Library 422How to use Library 422
Five things to try in the first five minutes. Everything here works the same in the browser, on a phone and on the desktop edition.
1. Read two texts side by side
The two buttons at the top choose the texts. Tap either to pick from every Bible on your device — an English translation beside the Greek or Hebrew, two English translations, the Septuagint beside the Hebrew. The arrow between them swaps the pair. Chapters turn with the arrows at the bottom (or ← → on a keyboard), and the book name opens the book and chapter picker.
2. Tap a Greek or Hebrew word
In the tagged Greek New Testament and Hebrew Old Testament every word is live. Tapping one shows its gloss in this verse, its parsing in plain English, the lemma and Strong's number, the Strong's definition, and a button to every occurrence in the Bible — a concordance one tap away. The full lexicons (Brown-Driver-Briggs, Liddell-Scott-Jones, Abbott-Smith) sit underneath, collapsed until you want them.
3. Tap a verse number
The verse panel shows the verse in every text you have, cross-references ranked by how often readers link them, the people, places and events it mentions, and where the Church Fathers cite it in the Library. Highlight it in four colours, bookmark it or add a note; they stay on your device.
4. Open the Library
Fifty-nine works on shelves: the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Josephus, Philo, Aquinas, and the intertestamental texts. Scripture references inside a work are tappable and open the verse; editor notes open on demand. Each work is its own download, so a shelf shows what is on your device and what is a tap away.
5. Keep exactly what you want
The first visit installs about 15 MB. Settings → Catalog lists every Bible text, the Greek and Hebrew tagging, each lexicon, the dictionary, the people-and-places data and every Library work, with a Download or Remove button on each — plus "download all" for a whole shelf or for everything. Whatever you add works offline afterwards.
On a tablet or desktop
On a wide screen (a tablet held sideways, or any desktop) the tabs move to a rail on the left — with labels on larger screens — the two texts sit in true columns, and word and verse panels open in a pane on the right so you can keep reading while you study. / jumps to search, Esc closes a panel.
Sharing a passage
Every reading position has an address you can send to anyone, for example app.library422.org/read/john/3/16 or app.library422.org/library/anf01/5 for a page of a Library work. The link opens the app at that spot; the first visit installs the small core first.