8894 Alkitab Bible Study is a cross platform, open source and free desktop bible study software. It supports single/parallel view, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, glossaries, daily devotions, etc. It also comes with powerful search capability. It features rich and user friendly bible software study tools.

Alkitab is an Indonesian word for Christian Holy Bible.

Alkitab is built using JSword engine and is an alternative front end for Bible Desktop based on the NetBeans Platform and JSword CrossWire library.

The JSword Project is a group of free programs that work together to bring Bible study to a wide range of people using the Java platform. It includes Bible Desktop, a free desktop based Bible study tool.

Since it is written in Java (JDK 1.5) it will run on most computers. It is regularly tested on Windows, Linux and MacOS X, but it ought to work on Solaris and other places where JDK 1.5 or higher is available, and could be easily extended to work on set-top boxes and PDAs.

The software produced by the JSword project is open source software so it is freely available to anyone. It is licensed under the LGPL for the libraries and GPL for the application.

There are several components to the JSword project, the most commonly used is Bible Desktop. The core API is called JSword and there are two generic libraries of useful utilities called common and common-swing. For a complete listing see instructions on getting the code.

For more information, visit:
http://www.crosswire.org/jsword/

You can download additional bible translations, books, dictionaries, lexicons, daily devotions, and other resources from CrossWire Module Add-ins here:
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/index.jsp

You can search for Strong's Numbers using the following syntax:
strong:Hxxx eg: strong:H430 (for Hebrew)
strong:Gxxx eg: strong:G2424 (for Greek)

Note: Strong's search requires bible translations that have strongs info eg: KJV

Features:
• View Single Book or Bible
• View Parallel Books or Bibles
• Cross Reference and Search

Commentaries
• Strong's Concordance and Morphology
• Lexicons/Dictionaries/Glossaries
• Daily Devotions
• Plugins Support

You can download additional bible translations, books, dictionaries, lexicons, daily devotions, and other resources from CrossWire Module Add-ins.

New in version 2.4b1

* Add search text capture for Global History

* Add Synchronize View

* Add alkitab.icns for Mac OSX

* Add basic configurable font for each book (in Bookshelf)

* Some refactoring

* Fix session management

* Fix regression Option Panel

* Updated to use JSword 1.6 (20091003)

* Updated to use Netbeans 6.7.1


New in version 2.3

• Add Configurable Keymap (shortcut)


• Add Ctrl-G for request focus on Passage Field


• Add Ctrl-F for request foucs on Search Field


• Add alt-Left for Go Back (History)


• Add alt-Right for Go Forward (History)


• Add alt-PgUp for Go Previous Page


• Add alt-PgDown for Go Next Page


• Add basic history viewer


• Improved Speed and Memory Usage


• Improved Tooltip, now able to display Bible verse


• Improved Installer


• Updated to use Netbeans 6.7

New in version 2.2

• Synchronize Parallel View passage and search text field


• Synchronize Dictionary view and index list


• Updated to use JSword 1.6 (20090322)


• Fix indexing bug (JSword)

System requirements:
• Java 1.5 or higher (http://www.java.com/getjava)
• 1024 x 768, 16-bit (thousands of colors) color display or higher
• Mouse or equivalent pointing device

System support:
PPC

Alkitab Bible Study has been placed into the public domain.
The source code is available at developer section.

For more information, visit:
http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/index.html

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