Rhema Chirho

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." -- John 3:16

Biblical scholarship engine in Pure Rust.

Rhema Chirho is a multi-crate workspace providing a complete biblical scholarship engine: query parsing, planning, indexing, execution, discourse analysis, AI-powered semantic search, and integration surfaces (CLI, GUI, REST API, WASM, FFI).

Built on rsword_chirho -- a Pure Rust port of the SWORD Bible software library.

Features

• 21 search capabilities -- Boolean, phrase, proximity, Strong's, lemma, morphology, semantic domains, cross-references, syntax/clause, discourse analysis, LLM-powered semantic search, concept search, query expansion, hybrid ranking, saved searches, and visual query builder
• Full SWORD compatibility -- reads KJV, ESV, NASB, and thousands of modules in RawText, zText, RawCom, zCom, RawLD, zLD, RawGenBook, zGenBook formats
• Discourse analysis -- 22 relationship types (Series, Ground, Inference, Purpose, etc.) with arcing, bracketing, and phrasing
• AI integration -- LLM provider abstraction, embedding-based vector search, concept mapping, query expansion
• Cross-reference graph -- BFS traversal over Scripture parallels with SQLite adjacency list storage
• Morphology -- Robinson Greek + OSHM Hebrew codes, 10 facet fields in Tantivy, 9 query prefixes
• Multiple integration surfaces -- CLI, GUI (Slint), REST API (Axum), C FFI, WASM, with a visual query builder

Quick Start

# Build the CLI
cargo build --release -p rhema_cli_chirho

# List available SWORD modules
rhema_chirho modules

# Search for a term
rhema_chirho search KJV "love AND world"

# Strong's number lookup
rhema_chirho search KJV "strong:G26"

# Morphology search (Greek aorist verbs)
rhema_chirho search KJV "tense:AoristChirho"

# Cross-reference expansion
rhema_chirho search KJV "xref:John.3.16"

# Parse and explain a query without executing
rhema_chirho parse "love NEAR/5 world [John]"

Crate Map

Query Syntax

love                        # Simple term
"God so loved"              # Exact phrase
love AND world              # Boolean AND
love OR grace               # Boolean OR
love NOT hate               # Inline NOT
love NEAR/5 world           # Proximity (within 5 words)
strong:G26                  # Strong's number
lemma:agape                 # Dictionary form
morph:V-PAI-3S              # Raw morphology code
pos:VerbChirho              # Part of speech
tense:AoristChirho          # Grammatical tense
domain:love                 # Semantic domain
sense:love.01               # Word sense
syntax:relative             # Clause type
xref:John.3.16              # Cross-reference expansion
XREF/2 Gen.1.1              # Multi-hop cross-references
rel:ground [Romans]         # Discourse relationship
prop:"resurrection"         # Proposition text
semantic:redemption         # Vector similarity search
~salvation                  # Shorthand for semantic:
concept:atonement           # Thematic concept mapping
expand:forgiveness          # LLM query expansion
[John]                      # Book scope
[OT]                        # Testament scope
[Genesis-Deuteronomy]       # Range scope

Building

# Check the workspace
cargo check --workspace

# Run all tests (483 tests)
cargo test --workspace

# Run clippy
cargo clippy --workspace

# Build with the fast release profile
cargo build --profile release-fast-chirho -p rhema_cli_chirho

Architecture

                    +-----------------+
                    |   CLI / GUI /   |
                    |  API / FFI /    |
                    |     WASM        |
                    +--------+--------+
                             |
                    +--------v--------+
                    |  Integration    |
                    +--------+--------+
                             |
              +--------------+--------------+
              |              |              |
     +--------v---+  +------v------+  +----v-------+
     |   Query    |  |    Exec     |  |     AI     |
     |  Parser +  |  |  Executor   |  | Embeddings |
     |  Planner   |  |  (Tantivy/  |  | Expansion  |
     |            |  |   Regex)    |  |  Concepts  |
     +-----+------+  +------+------+  +----+-------+
           |                |              |
     +-----v------+  +-----v------+  +----v-------+
     |  Contracts |  |   Index    |  | Discourse  |
     |  (Types,   |  |  (Tantivy  |  | (22 rels,  |
     |   DTOs)    |  |   Schema)  |  |  arcing)   |
     +-----+------+  +-----+------+  +----+-------+
           |                |              |
     +-----v------+  +-----v------+       |
     |   Ingest   |  |   Module   |<------+
     | (SWORD IO) |  |  (.rhema   |
     |            |  |   SQLite)  |
     +-----+------+  +------------+
           |
     +-----v------+
     | rsword_    |
     | chirho     |
     | (SWORD     |
     |  library)  |
     +------------+

License

GPL-2.0-or-later

Contributing

All identifiers in this project use the Chirho suffix convention (_chirho for snake_case, Chirho for PascalCase). Every source file begins with a John 3:16 comment header. Please follow these conventions in contributions.

"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever." -- Isaiah 40:8