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HOW DOES THE
SWORD BIBLE DIFFER FROM OTHER BIBLES?
• Handcrafted
• Genuine Cover
• Easy Reading Version Available
• Gold Gilded Edge
• Red Letter Spoken Word Highlights
• Special Margin Study Guide
• Ribbon Page Marker
• Available with Thumb Index Tabs |
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SWORD
BIBLE FEATURES:
 Two
Different Versions
The Sword Bible is available in two
different versions. The
KJERV (King James Easy Reading Version) and
the
KJV (King James Version). Both bibles offer
a number of unique features not found in similar
s. Read below for a detailed descriptions
of the features that make the Sword Bible a
truly unparalleled publication
Special
Margin Study Guide.
All of our large Bibles have a unique easy to
use margin study guide with over 90 topics from
which to choose. This margin study guide allows
the reader to go from cover-to-cover using the
pure word of God as their study. There are many
other study helps too numerous to list. To name
just a few are: a topical concordance, maps,
earthquake charts, flood information, the
chronology of the bible (by Dr. Floyd Jones),
Bible and Science (by Dr. Henry Morris), guide
to the laws of the Bible, Jewish calendar, a
survey of Daniel's 70 weeks, land and people of
the Bible, the time of the patriarchs, judges
and kings, and on and on.
Red
Letter Old and New Testament
A
feature that is unique to our Bibles is a
Red Letter Old Testament as well as a
Red Letter New Testament. In the Old
Testament the red lettering is the direct words
of God. In the New Testament the red lettering
is the words of Christ.
Large
Print
Our Easy Reading Bible has
significantly larger text than the similar sized
bibles.
The
Received Text
Another primary difference between the KJV Easy
Reading and other versions on the market is it
follows the Received Text. The Received Text is
what the church fathers have used for nearly 400
years. The Easy Reading follows the King James
text almost word for word merely updating
language. Among the many reasons for this is it
allows one who has learned English as a second
language to have an understanding of the
scriptures without thee's and thous'. Please
note this has all been done without changing one
word of doctrine or touching deity.
Difficult Term Definitions
Underlined words are defined at the end
of the verse in a different typeface. When an
underlined word occurs more than once per
column, it is defined generally in the first and
last occurrence in the text column. The
explanatory words are not necessarily to be
understood as alternate translations, nor as
corrective translations. These words, however,
will often open up the meaning of a word or
verse that often has been otherwise not
understood or misunderstood.
Superscript P's
Many wanted the reliability of the King James
Bible but were unfamiliar or uncomfortable with
many of the old English forms and words. The
King James Easy-Reading Bible changes all second
person singular pronouns to their modern
equivalents: thee (you), thy (your), thine
(yours), and thyself (yourself). To distinguish
the plural pronouns from the singular ones, the
King James Easy-Reading Bible places a
superscript p (meaning plural) after each plural
second person pronoun. Accordingly, the old
English forms yield to the modern equivalents:
ye (you p ), you (you p ), your (your p ), yours
(yours ), and yourselves (yourselves ). Whenever
these forms reflect the name of deity, they
begin with a capital letter.
Reading Grade Level
The KJVER version is the easiest reading Bible
at the 4th Grade level.
This below
chart is a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Indicator
test performed on the top seven Bible versions
plus the Easy Reading King James. Looking at the
results, the KJVER is at the 4th grade level.
Combined with the underlined and defined end of
verse meanings, this makes it by far the easiest
to read most desirable Bible, following the
Received Text for people of all ages. The KJVER
uses one and two syllable words while new
versions have to use multi-syllable words and
phrases. Due to the derivative copyright law,
this means there can never be another English
Bible easier to read than this.
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Cooperative Bible Software Survey
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Cooperative Bible Software Survey
Bible Software vendors from around the
globe are jointly sponsoring a
cooperative
User Survey to glean from Bible
Software Users worldwide their needs,
requests, and dreams. Help us enhance
our offerings to the community in a
meaningful way that specifically
addresses your areas of interest, and
seed the discussions for features in the
next generation of Bible Software.
Please invest the time to take the
survey
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Projects |
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The
SWORD Project |
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The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible
Society's free Bible software project.
Its purpose is to create cross-platform
open-source tools, covered by the
GNU General Public License, that
allow programmers and Bible societies to
write new Bible software more quickly
and easily. Its secondary purpose is to
amass a library of Bibles and other
Scripture-related texts that can be used
by all SWORD Project-based software.
Jump to the SWORD Project's website. |
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JSword |
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JSword is a free Bible Study program
written in Java. It can be installed as
a standard desktop application on
Windows, Linux, MacOS and others. JSword
is also available on the Web to anyone
with a web browser. It can read standard
SWORD modules and is easily adapted to
read data in almost any format. Like
SWORD it is covered by the
GPL so it is free to use and can be
used as a basis for other projects.
Jump to the JSword website. |
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FlashCards |
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FlashCards is a simple tool to help with
memorization. The package includes a
quizzer and a lesson editor. Keyboard
input methods include Greek, Hebrew, and
Latin.
Jump to the FlashCards page. |
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X11/UNIX Study Tools |
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GnomeSword for GTK+/GNOME |
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Bible Study Software for Linux and the
Gnome Desktop.
Jump to GnomeSword's website.
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BibleTime for Qt/KDE |
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BibleTime is a powerful Bible study
application for the K Desktop
Environment running on Unix operating
systems.
Jump
to BibleTime's website. |
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Windows Study Tools |
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The
SWORD Project for Windows |
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The SWORD Project for Windows is a full
featured Bible study package for the
layman and exegete alike.
Jump to The SWORD Project for Windows'
website. |
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BibleStudy |
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BibleStudy is a front end to the sword
project which is available for both
windows and linux and a port to macos
should be possible. BibleStudy uses
Mozilla for displaying texts, and
supports right to left text rendering
for Hebrew and Arabic.
Jump to
The BibleStudy website. |
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LcdBible for Non-Techies |
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Limited functionality (only The
World English Bible, no commentaries
or dictionaries)
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Simple for missionaries, children,
or seniors.
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Small 500kb download including
WEB-NT.
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Under 1 sec launch and
searches even on obsolete Lowest
Common Denominator
486's (640*480 res, Win95)
Jump to
the LcdBible website. |
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Macintosh Study Tools |
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MacSword |
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MacSword brings the power and
versatility of the SWORD Project to
users of MacOS X, along with a beautiful
Aqua interface.
Jump
to the MacSword website. |
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Handheld Study Tools |
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PalmBible+ Reader for PalmOS
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PalmBible+ is a free (GPL-licensed)
Bible reader for Palm OS now maintained
by Yih-Chun Hu, but originally derived
from BibleReader by Poetry Poon.
BibleReader was previously hosted at
SourceForge, and was open-source under
the GPL. Since then, Mr. Poon has taken
his project commercial, allowing him to
sell copyrighted versions (such as the
NIV), but also preventing others from
fixing or adding features to his latest
project.
PalmBible+ can be found here and the
last known versions of the previous
GPL'd
BibleReader here.
Jump to PalmBible+ website. |
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Dagger for OPIE handhelds |
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Dagger is a Bible Study application
developed for portable devices running
Opie.
Jump to Dagger's Page |
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QPSword for Qtopia handhelds
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Qtopia frontend for The SWORD Project.
This is an arm binary for use on iPaq
and Zaurus handhelds running Qtopia.
These packages may work on other arm
handhelds as well. This reader should
work with any SWORD module. Enjoy!
Jump to QPSword's Page |
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Micros for the iPAQ running Linux
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Micro-edition of The SWORD Project
software
A Biblical textual research application.
Includes diplay and searching in a
micro-edition of a GTK+ gui.
Jump to Micros' website. |
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Swordreader for PocketPC |
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SWORD Reader For The PocketPC
A basic SWORD reader for use on PocketPC
handhelds like the HP iPAQ.
Jump to the Swordreader website. |
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Other Study Tools |
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SWORDWeb |
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SWORDWeb is a set of tools and ready to
install web application for exposing
SWORD functionality on a website.
Jump to SWORDWeb's website.
Also, be sure to try SWORD Online
Jump to The Bible Tool website.
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Diatheke |
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Diatheke is a simple command-line
frontend to the SWORD Engine. It is also
at the core of our IRC BibleBot
(Diatheke/TCL), our ActiveX control
(ActiveDiatheke), our Palm PQA
(HANDiatheke), and our web-based
interface to SWORD (Diatheke/CGI).
Jump to Diatheke's website.
Also, be sure to try SWORD Online, using
Diatheke/CGI.
Jump to the SWORD Online website.
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