This short introduction to BibleWorks 7 is intended to highlight some basic information that will make your experience with BibleWorks much more fruitful and enjoyable.
1. What is BibleWorks?
BibleWorks is a software package containing biblical and extrabiblical texts and lexical and grammatical resources for biblical research and exegesis BibleWorks does not translate or exegete a passage for you but offers many tools and features that can assist you in the study of biblical texts.

2. Orientation to BibleWorks.
BibleWorks has three windows, called the Search, Browse and Analysis Windows. The Search Window is made up of the Command Line and the Results Verse List Box. Combined with the Browse and Analysis Windows, these four main parts allow you to search, display and interact with the texts found in BibleWorks. The screenshot below is labeled with the names that you will find in this document and in the program’s Online Help Contents, a manual that is accessible under Help on the main menu. Please take a moment to review and identify each of the labeled areas on your copy of BibleWorks. If you wish to discover more information about the function of these windows and the Command Line, place your mouse pointer over each one and then type the F1 key on your keyboard. The F1 key will cause BibleWorks automatically to open to the place in the online manual that discusses that item.

3. Display Versions vs. Search Version
It is important to understand that there is a distinction between Display Versions and a Search Version. “Display Versions” are the multiple Bible versions that display in the Browse Window in parallel verse form. Many Bible versions can be on display at the same time, but you can have only one Search Version at a time. The “Search Version” is the version that BibleWorks uses for all retrieval commands entered on the Command Line. The three-letter abbreviation on the grey button to the left of the Command Line identifies the current “Search Version”. In the above screenshot you will notice that the Search Version is set to the WTT. Attention to your current Search Version will save you much frustration, and this will be illustrated in the following three sections.

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