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theWord for Windows

Submitted by Cory Howell on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 16:35

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This is a relatively new but very powerful free Bible study program for Window.  It combines many of the feature available on e-Sword, with a more adaptable and colorful layout.

  • Basic framework is free download: see link on http://bible.org/downloads
  • Has add-ons for Bibles, dictionaries, commentaries, and books
  • NETBible with limited notes module available for free from http://bible.org/downloads 
  • Premium NETBible with Full notes module available for purchase: see link on    http://bible.org/downloads  (purchase of Premium version helps support bible.org!)
  •  Add notes to verses, chapters, whole Bible books or create you own personal hierarchical books. Highlight your favorite Bible passages. Edit, print, share you own modules
  • Can be used with different languages for navigation
  • Choose from different "skins" in a variety of colors
  • Compact version can be downloaded on to a flash drive, so you can use it on different computers.

 

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Review of The Word for Windows

Submitted by Cory Howell on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 15:02.

I just began using The Word a few days ago, after reading about it on the Forum where the poll was posted.  So I may very well have much more to write at a later date...

However, let me say, to begin, that so far I am extremely impressed with this program!  It's very easy to download: I downloaded the compact version on to a 1G flash drive, and I've been able to run The Word on a couple different computers.  Adding modules to the basic download is very easy to do, and doesn't take much time at all.

The Word may not be quite as easy to use as e-Sword, but it's pretty simple to get the hang of anyway.  And the layouts are much more adaptable than e-Sword's layouts.  They have several preloaded layouts, with the ability to save more of your own design.  Furthermore, the screen is quite a bit more colorful than e-Sword, with a wide variety of different skins to choose from.  So much for how it looks...

The program loads nice and quick, just like e-Sword, and if you add several of the modules available on The Word's website, you can easily have several handy resources right there at your fingertips: Bible versions (mostly the usual public domain versions for free download), dictionaries and commentaries.  If you download the ESV and the basic NET edition, you've got a good start for old and new versions of Scripture.  Sure, most of the dictionaries and commentaries are older ones, such as Clarke and Henry, but they are enough for the average layperson.

I'll be playing around with The Word quite a bit in the days to come, and hope to add more of my thoughts here at that time.  Meanwhile, I encourage you to try this program, and enjoy!

Cory Howell
Nashville, TN

Agree, this is good stuff

Submitted by kilo94 on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 23:52.

I never heard of this software until this post, and I checked it out as well.  Very impressive...been a long time user of e-Sword, but The Word is the only one I loaded on my laptop.  It has an import utility for those of us who used e-Sword, and I was able to import nearly all of the commentaries, books, and Bibles from e-Sword to the Word.  Like the interface, going to give this one a big thumbs up!!