A Bible study workstation: forty-two translations, Hebrew and Greek with Strong's numbers, lexicons, commentaries, and the tools to mark, write, connect and memorise. This guide covers the parts you will use most. Start with the quick start; the rest is there when you want it.
Open the link the owner sent you, enter your email, and create a passkey — Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello or a security key. There is no password. When your device asks where to save the passkey, choose your phone or tablet: that puts it in iCloud Keychain or Google Password Manager, so it works on all your devices. "This device only" means exactly that.
You will be shown a recovery code once. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. If you ever lose every device with your passkey, it is the only way back in — nobody can reset it for you, by design.
After that, signing in is one tap: Sign in with a passkey. From a device that does not have your passkey, scan the QR code with your phone.
Press G (or use the reference box) and type a passage — John 3,
Ps 23, Rom 8:28. J and K (or the arrow keys)
move a chapter back and forward. The current translation is shown in the reader's header;
tap it to switch. V cycles paragraph, verse-by-verse and manuscript
layout — no verse numbers, wide margins, for marking a text like paper.
Select any words and a small toolbar appears: highlight in a colour and style, margin mark, note (N), bookmark (B), or tag (🏷). Anything you mark is there the next time you open that passage: a verse you wrote about shows ✎ beside its number, a bookmarked one shows 🔖.
Press S to show Strong's numbers, then tap any word for its meaning, every lexicon entry, and every place it occurs. Press / to search everything at once — Scripture, dictionaries, commentaries, your own notes and books.
Everything is saved as you go. Refresh, close the tab, open it on your phone — you land exactly where you were, down to the verse.
Getting somewhere. G opens the go-to box. It understands
abbreviations and ranges: 1 Cor 13, Gen 1-3, Mt 5:3-12.
J / K step chapters. The ⊞ map in the reader's header
draws the whole Bible as 66 books; tap a book for its chapters, a chapter to read it.
With nothing searched, the map is shaded by your own work — where you have
highlighted, noted and bookmarked — so it doubles as "where have I been".
Translations. Tap the translation name in the header, or open the Translations panel from the sidebar (M), which lists all forty-two. Sort them by name, by date published, or by the ones you have used recently; tick show descriptions for a line on each. A · after an abbreviation means it carries Strong's numbers. The reader starts on the KJV for that reason; pick another and it stays picked.
Layout. D opens display settings: paragraph or verse layout, red-letter words of Jesus, translator italics, footnotes, text size, and light, dark, sepia or e-ink themes. Split the screen into up to four panes, each showing any view — reader, parallel, notes, canvas — and optionally following the same passage. 1–4 focus a pane. Every divider drags; double-click the study panel's divider to reset it. I toggles the study panel, which shows cross references, commentary, your notes and your tags for whatever is on screen.
Select text and choose a highlight: nine colours and six styles — fill, underline, double underline, box, circle, wavy. Margin marks are symbols in the Precept tradition. Highlights belong to the translation you made them in, because they are ranges of characters in a particular text; switch translation and a line at the foot of the chapter tells you what is marked in others and offers to take you there. Notes, by contrast, hold across every translation.
Legends turn highlighting into a method. In the study panel define a legend once — covenant = blue box — then apply it across a chapter, a book, a testament or the whole Bible in one action, matching by word or by Strong's number so it catches every form of the original.
To remove a highlight, tap it and choose Remove.
Press N on a passage, or open the Notes view. A note is a set of named fields in the method you use, not a blank page. Pick a template:
Notes take Markdown. Scripture references you type become links automatically, and
[[double brackets]] link notes to each other, with backlinks shown. A verse
with a note shows ✎ beside its number in the reader; tap it to read, edit or add another.
Tags live on pages. The page bar at the top of the Tags pane switches between them; + Page makes one, and ⋯ renames it, makes it the default (the page the pane opens to) or deletes it — its tags move to the default page. Move a top-level tag to another page from its Edit dialog. If your account is mirrored to Bedrock, each tag has a Mirror to Bedrock switch: new tags start off so you can experiment, and turning it on sends the whole history.
Tags (🏷) are a filing system you build yourself: groups with tags under them, and inside each tag the passages you filed in the order you chose. That order matters — a list of verses under Assurance is an argument, and an argument has a sequence.
John 10:28-29, Rom 8:1, Ps 23./ searches Scripture, dictionaries, commentaries, your books, your notes and your documents in one query. The results draw the canon map, shaded by where the hits are; tap a book to narrow to it. Operators:
"exact phrase" | the words in that order |
grace OR mercy | either |
faith -works | exclude a word |
right* | prefix: righteous, righteousness… |
near/5 love fear | within five words of each other |
book:john in:nt genre:gospel | narrow by book, testament or genre |
strong:H430 | every verse containing that original word |
sense:love syn:mercy ant:light | the Hebrew and Greek words behind an English one, their neighbours, their opposites |
The buttons above the results (Old Testament, New, a genre) write the same filters into the box, so what you tapped stays visible and editable.
Parallel shows up to six translations side by side, verse-aligned. Interlinear puts the original word, an English gloss, its Strong's number and its parsing under each word. Word study (tap any Strong's number) gives the lexicon entries, how the translators actually rendered the word and how often, where it clusters across the canon, and every occurrence — the concordance. Word senses (⇄) goes the other way: type an English word like love and see the four different original words behind it, with their synonyms and opposites, each labelled with the evidence for the relation. Harmony lays the Gospels side by side.
Syntax (⌥) asks grammar questions a concordance cannot reach — adverbial participles after an imperative, hiphil imperatives, construct chains. Choose Hebrew or Greek, tap a worked example to see how a question is built, then change it. One thing to know: a participle's own role is nearly always "verb", because it is the verb of its own clause; its adverbial or substantival use is asked for under function of its clause.
Timeline (⏳) answers when a passage happened and who else was alive then. Open a chapter and press This passage, or read the same answer in the study rail under When. Eras, empires, the kings of Judah and Israel, prophets, people and events run in lanes you can turn on and off; scroll to zoom and drag to pan. Every date carries how well it is known, and where scholars disagree — the Exodus, Daniel, the year of the crucifixion — both datings are shown rather than one being chosen for you. Genesis 1–11 is deliberately kept off the dated scale.
Atlas (🗺) is a relief map of the Bible lands with every named place on it. In this passage shows what is named in the chapter you have open, and the study rail lists the same places beside the cross references. Click a place for every verse that mentions it, its modern name, how sure the identification is, and the nearest places with their distances in miles. Measure turns clicks into a route: each leg is labelled on the map and the panel keeps a running total with a rough walking time. Scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to pan, double-click to zoom in. Nothing is fetched from the internet — the map is drawn by the app.
A study is a named container for a piece of work — the passages you are working through, the notes, canvases and structural work made inside it, and the layout you were reading in. Open one and everything you make files itself into it. The Studies view lists them; Export writes a single file you can import elsewhere, and Print / e-reader turns one into a document — HTML for paper or PDF, EPUB for a Kindle or Kobo, Markdown for anywhere.
The canvas is an infinite surface: drop passages, notes and dictionary articles onto it, connect them with labelled arrows (fulfills, quotes, contrasts…), and draw over it with a pen — P pen, E eraser, T sticky note, ⌘Z undo. The structure editor is for phrasing, arcing, bracketing, chiasm and outlines; Split by clause does the first pass.
Prayed and Confessed (🙏 in the toolbar, or the buttons under a tag) go to a log that cannot be edited or deleted; a correction is a new entry. The confirmation appears only after the entry has been read back from disk and checked, and pressing twice by mistake records one entry, not two.
Plans — seven reading plans (whole Bible, chronological, the New Testament in 90 days, the Gospels in a month, Psalms & Proverbs, and more) with progress and streaks. Memory — memorise verses on a spaced-repetition schedule with three drills: recall, first letters, and typing it out. Journal — dated entries with SOAP, ACTS and examen templates. Prayer log — a prayer list with what was asked and what was answered. My library — upload your own PDFs, EPUBs or Markdown; they are searchable, highlightable with the same legends, and any scripture reference inside them links back to the verse.
Signing in on the e-reader. Its browser cannot use a passkey. If you are the
owner, open your account page on a phone or computer, choose Owner settings, press
Code for an e-reader, and type the code on the e-reader at /e/code within
ten minutes. It works once and signs the e-reader in as you.
E-paper browsers cannot run the full app, so there is a second edition of it at
/e/ on the same address — plain pages, no scripts, every page under 11 KB.
It has reading with a translation switcher, comparison, search, per-verse study, word
study, marking, notes, plans and your books. Marks and notes made there are the same
records the full app uses. Aa in its bar sets text size, serif or sans, spacing
and night mode, remembered on that device.
Open Account from the sidebar (or go to /account).
Your notes are yours. The owner can manage seats and invitations but is not given a way to read anyone's work.
| ⌘K / Ctrl-K | command palette — type what you want |
| / | search |
| G | go to a passage |
| J K or ← → | previous / next chapter |
| I | study panel |
| M | sidebar |
| D | display settings |
| S | Strong's numbers on / off |
| V | paragraph / verse / manuscript layout |
| N | new note on this passage |
| B | bookmark |
| 1–4 | focus a pane |