Two-edged Sword
Hebrews 4:12
Bible study for the Mac. Every commentary, lexicon and note you own, open at the verse you're reading.
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Free software. Apple silicon, macOS 13 or later.
The study pane follows the verse you select: every commentary you own, the cross‑references, your dictionaries, and your own notes on it. Click any word for its Greek or Hebrew.
A ≠ beside a verse marks where the translation differs in meaning from the King James: an omitted phrase, a changed name of God. Click it for both readings, what changed, and which manuscripts each follows.
Lists for the NIV, ESV, ASV, CEV, GNB, MKJV and ISV come with the app, each reviewed across the whole Bible.
Each original word sits over its English and its Strong's number. Hover for the grammar, click to look it up. Hebrew and Syriac read right to left, as they should.
Anything in the app can be read aloud, each word lit as it's spoken: a chapter, a book, a journal entry. It uses the voices on your Mac, and Hebrew, Greek and Latin Bibles are read in their own tongue.
Ask a question about the passage and the assistant reads your commentaries, lexicons and dictionaries to answer it, naming its source for each point, and saying when your library has nothing. It runs an AI tool you already have on this Mac.
Translations side by side with the differences marked. One search across a Bible, every commentary and dictionary, and your journal. And everything about a single Greek or Hebrew word.
Any number of translations, verse by verse. Highlight differences marks what departs from the first column.
Each entry is linked to the verses it's about and shows beside them as you read. References you type become links, even misspelled ones. Highlight, tag, and ask about one entry or the whole journal.
Entries are plain Markdown files in your Documents folder. Point them at your Obsidian vault and a change made there shows in the app within seconds.
Choose a reading plan: the Bible in a year, the New Testament in 90 days, a Psalm and a Proverb a day, or your own. Quiet time then walks you through it, with worship songs from your Music library chosen for the day's reading and a closing verse that gathers it up.
Close the window and the app waits in the menu bar with today's reading, your streak and the week. Start Quiet time from there, carry on where you left off, or begin a journal entry.
A daily reminder arrives at the time you choose, if you haven't read yet.
Songs for any chapter, too: the ♫ button has the assistant pick worship songs to suit what you're reading, in the Bible or in a book.
The KJV's family tree: the manuscript traditions, the printed editions on the translators' desks at Westminster, Oxford and Cambridge, and the English Bibles before it. Each card says what you have in your library, and opens it.
Out of the box: the King James with Strong's numbers, Strong's Hebrew and Greek dictionaries, the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Matthew Henry's commentary and Easton's dictionary. All public domain.
It reads e‑Sword X's Mac modules you own and its library if you have it. Books and devotionals get the same tools as Scripture.
Build more from free sources with the scripts in the source code: the Targums and the Talmud, the Clementine Vulgate, the Peshitta, Beza's Greek New Testament, Brenton's Septuagint, Tyndale and the Geneva Bible.
Under the GNU General Public License. Use it, share it, change it, and read how it works.
Bibles and books are read where they are. Nothing is copied, re‑saved or sent anywhere.
Journal entries are Markdown files you can open in any editor. They'll outlive any app.
Ask signs in as you, through your own AI tool, and the chats stay on this Mac.
For a Mac with Apple silicon, running macOS 13 or later.
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