Biblical software

A Bible program is for reading and studying the Bible on your computer. It mostly contains several Bible translations, some of them ( Bible ) encyclopedias, dictionaries and commentaries on the Bible.

Features

In addition to displaying the text on the computer, most programs contain a variety of additional features that are not available in a printed Bible available. These include:

• Rapidly finding Bible passages after entering the Bible book and possibly Chapter and Verse
• The quick keyword search in the entire Bible text ( Concordance feature)
• Software-dependent fast jumps to references in the Bible text to other Bible passages and, where appropriate explanatory footnotes
• Depending on the software, the comparative display of several Bible translations parallel to each other
• Depending on the software to insert their own comments and notes as well as favorites
• Depending on the software and translation of the Bible, the better to help find topics and biblical narratives through tables of contents of the individual books of the Bible, each associated with the corresponding Bible texts
• Depending on the software access to secondary literature such as Lexicons, commentaries and Bible Atlas

Overview of popular Bible programs

When choosing a Bible program is important to note that not every program is offered with the same selection of Bible texts. Almost more important than the choice of the program itself, therefore, is to decide which texts are to be used with it, and whether the text for this program is available at all. Thus copyrighted texts are mostly offered for commercial Bible programs. But the application can play a role. In particular, if one wants to work with original -language texts, a program that was developed for scientific use is recommended.

Generally

For scientific use

These programs offer not only the text is displayed in itself additional features for working with the original language texts such as the determination of word forms and grammar.

On the internet

Alternatively, to install on the computer you can also access to many Bible translations of various Web pages from. In part, this comparable functions are offered, as is the case with Bible programs. In this respect, the German-speaking by far the most developed so far are the free internet platforms - bibel.de and Bibleserver.com on which, among other things, the most important German Bible translations can be used.