2.8 helped you read the words themselves. 2.9 goes one layer deeper: the small pieces glued onto Hebrew words, and the real things the Bible talks about. NEW: Every piece of a Hebrew word. Hebrew glues "and", "the", "in", "from" and "my" onto its words. In Genesis 3:14 one word on the page is three in English: and, more than, every. Word Study now explains each piece in one plain line, not only the main word. NEW: The things of the Bible. Tap mustard, hyssop, locust, camel, jasper or an ephah and Word Study now shows what Easton's and Smith's Bible dictionaries say about it: the plant, the animal, the stone, the tool, the measure. Over 450 everyday things, facts only. NEW: Little faith. "You of little faith" is one Greek word, and only Jesus uses it, always to his disciples. A new DeepWord note counts every use, lets you read them all together, and explains why some Bibles say "unbelief" in Matthew 17:20. NEW: More phrases to follow across the Bible. Son of David, law of Moses, cities of refuge, tablets of stone, year of jubilee, sand of the sea and more now show "This phrase elsewhere", with every place they appear. BETTER: Verses inside DeepWord notes can now be tapped, and a list of verses opens together with "Read all". BETTER: "In your verse" in Word Study now uses one clear text size. If DeepWord has opened a verse for you, a quick rating helps another reader find it. Something feel off? Settings > "Send a suggestion" comes straight to me. Every message gets read.

Your English Bible makes choices you never see. DeepWord shows you every one. In John 3:1, "a man named Nicodemus" is anthrōpos: a human being. In John 4:16, Jesus says "call your husband," and the word is anēr, the same word your Bible calls "man" elsewhere. Same English, different Greek, different meaning. In 1 Corinthians 13, the King James says "charity" where modern Bibles say "love." Same Greek word: agapē. DeepWord puts the Hebrew and Greek beneath every verse, one tap away, in plain English. No seminary. No parsing codes. No guessing. WHAT OPENS UP Tap any word. See the original, what it means, how your translation rendered it, and every verse where it appears. Same English, different word. When one English word hides two or three originals (man, love, hell, servant, world…), DeepWord tells you which one your verse uses and why it matters. Read the original, word by word. Switch any chapter into Hebrew or Greek with the English under each word. The words Jesus actually spoke. Talitha koum, Abba, Ephphatha, Eloi… the Aramaic the Gospels kept, marked and explained. The other Gospels, side by side. The same moment in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, one tap away. Follow a promise across the Bible. 344,799 ranked cross-references, with Old Testament promises flagged where the New Testament picks them up. Never lose the thread. Tap "he," "it" or "this one" and see who or what it points back to. Grammar in plain words. What the tense means and what the verb is doing, not codes. Watch the argument unfold. "For," "therefore," "so that" explained, so you see how a verse reasons, not just what it says. A scholar's library, made readable. BDB, Thayer's and Abbott-Smith rebuilt as clear entries, plus a Bible dictionary for every name and place. Know a book before you open it. Every book summed up in two sentences, every chapter in one. Ten translations included. KJV, ASV, WEB, BSB, NHEB, YLT, BBE, Darby, LEB, RNKJV. Yours, organized. Color-coded study lists. Fully offline. Everything bundled. ONE PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. EVER. $9.99 once. Lifetime updates. No account, no ads, no tracking, no nag screens. Serious study software costs hundreds of dollars, then charges rent. DeepWord doesn't. MADE FOR WORD GEEKS Built for the reader who taps one word and looks up an hour later, three verses deep in a word family. If you've ever stopped mid-verse and asked "what does that word really say?", this app is for you. (If a quick daily verse is your pace, that's a good pace. DeepWord just goes deeper.) Stop reading around the Word. Read it.

2.7 follows a moment across the Gospels, links the Testaments where their phrases meet, and gives you a place to start when you don't know which word to look for. NEW: Parallel Gospel. Open a verse in Matthew, Mark, Luke or John, and when another Gospel tells the same moment, it sits right beneath it. Luke 6:5 now puts Matthew 12:8 and Mark 2:28 on your screen, so you can see what each writer kept, left out or said differently. NEW: Topics. Leave the Concept search box empty and you now get 118 topics to browse, grouped by theme. Tap one and DeepWord finds the verses through the Hebrew and Greek words underneath, not whichever English word your translation happened to use. For when you don't already know what to type. NEW: Across the Testaments. "Sons of God" in Galatians 3:26 is Greek. In Genesis 6:2 it is Hebrew: a different phrase, translated the same way. The phrase card now points from one to the other, so you can read both in their own setting and see how each Testament uses it. There are 52 of these links, each chosen by hand. BETTER: Phrase cards show real expressions only. About three in four of the phrases in 2.6 were ordinary grammar, just two words that happen to sit side by side. Those are gone. What's left are true expressions, each with the number of times it appears. Tap the number to see every verse, twenty at a time. BETTER: Phrases in your translation's own words. The phrase card now shows how your Bible printed the phrase, with the word-for-word meaning beneath it, and lights it up in the verse. On Genesis 6:1 in the BSB it reads "face of the earth" over "surface of the ground": the Hebrew says ground, not earth, and now you can see where your translation smoothed that over. BETTER: Everything you can tap now looks tappable. Cross-reference cards, word cards and Parallel Gospel cards carry the same small arrow, so nothing that opens something looks like a plain heading. BETTER: Cross-references go both ways. A verse now shows the passages it points to and the ones that point back at it, so Luke 6:5 finally reaches Matthew 12:8. A link to a whole passage reads as one, like Matthew 11:5-8, and shows its verses. FIXED: Short words in Word Study. Tapping a short English rendering like "in" used to open an empty list. The Greek word en now opens 3,002 verses for "in". Where a count isn't reliable yet, it is hidden instead of shown wrong. FIXED: Stray corner brackets no longer appear in LEB verses in the verse list. If DeepWord has opened a verse for you, a quick rating helps another reader find it. Something feel off? Settings > "Send a suggestion" comes straight to me. Every message gets read.

2.4 helped you find the passage. 2.5 made sure the definitions were about the right word. 2.6 shows you when a phrase is not just a phrase. "Sons of God" is not two words that happen to sit together. It is a set expression, and it occurs five times in the Hebrew Bible — Genesis 6:2 and 6:4, then three times in Job. Nothing in this app could tell you that. Word study opens one word at a time, and the cross-references for Genesis 6:2 point at marriage customs, not at the other four verses. So the connection was in the text and nowhere on your screen. NEW — This phrase elsewhere. Open any verse and the expressions inside it are listed with every other place they occur, in the original language. Not "these English words appear together" — the same Hebrew or Greek words, in the same grammatical shape. Genesis 6:2 shows you Job 1:6, 2:1 and 38:7 without you knowing to look. It matters that it works on the original and not on your translation. In the King James, "sons of God" appears eleven times, but six of those are a completely different Greek word. Matching English would have handed you a connection the Bible does not make. This does not do that. Singular and plural are kept apart too, so the peacemakers who "shall be called sons of God" in Matthew 5:9 are never quietly filed with "truly this man was the Son of God". FIXED — Searching "go" no longer finds "God". Exact search was matching inside longer words, so "Go there" returned seven hundred and forty-two verses, most of them containing God, gospel, synagogue or therefore. It now returns the hundred and forty-four that actually contain both words. The choice is yours and it is on screen: Whole words, Part of word, or Concept. FIXED — Definitions that described the wrong word, finished properly this time. 2.5 corrected the definition at the top of a Hebrew entry, where a look-alike word's meaning had crept in. What that release did not reach was the list of meanings underneath it, which was still describing the other word. "Faithful" listed an Egyptian god. "Give thanks" was defined as "hand". "Year" was defined as "to change". The twenty-four most-used of those entries are now rewritten by hand, definition and meanings together, covering more than five thousand appearances across the Bible, with every verse reference checked against the text. BETTER — The study screen reads as one screen. Its four sections had drifted into four different designs — one indented, one heading in violet, help marks in different places. They now share a single shape, each with its own Show and Hide, and the app remembers how you like it. A section with nothing to show says so instead of disappearing. If DeepWord has opened a verse for you, a quick rating helps another reader find it. Something feel off? Settings → "Send a suggestion" comes straight to me — every message gets read.

Some Hebrew words were showing you the definition of a different word — a look-alike sitting beside them in the dictionary. We found them and corrected them. Over a thousand entries, checked one at a time against Strong's, including words you meet on almost every page: God, heaven, glory, face, year. Open Genesis 1:1 and tap שָׁמַיִם. It reads as the sky and the heavens now, which is what it always meant. One note: the first launch after this update takes a few extra seconds while the corrected dictionary is copied to your phone. It only happens once.

A quieter ask: if DeepWord has opened a verse for you, it now offers you the chance to say so."

2.3 opened the original word. 2.4 gives you the map. Here is the problem nobody admits to: you can open your Bible to a book you have never read and have no idea what is in it. Not the theme — the actual events, in order. So you go back to the same six places. Every one of the Bible's 66 books and all 1,189 of its chapters now has a summary written for it — one sentence each, about twenty words, no exceptions and no filler. NEW — An outline of the whole Bible. A third tab in the book picker. Every book with a sentence saying what happens in it; tap one and you get every chapter of that book, each with its own sentence; tap a chapter and you are reading it. You can find the passage you half-remember without knowing the reference, and you can see what is in a book before you commit to it. NEW — Summaries wherever you are reading, only when you ask. A small "Summary" mark sits above the text. Tap it and the book's summary and the chapter's summary open underneath; tap it again and they are gone. It is never open unless you opened it, and it never follows you into the next chapter. NEW — Get anywhere with your thumb. Drag the strip down the right edge of the picker and the book or chapter you are passing shows on screen as you go. Genesis to Revelation without a single scroll flick. NEW — Read a whole list of verses in one go. When a lexicon entry says a word appears in eleven places, there is now an arrow beside it that opens all eleven as one readable list. Search results have the same thing — read any hit in its surrounding chapter without losing your search. FIXED — Search was quietly stopping at 200 results. If you searched a common word, you saw the first two hundred verses and nothing told you there were more, so it looked as though the word simply stopped appearing partway through the New Testament. Search now tells you the real total and lets you keep going. FIXED — Two words now means both words. Searching "faith hope" used to look for that exact phrase, which almost never exists, so it found nothing. It now finds verses containing both words, in any order, anywhere in the verse. Put quotation marks around a phrase and it still searches the phrase. FIXED — Cross-reference links that went nowhere. Some references written as "John 3:16; 5:24" were losing the book name on the second half and pointing at a verse that does not exist. Every one of those has been repaired. BETTER — Text you can actually read. The grey used for labels and hints was measured against the background it sits on and came in at less than half the contrast a person needs to read comfortably. It has been rebuilt, along with every font size in the app — twenty-six of them, now eight — so that sizes, weights and greys mean something instead of drifting. BETTER — Sixteen colours for saved lists, up from eight. The original eight are exactly where they were. If DeepWord has opened a verse for you, a quick rating helps another reader find it. Something feel off? Settings → "Send a suggestion" comes straight to me — every message gets read.

.2 showed you the journey from the original word to your Bible's word. 2.3 opens the original word itself. Here is something almost nobody reading an English Bible knows: a Hebrew "word" is very often two or three words glued together. הַדַּל isn't one word — it's the + weak. And it isn't rare. In 23,032 of the Old Testament's 23,261 verses, at least one word on the page is really two or more. NEW — Every Hebrew word, opened up. On the Study screen, a word that hides more than one piece now shows you the seams. The Hebrew split with a dot, the same word in our letters split the same way, each piece's English underneath, then the whole thing in natural English order. You don't need to read Hebrew to follow it — you can see the pieces line up. NEW — Arrows that show you the direction. Hebrew reads right to left; our letters read left to right. Two small arrows facing each other mark exactly where the order flips, so the line below never looks like a mistake. NEW — A "?" wherever you might have one. Small question marks now sit beside the parts of the app that raise a question — what a screen is for, where a word's meaning comes from, why a card looks the way it does. Tap for a short answer, in plain English. Ignore them and nothing changes. FIXED — No more editor's marks in your reading. Some words were showing raw formatting from the source text — stray slashes, brackets, fragments in the wrong order. Every one of those has been cleaned up across the reader, the Study cards, and Word Study. BETTER — Dark mode you can actually read. The colored bands behind the English were sitting darker than the cards they were on, which made them vanish at night. They now sit above the surface, not below it. If DeepWord has opened a verse for you, a quick rating helps another reader find it. Something feel off? Settings → "Send a suggestion" comes straight to me — every message gets read.

2.1 taught you to read the sentence. 2.2 shows the whole journey — from the original word to the exact word in your Bible. Every English word is a choice. This update lets you watch the choice being made: NEW — The word, three ways. Word Study now lays a verse's word out in three clear layers: the original Hebrew or Greek, the plain word-for-word meaning, and the word your translation actually chose — color-coded, one below the next, so you see at a glance where your Bible smoothed things over. NEW — The many English faces of a word. One Hebrew word becomes "worship," "bow down," "obeisance," "fall facedown"… DeepWord now shows every way your Bible renders a single original word, and how often — tap any one to read those exact verses. NEW — Search by meaning, not just spelling. Search "eternity" and DeepWord also surfaces the verses behind the original words for it — aiōn, olam, ad. Switch each original word on or off to widen or narrow what you find. NEW — The meaning that fits your verse, lit up. In a word's list of meanings, the sense that actually applies to the verse you're reading is now marked "in your verse." NEW — Know which translations line up exactly. For the word-tagged translations (KJV and Berean), DeepWord highlights the precise word — and now tells you so, one tap to switch. Also: definitions read cleaner (no cut-off text, no stray citations), and the meanings you open stay put as you explore. If DeepWord has opened a verse for you, a quick rating helps another reader find it. Something feel off? Settings → "Send a suggestion" comes straight to me — every message gets read.

2.0 gave you the original word. 2.1 teaches you to read the sentence it lives in. Words carry meaning. Sentences carry the argument. This update is about seeing how a verse actually thinks: NEW — The verb's real force. Was it done once or kept being done? Did he do it, or have it done to him? Word Study now explains what each verb is actually doing — and lifts the sense that fits your verse to the top. NEW — The argument, visible. "For." "Therefore." "So that." "But." These small words are the hinges every argument turns on — and translations rush past them. DeepWord now flags each one and tells you what it's doing: giving a reason, drawing a conclusion, marking a turn. NEW — Promises, kept. Where an Old Testament promise is picked up in the New, the cross-reference now says so — in both directions. Start at the promise or start at the fulfillment; the thread is yours to pull. NEW — Notes where you need them. A rare word, a repeated word, a meaning that shifted — short notes now appear right on the word, while you're reading it, not buried three screens away. Also: cross-references are now ranked by how closely they connect (with a line explaining why, and shared words highlighted), and every word card now leads with one clear meaning — the full range of readings is one tap away. Fixed: every Psalm with a title now opens fully in Study, Septuagint references read cleanly, and the Lexham English Bible is back. If DeepWord has opened up a verse for you, a rating or review truly helps other readers find it. And if something feels off — Settings now has a "Send a suggestion" button that comes straight to me. Every message gets read.

DeepWord 2.0 is our biggest update yet. NEW — Read the original, word by word. A continuous interlinear reader for any chapter: every Greek or Hebrew word with a plain-English gloss right beneath the line. NEW — Word connections. Long-press a word and see exactly what it refers to, so you always know who "he," "it," or "them" points back to. Every Hebrew word now carries a scholar's dictionary (BDB) rewritten in plain English — the kind of depth that used to take a seminary library, made readable. • Word Study, clearer: related words, every shade of meaning, and the grammar of each form — in everyday language • Names & places: tap a person or place for a built-in Bible dictionary • Follow any word everywhere it's used, then read each occurrence in context, highlighted • Save & organize your study in color-coded lists — yours to keep • Cleaner text across translations and dozens of smaller fixes Buy once. Fully offline. No subscription, no ads, no tracking.

Word Study now stays open as you navigate verses—no more losing your place. Scholarly-note cross-references are tappable, and the notes themselves are formatted in clean paragraphs with language-aware titles. Lifetime updates: still no subscription, still no ads, still fully offline.

More Greek and Hebrew depth, a new translation, and a smoother study flow. THE DICTIONARY FORM ON EVERY CARD Each word card in the Study screen now shows the word as it appears in your verse and, below the line, the dictionary form it comes from. Hebrew and Greek inflect heavily — the word in the text is rarely the word in the lexicon — so looking a word up and following it into its full entry finally lines up. Each card also labels its plain meaning as the word's general sense, so a verse's specific wording is never mistaken for the whole story. ENGLISH ON EVERY GREEK PHRASE When you study a Greek word, the set phrases it appears in now show their English right alongside — "the word of God," "the word of the Lord," and so on. No more bare Greek with verses underneath. FOLLOW A WORD BACK TO ITS ROOTS In a word study, the forms a word grows from — its root, where it derives from, its Hebrew or Greek counterpart — now read in plain English instead of bare letters. Many are tappable, too: follow one into its own entry to trace a word across the original languages, then step back the way you came. THE LEXHAM ENGLISH BIBLE (LEB) Added the LEB to your side-by-side translations — a modern, transparent translation that stays close to the original word order. That brings DeepWord to 10 English translations, traditional to literal, all switchable in one tap. JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE VERSE Tap any cross-reference or lexicon citation and the verse you wanted is highlighted the moment you arrive, so you never lose your place in the chapter. Plus a refreshed lexicon database and stability fixes.

A redesigned Study screen — more honest about what translation actually does. Every verse is now laid out as a grid of Hebrew or Greek word cards. Each card carries the original word, its Strong's number, the transliteration, the translator's English phrase, and a plain-meaning gloss showing the broader range of meanings the original word can carry. The English of the verse stays at the top so you never lose the thread. What's different. Previous versions tried to line up each English word with one original word, side-by-side. Translation doesn't work that cleanly — one Hebrew word can carry several English meanings, and one English word can compress several Hebrew morphemes. Forcing that mapping meant guessing, and the guesses were sometimes wrong. We stopped guessing. The new design shows every Hebrew or Greek word in the verse, arranged in English reading order by default so you can follow along easily, with the translator's choice and the broader meaning range on every card. For Hebrew, a one-tap toggle flips to native right-to-left layout when you want to read the verse in its actual original order. Greek stays in native order — it's close enough to English that no re-sequencing is needed. You see what each original word actually does. You see what the translator chose. The gap between them is where serious study lives. Plus stability fixes and a refreshed lexicon database.

Bug fixes in the Word Study.

Fixes for the Word Study panel: • Lexicon definitions now display cleanly with full structure — summary, senses, and scholarly notes — instead of occasionally showing scrambled prose. • Improved verse-reference coverage for less common Hebrew and Greek words.

Version 1.5 is the biggest update yet. The word-study screen is rebuilt around a simple idea: show what the translator chose AND what the original word actually means — side by side, on every verse. WHAT'S NEW - Verse word-study, redesigned. Tap any verse and see it broken into English phrases, each paired with the Hebrew or Greek root behind it. On the left: what the translator wrote. On the right: the lemma, transliteration, Strong's number, and the full range of meanings the original word can carry — not just the one the translator landed on. The contrast is the insight. - Cleaner definitions. Every lexicon entry has been restructured from dense seminary prose into clean labeled sections — summary, word forms, meanings, scholarly notes, and source. No more wall-of-text. Each scripture reference is a tappable bullet on its own line. - Tap-to-explore navigation. Tap any verse reference inside a definition and you'll jump straight to that verse. Tap another. Tap another. The back button works through the whole chain so you never lose your place. - Smarter alignment across translations. The new word-study screen works across every translation — including ones that use simpler vocabulary (like "take" instead of "eat") or hyper-literal word-for-word renderings. Where the translator used unusual wording, the app shows you honestly that it's the translator's choice. - Hebrew verbs explained. When a Hebrew verb form encodes modality ("may eat", "shall die"), the whole English phrase is correctly attached to the one Hebrew verb that contains it. The "may" and "shall" come from the verb form itself — not separate words. This is something most Bible apps get wrong. - "Verse omitted in this translation" handled gracefully. Verses like Matthew 18:11 that modern translations leave blank because they're absent from the earliest manuscripts now show a clear note explaining why, instead of appearing broken. - WEB (World English Bible) restored in the picker. Previously available as a reading translation but missing from the compare list — now consistent everywhere. WHY IT MATTERS Most Bible apps stop at showing you the English. The serious ones let you tap a word for a Strong's number. Deep Word Study Bible now goes one step further: it shows you the gap between the translator's specific word choice and the broader range of meaning the original word actually carries. That gap is where deeper Bible study lives — and most apps hide it. No subscription. No ads. No internet required. Just the text and the tools.

- Added the World English Bible (WEB), a modern English public-domain translation. - Translations now display in alphabetical order across all screens. - Word study popup is more accurate: the title shows the actual meaning of the Greek or Hebrew word (e.g. "κύριος · lord: God"), with your verse's specific rendering shown separately as "From 'X' in your verse." - Renamed "NKJV" to "RNKJV (Restored Name KJV)" — this translation restores the divine name יהוה (YHWH), and the new label more accurately reflects what it is. - New Credits & Licenses section in Settings.

What's new in 1.3.1 - Original-language word study is smarter. The verse-with-originals table no longer claims that translator filler words ("ye", "shall", "hath") are direct translations of Greek words. - When you tap a word, the modal headline now shows the Greek word's actual primary meaning, with the English word you tapped as a small contextual note below. - "Also appears in" cards no longer over-highlight on common function words (relative pronouns, prepositions, particles). - Cleaner section flow: removed the redundant top-level Synonyms preview. Each synonym still gets its own dedicated section below.

What's new in 1.3.0 - Greek/Hebrew word lookups now highlight every translation real translators actually used, across all 9 Bibles. Try tapping a Hebrew or Greek word in Galatians 3:27 — words like "clothe yourselves," "Put on," "arrayed," and "endued" now correctly light up in their respective translations. - Lexicon definitions show English meaning inline next to embedded Greek/Hebrew words (e.g. dunamin (power) instead of the bare Greek script). Tap any inline word to drill into its own study panel, then use the back arrow at the top to return. - Removed swipe gestures in the reader and study modal that were interfering with vertical scrolling.

Major update: scholar-curated cross-references with 344,000+ verse links, multi-list verse organization for sermon prep, comparative root highlighting across all of Scripture, and tappable inline lexicon references. Plus the new DeepWord brand.

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