Drop any Bible passage into the Passage Guide, and you’ll get relevant results from your entire Verbum library, including commentaries and homilies, cross-references, illustrations, ancient literature, media, cultural concepts, and more.
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Write your homily in Verbum and create beautiful handouts automatically.
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Plan for upcoming homilies and track the ones you’ve already preached with the Homily Manager. Plus, navigate to readings from the whole liturgical year.
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Are you done with your homily prep and ready to preach? With a single tap, you’re ready to navigate your notes or manuscript smoothly.
Choose the type of study you need to do, and Verbum walks you through each step, pulling together the books and tools you need along the way.
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Capture your thoughts on any passage, and they'll automatically stick to the verses you're studying. Pull related research together into notebooks, and share them with friends.
Notebooks enable you to keep your notes and highlights organized and easily share them with others.
Highlight any text in any resource with a variety of colors and styles.
Do precise searches in the Bible just by clicking through facets like "People," "Places," "Events," and "Literary Types." Keep drilling down by adding facets until you find what you need.
The Bible Word Study Guide provides detailed information about specific English, Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic words.
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No matter whether you’re looking for more detail about biblical people and places, background on significant historical events, or insight into a theological topic, the Factbook will get you started.
New filters make it easy to find just what you need in a few clicks. Filter by every book on the Gospel of John, narrow to Reformed writers, and add more filters to pinpoint just what you need.
See how word meanings relate and identify the contextual meanings of Greek and Hebrew words.
Choose from dozens of guided learning plans to understand biblical topics, doctrines, books, and more. Each course draws on Verbum tool videos and books in your library.
Find anything and everything in your library with the powerful search capabilities in Verbum that are simple, intuitive, and precise.
Do smart searches—in English, Greek, and Hebrew—right inside your favorite translation. Inline Search transforms your reverse interlinear into a powerful search tool.
Get all the media you need, all in one place. With a click, search every map, image, video, infographic, and family tree—in your library and online.
Verbum knows what words mean and how they’re used. Search the Bible by part or clause, and Verbum brings back exactly what you’re looking for.
This grid-based query builder makes morphological searching easier than ever.
Guides read all your books in seconds, collecting essential information from every corner of your library—and delivering it in simple, easy-to-follow reports.
Look up a passage, and this guide provides the tools and resources you need for accurate exegesis. Perform word studies, follow complex sentences, and more.
Create your perfect guide with ease. Pick and choose your favorite parts from each guide, and combine them into a custom guide. Or launch a single section as a stand alone-guide.
The Copy Bible Verses Tool enables you to copy text from a Bible in your Verbum library, select from a wide variety of formatting options, and paste it into another program of your choice.
Search for original-language words by their lemma, morphological form, or surface form, and narrow your search according to your needs.
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Never struggle with knowing where to start your Bible reading. Verbum Reading Plans walk you step by step through Bible passages or any resource in your library that you want to read systematically.
Search for specific original-language words without typing in Greek or Hebrew. No need to know the words’ linguistic forms—or even what they’re called.
Enter a passage or theme and get a list of related verses, commentaries, outlines, homilies, and visuals.
Get a quick overview of a theological concept and how it relates to other doctrines. See how your systematic theologies and other resources treat a theological topic.
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See how many times a given word appears in the Bible (or any of its books), and chart your findings with a click.
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As you seek to walk through all of the joys and challenges of life in this world, you can quickly tap into the wealth of information contained in the Counseling Guide to help you find wise spiritual counsel.
Look up a biblical topic, and this guide reads your entire library, then provides key passages, articles, and profiles of related people, places, and events.
Compare Bible translations side by side or line by line. Verbum highlights the differences between them automatically.
Get prayer reminders, and make them the first thing you see on your Verbum Home Page.
Passage Lists allows you to save your favorite verses or search results so you can come back to them later.
Store excerpts from your resources to use later. Select the text, then either right-click on it or drag it to your Clippings document to save it.
Discover recurring themes or subjects throughout a biblical passage by counting Greek and Hebrew words in a chapter or section.
Save time with custom layouts that fit your workflow. Open just the resources you need, and lay them out in a way that makes sense to you.
Easily control whether panels in Verbum scroll together or independently. You can assign two or more resources to the same link set, or assign some tools to follow an open panel. This means you can set your preferred Bible and favorite commentary to keep in step as you scroll through the biblical text. Multiple resources can be added to Link Sets, and multiple link sets can be used simultaneously.
Explore scalable maps marked with ancient sites and cities, and zoom in and out to reveal more information.
Easily create searchable, customized collections for any resources in your library. You can create collections for the works of a particular author, your favorite commentaries, or your preferred reference works.
Toggle visual filters to show Community Notes, speaker tags, notes, and chapter and page numbers in your open resources.
Explore Scripture in its historical context. See what world events were taking place at the same time as a biblical episode. Filter results by locations, people, events, and more.
A print concordance is just a static list, but this interactive tool lets you find the most common words and concepts in any passage in seconds.
Create new English, Greek, or Hebrew sentence diagrams for your presentation or research paper.
The updated Resource Panel makes it easy to navigate to a particular section of the open text and see personal notes, highlights, and documents anchored to the open resource.
Work the biblical text with intuitive tools for breaking down, arranging, and marking up a passage.
Learn to pronounce biblical Greek and Hebrew with helpful pronunciation sound clips.
When you’re done studying, Verbum instantly creates a bibliography you can annotate and export.
In Verbum, interactives are like responsive textbook illustrations and diagrams. Check out the Interactive Media section of the Tools menu, or search for “Interactives” in your library to see the options your version of Verbum includes.
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Get quick info (like genre, traditional author, number of chapters and verses, and more) about every book of the Bible.
Learn to write and pronounce Greek and Hebrew, and get scores on your accuracy so you always know how to improve.
Dr. Craig Evans takes you on an interactive tour of an ancient tomb in Jerusalem, explaining how archaeology illuminates details of Jesus' death and resurrection.
Evidence of the biblical world is scattered throughout ancient locations. This interactive resource lets you explore these locations with animated maps.
Understand how the 613 commandments of the Old Testament Law are categorized, and quickly track down specific types of laws.
With this interactive infographic, you can explore and compare how different groups interpret the Ten Commandments.
This interactive slide deck explains the transmission of biblical texts, providing a special look at some of the most important biblical manuscripts available.
The Feasts and Sacrifices interactive compares ancient feasts and sacrifices to the modern calendar.
Search the New Testament for verses and phrases, including similar grammatical constructions in the Greek.
Sort every miracle in Scripture into categories, including type (healing, provision, resurrection, etc.), people, location, and book of the Bible.
Find every name used to refer to God and where each occurs in the Old and New Testaments.
Narrative Character Maps display the movements and interactions of each person in a narrative sequence, making it easy to survey an entire story and the crucial points in the plot.
This interactive tool enables you to navigate, sort, and filter countless manuscript witnesses to the text of the NT.
Explore how New Testament authors cite, quote, allude to, or echo Old Testament texts.
The Parallel Gospel Reader empowers you to study the life of Christ and see each account side by side.
Filter Proverbs by people, form, theme, or topic. Browse topics that interest you, then sort the Proverbs that address that topic for easy skimming.
Filter the Psalms by author, genre, theme, and more, and reveal the poetic structure of Hebrew poetry.
With the Septuagint Manuscript Explorer, we’ve gathered information on existing Septuagint manuscripts, including their contents, date, language, holding institute, and more.
Put biblical measurements in context by converting them into modern examples. Enter a biblical quantity and get multiple modern points of reference.
The Bible Outline Browser brings together all of the Bible outlines across your library and lets you intuitively search through them all.
See how Scripture references, alludes to, and shares themes with other ancient literature.
Quickly explore text critical issues in a given biblical passage. The Apparatuses guide section lists all of the places your text is discussed in any of the apparatus resources in your Verbum library.
Explore Scripture’s underlying meaning: discover where people, places, and things occur in a clause both grammatically and semantically.
Verbum commentaries give you instant access to expert notes that go along with the passage you're studying.
Enter a Bible passage into the Concordance guide section to search for supplemental data labels on that passage.
Incorporate some of the most formative documents from Church history into your Bible study.
See how religious activities, food, music, death practices, marriage rituals, economic structures, and other concepts affect interpretation.
Discover an exhaustive list of verses related to your biblical passage. Verbum instantly shows you which cross-references have the strongest relationship to your passage—and exactly how they relate.
Enter the passage you’re studying and instantly see the most discussed or debated original language terms. Then launch a Bible word study to continue your research.
The Interesting Words guide section takes the words in the passage you enter and compares their frequency with those of the same words in the surrounding sections. The results are presented as a "word cloud," where the sizes of the words correspond to their relative statistical frequency.
Look up a verse in your guides, and get a list of search results pulled from all of your journals.
This section in the Exegetical and Bible Word Study Guides scours your library for every occurrence of the original-language lemma in the passage you want to investigate.
See the literary genre of every verse or passage, including genres like poetry, narrative, Gospel, and more.
Access 3D flyovers of biblical places, fine art, professionally designed presentation templates, beautiful Bible verse art, and detailed interactives.
Some biblical events are recorded multiple times; find and compare these parallel accounts with ease.
The Personal Letters section in the Factbook provides quick access to texts that reveal unique insights into the convictions and thought of an author to illuminate the context in which that author lived and wrote.
This section of the Bible Word Study Tool helps you better understand Greek and Hebrew by showing similar words that share the same root.
The Cross References guide section provides references to other passages related to the reference you’ve entered.
Examine the figurative use of a biblical word, phrase, or concept. Find every place in which “light” is used as a metaphor.
Get started fast with study templates, reading plans, video courses, and other essential resources. They're all available with a click, right from the Verbum Home Page.
This section of the Bible Word Study Tool includes an interactive graph showing all the places where your selected word is used with a preposition.
With Prioritized Resources, you can tell Verbum to search your favorite Bibles, commentaries, and other works.
Quickly find everywhere, for instance, a specific prophet is mentioned. Get a quick list of every priest in the Bible. Find essential information like the god a prophet served, the region a king ruled, and other details.
See word-by-word comparisons across translations, and access Strong’s numbers, the Bible Sense Lexicon, and Bible Word Study with just a click.
Understanding a word’s range of potential meanings provides a starting point for discovering what a word means in a specific passage. Exploring semantic domains can help you uncover resonances in a biblical text or trace concepts and themes throughout the Bible.
When you look up a Greek word, the Septuagint Translation guide section displays all of the Hebrew words it was used to translate.
Look up a passage and find relevant homily outlines from across your library, right in the Passage Guide.
Explore classic homilies by your favorite pastors with ease. Search any verse, and your guide results will show all relevant homilies in your library.
Get a quick report of everything your systematic theologies have to say on a given biblical passage.
Explore differences across ancient Bible translations. Get commentaries, manuscripts, modern editions, and ancient versions all in one place.
Get outlines of the major themes in a given passage, along with cross-references, and easily insert them in a word processsor or Homily Builder
See a word-by-word breakdown of every Bible passage in your Exegetical Guide, including its voice, case, mood, tense, senses, and alternative translations.
See all the alternate meanings of Greek, Hebrew, and English words, where they occur in Scripture, and how frequently they’re used.
With the Workflow Editor, you can customize steps for a particular study process where the standard Workflow does not meet your needs.
Quickly locate all the places where a person, place, or thing speaks or is spoken to in the biblical texts.
Pinpoint specific references to an angel, demon, or deity, and then narrow your search to find where they're mentioned by a particular author, called by a specific name, what region they're associated with, and other important details.
Use the Canon Comparison Tool to compare various canonical lists from different traditions and identify the books that were widely accepted—and those that were disputed.
Enhance your library with rich markup: tag people, places, things, and events in your resources to link similar content, and see other users’ tags, too.
With Verbum, you can quickly identify and search for speakers, addressees, and more. The Reported Speech, Speakers, and Addressees for the Deuterocanon dataset provide annotations for everywhere an individual or group speaks, the contents of that speech, and the person or group who is being addressed. This data can be visually displayed in your biblical text or searched to find, for instance, everywhere Gabriel speaks within the deuterocanonical literature.
With Verbum, you can define terms in any dictionary or encyclopedia in your library or prioritize your favorite dictionary.
This guide section supplies links to Faithlife Music, a service that provides more information on songs related to the passage or preaching theme being studied.
Interact with your faith community within Verbum. Share your findings, ask questions, and learn from others in real time.
Now you can search the New Testament based on accent marks and their positions. Need to find everywhere a Greek word includes a circumflex accent? Find results in a single search.
Cantillation marks guided Hebrew worshippers as they chanted the biblical text. For modern readers, they help identify major breaks in the text. Verbum lets you quickly identify those marks and see how they influence the division of the text.
The Lexham Theological Wordbook saves you time while giving you an accurate understanding of key biblical words and concepts.
Lexicons are incredibly helpful when working with the original biblical languages, but lexicon articles are notoriously difficult to read—filled with jargon, abbreviations, and odd formatting. The Verbum Lexicon Reformatting Dataset makes top lexicons more user-friendly to help you find the information you need. Every entry in major lexicons—like BDAG, BDB, and HALOT—can be restructured into easy-to-read outlines.
Using Longacre’s categories of genre, Verbum scholars have identified each pericope in the Old and New Testaments to aid in your understanding and interpretation of the text.
Create beautiful slides in seconds. Select any text or image and instantly convert it into an image for engaging presentations and social media posts.
Enter a lemma, and Morph Chart populates an easy-to-read chart that shows all the forms of that lemma in the New Testament, as well as their frequency.
Add multiple translations of the Bible or even commentaries in the same panel with the Multiview Resources Tool.
The Online Manuscript Dataset makes accessing ancient manuscripts easy. When you’re studying textual variants in the Exegetical Guide, click “Online Manuscripts,” and Verbum scours this dataset, retrieving links to resources from the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF).
Consult graphs and word charts explaining any Bible passage and how that passage differs between translations.
Automatically display and expand all visible verse references in your open book. You’ll see them all without moving your mouse.
Reformat Bible text into an outline labeling the purpose of each line based on the underlying Greek.
Reformat Bible text into an outline labeling the purpose of each line based on the underlying Hebrew.
Customize any original-language interlinear text according to your needs. Hide words according to frequency, leaving only the words you haven't learned.
Go beyond simple grammar. See the semantic role, or underlying relationship, a participant has with a verb, even if it’s not mentioned by name.
If it’s a Verbum document, you can quickly and easily share it with a select group or make it public with just a couple clicks.
Search not just form but meaning; find rhetorical questions, personal pledges, and other precise kinds of speech acts.
Search any interlinear version of the Bible for the syntactic force of a word.
Verbum is proud to offer the English translations of both The Babylonian Talmud and The Jerusalem Talmud, edited by the celebrated scholar of Judaism, Jacob Neusner.
Convert Greek and Hebrew text in seconds. Just copy and paste the text, and the Text Converter transforms it into a variety of transliteration schemes.
God spoke to Abraham, appeared to Moses in the burning bush, and revealed himself in visions to prophets. Verbum makes it easy to locate these manifestations and narrow occurrences by time, person, and form.
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Create, organize, and share your notebooks, Workflows, searches, passage lists, and much more. Share your expertise, and tap into a braintrust of fellow Bible study enthusiasts.
The Catholic Topical Index is a topically-organized index of references from Sacred Scripture, Catholic Church teaching, and the writings of Church Fathers, saints, and significant theologians from the history of the Church.
Catholic Daily Readings lists the Scripture references for the readings used at Mass in the United States for Sundays, feasts, and weekdays of the liturgical year by calendar date, so you can easily find and study the readings of the day.
