Bible Verse Parser

Parse verse textual representation into book/chapter/verse ranges

Allows you to standardise many different people's bible passage/reference formats and gain programmatic access to them.

Demo

A demo of the library's parsing can usually be found at https://bible-verse-parser.techwilk.com/

The code for the demo is in public/.

Installation

1. Install through composer.

   composer require techwilk/bible-verse-parser

2. Then create a parser

   use TechWilk\BibleVerseParser\BiblePassageParser;
   
   $passageParser = new BiblePassageParser();

Use

Just pass in a string, and it will parse into an array of passages. Each range will be a separate object in the array.

Shorthand book abbreviations will be converted into full book names

/** @var BiblePassage[] */
$passages = $passageParser->parse('1 John 5:4-17, 19-21 & Esther 2');

Casting to string

foreach ($passages as $passage) {
    echo (string) $passage . PHP_EOL;
}

outputs:

1 John 5:4-17
1 John 5:19-21
Esther 2

Custom formatting

Alternatively use the values yourself.

foreach ($passages as $passage) {
    echo "From {$passage->from()->book()->name()}";
    echo " chapter {$passage->from()->chapter()}";
    echo " verse {$passage->from()->verse()}";

    echo ", to {$passage->to()->book()->name()}";
    echo " chapter {$passage->to()->chapter()}";
    echo " verse {$passage->to()->verse()}." . PHP_EOL;
}

outputs:

From 1 John chapter 5 verse 4, to 1 John chapter 5 verse 17.
From 1 John chapter 5 verse 19, to 1 John chapter 5 verse 21.
From Esther chapter 2 verse 1, to Esther chapter 2 verse 23.

Integer notation

Ideal for storing in a database & querying with something like MySQL. The integer notation is the same as several other libraries, with book number in millions, chapter in thousands and verse as ones (1000000 * book) + (1000 * chapter) + verse.

foreach ($passages as $passage) {
    echo $passage->from()->integerNotation();
    echo ' (' . (string)$passage->from() . ')' . PHP_EOL;

    echo $passage->to()->integerNotation();
    echo ' (' . (string)$passage->to() . ')' . PHP_EOL;

    echo PHP_EOL;
}

outputs:

62005004 (1 John 5:4)
62005017 (1 John 5:17)

62005019 (1 John 5:19)
62005021 (1 John 5:21)

17002001 (Esther 2:1)
17002023 (Esther 2:23)

Supported formats

We may add additional formats in the future (please open an issue if you use a format which isn't listed.)

Single verse

John 3:16
John 3v16
John 3vv16
John 3 v16
John 3.16
John 3 16
John c3 v16
John ch3 v16
John chapter 3 verse 16

Whole chapter

John 3

Combinations of the above / multiples

John 3, 4
John 3:16-18, 19-22
Gen 1:1; 4:26
John 3:16 & Isiah 22
Is 53: 1-6 & 2 Cor 5: 20-21
Deut 6: 4-9, 16-end & Luke 15: 1-10
1 Peter 2, 5 & Job 34
1 Peter 2:15-16, 18-20
1 John 3:1-4:12

Roadmap

• Parse many formats into book / chapter / verse ranges
• Validate book names
• Translate abbreviated book names into full names
• Validate chapter / verse is valid in a given book
• Passages which span over chapter or book boundries
• Ability to explode verse ranges into one object per verse

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Source code: Github | Sourcehut | Codeberg