The Word is a free Bible study software application for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

. It was first released in 2003 by its developer, Costas Stergiou. Though created mainly as a proof of concept

Proof of concept

A proof of concept or a proof of principle is a realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility, or a demonstration in principle, whose purpose is to verify that some concept or theory that has the potential of being used...

 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

Internationalization and localization

In computing, internationalization and localization are means of adapting computer software to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market...

, 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
  Strong's Concordance
  Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, generally known as Strong's Concordance, is a concordance of the King James Bible that was constructed under the direction of Dr. James Strong and first published in 1890. Dr. Strong was Professor of exegetical theology at Drew Theological Seminary at...
  
  , Greek morphological codes, and numerous other viewer options
• Support for Footnotes
• Support for non-Bible documents (commentaries, dictionaries, generic books)
• Greek
  Greek language
  Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
  
   and Hebrew
  Hebrew language
  Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
  
   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: Current version, integration of non-Bible resources, search capabilities for them, priced copyrighted modules, user-created modules

The Word Importer Tool

The Word Importer Tool is used for importing Unbound Bible, Zefania XML

Zefania XML

Zefania XML Bible markup language is an XML-based language for the description of Biblical texts. This allows applications that understand XML, to read and process Bible texts. Zefania XML is available under the GNU General Public License.- External links :...

, and free e-Sword

E-Sword

e-Sword is a Bible study computer software package created by Rick Meyers and developed for Microsoft Windows and Pocket PC. Development started in January 2000. Since that time, it has continually grown in popularity, reaching 15,000,000 downloads in January 2011. The user interface is available...

 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

USB flash drive

A flash drive is a data storage device that consists of flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus interface. flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, and physically much smaller than a floppy disk. Most weigh less than 30 g...

. The installer is included in the main installer of version 3.0, which gives the option of installing as portable.

External links

• The Word website
• Bible Software Review of The Word
• DoctorDaveT.com - Bible Study modules formatted for use with The Word Bible software