The Braille Universal Dictionary
827,591 words. 1,594 languages. Hebrew, braille, and a concept bridge that ties them together. Built because the Word belongs to people who read with their hands, and because most translation tools stop at the languages that pay.
What This Is
A single dictionary that holds a word, its meaning, its translations, and its braille form in one place. Ask it for a word and it answers with the concept behind the word, not only the spelling: what domain it belongs to, what it means in a biblical context, how often it appears in the source corpus, and what it looks like in braille. It runs on this ministry's own server. No outside translation service is called, and nothing you look up leaves the building.
What It Holds
- 827,591 words in the word dictionary, indexed by concept rather than by spelling alone.
- 1,594 languages served, with 1,597 entries in the language inventory and 216 name aliases.
- 1,596 universal seed words, the concept spine every translation hangs from.
- 230 braille character mappings, applied to Latin and pointed Hebrew alike.
- Hebrew returned with full vowel pointing, transliteration, and a Strong's-style concept code.
- Corpus frequency on every result, so you can see how common a word actually is rather than guessing.
See It Work
Ask for love in Hebrew and it returns אַהֲבָה, transliterated ahavah, braille ⠁ַ⠑ֲ⠃ָ⠑, concept code אהב, with the English source rendered ⠇⠕⠧⠑ and 14,817 occurrences recorded in the corpus. It classes the word under a biblical-theological domain and glosses it as love as affection, devotion, covenant loyalty, or charity. Ask for God and it returns אֵל, braille ⠁ֵ⠇, with 139,796 occurrences. These are live results from the running dictionary, produced the moment this page was written, not examples chosen from a brochure.
Why It Exists
Scripture has always travelled further than the people carrying it. Braille readers and speakers of small languages are usually last in line for good tools, because the market for them is thin. That is a reason to build it in a ministry rather than a company. The great commission is omni-channel: every screen, every feed, every language, and every way a person takes words in, including with their fingers.
What It Cannot Do Yet
- It is deepest in English. Breadth across the other 1,593 languages is at seed level, meaning the concept spine is present but the vocabulary behind it is thin.
- There are 8,538 known braille collisions. Non-Latin scripts do not reliably round-trip, so a word converted to braille and back may not return unchanged.
- Three languages are excluded from canonical output while their mappings are corrected.
- It is a dictionary and a concept bridge, not a translator. It will not carry a sentence, and it does not replace a translation committee or a human who knows the language.