SwordSearcher is a powerful program designed to help you study God's Word. SwordSearcher features fast searching, easy browsing, multiple user-created note sets, and several commentaries and study helps.

SwordSearcher contains: The King James Bible, Interlinear KJV with Strong's Greek and Hebrew Lexicon, Easton's Bible Dictionary, Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, Matthew Henry's Exhaustive Commentary, C. H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening devotional, Geneva Bible Notes, KJV Translators' notes, People's NT Commentary, 1917 Scofield Reference Bible notes, Scrivener and Stephanus transliterated TRs, Treasury of David, Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Albert Barnes' NT Commentary, Bible Version comparison (KJV, Webster, ASV, Darby, Young, Basic English, Reina-Valera, Luther, and Segond), Family Bible Notes, Fourfold Gospel, and William Burkitt's NT notes.

"...Very intuitive and quite easy to navigate... an ideal Bible-study tool... offers a host of powerful tools to make your study more rewarding." -- Dr. Ed Hoffman, Christian Computing Magazine

Features

Powerful searching allows you to search the Bible or a range of verses for a word, set of words, or phrase. Searches are flexible: you may search for all, any, or only one of the words you specify. SwordSearcher can optionally differentiate between lower and upper case, to facilitate searching for "God" instead of "god." Search results are displayed as entire verses with your search words highlighted in the color of your choice. A simple click of the mouse will allow you to open the passage in which the verse appears to allow you to examine the context of the verse.

Easy Browsing of the Bible is done with SwordSearcher's Passage Window. Quickly jump to any verse in the Bible and move forward or backward by verse, chapter, or book. You can mark text for copying to the clipboard, or for looking up in the Easton’s Bible Dictionary. You have ten different bookmarks you may place anywhere in the Bible.

Strong's Greek and Hebrew Lexicon, used with the Interlinear KJV, allows you to examine the definitions of the original Hebrew or Greek words, ultimately giving you a better understanding of the English word.

The Today’s Proverb function takes you right to your daily proverb reading. In addition to this, you may whish to read Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Daily Devotional twice a day.

Several Commentaries and Study-Helps are available.

You may create personal note sets and write your own commentary and thoughts on each verse.

SwordSearcher's environment is customizable. You may change the display fonts and sizes to suite your needs. Passage can be displayed in the classic verse-by-verse mode or in paragraph mode for those who prefer that layout. Italic words can be displayed in italics, or some users may prefer to have them displayed normally or in brackets [].

SwordSearcher is Intuitive. It has been extensively tested by Bible students and refined with their needs in mind. It is easy to navigate and use. Hot-keys quickly execute commands and context pop-up menus quickly help you find functions relative to what you are working in. With SwordSearcher, you won’t feel as if you can’t use it to its fullest.

Resources

In addition to the time-honored King James Bible, SwordSearcher includes several study-helps and commentaries. It should be noted that God's word is the final authority on all matters. These materials are included because there is valuable insight contained in them, but the reader must keep in mind that the authors are merely men and their writings are susceptible to human error. You will also find differing viewpoints among the various commentaries.

All of these materials have been obtained in electronic form from various sources and adapted for use in SwordSearcher. These texts are in the public domain and were either never copyrighted, or their copyrights have expired. No one today can claim exclusive rights to these materials, and you may freely distribute and quote from them. They are included for the edification of the SwordSearcher user.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible: Matthew Henry's popular devotional commentary on the Old and New Testaments.

The Morning and Evening Daily Devotional: Twice-daily devotional readings by C. H. Spurgeon. Accessible by date and as a commentary.

Easton's Bible Dictionary: M. G. Easton’s dictionary of Bible terms, people, and places, 1897.

Geneva Bible Notes: Commentary from the 1599 Geneva Bible, Old and New Testaments.

The King James Translators' Footnotes: Original marginal readings from the Authorized Version.

The People's New Testament Commentary: B. W. Johnson’s New Testament commentary.

Old Scofield Reference Bible Notes: Notes from the 1917 Scofield Reference Bible, Old and New Testaments.

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Over 500,000 cross-references in the Old and New

Testaments.

The Treasury of David: C. H. Spurgeon's exhaustive commentary on the Psalms. Spurgeon wrote more about the Psalms than most authors wrote about the entire Bible.

1550 Stephanus and 1894 Scrivener Greek New Testaments, transliterated. Each verse is a note.

Strong's Greek and Hebrew Lexicon: Taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890. Used with the Interlinear KJV.

Albert Barnes' Commentary on the New Testament

Version Comparison Note Set: This note set contains nine Bible versions for comparison purposes. This has a note for each verse which contains the comparison text. The versions included are:

Family Bible Notes: 1861, Old and New Testament commentary.

The Fourfold Gospel: A Harmony of the Four Gospels, by J. W. McGarvey and Philip Y. Pendleton, 1914.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Matthew Henry's exhaustive commentary. This is a much more detailed commentary than Henry’s devotional commentary.

William Burkitt's Notes on the New Testament: 1807, from the 40^th edition.

System Requirements:

SwordSearcher has modest system requirements. To run SwordSearcher, you must have the following:

At least a 486 processor, Pentium-class recommended. (AMD, Cyrix, etc work just as well.)

A PC running one of the following operating systems:

Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 (or compatible) Also works with Windows XP!

Windows NT (Intel) 3.51, 4.x, 5.x (or compatible)

(Sorry, no support for Windows 3.x.)

A complete installation of the Deluxe CD-ROM Version takes about 160 megabytes.

At least 16 megabytes of RAM is recommended.

For CD-ROM installation, a 2-speed (or faster) CD-ROM drive is required.

This Deluxe CD-ROM version also contains the shareware version of SwordSearcher to install on your friends' computers, SwordSearcher for DOS 2.0, and the distributable shareware files

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