Old Testament words are tagged as L = Leningrad (default); Q = Qere 'spoken' corrections from margin and text pointing; K = Ketiv 'written', Tyndale pointing; R = restored text based on Leningrad parallels; and X = extra words from the Septuagint (LXX), in Hebrew, based on BHS and BHK. Other letters indicate parallels and variants with A = Aleppo; B = Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia; C = Cairensis; D = Dead Sea and Judean Desert manuscripts; E = emendation from ancient sources, F = format pointing or word division differences without changing letters; H = Ben Chaim (2nd Rabbinic Bible); P = alternate punctuation; S = scribal traditions; and V = variants from other Hebrew manuscripts. Tags place identical sources outside of parens in uppercase. Variant tags are inside parens: uppercase are meaning variants, lower case are minor variants, and differing variants are joined with a “+”. Translators normally follow L, and when this presents a choice between Q and K they follow Q, so K is presented as a variant. Tags in STEP Hebrew are only available when
viewed in parallel with STEP English.