substance to k-mktr/hebrew_masoretic_ot_hbo (derived from eBible.org's USFM). Slight formatting differences may exist between the two independent transcriptions (e.g., spacing, maqaf treatment).

For a consonantal-only counterpart (no vowel points), see k-mktr/aleppo_codex_he.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("k-mktr/westminster_leningrad_codex_he", split="train")
print(dataset[0])
# {'translation_id': 'westminster_leningrad_codex_he', 'book': 'Genesis', 'chapter': 1, 'verse': '1', 'text': 'בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃'}

License

Public Domain.