The Word Bible Software

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Original author(s) Costas Stergiou Development status Active		Developer(s) Costas Stergiou

Initial release October 28, 2003 (2003-10-28) Stable release Version 5.0.0.1450 / May 17, 2015; 21 months ago (2015-05-17) Operating system Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.

The Word (short for In the beginning was The Word) is a free Bible study software application for Microsoft Windows. It was first released in 2003 by its developer, Costas Stergiou. Though created mainly as a proof of concept Bible viewer, The Word has developed into a comprehensive and powerful Bible study application, offering not only Bibles, but also commentaries, dictionaries, general books, maps, etc. The Word also provides advanced, full library search capabilities. The Word is an internationalised application, featuring support for Bibles in many different languages, and user-interface localizations.

Features

The Word supports the following features:

Easy to use

Quickly search through Bible texts and annotations

Support for non-Bible resources (commentaries, dictionaries, generic books)

Compare/Parallel view

Ability to create and edit complete user modules of any kind (dictionary, commentary, maps, etc.)

Cross references (either embedded in Bible texts, or user defined)

Advanced hyperlinking in modules to Bibles, internal locations, or other modules

Clipboard Monitor the Windows clipboard to display the text of copied verse references

Inline commentaries and word lookup dictionaries

Support for right to left languages

Support for Strong's Numbers, Greek morphological codes, and numerous other viewer options

Support for Footnotes

Support for non-Bible documents (commentaries, dictionaries, generic books)

Greek and Hebrew Support

Configurable interface

User defined and saved window layouts

Advanced, full library search capabilities

User markups and highlighting

Verse lists

Highly customizable UI with skin support

Support for purchasing copyrighted, priced modules

The ability to create & distribute user created modules as is done at DoctorDaveT.com

Vision

"To provide top quality software to aid fellow believers in the teaching and proclamation of God's Word free of charge" - Costas Stergiou

Version History

Below is a brief summary of version information.

Version 1.0: First non-beta release, Clipboard Monitor feature introduced

Version 1.1: Ability to print Bible texts and personal notes, and export personal notes in various formats

Version 1.2: Improved Greek support in non-Greek environments

Version 2.0: Multiple Bible windows, Bible text formatting, Dockable windows and layouts

Version 3.0: Integration of non-Bible resources, search capabilities for them, priced copyrighted modules, user-created modules

Version 4.0: New program icon, first alpha implementation of hybrid modules (books+commentaries), new default tw4 theme

Version 5.0: Current version. Most notable new feature: Integrated module downloader (You can browse and install any module you want directly from within theWord without downloading the modules separately from the official site). New features: 20 new features and more than 100 fixes

The Word Importer Tool

The Word Importer Tool is used for importing Unbound Bible, Zefania XML, and free e-Sword modules and using them in The Word. The Importer Tool does not allow importing of modules purchased from e-Sword.

Examples of how the converter tool works to convert modules to The Word can be seen in the modules available at DoctorDaveT.com.

The Word Portable

The Word portable is a portable version of The Word that can be installed to a USB flash drive. The installer is included in the main installer of version 3.0, which gives the option of installing as portable.

References

The Word Bible Software Wikipedia

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