BibleWorks

Quick-Start Guide

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 Getting Started
BibleWorks is one of the most powerful and user-friendly Bible programs
available. We hope it will enrich your study of the Bible and help you
share more effectively what you learn. We encourage you to read this
guide for instructions on the installation and use of BibleWorks.

Installation Instructions
Installation instructions are posted online for the type of computer
you are using. If you have an earlier version of BibleWorks installed
on your computer, please follow the instructions to uninstall the
previous version of BibleWorks before installing your new version. We
recommend that you temporarily disable your computer’s anti-virus
program before beginning the installation because aggressive anti-virus
programs sometimes erroneously quarantine and erase the BibleWorks
installation file, making it difficult for you subsequently to proceed.
Activation codes for modules that you have purchased or received
as a result of updating to a later version of BibleWorks are entered
immediately after you enter the BibleWorks activation code found on the
cover of this guide.
Please visit our website for installation instructions for BibleWorks and
its add-on modules here: www.bibleworks.com/install

Getting Help
There are a number of ways that you can find answers to questions
about BibleWorks features and functionality:
• You can access the BibleWorks electronic manual by selecting
Help | BibleWorks Help Contents from the main menu.
• BibleWorks has extensive context-sensitive help. It can be
accessed by placing the mouse over any feature on the BibleWorks
screen (a button, box, list, etc.) and pressing the F1 key on your
keyboard.
• BibleWorks online How-to Videos can be accessed by selecting
Help | How-to Videos (Online).
• BibleWorks Frequently Asked Question documents (FAQs) can be
consulted through the Support menu at www.bibleworks.com.
• You can also contact BibleWorks Customer Support using the
information available through the Support menu at
www.bibleworks.com.

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Orientation to BibleWorks
The following short introduction will tell you what you need to know to
begin using BibleWorks right away. BibleWorks is a powerful program,
but the basics are not complicated.
BibleWorks has three main sections: the Search Window, the Browse
Window, and the Analysis Window. You can begin your study by using
the Search Window to find verses related to a particular topic of interest.
Then you can use the Browse Window to read and compare specific
verses to see if they need to be examined in more detail. Then finally
you can use the Analysis Window to study the meanings and usage of
individual words in the verses.

1. The Search Window

The Search Window has two main components. You enter commands
on the Command Line at the top of the Search Window to perform
searches and look up verses. Then you view the results of your
searches in the Results Verse List Box below it.

Viewing Search Results

The Results Verse List Box appears below the Command Line. The first
time you open BibleWorks, it will be blank and will remain blank until
a successful search has been run. This list contains the text of all the
verses resulting from your last search, with the search terms highlighted
and presented in context. Clicking on one of the verses will cause it to
be displayed in the window to the right of the Results Verse List Box, the
Browse Window.
The Results Verse List will save the results of your last search until
you conduct a new one. There are many different options available for
the Command Line and Results Verse List Box; these are displayed by
holding your mouse cursor over each and right clicking with your mouse
or on a tablet touching them with your finger or stylus and keeping the
finger or stylus pressed down gently.
The 12 tabs across the top allow you to work on multiple projects or
concepts at one time. You can right click on the tabs to give them titles,
display new tabs and delete existing ones. If you click on the Verse
History List button to the far right of the Search Window tabs you can

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 quickly navigate back to verses that you’ve viewed before in the Browse
Window.

2. The Browse Window

Version Display Modes

The Browse Window can display verses in two different modes. When
you first open BibleWorks, Genesis 1:1 is displayed in Multiple Version
Mode. In this mode a single verse is displayed from each of the display
versions. To view a verse in the larger context of one Bible version,
however, you can switch to Single Version Mode, which displays the full
text of the current search version. Click the Toggle Browse Mode button
(shown here to the left) at the top of the Browse Window to
switch back and forth between Multiple Version Mode and
Single Version Mode.
Multiple Version Mode Single Version Mode

Search Version (Search and Browse Windows)

The first time you open BibleWorks it will open with the search version
set to the NAS (New American Standard Version). The first version
appearing on the Command Line Versions Button (found immediately
below the Command Line) is the current search version. The current
search version text is highlighted in blue in the Browse Window when it
is in Multiple Version display mode. The search version is used by many
of the tools in BibleWorks when you open them, so it is helpful to be
aware of your current search version.
To change the search version, type the abbreviation for the desired
version on the Command Line and press the <Enter> key. For example,
if you enter the command
KJV
the search version will change to the KJV version. All commands
entered on the Command Line are executed by pressing the <Enter>
key.
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Each version in BibleWorks has its own abbreviation. To display these
abbreviations, click the down arrow next to the abbreviation for the
current search version at the top of the Browse Window to see the
versions available in various language groups. If you click on one it will
become the current search version. You can also click on the Command
Line Versions Button in the Search Window and select Choose Search
Version. This opens a window that permits you to change the search
version by choosing from a menu rather than entering the version
abbreviation on the Command Line.

Simple Mouse-Driven Searching in the Browse Window

Double-clicking on a word will look up all occurrences of that particular
form of the word and display the results in the Results Verse List.
BibleWorks will automatically reset the search version to the version on
which you double-clicked and will display the double-clicked word on the
Command Line with a period control character.
To look up a phrase shown in the Browse Window, highlight the phrase
in the Browse Window by clicking and dragging with the left mouse
button, right click on the highlighted words, and select Search for
Phrase.
The Browse Window offers a number of options for searching words
in the verses on display there when you right click on a word. You will
find different right click options for Greek and Hebrew than for modern-
language translations you have on display in the Browse Window. To
quickly search for all forms of a Greek or Hebrew word, right click on the
word and choose Search on Lemma.

3. The Analysis Window

The Analysis Window displays information about particular words and
verses in the Search and Browse Windows. For a detailed description
of the tabs in the Analysis Window, please see Help | BibleWorks Help
Contents. You can also choose a tab in the Analysis Window, hold the
mouse over the Analysis Window and press the F1 key to find help on
that tab.
The Open/Close Secondary Analysis Window button at the upper right
of the Analysis Window allows you to display two tabs at the same
time in a two column fashion. You can drag the tabs from one column
to the other to display the tabs in the way that works best for you. The
Analysis Window includes some of the following tabs:
Analysis - This tab displays information about words and verses in the
Browse Window. Moving the mouse over a Greek or Hebrew word in the
Browse Window displays the morphological analysis for that word and
the entry for the word in a lexicon. You can choose which lexicons to
display by right clicking where the entry displays and choosing Default

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 Analysis Window Lexicons for the Greek or Hebrew languages. In the
table that opens, double-click on the lexicons you wish to display and
click OK. For the Bible translations tagged with Strong’s numbers (KJV,
NKJ, NAS, NAU, CSB, SVV, LSG, NEG, LUO, MNT, RST versions),
corrected Strong’s number information is also displayed. If you want to
temporarily freeze the contents of the Analysis Window, hold down the
<Shift> key while moving your mouse cursor.
Resources - This tab displays a summary of lexical and grammatical
resources related to Greek and Hebrew words in the Browse Window.
When you move the mouse over Greek or Hebrew words in the Browse
Window, this tab automatically updates displayed resource information
related to the word or verse. To freeze the contents of the Resources
tab, hold down the <Shift> key while moving your mouse cursor. If you
click on an item in the Resource List, the appropriate resource will be
opened in a separate window at the location of the indexed entry.
Notes - This tab contains a copy of the Editor (see description for next
tab) dedicated to user verse notes. The top of the Notes tab has a
“Chapter” checkbox. If this box is checked, user notes will be maintained
on a per-chapter basis. When it is unchecked, each verse will have its
own file.
Editor - This tab contains a text editor that supports a wide range of
formatting options and is tightly integrated with BibleWorks.
X-Refs - This tab provides Scriptural cross-references for the current
verse displayed in the Browse Window. The drop-down list allows
you to choose from a variety of cross-reference systems included in
BibleWorks.
Stats - This tab graphically displays a detailed statistical analysis of the
last successful search. Using the Detail Level choices in the Options
button, you can quickly change your settings to view how frequently
your search results occur throughout the Bible by book, chapter or
verse.
Use - This tab displays every occurrence of the word you place your
mouse cursor over in the Browse Window in the current book (or
version) you are studying.
Mss - This tab displays a collation of Greek New Testament versions
and manuscripts for the current Browse Window verse and a high
resolution image of manuscripts.
Vs1/Vs2 - These tabs allow you to display study Bible notes or a Greek
New Testament apparatus for the current Browse Window verse using
the drop-down list at the top of the window.
Words - This tab displays 3 list boxes. Each contains a list of words
related to the current search version and search results.

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• The “Full wordlist” box lists every word that occurs in the current
search version. The number to the right of each word indicates how
many times that word occurs in the search version. You can look up
a word in this list by clicking on the word with the left mouse button.
• The “Word List for current search results” box contains every word
appearing in the verses found when you conduct a search. This box
allows you to quickly view the words that appear in close proximity
(within the same verse) to the word(s) In your search.
• The “Wildcard Expansion of command line” box lists the specific
words for which you searched. Words with wildcards are expanded
to indicate all valid matches for those words.
Context - This tab displays 3 list boxes which show words appearing in
the larger context of the verse in the Browse Window.
• The “Pericope” box interacts with the Bible Outline displayed at the
top of the Browse Window. It displays a list of all the words found
in the verses that make up the literary unit (pericope) in which the
Browse Window verse appears.
• The “Book Context” box contains the entire word list for the Biblical
book currently displayed in the Browse Window.
• The “Chapter” box contains the entire word list for the chapter
currently displayed in the Browse Window.
• You can click on any word in each of these boxes to search for that
word within the bounds of the given pericope, book or chapter.
Browse - This tab displays another window similar to the main Browse
Window. It permits you to see the larger context of verse without
switching the main Browse Window to Single Version Mode. Alternately,
if the Browse Window is in Single Version Mode, you can switch this tab
to show the verse under the mouse in multiple Bible versions.
Forms - When you hold your mouse cursor over a Greek or Hebrew
word in the Browse Window, this tab displays the inflected forms of the
word found in the Bible version.
Agnt - This tab displays a detailed interlinear Greek New Testament.
UserLex - This tab allows you to take notes on the English, Greek
or Hebrew word that you hold your mouse cursor over in the Browse
Window. Hold down the <Shift> key to freeze on the word.
Leningrad - This tab displays tagged high-resolution images of the
Leningrad Codex, the basis for the WTT Old Testament.

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 Search, Browse and Analysis Window Help
Most of the items in the BibleWorks display have context menus
associated with them. A context menu is a menu that pops up when you
click on an item or section with the RIGHT mouse button. A different
menu will pop up depending on which functional area is under the
mouse cursor. Each list box, text entry window, or tab has its own
context menu. When RIGHT clicking on words, the menu will vary
depending on the language of the word. The context menus can be
used to change various settings and even to initiate searches.
Most of the windows in BibleWorks have context-sensitive help
available. To access help on a particular window or feature, place the
mouse cursor over that window or feature and press the F1 Key.

Customizing Your Display

You can hide the display of the Search and Analysis Windows by
clicking the Open/Close buttons at the far right and left of the top of
the Browse Window for more focus on the text displayed in the Browse
Window. The Analysis Window can also be stacked under the Browse
Window with the Window layout options button in the upper right of
BibleWorks. The Analysis Window will display only one column when
stacked under the Browse Window.

The Command Line (in the Search Window)

Navigating with the Command Line
You can also use the Command Line to navigate quickly to a new verse
and cause it to be displayed in the Browse Window. To do this type
the book, chapter and verse reference and press <Enter>. You can
abbreviate the book name, but the book name must be an abbreviation
recognized by BibleWorks. In almost all cases the abbreviation is the
first three letters of the book name (e.g. Mat, 1Pe, etc.). Typing the book
name is not necessary for navigating to new verses within the same
book. For example:

Command Browse Window Displays Text of these Verses

gen 1:1-3 Genesis 1:1-3
2:3 chapter 2 verse 3 of the current Browse Window
book
6 verse 6 of the current chapter
Working with Search and Display Versions
BibleWorks uses the current search version for all searches and verse
retrieval commands entered on the Command Line. While you can
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designate only one search version, you can view your search results
using multiple display versions in the Browse Window.
To display multiple versions in the Browse Window, enter the letter d
on the Command Line followed by a space and the desired version
abbreviations (include spaces between versions).
Typing the letters
dc
will clear all display versions except the search version from the Browse
Window. A minus sign entered before a version abbreviation will remove
that single version from the Browse Window display.
For example:

Command Results
esv Changes the search version to the ESV version.
d esv Adds the ESV version to the Browse Window
display but does not change the search version
d -esv Removes the ESV version from the Browse
Window display
dc “display clear” Clears the display of all versions
except the search version
d c bgt nas “display clear” Clears the display of all versions
except for the BGT and the NAS versions

Opening a Parallel Versions Window

There are times when you want to compare multiple versions using
larger portions of text than a single verse. The Command Line “parallel”
command permits you to open up a floating Parallel Versions Window
with a specified list of versions.

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 For example:

Command Results
p bgt nas Opens a parallel versions window with the BGT
and NAS versions displayed in parallel columns
(see below)

For a handy Command Line reference chart click on Search |

Command Line Examples

Conducting a Search
The most common way to initiate a search in BibleWorks is to enter
(on the Command Line) a word or phrase, preceded by a “control
character”. The control character determines the type of search to be
done. The control characters, a period, a forward slash and a single
quote character, operate as follows:

Control Example What it does

character command
Period .faith works Finds all verses containing
BOTH the word “faith” AND
the word “works”.
Forward slash /faith works Finds all verses that contain
either the word “faith” OR the
word “works”
Single quote ‘in the beginning Finds all verses that contain
the exact PHRASE “in the
beginning”

Notice that after you type a control character and begin to type a
search, a list of valid words will appear under the Command Line. The
list contains all of the words in the current search version. It can help
you spell words correctly and also suggest ideas for improving your
search parameters. The word closest to the one that you are typing will
be highlighted. If you wish to copy the highlighted word to the Command

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Line, hold the Shift key down and press <Enter>. If you are searching
a Greek or Hebrew version the Command Line font will change
automatically as necessary depending on the search version after you
type a control character.
The Command Line remembers what you have typed, so if you make
a mistake you don’t have to re-enter your search. All you have to
do is press the UP or DOWN keyboard arrow keys to cycle through
previous commands. These commands can be edited and re-executed
by pressing the <Enter> key. The Command Line remembers both the
search word(s) and the search version used. So cycling back through
previous commands may cause the default search version to be
changed.

Using Wild Cards

You can increase the power and flexibility of your searches by using
“wild cards”. There are two types of wild cards. An asterisk (*) will match
zero or more characters, and a question mark (?) will match any single
character. For example, a Command Line search like this
.faith*
will find all verses containing any word which begins with “faith,”
including “faithful,” “faithfulness,” “faithfully,” and so on. Since the
asterisk wild card will also match zero characters, the search will also
find verses with the word “faith”. The asterisk wildcard can also be used
by itself in a phrase search to represent a whole word.
The question mark wild card, on the other hand, matches any single
character. For example,
.wom?n
will find all verses containing “woman” or “women”.
There is no limit on the number of wildcards that you can use. You can
even have multiple wildcards in a single word. Take some time to study
the following examples:

Search Command Finds verses...

version
KJV .heaven? with “heavens” but not “heaven”
KJV .heaven* with “heaven” as well as
“heavens” and “heavenly”
KJV .in* with words beginning “in…”,
including the word “in.”
KJV ‘heaven * * earth with “heaven” then “earth” and
exactly two intervening words.

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 KJV ‘heaven *2 earth with “heaven” then “earth”
allowing for up to two intervening
words.

Fuzzy Searching
The Fuzzy Search option allows you to search for different forms of a
word in English. To turn on fuzzy searching right click on the Command
Line and choose Fuzzy Search option | Use Link Stemming. Then
you can type
.run
and find all verses that have run, ran, running, runs, runner, runners,
etc.

Searching Hebrew and Greek Versions

Most of the Greek and Hebrew versions in BibleWorks are tagged with
parsing and lemma information. When you place the mouse cursor
over a word in a tagged version, morphological and lexical information
for that word is displayed in the Analysis Tab discussed earlier. You
can also perform searches on these tagged versions to find words
and phrases matching specified lexical and morphological criteria. To
understand how this is done you need to understand the difference
between a text and morphology version in BibleWorks.

Text and Morphology Versions

Tagged Greek and Hebrew texts all occur in pairs. Each pair is
composed of a “text version” and a “morphological version”. The
text version just contains the unadorned text for each verse. In the
morphological version each word is replaced by a lemma (the dictionary
form for the word) and a string of codes which define the morphology of
the word. The pairs for some commonly used Bible texts are as follows:

WTT-WTM The Leningrad Hebrew Old Testament text

version (WTT) and the Westminster Hebrew OT
Morphology version (WTM).
LXT-BLM Rahlfs’ Septuagint text version (LXT) and the
BibleWorks LXX Morphology version (BLM).
GNT-GNM The NA28 Greek New Testament text version
(GNT) and Friberg GNT Morphology version
(GNM).
BNT-BNM The NA28 Greek New Testament text version
(BNT) and BibleWorks NT Morphology version
(BNM).

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 BGT-BGM The LXT and BNT text and morphology versions
together in a single Bible version.
Each word in a tagged Greek or Hebrew “text version” has a
corresponding word in its “morphological version” counterpart. The
“word” in the “morphological version” has the form “lemma@codes”.
The term “lemma” refers to the lexical or dictionary form of the word
being analyzed. The @ sign separates the lemma from the “codes” that
identify its morphological analysis.
Text Version Morphology Version

You can perform searches on either the text version or the

morphological version. You can search on one version and view the
results in the other. And you can do it for simple searches without typing
a single character.

Searching with the Mouse

If you right click on a Hebrew or Greek word in a text version displayed
in the Browse Window, a context menu will appear. Among the choices
offered in the menu are the options to Search on Form or to Search on
Lemma.
If you choose to Search on Form, the result will be equivalent to
double-clicking on a word in the Browse Window. BibleWorks will look
up the word and display the verses where it occurs.
Instead of searching for a specific form of a word, you may want to find
all verses where the underlying lemma appears in the Bible. In this case
you should right click on the word and choose Search on Lemma.
For example, in the screen image above, if you right click on qeo,n and
select Search on Form, only occurrences of the accusative of qeo,j will
be found. But if you choose Search on Lemma all occurrences of qeo,j
will be found, irrespective of case.

Searching from the Command Line

To begin a Greek or Hebrew Command Line search, you must first
make sure that you have a Greek or Hebrew search version active.
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 Then type a control character, as discussed earlier, and begin typing
your Greek or Hebrew word. You do not have to worry about changing
fonts. The Command Line knows from the search version what fonts to
use and makes the changes automatically. It also automatically handles
necessary changes in text direction, and final vs. medial letter forms.
The keyboard is automatically mapped to the appropriate font. For
example, to enter a or a, type the letter a. To enter b or b, type b, and so
on.
To enter the search command

.ihsouj cristoj
change the search version to BGM and type
.ihsous cristos
To enter the command
.~yhla hwhy
change the search version to WTM and type
.yhwh alhym
BibleWorks provides complete Greek and Hebrew keyboard maps
accessible under Help | BibleWorks Help Contents | Frequently Used
Links.
When you want to search a morphology version, first change the search
version to a morphological version and type the control character. Then
enter the lemma for the word followed by the @ sign. When you type
the @ sign after a Greek word, BibleWorks presents you with a popup
Morphology Code helper to help you enter a morphology code for your
search.

When searching Hebrew, you must first type the lemma and then
manually move the cursor to the right of the lemma to enter the @ sign.
Also note that, by default, Greek and Hebrew search commands do not
include accents or vowel points. Keep in mind that wildcard characters
can be used in place of a part or whole of the lemma or codes in a
morphology search. The following example finds all occurrences of any
form of rbd in the Hebrew Old Testament:

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 Search Command Results
version
WTM .rbd@* every form of rbd in the WTT

The following command finds all occurrences of indicative aorist passive

verbs in the Greek New Testament:

Search Command Results

version
BNM .*@viap* every indicative aorist passive verb
in the BNT
For more details see the following sections in BibleWorks Help:
• The Command Line - Greek and Hebrew
• Morphological Coding Schemes
• Help | How-to Videos

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 Exploring BibleWorks
We encourage you to explore the BibleWorks program yourself. We
hope that it makes your study of Scripture both more rewarding and
more enjoyable. As you explore keep the following in mind:
1. Navigation. The twelve tabs directly above the Command Line store
your current context. You can think of them as BibleWorks desktops.
They allow you to save your work and return to it later. You can switch
to another tab, follow a lead and then return to the original tab to pick up
your research where you left off.

2. Right Click and F1. If you need help just place the mouse cursor
on the area where you have questions and press the F1 key. Until you
learn the program, try clicking with the right button on the mouse on
everything in sight! You will be pleasantly surprised at how much this will
ease the task of learning how to use BibleWorks.
3. BibleWorks How-to Videos. If you prefer learning about BibleWorks
systematically, the online How-to Videos provide step-by-step instruction
videos demonstrating common Bible study tasks. To access the How-to
Videos click on Help | How-to Videos (online) from the BibleWorks
main menu.

Stay in Touch
We are here to serve. Feel free to contact us at any time by any of these
means:

Email: [email protected]
Voice Mail: 1 (757) 627-7100
1 (888) 747-8200 (in the US)
Fax: 1 (757) 337-2986
Web www.bibleworks.com
Mail: BibleWorks, LLC
P.O. Box 6158
Norfolk, VA 23508

Thank you for using BibleWorks. May the Lord prosper your work for His
greater glory and the eternal good of lost souls.

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