BibleTime is an open source Study Bible software that uses The Sword Project. It was made for Linux and KDE. A study Bible is an edition of the Bible prepared for the use of a serious student of the Bible. ... The Sword Project is a project from the CrossWire Bible Society, with the purpose of creating cross-platform open source software for the study of the Bible, covered by the GNU General Public License. ... Tux, a penguin, is the official Linux mascot. ... KDE (K Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltechs Qt toolkit. ...

Some of the characteristics include:

• Text Search
• Tooltips
• Different Bible translations
• Commentaries
• Dictionaries

Also, some powerful options that this program has are: The Bible (From Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of βιβλιον, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of βιβλος, biblos, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material), is a word applied to sacred scriptures. ...

• Unicode text render support for various languages with left or right align.
• Advanced search for words inside Bible and display count of results for each Bible chapter graphically.
• Possibility of reading in parallel two or more translations of the Bible and also print them.
• Strong numbers support (An advanced Greek and Hebrew word dictionary used in parallel with KJV).

Using Sword library makes it easy for BibleTime's users to use a large number of translations, commentaries and dictionaries found on CrossWire Bible Society. In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ... The verb to render has a number of meanings: As used in computer rendering. ... The Bible (From Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of βιβλιον, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of βιβλος, biblos, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material), is a word applied to sacred scriptures. ... The Bible (From Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of βιβλιον, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of βιβλος, biblos, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material), is a word applied to sacred scriptures. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the called the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—called the target text, or the translation. ... The Bible (From Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of βιβλιον, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of βιβλος, biblos, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material), is a word applied to sacred scriptures. ... Printing is an industrial process for reproducing copies of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ... Strongs Concordance is a concordance of the King James Bible (KJV) that was constructed under the direction of Dr. James Strong (1822-1894). ... This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ... The Sword Project is a project from the CrossWire Bible Society, with the purpose of creating cross-platform open source software for the study of the Bible, covered by the GNU General Public License. ...

External link

• BibleTime home page (http://bibletime.info)

CrossWire resources

• Different translations of Bibles found on CrossWire (http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Bibles)
• Bible commentaries found on CrossWire (http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Commentaries)