The Word Bible Software

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theWord
Original author(s) Costas Stergiou
Developer(s) Costas Stergiou
Initial releaseOctober 28, 2003 (2003-10-28)
Stable release
Version 7.1.0.1574 / August 2, 2025;7 days ago (2025-08-02)
Operating system Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11.
Size 6MB (binary only) 50MB (Main English package)
Available inEnglish, Afrikaans, Albanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai
Type Bible Study Tools
Website www.theword.net OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

theWord (previously known as In The Beginning Was The Word) [1] is a free Bible study software application for Microsoft Windows. It was first released in 2003 and developed by Costas Stergiou. It offers Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, general books, maps, search capabilities, and support for Bibles in several languages. [2]

Contents

Features

theWord supports the following features:

Version history

Importer tool

theWord Importer Tool is used for importing Unbound Bible, Zefania XML, and free e-Sword modules and using them in theWord. [2] The Importer Tool does not allow importing of modules purchased from e-Sword.

theWord Portable

theWord portable is a portable version of theWord that can be installed to a USB flash drive. The installer is included in the main installer of version 3.0, which gives the option of installing as portable.

References

  1. "Interview with Costas Stergiou, creator of In The Beginning Was The Word". Bible Software Review blog. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  2. 1 2 3 Jerry Foster. "Bible Software Review: The Word 3". FosterTribe blog. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  3. "Version 5.0.0.1450 - May 17, 2015".