✨ 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:

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.

📚 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.

🚀 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...
>
> 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.

⚙️ Settings

🕮 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.

☕ Support

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

🤝 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.