e-Sword

I have heard Dr. Missler speak about this tool on several occasions but not until today did I actually pick it up to look at it.  The IT I am talking about is possibly the best Biblical study tool you can get.  It is like having an entire library of concordances, dictionaries and Bible versions all on your computer.  In multiple languages.  Furthermore, it is free and comes in flavors that work on Windows PCs, Linux and Mac.

I’ve added a link to it on the links section to the right.  I encourage you to check it out.  It downloads with the King Jame’s and King Jame’s with Strong’s Numbers but you can easily go download (right from e-Sword itself) several other versions as well.  In fact, the reason I was reminded of e-Sword today was because of an email from Dr. Welty of the ISV foundation that the ISV (international standard version) is now available for e-Sword.

I have the ISV in Word format on my computer as well has a hebrew bible.  I had been doing my research manually. Clipping and pasting and looking things up with Word.  e-Sword makes this process a whole lot easier.  With Strong’s Numbers you can even hover over a word and get a word’s meaning from the Strong’s Hebrew and Greek dictionary. 

Not all of the Bible versions you can download are free but there are a huge number of them and those that aren’t free do not seem to be at an unreasonable price (for instance, the Amplified Bible is $20).  You can even get the septuigent (LXX). Incredible stuff.