Original languages
You don't need seminary to know that "born again" in John 3 is really "born from above." Press and hold the word, and The Pillar shows you.
Works in the King James and the Berean Standard Bible, the two translations tagged word by word.
The original Greek or Hebrew word appears with its Strong's number, how it's pronounced, the range of meaning it carries, and every other verse where it's used. A finger tap still selects the verse; the long press is the study gesture.
For the words that carry the most weight — grace, faith, righteousness, logos, hesed — there's a study you can read in two minutes: what the word meant to the people who first heard it, where it turns up, and what to do with it.
Strong's numbers, the lemma and parsing, and the fuller Abbott-Smith and Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entries are shown directly and named. The short pieces written around them are The Pillar's own, grounded in those entries rather than in any one commentator.
The study drawer
Tap a verse number and a drawer rises with tabs for the whole verse. The reader stays usable behind it.
Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, John Gill, John Calvin, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, F. B. Meyer and more, on the passage you're in. Every commentary is named, so you always know whose voice you're reading.
Every verse the tradition has linked to this one, with its text, a tap from where you are — and a breadcrumb back.
The whole verse word by word: the Greek or Hebrew, the transliteration, the parsing and the gloss, in a full interlinear view.
Easton's, Smith's, Hitchcock's, Hastings' and Schaff's dictionaries; every place the verse names, on a map; and Nave's topical index for the ideas in it.
Alongside the usual word matches, Search lists verses that are close in meaning under "Related in meaning" — so "anxiety" finds Philippians 4:6 even though the King James puts it as "Be careful for nothing." This runs entirely on your device and works offline.
Open a parallel view and read the King James beside the Berean, or the NASB beside Young's Literal, verse for verse.
Turn on red-letter text in Settings. Phrase-level in the King James and the World English Bible; verse-level everywhere else, and honest about which is which.
Translations
The King James, New King James, NASB (2020), Christian Standard Bible, New Living Translation, The Message, American Standard, the Berean Standard Bible, the World English Bible, Young's Literal, Darby, the Douay-Rheims, the Bible in Basic English and the 1599 Geneva Bible. Below English, three Spanish Bibles — the Reina-Valera 1909, Palabra de Dios para Ti and the Nueva Biblia Viva — and an Arabic one. And the Greek and Hebrew themselves.
The King James is built into the app. The licensed translations — New King James, NASB, Christian Standard Bible, New Living Translation and The Message — are shown live under their publishers' terms, which is why they need a connection and can't be copied out of the app. Everything else can be downloaded for offline reading.
Commentary, cross-references, topics, places and the Greek and Hebrew work in every one of them, Spanish included. The word tap and the dictionaries follow the English text.
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