Database Quality

The most commonly used Bible translations are essentially error-free, but some specialized versions and the Greek and Hebrew morphological databases used today still need work. This is a new industry, and it will take time for these databases to settle. This is true of all packages on the market. Be wary of anyone who claims perfection in this area. Database quality is a moving target -- the more important issue is a company¡¯s commitment to correcting problems and providing a quality product. It will be a few years before the quality of these databases will be such that you can store your copy of Hatch and Redpath in the attic! Until then, serious scholars will want to cross-check final conclusions with the standard printed reference works.

Substantial progress has been made, and ongoing projects continue to improve the quality of our databases. Corrections to these databases and our other versions are posted to our web site on a regular basis. They are free to download for registered BibleWorks users.

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NEW: Much to our customers' delight, we release a number of significant free additions to BibleWorks after the initial release. For a running list of these free updates, click here.

Items in blue are new to Version 8. Some items were released after BW7 was introduced. For a detailed list of the new features in BibleWorks 8, click here.

Original Language Texts

Hebrew/Aramaic/Syriac

• 1905 British and Foreign Bible Society Peshitto edition
• The Aramaic New Testament (Peshitta), with the Etheridge (1849), Lewis (1896), Murdock (1851), Norton (1881), and Magiera (2005) English translations
• Leningrad Codex Hebrew Bible, with full accenting & full vowel pointing
• Leningrad Codex Hebrew Bible, transliterated
• Delitzsch Hebrew NT
• Groves-Wheeler Westminster Hebrew Old Testament Morphology database, version 4.10
• Hebrew Accent Extensions to Groves-Wheeler Westminster Hebrew Old Testament Morphology database
• Old Syriac Sinaiticus manuscript
• Old Syriac Curetonian manuscript
• Peshitta, with Syriac and Hebrew letters
• Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts with morphology (locked)
• Salkinson-Ginsburg Hebrew New Testament
• The Targumim, parsed, lemmatized and tied to entries in the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon.
  Also included:
  • Psalms Targum (English)
  • Rodkinson Babylonian Talmud and Mishnah
    (English)
  • Targum Cairo Geniza with morphology
  • FragTargums with morphology, TgSheniSuppEsther with morphology, TgTosefProphets with morphology
  • Targum Neofiti with morphology
  • Targum NeofMarginalia with morphology
  • Targum PseudoJonathan with morphology
  • Targumim (Mostly Onkelos and Jonathan) with morphology?(updated 2005)

Greek

• Aletti/Gieniusz/Bushell Morphologically Analyzed Greek New Testament
• Aletti/Gieniusz/Bushell/CATSS Morphologically Analyzed Septuagint
• Apostolic Fathers English translation
• Apostolic Fathers (Greek with Morphological tags by Gieniusz/Bushell)
• Apostolic Fathers Latin
• Brenton¡¯s Septuagint English Translation, including Deutero-canonical section
• Complete Works of Flavius Josephus, parsed and lemmatized, with the 1828 Whiston English translation and Latin sections
• Friberg¡¯s 1999 Morphologically Analyzed Greek New Testament
• Nestle-Aland 27th Edition/UBS Fourth Edition Greek New Testament
• OT Pseudepigrapha in Greek, morphologically tagged, with English translation
• Rahlfs¡¯ Septuagint, with Apocrypha & variants
• Robinson-Pierpont Greek New Testament (Byzantine Textform 2005) with Morphological Analysis
• Scrivener¡¯s Greek New Testament (Textus Receptus), with Morphological Analysis
• Stephanus Greek New Testament (Textus Receptus), with Morphological Analysis
• Tischendorf Greek New Testament, with Critical Apparatus
• Von Soden Greek New Testament
• Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament (proofed & corrected), with Morphological Analysis
• Works of Philo (Greek Text & Morphology with English translation)

* Modern Greek versions in separate section below

Bible Versions

English

• American Standard Version, 1901
• Bible in Basic English, 1949/64
• Bishop's Bible, 1595
• Brenton¡¯s Septuagint English Translation, without Deutero-canonical section
• Complete Jewish Bible, 1998
• Darby Bible (1884/1890)
• Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
• English Revised Version, 1881/1885
• English Standard Version, 2007 update
• Geneva Bible, 1599
• GOD¡¯S WORD¢ç Translation, 1995
• Holman Christian Standard Bible, 2004
• Jewish Publication Society Tanakh, 1917
• Jewish Publication Society Tanakh, 1985
• King James Apocrypha, 1611
• King James, 1611, with Strong's Codes and Geneva Bible notes
• King James, 1611/1769, with Strong's Codes
• MacDonald Idiomatic Translation Bible
• NET Bible with notes and maps
• New American Bible
• New American Standard Bible, 1977, with Codes
• New American Standard Bible, 1995, with Codes
• New International Reader¡¯s Version
• New International Version (UK)
• New International Version (US), 1984, with cross references and footnotes
• New Jerusalem Bible
• New King James Version (1982) Version, with Strong¡¯s Codes
• New Living Translation, 2nd edition, 2005
• New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha, 1989
• New Testament Peshitta Translation, Etheridge, 1849
• New Testament Peshitta Translation, James Murdock, 1851
• New Testament Peshitta Translation, Lewis, 1896
• New Testament Peshitta Translation, Norton, 1881
• New Testament Peshitta Translation, Magiera, 2005
• Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha, 1952
• Today¡¯s NIV
• Tyndale New Testament, 1534
• Von Soden Greek New Testament
• Webster Bible, 1833
• Revised Webster Update, 1995, with Codes
• Young's Literal Translation, 1862/1898

Latin

• Nova Vulgata
• Latin Vulgate (Weber Edition)
• Latin Vulgate (Nova Vulgata)
• Latin Vulgate (Vulgata Clementina 1598 with Glossa Ordinaria notes)
• Latin sections from Works of Flavius Josephus
• Online Bible Vulgate Mapped to KJV

Afrikaans

• Bible Afrikaans, 1953
• Afrikaans, 1983

Albanian

• Albanian (1994)

Arabic

• Van Dyke Arabic Bible

Bulgarian

• Bulgarian Protestant Version, 1940/1995/2005
• Bulgarian Bible, 1938
• Constantinople (Tzarigrad) Bible, 1871

Catalan

• Catalan BCI Version

Chinese

• Chinese Union Bible, Big5
• Chinese Union Bible, Simplified
• Chinese New Version, Big5
• Chinese New Version, Simplified

Croatian

• Croatian Bible

Cyrillic

• Russian Synodal Text of the Bible with Codes

Czech

• Bible Kralicka, 1613
• Cesky Ekumenicky preklad, 1985
• Preklad KMS, 1994
• Nova Bible Kralicka, 1998
• Slovo na cestu, 2000

Danish

• De Hellige Skrifter, 1931
• Wier©ªd Danish New Testament,(1992 )

Dutch

• Leidse Vertaling, 1912/1994
• Lutherse Vertaling, 1750/1933/1994
• The Netherlands Bible Society, 1951
• Statenvertaling, 1637, with Codes
• Willibrordvertaling Version, 1978
• Willibrordvertaling Version, 1995

Finnish

• Raamattu, 1933/1938 kaannos

French

• Bible en francais courant, 1997
• Jerusalem Bible
• Haitian Creole Bible
• Louis Segond, 1910, with Strong's Codes
• Nouvelle Edition Geneve, 1979, with Codes
• Traduction ¨«cumenique de la Bible, 1988
• Version Darby, 1885

German

• Einheitsubersetzung-KBA, 1980
• Elberfelder, Revised, 1993
• Elberfelder, Unrevised, 1905 (Darby)
• Herder Translation (Revised Version 2005)
• Lutherbibel, 1545
• LutherBibel, 1912, with Strong's Codes
• Munchener New Testament, 1998, with Codes
• Schlachter Bible, 1951
• Schlachter Bible, 2000
• Zuercher Bibel, 2nd ed., 2008

Greek (modern)

• Greek Orthodox Church NT
• Metaglottisis Greek New Testament, 2004
• Modern Greek Bible

Hungarian

• Karoli, 1993

Indonesian

• Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
• Terjemahan Baru

Italian

• San Paolo Edizione, 1995
• La Nuova Diodati, 1991
• La Sacra Biblia Nuova Riveduta, 1994

Japanese

• Shinkaiyaku Version

Korean

• Korean Revised Version

Lithuanian

• Lithuanian Bible

Macedonian

• Macedonian Bible

Norwegian

• 1930 Bokmal
• 1938 Nynorsk
• Norsk Bibel Konkordant, 1988
• Norsk Bibel Nynorsk, 1994

Polish

• Biblia Gdanska, 1632
• Biblia Tysiaclecia. Wydanie 4., 1965/84

Portuguese

• Almeida Revista e Atualizada, 1993
• Almeida Revista e Corrigida, 1969
• Almeida Biblia, 1994
• Corrigida Fiel, 1753/1995
• Modern Language Translation, 2005

Romanian

• Cornilescu Bible

Russia

• Orthodox Russian Synodal Translation
• Contemporary Russian version, New Testament

Slovak

• Svate Pismo, 1995

Spanish

• Castilian La Biblia (Herder)
• La Biblia de Las Americas, NASB, 1986
• Nueva Biblia de los Hispanos
• Nueva Version Internacional
• Reina-Valera, 1909
• Reina-Valera Actualizada, 1989
• Reina-Valera Gomez
• Reina-Valera Revised, 1960
• Reina-Valera Update, 1995

Swahili

• New Testament

Swedish

• Svenska 1917
• Svenska Folkbibeln, 1998
• Bibel 82
• Bibel 2000

Thai

• Thai King James Version

Turkish

• Turkish Bible, 2002

Ukrainian

• Ukrainian

Vietnamese

• Vietnamese

Lexical-Grammatical References

• A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament: Based on the Lexical Work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner (Holladay)
• Bauer, Danker, Arndt & Gingrich Greek Lexicon (locked)
• Beginner¡¯s Grammar of the Greek New Testament (Davis)
• Beginning Biblical Hebrew (full text), by Mark Futato (locked)
• Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English Lexicon, 1905, unabridged
• Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English/Hebrew-French/Hebrew-Russian Lexicons (Strong's), abridged
• CATSS/Tov Hebrew-Greek Parallel Aligned Text
• Friberg¡¯s Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament, Complete 2000 edition
• Gesenius¡¯ Hebrew Grammar
• A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, Revised (Jouon-Muraoka) (no unlock needed)
• Grammar of Septuagint Greek (Conybeare & Stock)
• A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research, 3rd edition (Robertson)
• Greek and Hebrew paradigm charts (revised)
• Greek Enchiridion: A Concise Handbook of Grammar and Exegesis (MacDonald)
• Greek Grammar beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament (Wallace) (no unlock needed)
• Greek Grammar Handbook (MacDonald)
• Greek New Testament Diagrams (Leedy), complete
• A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, Volumes 1 & 2 (Lust, Eynikel, Hauspie, Chamberlain) (locked, free unlock available for BW7 upgraders)
• Syntactic and Thematic Greek Transcription of the NT (MacDonald)
• An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (Waltke & O¡¯Connor) (no unlock needed)
• Koehler-Baumgartner Hebrew Lexicon (locked)
• Liddell-Scott Greek Lexicon, abridged
• Louw-Nida Greek New Testament Lexicon based on Semantic Domains, Second Edition
• Moods and Tenses of New Testament Greek (Burton)
• The Shorter Lexicon of the Greek New Testament, Revised Edition (Gingrich/Danker)
• The Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (Harris, Archer & Waltke)
• Thayer Greek Lexicon, abridged
• Thayer Greek Lexicon, unabridged
• Wigram¡¯s Tense, Voice, Mood codes for some English, German, Dutch, French and Russian Bibles

Reference Works

• Biographical Bible (distinguishes Bible people with same names)
• Charles, Old Testament Pseudepigrapha English translation
• Early Church Fathers
• Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Greek NT Vocabulary Sound Files (Schwandt)
• Hebrew Vocabulary Sound Files (Verbruggen)
• International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
• James, New Testament Apocrypha English translation
• Matthew Henry's Commentary
• Metzger's Bible Outline
• Nave's Topical Index
• New Chain Reference Bible (1934) topics (Thompson)
• New Topical Text Book (Torrey)
• Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament (Archer & Chirichigno)
• Synopsis of the Gospels
• Timelines: Biblical, Church, and Secular History
• TEXTKRITIK des Neuen Testaments (Gregory)
• Textual Commentary on the Greek NT (Metzger)
• Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
• Westminster Confessional Standards

Optional Add-On Modules

The resources below can be unlocked for an additional fee.

• Biblical Greek (Zerwick)
• Beginning Biblical Hebrew (Futato)
• Dead Sea Scrolls English Translation Bundle: Biblical and Sectarian Texts
• Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament (Balz & Schneider)
• Grammar of Palestinian Jewish Aramaic (Stevenson)
• Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Blass, Debrunner & Funk)
• A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th Revised Edition (Liddell, Scott, Jones & McKenzie)
• Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd Edition (Bauer, Danker, Arndt & Gingrich)
• A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, Volumes 1 & 2 (Lust, Eynikel, Hauspie, Chamberlain) (free unlock available for BW7 upgraders)
• Griechisch-deutsches Taschenworterbuch zum Neuen Testament, 8th Edition (Preuschen)
• New Testament Peshitta Collection
• PONS Kompaktworterbuch Althebraisch: Althebraisch ? Deutsch (Matheus)
• Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew (Weingreen)
• A Primer of Biblical Greek (Croy)
• Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts
• The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Koehler, Baumgartner & Stamm)
• The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (Comfort & Barrett)
• Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Second Edition (Metzger)
• Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Abridged (Kittel, Friedrich & Bromiley)
• UBS Greek-English Concise Dictionary of the New Testament (Barclay M. Newman)
• Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament (Moulton & Milligan)

The following are now included in BibleWorks 8, but may be purchased and unlocked for BibleWorks?7:

• A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, 2006 edition (Paul Jouon, S.J. and Takamitsu Muraoka)
• Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament (Wallace)
• An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (Waltke & O¡¯Connor)

Program Features

• A wide range of Greek and Hebrew fonts are provided, both Unicode and non-Unicode.
• Analysis window shows related lexical and grammatical references for a word or verse, cross references, full browse context, and common words, as the cursor moves over text.
• Bible texts, dictionaries and lexicons are fully searchable, with many search options.
• Comparison tools highlight differences between Bible versions.
• Complete lemmatization and parsing is provided for Greek New Testament, Septuagint and Hebrew Old Testament.
• Copy and paste verse text to other programs customizing text and verse reference format.
• Custom cross-reference databases can be created.
• Custom lexicons can be created, based on words in a particular passage.
• Diagramming module enables users to construct diagrams of any text.
• ¡°Drag & Drop¡± is supported between BibleWorks and many word processors.
• Editable timelines of church and secular history provide a historical perspective.
• Editor supports Unicode and has a wide range of editing features.
• Extensive search tools for lexical, grammatical, phrase, semantic domain, related verse, key word in context searches. Build search with graphical interface.
• Hebrew and Greek review tools including vocabulary flashcards are available in print, electronic and audio formats, Daily Light in Greek & Hebrew, and more.
• Highlighted text and search results can be saved in multiple sets.
• Link manager handles your own links to Internet resources and other Bible software.
• Listen to English Bible text read aloud.
• Manage and browse online and offline books and internet links (ERMIE). Trade catalogs of links.
• Mouse pop-ups show verse text for each resource.
• Multiple copies of BibleWorks may be opened for convenience.
• Multiple views show Bible versions in parallel columns, vertical comparative lines or full context.
• Parallel-Aligned Hebrew and Greek text makes it easy to find Hebrew and Greek equivalents.
• Parsing, lexical information and cross references are displayed when cursor moves over tagged Bible text.
• Popup list of morphology codes opens as you enter morphological codes.
• Popup window, with word definition and parsing, is displayed when mouse is held over Greek and Hebrew words.
• Report generator compiles and prints lexical information, morphological analysis, multiple Bible versions, word frequencies and more.
• Satellite maps can be customized with locations, sites and other notes.
• Search queries and results can be saved and reused.
• Searches can be very broad or limited to selected verses or books.
• Sets of favorite Bible versions can be created, saved and searched.
• Statistics utility allows you to plot, compare and export graphs of search results.
• Synopsis window shows editable parallel gospel accounts.
• Text can be exported to Unicode Hebrew and Greek.
• Verses, chapters, books or entire Bible versions can be exported.
• Word list utility can generate word frequency lists for any range of verses.
• Your own chapter or verse notes load automatically each time you view a verse.
• Your own Bible versions can be created, saved, searched and integrated into BibleWorks.