Genesis Engineered Interpretations
About the project
INTERPRETATIONS
An engineer doesn’t just admire a machine — she opens it, pulls out each part, and asks: what does this drive? We do that with the words of Genesis 1. Every word and every punctuation mark is a clickable part: Hebrew roots, figurative language, homophones, synonyms, antonyms, origins and cross-links — built for curious 5th graders and the grown-ups who love them.
Everything clicks
43 clickable words & punctuation marks, each with a full dossier: meaning, Hebrew + Strong’s #, roots, and English origin.
Figurative radar
Merism, simile, idiom, anthropomorphism, contrast pairs — toggle a device and watch every word using it glow.
Word-to-word links
Blue chips hop you across the verse: beginning ↔ first (same Hebrew root!), light ↔ darkness, evening ↔ morning.
Four play modes
📖 Read the text, 🗺 fly the Word Map, 🧱 rebuild verse 3 in Build-a-Verse, 🕹 beat the 8-question Quiz — with confetti, sound FX and a best-score record.
Day / Night themes
A cosmic night lab or a parchment day mode — because Day 1 invented both.
Hear the Hebrew
One tap speaks the transliteration aloud (reshith! bara! ruach!) so the words land in the ear, not just the eye.
🗺️ Build roadmap
| Day | Text | Theme | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gen 1:1–5 | Light & darkness — the word lab | ✅ LIVE |
| 2 | Gen 1:6–8 | The vault of the sky (raqia) | building |
| 3 | Gen 1:9–13 | Land, seas & seed | 🔧 building |
| 4 | Gen 1:14–19 | Lamps for the sky | 🔧 building |
| 5 | Gen 1:20–23 | Splash & song | 🔧 building |
| 6 | Gen 1:24–31 | Stomp, stalk & soul | 🔧 building |
| 7 | Gen 2:1–3 | Rest — the stretch goal 🌅 | 💭 dreaming |
Planned upgrades: printable classroom cards, a “word of the day” spotlight, family discussion prompts per verse, a cross-day concordance (watch badal / divided reappear on Day 2!), and teacher mode with answer keys. All static HTML/CSS/JS — hosted free on GitHub Pages.