Xiphos

The Xiphos Development Team·crosswire.xiphos

Xiphos is a Bible study tool written for Linux, UNIX, and Windows using GTK, offering a rich and featureful environment for reading, study, and research using modules from The SWORD Project and elsewhere.

Xiphos is a Bible study application for Linux, UNIX, and Windows operating systems. It uses Sword to display Bibles, commentaries, dictionary, and other texts and images. Xiphos includes features such as, searching, biblesync, bookmarks, parallel study, and original language study.

winget install --id crosswire.xiphos --exact --source winget

Latest 4.5.0·August 31, 2026

Release Notes

• Make chapter-separating lines disappear when headings are turned off. • Make sure journals will font-resize with the rest of the main window's panes. • Caret for text selection. • Updates to manual. • Restored proper expansion of bookmark. • Fix mis-parse of verse due to subverse footnote indicator. • Fix crash from repeated open/close of parallel tab. • Fix for bad checkmark icons in Prefs->BibleSync and mod.mgr->Install. • Fixed problem of doubled navbar on re-open of parallel tab. • Provide for discovery of bookmark source of verse colorization. • Fixed problem of paragraph breaks getting in the way of highlighting. • Colorized bookmarks per folder color. • Saved sets of parallelism. • Add context menu item Lookup Selection -> Translate Selection. • Add module favorites category; provide for alternate module tree sort (Prefs -> Modules -> Special). • Provide for import of AndBible bookmarks. • Fix navigation freeze when active verse has no text. • Render whole Bible books (optional:Prefs -> Options -> Display whole Bible books). • (Adjustment) (Critical) Fix infloop where annotations containing '&' are replaced w/ &... • Provide optional (see right-click) popup menu for multi-reference bookmarks. • Bookmark folder colors. • Language file updates. No more modules fall into "Unknown" language status. • Provide 8-column display because big, wide displays need it. • Fix a number security holes, largely about internal handling of URLs.

Some post-release intermediate builds, for bug fixes and new features being implemented ahead of the next intended release, can routinely be found at this link. Current platform support to be found there includes RHEL 9/10, Fedora 42/43/44, Ubuntu (created w/alien(1)), and Windows.

Installer type: nullsoft

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x64—F3D59D91C034E316F8D9DFA8679538E6889A2D2BDCE5ECF3869538E68764BD69

Details

Homepage
https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos
License
GPL-2.0
Publisher
The Xiphos Development Team
Support
https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/issues

Tags

biblechristianityreligion

Older versions (3)

4.4.0
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x64—1BB3E9CEC8C1D137EDD554F959C267E25738CA1D7E45350482A2C62EFD51BE76
4.3.2
x86—10DA681CA5DA665EA9CEF022FD7B3E3978222732863DEDABB4DFEDA742F8D69E
x64—2059EE328C5E3DE45C88A76692C0E33EEEF8C93149D87F429EBA1D6A69FBA6B6
4.3.1
x86—4C37611042459FE8D45506F29164A6424CC086810BE01797F4D8362A22427C05
x64—8BBAFE693C15542994543A8C2AF4A9CC1E8B79452AD49A4023F69387AC51C662