The box that the CDs come in has a 16 page Quick-Start Guide for guiding you through installation and basic functions. The learning curve is as shallow or as steep as you’d like to make it. When looking at a commentary, it will not only give you a link to the commentary for that verse, but also links for every other instance that verse is mentioned in the whole commentary. Regarding commentaries: An advantage of using BibleWorks is that when displaying a verse in the Browse window, you will find all of the resources available pertaining to that verse in the Resources window. Commentaries by Gill, Clarke and a few others that can be found for e-Sword.But I have seen this done with high end graphics programs and it greatly speeds up the process.
#Bibleworks keyboard software#
This would be a major task for the software developers since there are so many functions in the program. I would also like to see custom toolbars where a new toolbar can be created with buttons for functions that are frequently used. I would think there could be a button or keyboard shortcut for something like this, although there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts for many functions within the program. For example, to uncheck all boxes of verses that appear in the Search Window results, you must right click and go down two menus in order to uncheck all the boxes.
I was hoping to find more information on each translation included in the program all in one place. I know it’s “brief” but it would be nice to see that updated and expanded. Only a few of the translations were given descriptions and outdated terms like word-for-word are used for some translations. I was a little disappointed in the section on A Brief Description of Major English Translations.A popular paraphrase translation like The Message or the Good News Bible (for occasional comparison).I have a main favorite (which I named f1), one for the Old Testament (which will display a Hebrew Bible that can be linked to a lexicon), one that displays mainly formal (more literal) translations, one that displays mainly dynamic and paraphrases etc.Ĭlick for a larger image.
You can create favorite lists of translations to display when doing a search. In the example below you can see that I clicked on the verse in Isaiah in the middle window and it shows up in the right window. When choosing a Greek morphology version, it will automatically remove words of lesser importance like contractions, articles, etc. Another feature that helps you find similar information but wider in scope is the Related Verses Tool. The Synopsis Window helps you to find predefined parallel Gospel passages, places where the New Testament quotes the Old Testament and parallel passages in the Old Testament.
These include sound files with a choice of Erasmian Greek or thankfully, modern pronunciation! I don’t use Erasmian and if I want to hear something pronounced I would rather hear something closer to what I use. You can find vocabulary sets for Hebrew and Greek including Greek sets from Croy (a book I’m going through), Mounce, Black and others. You could search for all verbs within a range of verses, narrow that down to first person singular and/or plural, or any number of other syntactical searches.ĭo you or have you used more than one translation in your life? Do you sometimes try to find a word or phrase that you are certain is in the Bible, but cannot remember which translation has it? BibleWorks can help you find a word or phrase even if you cannot remember which translation contains it.” For even more complex searches that the Command Line can’t do there is the Graphical Search Engine.Ī number of Greek syntax searches can be done. There is also a more user friendly Command Line Assistant and plenty of examples. In English, any number of searches can be performed and for geeks, regular expressions can be used.Īn example of a more complex search would be:Ī form of “grac…” OR “faith…” AND a form of “law…” OR “work…” within 5 verses There is an extensive Help file page devoted to the Command Line. So many different types of searches can be performed that I can’t think of much of anything that couldn’t be done. The Command Line alone is a wondrous thing. Miscellaneous Helpful Features in BibleWorks
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