Library 422"For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known." - Mark 4:22
A free Bible study library.
This website version of the application works in any current browser. The first visit pulls down the World English Bible, Young's Literal, cross-references and Strong's. After that it reads fine without internet connection. Add anything else when you want it, whether that is another translation, a lexicon, or a book off the Library shelf. Pin it to a home screen or a desktop and it behaves like an installed app.
SBL Greek New Testament
Every Greek word is selectable. For instance, selecting λόγος opens its lexicon entry, its parsing in plain English, and every other verse it appears in.
What's in Library 422
- 21 Bible texts, read one at a time or two side by side. In English there are the King James, World English, Berean Standard, ASV, Darby, Weymouth, Young's Literal, Tyndale and Douay-Rheims. The Septuagint is here in Greek and in English, the Old Testament in the Westminster Leningrad and Aleppo codices, the Greek New Testament in five editions, and the Vulgate and the Peshitta. Each edition keeps its own paragraphs, poetry lines, psalm titles and translators' notes.
- Every Greek and Hebrew word is tagged. Tap one to see what it means in that verse, how it is parsed in plain English, its dictionary form and Strong's number, and every other verse it occurs in. The full Brown-Driver-Briggs, Liddell-Scott-Jones and Abbott-Smith lexicons are included.
- It works the other way round as well. Tap an English word in the World English, King James, ASV, Darby, Weymouth or Berean text to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it. English words get an English dictionary, Webster's filled out with WordNet.
- The apparatus of the Greek New Testament, so you can see what each edition reads wherever they differ.
- 340,000 cross-references, with Nave's and Torrey's topical indexes.
- One search box covers everything, or only the Bible, the Library, the topics or the lexicons. A parsing search finds every word that fits a grammatical pattern, every aorist imperative in the Gospels for instance.
- People, places and events are linked to their verses. A timeline shows lives, reigns, judges and prophets, and a map shows region borders and more than 180 journeys, Abraham's to Paul's. Each verse also says who traditionally wrote the book and when.
- 70 books on the Library shelves, every scripture reference in them tappable: all 38 volumes of the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Josephus, Philo, Aquinas's Summa, Contra Gentiles and Catena Aurea, and intertestamental books such as Enoch, Jubilees, the Letter of Aristeas and the Psalms of Solomon.
- Eleven verse-by-verse commentaries, each entry attached to its verse. Matthew Henry, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Clarke, Barnes, Calvin, Wesley and Spurgeon's Treasury of David are among them.
- Highlights in four colours, bookmarks and notes, kept on your device. Two reading layouts, seven themes, a text size setting, and a button that pronounces a Greek or Hebrew word.
- It all works offline. Download the items you want and remove them when you like. The same app runs in a browser, as an Android app and as a desktop program.
Before you download
There's a short guide on how the app works, and you can browse the Bible texts and the Library shelves from here. Passages have addresses too, so you can send someone app.library422.org/read/john/3/16 and they'll land on the verse.
Complete privacy
There's nothing to sign up for and nothing measuring you: what you read, search and write never goes anywhere. The privacy notice has the details.
Licensing
Every text and dataset here is public domain or openly licensed, and the list with its licences is on this site and in the app under Settings.