Use these links to download the files you will need to configure Greek & Hebrew on your computer.
Use these links to download the files you will need to configure Greek & Hebrew on your computer.
Use tools like this with caution! Success is not guaranteed.
To use Greek and Hebrew in your documents, you can now choose between two different approaches:
Whenever possible, use Unicode! Here's why:
Try copying and pasting each of these verses into a plain text editor like Windows Notepad, and you should see the difference between the actual Greek characters used by Unicode and the masked English characters used by the BibleWorks font.
This page aims to help you install, configure, and use the biblical languages using either approach.
Especially if you use a non-Unicode Greek/Hebrew font (such as the BibleWorks fonts), you may encounter difficulties printing your assignments on different computers. One solution is to "print" your file as a PDF document, which will preserve your font settings everywhere.
There are a number of free PDF printers available for Windows. The product currently installed on BJU computers is pdf995, which you can download from the links below.
Unfortunately, the installation process for pdf995 takes 2 steps.
Be certain you install both components (linked below):
BibleWorks supports Unicode for exporting Greek and Hebrew text into a word processor. You may/may not need to configure this in Bibleworks, depending on what version of BibleWorks you have.
You can set BibleWorks to export with any Unicode font: I use Gentium for Greek and Ezra SIL for Hebrew, the image below uses other fonts.
For more detailed information, see the post How Do I Use Unicode in BibleWorks? on the BibleWorks forums.
If you don't see the buttons for changing the text direction for a paragraph (pictured above), then you may need to add Hebrew as a supported language in the Microsoft Office Language Settings tool.
Typically you can find the Microsoft Office Language Settings tool by browsing
Start > Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Tools > Microsoft Office Language Settings
Make sure your window looks like this one below.
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