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✨ The killer feature: Hebrew without switching keyboards

Searching Hebrew text normally means switching your keyboard layout back and forth. Not here. Type the way you'd pronounce it — the plugin understands Latin transliteration naturally and finds the Hebrew:

You type (regular keyboard)	It finds (Hebrew)
bereshit	בְּרֵאשִׁית
shema israel	שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל
mayim	מַיִם
torah	תּוֹרָה

It handles the tricky parts of Hebrew for you: vowels are flexible, and ambiguous letters (yud, vav, alef) are matched intelligently — so mayim finds מַיִם and adam finds אָדָם without you thinking about it.

Of course, you can also paste or type Hebrew directly (with or without nikud), or use the built-in on-screen alef-bet keyboard — your choice.

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📚 What it does

• Inserts any verse of the Tanakh (Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim — all 39 books) into your note as a clean Markdown quote with its reference.
• Complete Hebrew text bundled offline — the full Miqra according to the Masorah (MAM), with nikud (vowels) and te'amim (cantillation). No internet needed for the Hebrew text. Ever.
• Three ways to find a verse:
  1. By reference — Genesis 1:1, Gén 1:1-3, bereshit 1:1, תהלים 23 (English, Spanish, transliteration or Hebrew book names, with verse ranges)
  2. By transliteration — type veahavta with your regular keyboard
  3. By Hebrew text — paste בראשית with or without nikud
• Optional translations — choose from Sefaria's library (English, Spanish, French and more, varies by book) and insert it below the Hebrew.
• AlHaTorah deep-links — one checkbox adds a link that opens the verse in Mikraot Gedolot (Rashi, Ramban, Ibn Ezra side-by-side).
• Your format, your rules — Hebrew with or without nikud / cantillation, quote block or inline.

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🚀 How to use

1. Install & enable the plugin (Settings → Community plugins → search "Torah" or "Hebrew").
2. Open a note and run the command "Insert pasuk (Tanakh verse)" from the Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl+P). 💡 Assign it a hotkey in Settings → Hotkeys (search "pasuk") — e.g. Cmd+Shift+P.
3. Search any of the three ways:
   • Reference: shemot 3:14 or Exodus 3:14 or Éxodo 3:14
   • Transliteration: ehyeh asher ehyeh (regular keyboard — no Hebrew layout needed!)
   • Hebrew: אהיה אשר אהיה
4. Optionally pick a translation from the dropdown and/or check AlHaTorah link — both choices are remembered.
5. Press Enter (or click a result). Done:

> וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים אֶל־מֹשֶׁה אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה...
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> And God said to Moshe: "I will be what I will be..."
> — Exodus 3:14 · (en) The Koren Jerusalem Bible · [AlHaTorah](https://mg.alhatorah.org/Full/Exodus/3.14)

The on-screen alef-bet keyboard

Click the א button to open a Hebrew keyboard inside the search window — handy when you want a specific letter (like ע vs א). Hover any key to see its name and sound. It remembers whether you left it open.

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⚙️ Settings

Setting	Description	Default
Include nikud (vowels)	Insert Hebrew verses with vowel points	On
Include te'amim (cantillation)	Insert Hebrew verses with cantillation marks	Off
Insert as quote block	Wrap verses in a Markdown blockquote with the reference	On
Maximum search results	Limit verses shown when searching by text	30
Font compatibility	Replace rare Hebrew marks (qamats qatan, holam haser) with standard equivalents so every font renders them	On

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🕮 Text sources

• Hebrew text: Miqra according to the Masorah (MAM) — a meticulously accurate digital edition of the Tanakh based on the Aleppo Codex, version-pinned via Sefaria. In ketiv/qere cases, the plugin inserts the qere (the form that is read), fully vocalized.
• Translations: fetched on demand from the Sefaria library (requires internet, optional).
• Mikraot Gedolot links: AlHaTorah.org.

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☕ Support

Torah Verse Inserter is free and open source. If it helps your Torah study or your Hebrew workflow, you can support its development:

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🤝 Contributing

Issues and PRs are welcome — especially transliteration cases that don't match what you expected, or book-name aliases in your language. Please open an issue with an example.

Looking for diacritics-insensitive search across your own notes? Check out my other plugin: Diacritics-Free Search.

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