xiphos(1)

xiphos1

A bible research tool

Usage

xiphos [OPTION ...]

Overview

Xiphos is a Bible study application for GTK+ environments, a widget set which is available for several Unix and Linux flavors. It is based on Sword by the CrossWire Bible Society, a framework providing the possibility to study the Bible and additional information like commentaries, dictionaries and other texts using your computer. Display multiple translations in the interlinear window. Search for passages in any translation by word, phrase, or regular expression.

The program can be started from the command line as xiphos or from one of the menus provided by the underlying platform.

When started on the command line, xiphos may be followed by the options listed below.

Options

Help Options:

-h, --help

Show help options

--help-all

Show all help options

--help-gtk

Show GTK+ Options

Application Options:

--display=DISPLAY

X display to use

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 6.0–9
  2. 10
  3. 11–12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

--display since Debian 10 (Buster); --help-all since Debian 10 (Buster); --help-gtk since Debian 10 (Buster); -h since Debian 10 (Buster).

--load-modules until Debian 9 (Stretch); --usage until Debian 9 (Stretch); -? until Debian 9 (Stretch).

Bugs

Please report bugs online at: https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/issues

Author

xiphos was written by the Xiphos Developer Team. <[email protected]>

From xiphos 4.5.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.