Bible Desktop – dig deeply into God’s Word

Bible Desktop is a free and easy to use Bible Study tool that allows you to dig deeply into God’s Word.

Bible Desktop is based on the JSword Project, and reads modules created by the Sword Project.

This provides a wide range of texts to choose from: 300 bibles (most are Old and New Testament), commentaries, dictionaries, daily devotionals (reading plans, keyed for every day of the year), glossaries, and other theological works in more than 40 different languages.

Key Features

• Tabbed interface.
• Sub-window mode.
• Passage Sidebar allows you to modify the amount of text displayed in the Bible Text Display.
• Research area.
• Advanced search features: include a phrase or a word, exclude words, search for something that is close to a word, or includes words starting with some text.
• Show differences – show differences between adjacent Bibles of the same language when more than one are shown.
• Uses Lucene to index Bibles.

Website: www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop
Support: Manual
Developer: The CrossWire Bible Society
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Bible Desktop is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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