This post is to inform students of God’s word of the free Bible download that comes with about a half-dozen free versions of the Bible; and the same of commentaries and Bible dictionaries.
You might be saying, so what is the big deal?
If you want to know the Hebrew or Greek definition of a scripture word, then in a split second, you can have the definition and check it against your preacher’s usage in his sermon or your friend’s usage of the term you and he may be debating about.
I have had numerous debates with people about the following word. The people I debated were all wrong in relying on their own reason and common english usage.
We are responsible to dig for the correct meaning that God intended His words to have. One cannot do that by relying on his own reason and common usage.
My last post was about the word “draw” from John 6:44. Below, you can learn a little bit about how Dr. Spencer arrived at the knowledge he taught in his word study.
Below, I pasted in one verse from the gospel of John and will also paste in the Greek definition from Strong’s dictionary and two other dictionaries from e-Sword – the sword of the Lord with an electronic edge, by Rick Meyers.
John 6:44 No manG3762 canG1410 comeG2064 toG4314 me,G3165 exceptG3362 theG3588 FatherG3962 which hath sentG3992 meG3165 drawG1670 him:G846 andG2532 IG1473 will raise him upG450 G846 at theG3588 lastG2078 day.G2250
This verse was copied from e-Sword’s KJV+ (the “+” stands for plus Strong’s dictionary). This KJV+ comes with the e-Sword free PC download, at e-sword.net; at the iphone app store it costs $2.95 or thereabouts.
On my pc, when I rest the cursor on the strong’s number, in the above case, G1670, a box pops up with the Strong’s definition. It is that easy to use.
I added a newer dictionary to my e-Sword, called Wordstudy. It cost me $40. I will provide its definition below also.
Strong’s definition for “draw” as it is used in John 6:44: (I could find out the Greek definition for any word with a number after it in the verse above. We are only looking at one word in this post.)
ἑλκύω, ἕλκω
helkuō helkō
hel-koo’-o, hel’-ko
Probably akin to G138; to drag (literally or figuratively): – draw. Compare G1667.
Total KJV occurrences: 8
Wordstudy’s definition for the same word:
ἕλκύω
helkúō and ἕλκω
hélkō; fut. helkúsō, aor. heílkusa. To draw toward without necessarily the notion of force as in súrō (G4951). See Act_8:3; Act_14:19; Act_17:6; Rev_12:4. To drag, although it may be just implied (Act_16:19, of persons, to drag, force before magistrates; Act_21:30, “out of the temple”; Jas_2:6). Helkúō is used by Jesus of the drawing of souls unto Him (Joh_6:44; Joh_12:32, to draw or induce to come). It is the drawing to a certain point as in Joh_21:6, Joh_21:11 indicating the drawing of the net while súrō (Joh_21:8) is merely dragging. To draw a sword (Joh_18:10). See Sept.: 2Sa_22:17; Psa_10:9; Jer_38:13. Deriv.: exélkō (G1828), to draw away.
Ant.: apōthéomai (G683), to repel, push off; apostréphō (G654), to turn away from; apotinássō (G660), to brush or shake off; apotrépō (G665), to avoid, turn away; apotássomai (G657), to place in order away from oneself, forsake; exōthéō (G1856), to expel, drive out.
Thayer’s dictionary (also free with e-sword):
ἑλκύω / ἕλκω
helkuō / helkō
Thayer Definition:
1) to draw, drag off
2) metaphorically, to draw by inward power, lead, impel
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: probably akin to G138
Citing in TDNT: 2:503, 227
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If a Bible student wanted to spend an hour or two on one verse, he could look up all the word meanings from the original language; read all the e-sword commentaries on the verse…and be sure he knows what it means.
I also recommend John Calvin’s commentary series for iphone. He is a very reliable commentator and his writing is quite understandable; for those who want to be sure, use it in addition to the free e-sword commentaries.
Calvin’s commentary is free with ads, without ads, it costs $10. It is available at the iphone app store.
E-sword wasn’t available for android when I had a Samsung phone for a few months. Because of that, I sold it on Ebay and bought another iphone.
If you want to download e-sword, then don’t use google to search it. Use Bing or some other search engine. Google is affiliated with android and there must be no agreement between them and e-sword or something?