Study Instrument
The Balances
"A just weight and balance are the LORD's." This engine lays any two passages of Scripture side by side and weighs the words they share - not to rank one above the other, but to make a plain measurement you can check yourself. It reports two honest numbers and shows its work. It does not claim that overlap means agreement.
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. — Proverbs 11:1
Lay Two Passages on the Scales
Try: Genesis 1:1 & John 1:1 · Psalms 23:1 & John 10:11 · Exodus 20:13 & Matthew 5:21
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. — KJV
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. — KJV
(1 shared of 8 distinct words)
(angle between the texts)
Shared words
Both measures are computed inside davar_http from the King James text returned by the native Bible organ. Jaccard = shared unique words divided by the total unique words across both passages. Cosine = the angle between the two word-frequency vectors. High overlap means shared vocabulary - it is NOT a proof of shared meaning, doctrine, authorship, or any hidden code. Treat it as a magnifying glass over wording, with Scripture as the authority.
How the Engine Weighs
Give the engine two references with the plain GET form (for example a=Genesis 1:1 and b=John 1:1). It fetches each verse verbatim from the King James Bible, lowercases the text, drops a small set of common function words (the, and, of, a, to ...), and reduces each passage to a bag of content words.
It then computes two transparent measures. The Jaccard index divides the number of words the two passages share by the number of distinct words they use together - a value from 0 (nothing in common) to 1 (identical vocabulary). The cosine similarity treats each passage as a vector of word counts and measures the angle between them, which rewards repeated shared words. Both numbers, the shared-word list, and each full verse are shown so you can audit the result. Everything runs server-side in plain C; no client JavaScript executes in your browser.
Go Deeper
The Balances measures wording; it does not replace prayerful reading or sound interpretation:
Search the Bible - every KJV verse.
The Signet - a verse pressed into a DNCZ sigil.
The Scriptorium - native study engines.
Research limits - where our instruments stop, on purpose.