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E-sword electronic

E-SWORD

“The Lord’s sword with an electronic edge”

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E-Sword – English tutorial and resources

E-Sword is a PC software using for Bible study. It initially comes with some Bible versions, dictionaries and Bible commentaries, but there is the option to add modules to expand the library. I’m going to leave you a brief tutorial where you will learn how to download, install and use e-sword and a list of links to different modules in Spanish that you can add to the program.

The first step will be to download the “E-Sword” program from the official website: www.e-sword.net . Then you can choose between the modules that I leave here to download. These resources can be installed immediately after the program, or at any time, but if you do it from the beginning, when you start you will already have all the modules loaded and ready to use.

The resources I leave here and a few more are provided by the people at “Bibliotecahispana”. Each resource has a direct download link, just by “clicking” on the name of the resource you will go directly to the download page.

Bible versions

Textual Bible (1999 Translation by the Ibero-American Bible Society ).
Updated Reina Valera (Queen-Valera Version, 1989 revision).
New International Version (1984 Revision, by International Bible Society ).
Jünneman Holy Bible (literal Bible of the Catholic theologian Guillermo Jünemann).
The New American Bible (By The Lockman Foundation , 1997 revision)
Modern Version (1929 Version of Bible Societies in Latin America ).
New World Translation ( Watch Tower Bible [Jehovah’s Witnesses], 1989 revision).
Translation in Current Language (2010 Revision, United Bible Societies ).
Bear Bible (Version of Casiodoro de Reina, from 1569) .
Stendal’s Holy Scriptures (Rusell M. Stendal’s review of C. DeReina’s translation, 1569).
Reina Valera 1865
Reina Valera 1995
God Speaks Today (1996 United Bible Societies Version ).
New Hispanic Bible
Greek-Spanish interlinear with Westcott and Hort text Greek-Spanish interlinear with Nestle-Aland text
Peshita into Spanish (Spanish translation of the Aramaic text “Peshita”)

Bible dictionaries

Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
Glossary of biblical names
Dictionary of figures of speech by EW Bullinger – F. Lacueva
Robinson’s Dictionary of Morphological Codes
Table of weights and measures of the Reina Valera
Keys to biblical interpretation by T. de la Fuente
Hebrew/Greek multilexicon with definitions of Strong – Chavez – Tuggy – Vine – Swanson
Spanish translation of Strong’s Hebrew/Greek dictionary
Strong’s exhaustive agreement
Hebrew-Spanish Dictionary of Moisés Chávez
Dictionary of Old Testament Hebrew Words – WE Vine
Dictionary of New Testament Greek Words – WE Vine
Tuggy’s Greek-Spanish Lexicon
Concordance and Greek Spanish dictionary by Pedro Ortiz
Greek words from the New Testament – William Barclay

Bible maps and charts

Bible Atlas
Access Foundation Bible Atlas
Maps from the Caribe publishing house
Maps and graphs of the textual Bible
Jerusalem Bible Maps
Scofield Bible Maps
Maps of the Updated Reina Valera
Maps of the Reina Valera 1995
American Bible Society Maps

How to install and start using e-sword

Once the E-Sword and the resources that interest you have been downloaded, we proceed with the installation. First we will install it with its executable file, and then we will install each of the downloaded modules. Each plugin is executable and is self-installed in the directory where we have E-Sword installed.

After installing the program and the add-ons, we will run the program. Something like this will appear:

The first thing we will do is select “options” at the top and then, where it says “language”, we must select the desired language

Now that we have the menu in Spanish we will begin to explore the options.

ICON BAR

We will first see the function of the icons in the top bar:

Here we can manually enter a biblical reference that we want to reach. For example, if we put “John 10:10” (without the quotes) and then press “enter” the program will go to this biblical reference.
By “clicking” here, a list of the books, chapters and verses of the Bible will be displayed and we will be able to select the reference we want to go to.
In this section we can return to a biblical reference that we previously read by selecting the left arrow, and then we can return to subsequent references by pressing the right arrow. By clicking on the down arrow we will have a list of the biblical references that we have visited and we will be able to see some of them again.
Pressing this icon will open the search box. There we can look up all the uses of a word in the Bible version in front. For example, here I show the search box for the 1960 Reina Valera version. I wrote down the word “love” and then pressed “search.” As a result I receive all the Bible verses in the RV-60 that contain the word “love.” In this box we have the option to search for single words, exact phrases, and parts of words. In addition, we can search the entire Bible, in the Old or New Testament, or narrow the search to a specific book of the Bible. We also have the option of copying the list of verses and then pasting it into another program such as “Word” or printing it directly.
If we have searched for a word in the search box and then returned to the main screen, the list of words will be recorded in this sector and we can choose another reference to go to, or go directly to the previous reference (left arrow) or later (right arrow) that contains the word we have searched for.
Selecting this icon will open a box in which we can create a list of verses that will be saved by the program with the name we give it.
If we have created a list of verses, we can review it by selecting it in this space.
Here are the display options for the “ E-Sword” screen

Selecting this icon we will have the screen divided into three parts, displaying the Bibles, dictionaries and biblical commentaries simultaneously.
Selecting this icon we will display only the Bible on the entire screen.
Selecting this icon we will see the biblical comments on the entire screen.
Selecting this icon we will see the Bible dictionary on the entire screen.
Selecting this icon we will go to the maps and graphics section.
Selecting this icon we will go to the “STEP Library reader” section, which are collections of books that must be downloaded separately.

Bible selection

By “clicking” on the “B” icon in the upper right, we will see the Bibles section. The labels we have at the top are the abbreviations of the different versions of the Bible that we have installed. Clicking on one of these labels will bring the selected version to the front.

If we select “Bible” in the menu and go down, where it says “information” , we will have some information about the Bible that is in front. Some versions of the Bible have included information not only about the year of translation and revision, but also about the translation criteria.

If we “click” on the left side, where the verse number is, that verse will be selected. This will serve to later see the comments on that verse or to compare the verse in different versions of the Bible.

On the right side we see a series of numbers. Each number is a Bible verse bookmark. Clicking with the right mouse button on one of the numbers will memorize the selected verse in that number. By clicking with the left button on a number we will go to the biblical reference that has been memorized in that number. As you can see, they can point to up to ten verses.

Among the labels of the Bible versions we will find one that says “Parallel”. Selecting this label a box will be presented in which we can select up to four different versions of the Bible and thus we can compare a section of the Bible between one version and another:

If we choose the label that says “compare”, we will be shown a comparison of the selected verse between all the versions of the Bible that we have installed

Some versions of the Bible have some numbers and letters that are used as references:

This is a Greek-Spanish interlinear version. It contains the Greek word, then the literal English translation of that Greek word. The numbers we see are numbers that correspond to Greek words. James Strong numbered the Greek words in his dictionary of Greek words, later scholars and scholars used the same numbering for quick reference. Some Bible versions add Strong’s numbers for quick reference. The letters we see to the right of each Strong’s number are abbreviations for the grammatical function of the Greek word. To know what each abbreviation means, it is necessary to have Robinson’s “Morphological Analysis Code” dictionary.

E-Sword has the option of adding a quick reference for Strong’s numbers. For this we will need to install the James Strong dictionary in Spanish. After installing it, we will go to the menu, select “options” and then “Strong number reference”. There a small box will appear where it will allow us to select between the dictionaries with Strong references that we have installed. There we will select the Strong dictionary in Spanish (or the one we want to use ). If we want to have references from several dictionaries at the same time, I recommend installing the “multilexical” module and following the same steps described here.

After selecting the Strong’s reference dictionary, the definitions of a Greek word will appear just by hovering the mouse pointer over the Strong number.

Comments section

By “clicking” on the “C” icon in the bar at the top right, we enter the comments section. Here we will see the labels of all the biblical comments that we have installed. Tags marked with a white exclamation point, circled in blue, are comments that have something to say about the verse or chapter we have selected.

Under the labels we have an icon bar. The icon with the binoculars will be used to search for a word within the comment. The “B” icon shows the comments on the selected book (for example, Romans). The “C” icon will display comments regarding the selected chapter and the “V” icon will display comments regarding the selected verse. The magnifying glass is used to magnify the letters and see them in a larger size. Among the comment labels we will see one that says “study notes” and another that says “topic notes.” In the “study notes”, we can write down our observations on certain verses and save them, in this way, on another occasion when we go to said verse, we can see what we have previously noted about it. In the “topic notes” section we can view the files with extension.

“.topx” that we have downloaded. To do this we must go to the menu, “file”, then “open” and then select the path and the file we want to open.

Dictionaries section

When we “click” on the “D” icon in the top bar, we enter the dictionary section. Here we can see different types of dictionaries. There are dictionaries of words in Spanish, of Greek words, there are modules that are encyclopedias, Spanish English dictionaries, we can even find a dictionary module of the Royal Spanish Academy, made for E-Sword. So, we will have biblical dictionaries and non-biblical dictionaries. Among the biblical dictionaries we will have lexicons of Greek words, standard biblical dictionaries, the dictionary of morphological codes, concordances, thematic commentary, dictionary of names, etc. We can explore these dictionaries individually by selecting them, but they are also integrated with the Bibles section.

If in the Bible section I “click” on a word in Spanish, when I go to the dictionaries section, I will have each of the dictionaries that have a definition of that word in Spanish indicated with an exclamation point. If in the Bible section I click on a Strong’s number, when I go to the dictionary section I will have the dictionaries that have any reference to that Strong’s number indicated.

Simulatenous display

As we had already seen, we have an icon that gives us the simultaneous display of the Bible, the dictionary and the commentary. This display can be configured in the options section. To do this we will go to the menu, select “options” and then “design”. A box like the one I copied will appear. By “clicking” on the arrow at the top we can choose how we want the screen to be distributed.

Then, we can select which section we want to be seen in each frame of the screen and make other customization settings.

Resource selection

To select which Bibles, commentaries and dictionaries we want to use, we will go to the menu, select “options” and then “resources”. There a box will appear where we can check the Bibles, dictionaries and commentaries that we want to be displayed and we can uncheck those resources that we do not use. Thus, the resources will not be displayed, but they will not be deleted either, they will remain there in case we want to use them at another time.

If we go to the options menu and select “compare”, we can choose which Bibles will be used in the Bible comparison section.

Personalization

In the “fonts” section of the options menu we can choose the font type and size for Bibles, dictionaries and commentaries. Where it says “text colors”, from the options menu, we can choose the colors for the text and the background. If you are going to work with the software for a long time, it is advisable to place a light gray background, which does not radiate as much light and is less harmful to your eyesight.

There are many more functions within E-Sword, but I believe that with these guidelines you will be able to begin using this program for reading, comparing and researching the Bible , the rest will come with practice!

If you have any questions or queries, you can contact me by email at: luisquispe14@gmail.com