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From the blog post: Keyword search has been the foundation of Bible software for decades. It's powerful, precise, and indispensable for serious study. But it has a fundamental limitation: you have to already know the words you're looking for. This is a real barrier for people who are new to...

I'm getting entirely positive feedback about the new Find Verses About "Natural Language Search" capabilities of SwordSearcher 10. Along with that, I am getting good questions about how it works. Mostly, people want to make sure that it doesn't use cloud services to process their query. People...

SwordSearcher 10 is now available! Current users of SwordSearcher can upgrade at a discount here. Read below for the details or visit the Upgrade FAQ for more information. Natural Language Bible Search SwordSearcher 10 introduces a powerful new way to search the Bible: natural language search...

SwordSearcher has been around for 30+ years. Every once in a while I like to step back and make sure I am keeping in touch with how people actually use the software. If you have a few minutes, please consider this: How do you find related passages and explore concepts in SwordSearcher? I have...

I've got quite a backlog of user-submitted modules in the repository. I have been unable to work the time needed to review these into my schedule. For the time being, uploading new modules in the repository is disabled. If you have submitted a module that has not appeared publicly, please do...

This video shows how the TSK and juAnnals modules can be used to quickly put a date on a Bible passage, as well and potentially find concurrent passages and more historical commentary in juAnnals. This can also be viewed on YouTube.

I realized today that the module posting guidelines were a bit out of date and were written before the zipping tool was added to SwordSearcher. I've updated the guidelines here.

It is possible to use SwordSearcher on Linux-based operating systems like Ubuntu with Wine. Wine stands for "Wine is not an Emulator" and is a work-in-progress that attempts to implement the Windows API without actual Windows. However, making it work is not very easy, because SwordSearcher...

(This is a copy of this blog post.) “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” –Philippians 4:19 In 1994, I started a simple programming project for Bible searching. I had no idea at the time that I would still be working on this tool 30 years...

SwordSearcher version 9.1 is now available! Current users of SwordSearcher can upgrade at a discount here. Read below for the details or visit the Upgrade FAQ for more information. New modules: James Hastings’ Great Texts of the Bible (commentary) [jhTexts], 1910-1914. A 20 volume work of...

I'm sorry I had to do this, but I had to remove a user and a thread for repeatedly posting duplicated content from the SwordSearcher library as "free modules" from a third party source. This user was warned on multiple occasions not to do this. Please do not post modules that are simply copies...

(This is blogged here.) SwordSearcher 9 has a free update, version 9.0.3.23108. This update includes: Added support for additional digital editions of Scourby and McLean audio Bibles. Fixed an issue with the preferences configuration window. Improved visibility of the Quick Concordance “new”...

The latest (seventh) edition of the Way of Life Encyclopedia of the Bible and Christianity is available for SwordSearcher as an add-on from Way of Life Literature. They are offering the 7th edition WOL Encyclopedia long with a book called Things Hard to be Understood as an add-on for...

Note: hotfix 1 has been superseded by Hotfix 2, here. (This is blogged here.) SwordSearcher 9.0 has a free small update (version 9.0.2.21104), which has the following fixes since 9.0 was released: Fixed: if a bookmark was set from the main Bookmarks menu (invoking dialog), the bookmark menu...

After a considerable development period, SwordSearcher 9 is finally available! There are a couple of new library modules, as usual, but the real improvements are to the program itself. Version 9 adds a dark/light color mode toggle that lets you quickly adjust the color mode of SwordSearcher’s...

I don't normally announce things before I am ready to actually ship orders, but I really can't wait to get this out there. I hope to be releasing SwordSearcher 9 in a month or so. I will have more details when it's released. Here's a peek at one of the new capabilities. The video makes it...

I recently switched to using a font called Candara for Bible text in SwordSearcher. I like how the text "feels" in this typeface so much that I am considering making it the default font for new installations of SwordSearcher. Up to now, the default on new installations has been Calibri. So, I...

After a good deal of consideration, I have made the decision to narrow the scope of the forums so that they are devoted exclusively to SwordSearcher support and discussion. In order to continue providing a high standard of customer support and to devote more time to developing SwordSearcher, the...

SwordSearcher version 8.4 is now available. We’ve got two new commentaries (34 volumes worth of content) and lots of great enhancements in SwordSearcher 8.4. A new search tool has been developed, called the Quick Concordance. The Quick Concordance is a fast way to do “on the side” searches that...

A small bugfix release of SwordSearcher 8.3 is available. If you're using SwordSearcher 8.3, you can go to the help menu and choose check for updates to download the update. Or, you can download it directly here: SwordSearcher-8.3.1.74-Hotfix.exe (19.5 MB) This is only for SwordSearcher 8.3...