Linked Word MCP Server

The Linked Word Project has a free MCP server — a small interface that lets an AI look up KJV verses and Strong’s numbers on this site, instead of guessing or scraping pages. Ask your AI a Bible question and it reads the real text from here, then cites the page. It can search the Bible by the original greek or hebrew words.

This page is for anyone who wants their AI connected to it. Using this mcp server gives your AI access to every verse of the Bible with an exhaustive concordance. (Strongs)

It is free. There is no account, no login, no API key, and no cost. Setup takes about a minute.

ChatGPT

Linked Word is listed in the ChatGPT app directory, so you do not have to type any addresses.

  1. Open this link: Install Linked Word in ChatGPT
  2. Click Install, then confirm.
  3. once installed, you can instruct ChatGPT to use the plugin by typing @Linked Word in your chat

For example: “@Linked Word Which verses in Romans mention the greek word for "salvation"

Other AI's

The address you will need:

https://www.linkedword.com/mcp

Copy that. Every set of instructions below uses it. When an app asks for a “remote MCP server URL,” a “custom connector,” or an “MCP endpoint,” that is what it wants.

Claude — website or desktop app

This is the easiest way, and the steps are the same in the browser and in the desktop app.

  1. Open your connector settings. In a browser: go to claude.ai/settings/connectors. In the desktop app: click your name in the bottom-left corner, click Settings, then click Connectors.
  2. Click Add custom connector. On some versions you click the + button first, then Add custom connector.
  3. In the box labeled Remote MCP server URL, paste https://www.linkedword.com/mcp
  4. For the name, type Linked Word.
  5. Leave everything else alone. Do not open Advanced settings. Do not add an OAuth client ID, an OAuth client secret, or a request header. This server needs none of them.
  6. Click Add. Linked Word now appears in your list of connectors.

Now turn it on in a chat: start a new chat, click the + button next to the message box, click Connectors, and switch Linked Word on. Then ask something like “Look up Psalm 23:2 in Linked Word” or “Which verses use Strong’s H7225?” The first time Claude uses it, it will ask your permission. Click allow.

Two things worth knowing. On the Free plan you are allowed one custom connector at a time, so if you already have one, this replaces it. On a Team or Enterprise plan, an owner has to add it first under Organization settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web, and then each member clicks Connect next to it in their own Connectors settings.

Do not edit claude_desktop_config.json for this. That file is only for MCP servers that run as a program on your own computer. Claude Desktop will not connect to a web address listed in it. The Connectors screen above is the only way to add this server to the Claude app.

Claude Code — just ask Claude to do it for you!

If you use Claude Code in a terminal, the fastest route is to ask for it in plain words. Paste this into Claude Code:

Add the MCP server https://www.linkedword.com/mcp to my user scope
as an http server named linkedword, then show me /mcp to confirm.

Or run the command yourself:

claude mcp add --transport http linkedword --scope user https://www.linkedword.com/mcp

--scope user is the one you want. It saves the server to ~/.claude.json in your home folder and makes it available in every project on your machine. Leave that flag off and it is saved for the current folder only.

Check it worked by typing /mcp inside Claude Code, or running claude mcp list in your terminal. You should see linkedword connected with 6 tools. To remove it later: claude mcp remove linkedword --scope user

To share it with a team instead, use --scope project. That writes a .mcp.json in the project root that you can commit:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkedword": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.linkedword.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other apps — the config file for each one

Everything below is for developers and tinkerers. The transport is Streamable HTTP. There are no headers, no tokens, and no environment variables to set. If a file already exists, merge this one server into it — do not overwrite the other servers already in there.

Cursor — put this in ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project, or .cursor/mcp.json in a project folder for just that project. Cursor takes a bare url:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkedword": {
      "url": "https://www.linkedword.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

LM Studio — in the right sidebar, open the Program tab, then click Install → Edit mcp.json. LM Studio uses the same notation as Cursor, so paste the exact block above. Save the file, then switch the server on for a chat from the same Program tab.

VS Code (GitHub Copilot) — run MCP: Add Server from the Command Palette (Shift-Cmd-P on a Mac, Ctrl-Shift-P on Windows and Linux) and follow the prompts, or edit the file by hand. VS Code uses servers rather than mcpServers, and it requires the type. Project file: .vscode/mcp.json. For all projects, run MCP: Open User Configuration and edit the file it opens:

{
  "servers": {
    "linkedword": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.linkedword.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI — edit ~/.gemini/settings.json for every project, or .gemini/settings.json inside one project. Gemini uses the key httpUrl, not url:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkedword": {
      "httpUrl": "https://www.linkedword.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Gemini CLI after saving, then type /mcp to confirm.

Codex CLI — edit ~/.codex/config.toml. Remote HTTP servers need the experimental client flag turned on, and the flag goes at the top of the file, outside any section:

experimental_use_rmcp_client = true

[mcp_servers.linkedword]
url = "https://www.linkedword.com/mcp"

Anything else — if the app has a field for an MCP server URL or a custom connector, paste https://www.linkedword.com/mcp into it and leave the auth fields blank. If it wants JSON, start with the bare url form shown under Cursor. If it rejects that, add "type": "http", and if it still refuses, try "type": "streamable-http" — that is the name the MCP specification uses for this transport, and some clients only accept the long form. Grok and most other consumer chat apps still have nowhere to put an MCP server at all; there is nothing you can do about that from this end.

To see the raw server for yourself, point the MCP Inspector at the same URL.

What it can do

Seven tools, all read-only:

If you searched for “Bible MCP” or “Strong’s MCP,” you are in the right place.