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title: TriCanon User Guide
description: How to search scripture across the Bible, Tanakh, Quran, and Hadith, and how to read what TriCanon hands back.
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TriCanon is a scripture research tool. You give it a passage, a word, a person, or a theme, and it returns the text itself plus a scholarly analysis in three parts: what it says, what it meant to the people who first heard it, and why it still matters.

It reads across four bodies of text in one search:

- **The Old Testament / Tanakh** — the Hebrew Bible, shared by Jewish and Christian traditions
- **The New Testament**
- **The Quran**, with Arabic text and tafsir
- **The Hadith** — 432 narrations from Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and Sunan Abu Dawud, with authenticity grades

There is no denominational agenda behind the results. Where Jewish, Christian, and Islamic readings diverge, the analysis says so and names the traditions rather than picking a winner.

**[Getting started](/getting-started/sign-in)**

Sign in, install the app, and run your first search.

**[Reading an analysis](/using/reading-an-analysis)**

What each section gives you, and where the sources come from.

**[Plans and limits](/plans-and-limits)**

What the free tier includes and what the paid tiers add.

**[Troubleshooting](/troubleshooting)**

Sign-in refusals, limits, slow answers, and rendering problems.

:::note
TriCanon is in beta. Sign-in is limited to invited email addresses, so an address that has not been added gets refused at the door rather than quietly failing. [Join the waitlist](https://www.tricanon.app) if you do not have access yet.
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