Public Help — Septuagint (LXX) and Ancient Text Reader

Clark’s LXX Tooltips provides an independent way to examine the ancient Greek Septuagint alongside an English translation. It is especially useful when studying the Old Testament and wanting to see how the Hebrew Scriptures were understood and rendered into Greek before and around the New Testament period.

The tool uses Brenton’s English Septuagint together with the underlying Greek LXX text and available Greek Strong’s information.

Opening the LXX from Scripture

When viewing an Old Testament passage through Clark’s Scripture Tooltips, look for the View LXX button in the footer of the Scripture window.

Selecting View LXX passes the Old Testament reference to the independent LXX reader and opens the corresponding Septuagint passage.

This is important: the LXX reader does not replace the BSB Old Testament. It is an additional study resource that allows you to compare the biblical passage with the ancient Greek translation.

BSB and LXX Verse Numbering

The verse numbering of the Septuagint does not always correspond directly with the numbering used by the BSB and other modern Old Testament translations.

The LXX tool therefore performs reference mapping where necessary. For example, a BSB reference may correspond to a differently numbered chapter or verse in the Septuagint.

The LXX window identifies this relationship so that you can see both the reference you requested and its corresponding location in the LXX.

Brenton × Greek

The LXX reader displays Brenton English together with the Greek text to make comparison easier.

The Brenton × Greek arrangement is an alignment aid rather than a strict word-for-word interlinear. Brenton is an English translation, and a single English expression may represent several Greek words—or the relationship may operate at the phrase level.

For that reason, the tool deliberately describes this as an approximate phrase alignment.

The ? information control explains this distinction directly within the reader.

Click a Greek Word

Individual Greek words can be clicked to open a Greek Strong’s Word Study.

Depending upon the available data and the display settings, the study can provide information such as:

Strong’s Number • Strong’s Definition • LXX Greek Form • Lemma • Part of Speech • Transliteration • LXX Gloss • LXX Parsing • Derivation

The Strong’s definition is obtained from Clark’s Strong’s Reference when that independent resource is available.

If the Strong’s Reference information is unavailable, the LXX system can still display available bundled LXX lexical information rather than making the entire word study fail.

Navigate Through the LXX

The LXX reader includes previous and next chapter controls, allowing you to continue reading without returning to the original Scripture reference.

The chapter heading also provides access to the available Book → Chapter navigation, making the LXX system useful as a reader in its own right rather than only as a comparison popup.

Pinning and Multiple Study Windows

LXX passages and word-study windows can be pinned so they remain available while you continue studying.

Pinned state is retained when navigating between chapters. Unpinned LXX windows can dismiss when you leave the LXX study workspace, while pinned windows remain available.

The system also avoids unnecessarily creating duplicate copies of a passage or word-study window that is already open.

Other Literature

The LXX reader architecture has also been extended to provide access to Other Literature.

This is where the distinction between the reader and the underlying library becomes especially useful.

Available ancient literature can include works such as Josephus, Eusebius, 1 Clement, 1 Enoch, and other historical or early Jewish/Christian writings supplied to the reader.

These writings are provided as historical study resources, not as Scripture. Their inclusion in the same reader environment does not imply equal biblical authority.

Some works are organized by ordinary chapters, while larger structured works can provide nested:

Book → Chapter

navigation.

The reader also recognizes that not every ancient work has the same structure as Scripture. Structured prose can therefore preserve normal paragraphs rather than forcing everything into artificial verse numbers.