Studying with Bible Windows

Pretend you are studying a passage in the Greek New Testament. How can Bible Windows help you?

1. Make a Concordance

With Bible Windows, it is a simple matter to make a concordance of any passage of the Greek New Testament. Concord the whole New Testament, a whole book, a chapter, or even a single verse. The concordance feature can produce a simple word list or a full "key word in context" concordance with an optional definition for each word.

Having a complete concordance with a definition for each word gives you a great head start in learning the necessary vocabulary, and it helps in identifying the most significant words to study further.

2. Read the Passage

Bible Windows’ unique interlinear display can help you read a passage faster than any other program. It is also possible to lock and scroll an English translation with the New Testament passage.

With a single keystroke you can lookup a word in the Intermediate Liddell-Scott or the Louw-Nida Lexicon.

If you prefer to read the text without the interlinear display, you can simply click on individual words to get the parsing or a quick definition. Bible Windows lets you read more texts with less effort.

3. Do Word/Grammatical Searches

Once you’ve read the text, you will want to search some of the words or grammatical constructions. Bible Windows makes this quick and simple. Click on a single word, or highlight a phrase, press the right mouse button and select "Search word at cursor" or "Gram Search word at cursor." Bible Windows can search any combination of books, chapters and verses.

Once the search is completed, you’re only half done. You still need to be able to read and analyze the results. While Bible Windows can quickly and easily open any verse in the match list, the Extended Copy feature may be the most useful. The Extended Copy feature allows you to copy all the matches to the Windows clipboard in both Greek and English. Having both the Greek and English available will greatly simplify the analysis of the search results.

4. Compare Greek Versions

In addition to the Analytical Greek New Testament, Bible Windows includes the Textus Receptus, Wescott-Hort and Tischendorf’s 8th Greek New Testaments. With a single command, all four can be compared in a single window.

5. Compare Translations

When you are viewing a text, Bible Windows can bring up a window with nine different translations of that verse.

6. Use the Internet

The Internet contains an overwhelming amount of information. Bible Windows assists you in getting the greatest amount from the most important resource for studying Greek texts: The Perseus Project web site. Automatically lookup words in the world’s largest Greek Lexicon (this feature requires a connection to the Internet) and the largest on-line collection of Greek texts in the originals and in translation.

7. Use of the OT in the New Testament

Is the verse you are reading a quote or an allusion of a passage from the Hebrew Bible? If so, Bible Windows can open all of those passages with a single command.

8. Use Logos Resources

Bible Windows now uses the commentaries and the lexicons in Logos Level 1, 2 or 3. With one command, you can lookup a Greek word in BAGD, Liddell-Scott, TDNT Abridged, Louw-Nida, and Vine’s Expository dictionary. Try using Logos alone to lookup a word in all these lexicons and you will see why Bible Windows uses the Logos Resources better than Logos itself!

Bible Windows can also lookup a passage in the commentaries in Logos Level 1, 2 or 3. Click on a verse. Click on Show Logos Commentary, and you are done.

9. Type up the results

Bible Windows gives you the resources to type Greek and Hebrew easily. With Microsoft Word, you can insert verses (Greek or Hebrew) by typing the reference in a document. You can even type Unicode Greek easily!