Hi Greg,

First, let me congratulate you on your choice of Bible (study) software. 

 

e-Sword is perhaps one of the easiest Bible programs anyone can use. Admittedly it doesn't have all the bells and whistles some other Bible programs have, but in what it can do, e-Sword punches above its waist in comparison to Bible study programs (App(lication)s).

 

That said, when it comes to e-Sword's search engines, it will do just about anything most other built-in search engines in other Bible study programs will do. Maybe not as good, but certainly will give you the best results that its been designed for. So, for example, if you want to (pick on one of your search examples) do a search on backsliding, then you would choose words, i.e., synonyms used in relation to that word in the Bible search. Moreover, you can also save that search, and also create a "topical" word list about backsliding, or any other topic you may wish to create.

 

With that said, to the extent you can use e-Sword is only limited to your imagination.. So with that, the bounds you can go with e-Sword is entirely up to you.

 

Oh yeah, I just remembered. Check also the e-Sword User Guide, and it will give you a great deal of information how you can use e-Sword's Search engine. Also in the last chapter of the User Guide, read Chapter 22: Searching e-Sword Using Regular Expressions.

 

Trust this has helped you.

 

Blessings,

Thank you very much for taking the time to respond. Your information is most helpful and will be very useful as well.

Greg

God Bless

Well  this may be a stupid question. But I'm new to E- Sword and just downloaded it. I looked on YouTube at a couple of video's but still kind of lost about some of it. I would like to know if I can do Topical searches in E-Sword. like doing one on say , Salvation or backsliding and finding what verses or chapters are relevant to that subject. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks  Greg

The topic of Salvation (Soteriology) is very controversial:
See the acronyms DAISY, ROSES and TULIP or anything between in the discussions about it.

Method 1: Look to the verses that contain those Strong numbers and use a literal translation:
For example search with the KJV+ to those Strong numbers for a list move to the verse number to see the tooltip popup.
Go to options and Scripture Tooltip select then (Active Translation) then can you see the Tooltip popup of your favorite translation that is selected in the Bible-taps.

G4990 noun Saviour
G4991 noun Salvation
G4982 verb save
G4100 verb believe or have faith
G4102 noun faith
G4103 adjective faithfull
G1343 noun righteousness
G5218 noun obedience
G2590 noun fruit
G1588 adjective elect or chosen
G1589 noun election or chosen
G907 verb baptize or baptise
G908 noun baptism

G569 verb disbelieve or unbelieve
G3876 noun disobedience
G264 verb sin
G266 noun sin
G3895 verb fallen away
G646 verb having apostasy
G175 adjective unfruitful or without fruit see G2590
G458 noun lawlessness
G622 verb perish
G684 noun perdition or destruction

G3340 verb repent
G3341 noun repentance
G932 noun kingdom
G1785 noun Commandment
G3551 noun Law

G863 verb forgive
G859 noun remission or forgiveness
G2919 verb judge
G5485 noun grace
G1656 noun mercy

G1242 noun Covenant or Testament
G2378 noun sacrifice
G286 noun Lamb
G129 noun blood
G2433 verb reconciliation[atonement]
G536 noun first-fruit is used singular(for Jesus) and plural(for the Saints in the resurrection) but this word is only singular in Greek.
G386 noun resurrection

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WOW, that's more of an explanation than I expected. Thank you for taking the time to write all of that. That certainly is most helpful.

Greg

God Bless

I just downloaded The Sermon Bible by William Nicoll and put it in my E-Sword file but I can't seem to figure out how to load it. I got my E-sword a couple of days ago and I think that is okay. But still trying to figure out how it works. So it could be something I'm doing or not doing. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks Greg

Well I don't know how but It actually worked. Thanks to both of you for your help.

Well I tried that and it still doesn't load in e-sword. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place for it. Is it in the Library, or should be in there.

Thanks  Greg

Because you said "Thanks," that got you a like from me.

 

Its not very often people say "thank you," but when they do, its really appreciated. So with that, its been a real honor to help you, and thank you."

 

Blessings,

I was brought up in a Christian home and taught proper manners. Such as respecting your elders and to say please and thank you. There is much evil in this world now and I just shake my head with what I see. It is not just the young people it is also a lot of older people as well. I am sixty years old and I'm on disability and very hard for me to walk. The other day I was coming out of a store with a lady less than five feet in front of me and she looked back at me and just let the door close in front of me. I said thanks for holding the door open for me and her reply was .. Why should I. I told her it was called RESPECT and walked away.

Greg

Just a note on using this method of removing a resource.

 

When removing an e-Sword resource using this method, it is permanently gone. This means that the resource does not get moved to the recycle bin. So if one happens to have deleted the wrong resource, then one cannot not undelete it.

 

That said, the other option, which can be regarded as safer, is to delete the resource using Windows File Explorer. By doing it this way the file is "moved" to the recycle bin. This means if the wrong resource has been deleted, then on can restore it.

 

Another option, which can be regarded as the best and safest method,  is before deleting/removing any resource, to do a complete backup of all your resource files, including the ones you may think you no longer need, and so if one mistakenly deletes one, then it can be restored from the backed up data.

 

Trust that this will be extremely helpful

 

Blessings,

Thank you very much for the reply. I don't use the modules that I want removed so my best option is to have them removed from the computer itself. That said I already did what " silverhair " suggested. what a blessing e-sword has been for me. Especially now that I have the Facebook Christian page. 

Greg

God Bless

Thanks for the information.

Thanks for your reply.

 

On many occasions I've seen/read of people who have made (bad) mistakes in where they have lost data permanently and not were able to recover it. This has happened  on numerous occasions, and tends to show me that no one is not impervious or immune to making critical errors, including deleting the "wrong" file. Numerous posts on this site bears testament of "dumb" things people have done, including yours truly. So with that, like many on this site, I've had to learn rapidly to do things the "safe" way.

 

Having said all of that, one of the most important practices I go on about, is the requirement to do regular backups. This covers all kinds of personal data/files one has on his/her computer, and not just e-Sword. And I find it amazing just how many choose to ignore this most vital practice of the safe keeping of data.

 

Therefore, my advice (and using that word is really an understatement), is to always to back up all your data, including that which one has created on e-Sword, or has downloaded an e-Sword resource, as one may make that dumb error of deleting that wrong file.

 

Hate to say this, It can even happen to you!

 

Blessings,

Well I'm in the Dumb group as I've never backed up my computer. Although I've looked into it. I always thought that it was something businesses did until my computer crashed about three months ago and now I'm trying to get all the data back. But I'm still in the dark as to how to do this and what the difference is between backing up your data and a bootable disk. So as of now I have done nothing. I know there are people out there who say how can someone be so stupid. Well it is something that know one has ever mentioned to me.

Thanks  Greg

God Bless

Okay thanks for that, I thought that I had to go into the programs section to take the modules out.

Greg

God Bless

There are a number of e-sword modules that I don't use and I've notived that when loading my e-sword that it has slowed down considerably so I would like to uninstall them. Can someone please explain to me how I do this. Any help would be appreciated. By the way I have been using e-sword for about six months and it is Fantastic. I just started a Christian Facebook group page and it is super easy to lookup scripture now. I would recommend this to anyone. May god Bless all those involved in this site.

Thanks … Greg

Thank you for taking the time to get back to me. I'll look into getting a Bible commentary. MY wife and I have decided that we will start going to the Salvation Army around us. 

Greg

God Bless

I'm a new Christian and I'm having trouble understanding certain scripture verses such as Mark 16:18. Will a concordance translate this verse for me or what do I use. This verse about the serpent makes no sense to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Greg

Thanks to everyone for all your help.