The Word Bible Software

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theWord

Original author(s)	Costas Stergiou
Developer(s)	Costas Stergiou
Initial release	October 28, 2003 (2003-10-28)
Stable release	Version 5.0.0.1450 / May 17, 2015; 6 years ago (2015-05-17)
Operating system	Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.
Size	6MB (binary only) 50MB (Main English package)
Available in	English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai
Type	Bible Study Tools
Website	www.theword.net

theWord (previously known as In The Beginning Was The Word)^[1] is a free Bible study software application for Microsoft Windows. It was first released in 2003 and developed by Costas Stergiou. It offers Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, general books, maps, search capabilities, and support for Bibles in several languages.^[2]

Features[]

theWord supports the following features:

• Quickly search through Bible texts^[2] 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)
• 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
• Library search capabilities
• User markups and highlighting
• Verse lists
• Support for purchasing copyrighted, priced modules

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

Importer tool[]

theWord Importer Tool is used for importing Unbound Bible, , and free e-Sword modules and using them in theWord.^[2] The Importer Tool does not allow importing of modules purchased from e-Sword.

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

theWord Portable[]

theWord portable is a portable version of theWord 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[]

External links[]

• Official website