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One Hebrew word a day
A short Bible study for morning and night, with room to write — and the whole King James Bible built in, searchable. No account, no adverts, nothing tracked.
What you get
Morning
The Hebrew word of the day — the word itself, how to say it out loud, what it actually means, and where it comes from. Then a passage in the King James, and two questions with space underneath to answer them.
Hebrew word
חֶסֶד
chesed
KHEH-sed
loyal love, covenant kindness
Morning reading
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who has shown you loyalty you did not earn?
Morning · the word, the reading, and room to answer
Night
Deliberately shorter. One verse, one question, and a short prayer to close the day rather than start another train of thought.
A prayer list
“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” — 1 Peter 5:7
Add a name or a situation and the app keeps count of how long you have carried it. Add a note when something shifts and it stacks underneath, dated. Edit the wording when the situation changes. Share one with someone if you want them praying too. Mark it answered and it moves to a separate list with the date you first wrote it — carried 143 days, answered yesterday. Most people forget what they asked for, which means they never notice what came.
Once the list gets long, three things keep it usable. Tap the star on the handful you pray every morning and they stay pinned at the top. Search finds any prayer by its wording, its label, or its notes — you are more likely to remember the consultant moved it to Thursday than how you phrased it in March. And you can label prayers — Family, Church, Work, whatever suits — then tap a label to pray just that set.
Labels are entirely optional. There is no folder to make before you can write anything down, and a prayer with no label simply sits in the list.
What are you carrying?
Answered
Pinned to the top, labelled, and searchable
The whole Bible
All 31,102 verses of the King James, on your own phone rather than someone else’s website. Every reading has a Read the chapter link that opens it in the app, and you can walk forward and back through the entire Bible from there. Tap any verse to save it.
Tap Bible for all sixty-six books, then a book for its chapters. Tap it again from inside a chapter and you are back at the list, so Habakkuk to Hebrews takes two taps. There is a search box as well — type a phrase like still waters and it finds it.
Once a chapter has been opened it is kept on the phone, so it still reads with no signal.
Psalms 23
1The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
The reader · a saved verse stays marked
Saved, and a count that never resets
Save any reading or any verse and it is kept in one list. Every Hebrew word you have reached sits in a grid that fills up as you go.
The counter tracks total mornings and evenings, not consecutive ones. Miss a day and nothing is lost. A reading habit that punishes you for one bad week is working against its own purpose.
Dark by default
It opens dark, with the text on the largest of the three sizes. This gets used in bed at either end of the day, and a white screen at half past five in the morning is an unkind way to be greeted. Light mode, Auto, and the text sizes are all in Settings — but you should not have to go and find them on the first morning.
A nudge, if you want one
Reminders are off unless you switch them on, and you choose the times — one in the morning, one at night, and nothing else. We will never send anything about the shop through them. On iPhone they only work once the app is on your home screen, and the app tells you so rather than letting you turn them on and wonder why nothing arrives.
Your writing
It stays on your phone
Everything you write — your answers, your prayer list, saved verses, what you have marked answered — is stored on your own device and never sent to us. We cannot read any of it, because we never receive it.
The trade-off is honest: clearing your browser data or moving to a new phone will lose it. There is an Export button at the bottom of the app that saves the lot to a file, and it is worth using now and then.
Two taps
Put it on your home screen
It is a website, so there is nothing to download and no app store involved. Add it once and it opens full screen with its own icon, exactly like an app.
iPhone
- Open xtraamerican.com/daily in Safari. It has to be Safari — Chrome on iPhone cannot do this.
- Tap the Share button, the square with an arrow coming out of it.
- Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
- Tap Add.
Android
- Open xtraamerican.com/daily in Chrome.
- Tap the three dots in the top right.
- Tap Install app, or Add to Home screen.
- Tap Install.
Start tomorrow morning
Day one is emunah — steadiness under load, and the root behind the word amen. Reminders are optional, and there is nothing to sign up for.