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MacSword is an open source Study Bible software that uses The SWORD Project. It was made for Mac OS X.
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Features:
- Supports multiple bible versions
- Parallel view (up to five versions)
- Commentaries, Dictionaries, General Books
- Footnotes, Text notes, Cross References
- Strongs Hebrew/Greek numbers
- Morphological Analysis codes
- Headings and other text formatting (Words of Christ in red)
- Search function
- Non-Latin script (Hebrew, Greek, etc)
- Different Bible translations
- Commentaries
- Dictionaries
- Development is ongoing on both SWORD libs and MacSword, so check back every so often.
Installation notes
MacSword downloads from SourceForge for version 1.3.1b1 and above (see links below) is the application only. You can drop the application (once unzipped) anywhere on you hard disk. The download does not include any modules (bibles, dictionaries, etc.). You need to download them manually from the Crosswire website. For MacSword special modules (.swd) are available which have to be placed into the folder (if the folder does not exist, please create it first):
/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Sword
In MacSword under Preferences->Module you need to point the Modules location folder to be the folder mentioned above and then restart. For MacSword version 1.3.1b2 this location is preset and it does not need to be changed. Just place your downloaded modules in the above mentioned folder.
External links
- MacSword home page for version 1.2.1. This does not work for Leopard.
More recent binaries can be found here: files at SourceForge. Works on Leopard (OSX 10.5) and is a significant improvement over 1.2.1.
