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Release notes and version history for Restored Sword: KJV Study Bible
v89
July 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Greek words that the King James renders as a phrase are now given their own entries. Greek often places an article before a noun, as in "the Word", where the article and the noun are two separate words with two separate numbers. The app had been keeping only the noun and leaving the article blank. In John 1:1 the word "the" now opens G3588, the Greek article, alongside "Word" at G3056. This added 8,176 word entries across the New Testament.
v88
July 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- The interlinear no longer marks every word "implied" when a book's word tags are missing or older than the app. It now says so plainly and falls back to the word list, so you still see something useful instead of a blank column that looks like an answer. The Every Use search does the same, telling you the tags are unavailable rather than quietly returning nothing.
v87
July 25, 2026
✨ New
- Word study now searches by the original word rather than the English spelling. Opening a word and choosing "Every Use" lists every verse where that same Hebrew or Greek word stands, wherever it occurs, gathered from the word tags across all 66 books. It finds the word even where the King James rendered it differently elsewhere, and leaves out English matches that translate a different word underneath. H7957, the word in Song of Solomon 8:6, returns three verses; H3050, the short form Yah, returns forty-four. Tap any result to go straight to the verse.
v86
July 25, 2026
✨ New
- Line Upon Line now shows the Greek word as it actually stands in the verse, not just its dictionary form, together with its parsing in plain English. Galatians 5:1 shows "fast" as στηκετε, a verb, present active imperative, 2nd person plural, from στήκω. 120,319 New Testament words carry their inflected form and 190,680 words across both Testaments carry parsing information.
v85
July 25, 2026
✨ New
- Line Upon Line, an interlinear view. Tap a verse and then the book icon in the action bar to see it laid out word by word: the English word, the Hebrew or Greek behind it, how that word is pronounced, its meaning, and its Strong's number. Tap any word in the panel to open its full entry. Words the translators supplied are shown in italics and marked, and words carried by a neighbouring word are marked as implied, so you can see at a glance which English words stand on an original word and which do not.
v84
July 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Added a safeguard for when the word-tag files on the server are older than the app. If a verse's tag data holds no entries at all, the app now treats that verse as untagged and falls back to its word list, instead of reporting every word as blank. This restores New Testament lookups for anyone whose tag files were left over from an earlier release.
v83
July 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Fixed long-press on a word failing to open the Word Study panel on iPhone and iPad. Pressing and holding a word made Safari start its own text selection instead, which cancelled the press before the panel could open, so the Hebrew or Greek entry never appeared. Holding a word now opens the full entry as intended. A quick double-tap still shows the short gloss.
v82
July 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Fixed the word popup, which was showing only the Strong's number with the Hebrew or Greek word, the transliteration and the meaning all left blank. The lexicon stores those fields under short names while the popup was asking for long ones, so it found nothing to display. Tapping a word now shows the original word, how it is pronounced, and its meaning, in both Testaments.
v81
July 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Fixed a fault that left the whole New Testament without word lookups. Tapping a word in the New Testament returned nothing, because the Greek text stores its Strong's numbers in a different form from the Hebrew and the app was only reading the Hebrew form. All 27 books are now tagged again, 120,172 Greek word positions in total, so tapping a word in the New Testament opens its Greek entry as it does in the Old.
v80
July 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- A Strong's entry now sits only on the word it actually belongs to. Where the King James renders one Hebrew or Greek word with several English words, the entry used to appear on every one of them, which suggested each had its own word behind it. In Song of Solomon 8:6 the single Hebrew word shalhebeth (H7957) is rendered "most vehement flame": the entry now sits on "flame" alone, and "most" and "vehement" open nothing, being implied by it. A new "About Word Lookups" card in Settings explains this.
v79
July 25, 2026
🎨 Improved
- More verses now carry word-level Strong's numbers, up to 30,778 of the 31,102. The verses added this time were ones where your restored text and the King James wording parted company in ways the matcher had not been taught: possessive forms such as "YHWH's", verses naming Him twice in a row such as "YHWH, YHWH", and a handful of spelling differences between King James editions like Cesar and Caesar or Judea and Judaea.
v78
July 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Cleaned up the word list the app falls back on for the few verses that are not yet tagged. 259 English words had been pointing at Aramaic entries, a language used only in parts of Daniel and Ezra, so they were wrong nearly everywhere else. 181 now point to the Hebrew word the King James actually translates, chosen by counting how the word is used across the whole Bible: "flame" is now H3852 rather than an Aramaic word for fire, "book" is H5612, and "seed" is H2233.
- The other 78 were English words like "unto", "thee" and "behold" that have no single Hebrew word standing behind them. They now return nothing rather than a confident wrong answer.
- Fixed a deeper fault in the same lookup: an Old Testament word that was missing from the Hebrew list would fall through and return a Greek entry instead. Hebrew now stays with the Old Testament and Greek with the New, and a word with no match simply returns nothing.
v77
July 25, 2026
✨ New
- Every word now links to its own Strong's entry for the verse you are reading, Hebrew in the Old Testament and Greek in the New. Until now the app held a single number for each English word across the whole Bible, so a word like "flame" gave the same answer everywhere. It now reads from the tagged text: "flame" is H7957 in Song of Solomon 8:6, H3851 in Isaiah 13:8, and H3827 in Exodus 3:2, each as the manuscript has it.
- Words the translators supplied are now shown in italics, as a printed King James Bible marks them, and tapping one returns no entry rather than a number, because there is no Hebrew or Greek word behind it. Song of Solomon 8:6 now shows "is", "are", "which" and "hath" in italics.
v76
July 24, 2026
🎨 Improved
- The short form Yah is now restored everywhere the Hebrew actually has it. The KJV rendered this word as "LORD" in most places, which hid it, so 42 more verses have been corrected against the Hebrew word by word. This includes Exodus 15:2 and Psalms 118:14 ("Yah is my strength and song"), Exodus 17:16, Psalms 130:3, Isaiah 38:11, and the Hallel psalms, where "Praise ye the LORD" is the Hebrew Halelu-Yah and now reads "Praise ye Yah."
- Where a verse holds both names, each one now stands as the Hebrew has it rather than both being flattened into one. Exodus 17:16 reads "Because Yah hath sworn that YHWH will have war," and Psalms 89:8 reads "O YHWH Elohim of hosts, who is a strong Yah like unto thee?"
v75
July 24, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Three verses now follow the Hebrew word actually behind them. Where the Hebrew is the short form Yah rather than the full name, the text now reads Yah: Psalms 68:4 ("by his name Yah"), and Isaiah 12:2 and 26:4, which had been showing a doubled "YHWH JEHOVAH" and now read "Yah YHWH" as the Hebrew has it. Tapping Yah opens its own Strong's entry (H3050).
v74
July 24, 2026
✨ New
- Multi-verse selection now works inside your Collections. Open a collection and tap "Select" in the header, then tap verses to check them off. You can highlight them all in one colour, add them to another collection, bookmark them, write one note across them, or remove several from the collection at once. Tapping a verse opens it as usual when you are not selecting.
🐛 Fixed
- Restored the divine name in five more verses where the KJV prints "Jehovah", which the earlier passes had missed: Exodus 6:3 and Psalms 83:18 now read YHWH, and the three altar names now read YHWH-jireh (Genesis 22:14), YHWH-nissi (Exodus 17:15), and YHWH-shalom (Judges 6:24). Judges 6:24 had been inconsistent within a single verse, saying YHWH and then Jehovah.
v73
July 24, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Fixed a problem where adding a note to several verses at once could erase notes you had already written on those verses. Your existing note is now kept and the new text is added below it. If any of the selected verses already has a note, the box tells you so, and there is a checkbox if you would rather replace them.
v72
July 11, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Restored the Messiah's name in six verses where the KJV prints it in capital letters, which the original restoration had missed: Matthew 1:21, Matthew 1:25, Matthew 27:37, Luke 1:31, Luke 2:21, and John 19:19. The two verses showing the written charge over the tree (Matthew 27:37 and John 19:19) keep their capitals, since the text is quoting an inscription. Bar-jesus in Acts 13:6 is left as it stands, as that name belongs to the sorcerer and not to the Messiah.
v71
June 27, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Your search now stays put. When you run a search, tap a verse to read it, then come back to Search, your search text and results are still there — no need to retype. Handy when the first verse wasn't the one you meant and you want to keep looking.
v70
June 13, 2026
✨ New
- Multi-verse selection. When you tap a verse, the action bar now has a "✓＋" button to start selecting more. Tap any verses to add or remove them, then use the bar at the bottom to highlight, bookmark, add to a collection, or add a note to the whole group at once. Great for building collections from a passage or highlighting several verses in one go.
v69
May 31, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Updated the donation link to a new PayPal giving page, so support reaches the ministry directly. The "Support This Ministry" buttons and the privacy policy now point to the new page.
v68
May 30, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Red-letter precision now covers all six books: Mark, Luke, John, Acts, and Revelation join Matthew in showing only the actual spoken words of the Messiah in red, following the Cambridge KJV standard. Narration frames are no longer colored, parable speech He quotes is kept red, dialogue partners' replies are now black, and verses where He speaks more than once (like John 21:15-17) correctly highlight each of His utterances separately.
- Twelve verses that were entirely narration (such as a disciple's question with no words from the Messiah) are no longer shown in red.
v67
May 29, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Fixed a coloring bug from the previous update: in Matthew, the partially-red verses (where only part of a verse is the Messiah's spoken words) were showing that portion in the normal text color instead of red. The red now displays correctly for both fully-red and partially-red verses.
v66
May 29, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Red-letter words are now precise in the Gospel of Matthew: only the actual spoken words of the Messiah are shown in red, following the Cambridge KJV standard. Narration frames like “And Yahushua said unto him,” are no longer colored red, and in verses where He speaks in the middle of a dialogue, only His words are highlighted. (Matthew first — Mark, Luke, John, Acts, and Revelation to follow.)
v65
May 29, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Matthew 12:31 said "Holy Ghost" instead of "Set-Apart Spirit" — the only verse in the entire Bible where this restoration had been missed. Now corrected, so the phrase reads consistently with the very next verse (12:32) and with all 88 other occurrences.
v64
May 23, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Removed the redundant "What's New" card from Settings. Recent changes are still shown after every update via the gold-bordered popup on the home screen, and the full version history is available at the Changelog link in Settings → Learn & Help.
- Public changelog page (restoredsword.com/changelog.html) now shows the complete version history — all 38 releases from the beginning to today. Previously it was frozen at v12.
v63
May 23, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Word lookup now respects the KJV's case-sensitive distinction for "Lord". In Old Testament passages, tapping "Lord" (capital L only, e.g. Genesis 18:3) now correctly shows H136 (Adonai) instead of H3068 (YHWH). The KJV translators used capitalization to encode three different Hebrew words — LORD = YHWH, Lord = Adonai, lord = a human master — and the lookup honors all three. About 294 verses across the Bible were affected by this.
v62
May 23, 2026
✨ New
- Backup reminders: when you have accumulated study notes, bookmarks, topics, and collections worth saving, the home screen shows a friendly reminder to download a backup file. Restored Sword stores everything on your device — a backup is your safety net if your browser data is ever cleared.
- "Coming from another device?" banner on a fresh install with a one-tap Restore button, so you can import a backup file from a previous device without hunting through Settings.
- "Last backed up" status line in Settings under Export / Import Data. Turns amber when 30+ days have passed and you have unsaved study work.
- Backup files now include study topics and collections, and importing a backup restores them. Earlier versions backed up only notes, bookmarks, highlights, and reading plan progress.
- New FAQ entries explaining what happens to your data if you clear your browser, and how to move your notes to a new device.
v61
May 16, 2026
✨ New
- New "Learn & Help" section in Settings with quick links to the Learn articles, the Frequently Asked Questions page, About, the changelog, and the privacy policy — so you can reach all the web resources without leaving the app
v60
May 16, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Word lookup now resolves 214 more names and words that previously showed no Strong's entry. Many proper names (Abigail, Hilkiah, Bethel, Meshach, Abednego and others) and plural forms (Amorites, Hittites, Israelites) were spelled differently in the word map than in the KJV text, so tapping them returned nothing. A verified spelling-variant table now bridges the gap.
🐛 Fixed
- Fixed: tapping the name "Abigail" (and many similar names) showed no Strong's Concordance entry. The lookup now finds H26 and the others correctly.
v59
May 16, 2026
✨ New
- Three new Learn articles: "Is It Wrong to Say Jesus?", "How to Pronounce YHWH", and "Yahweh vs Yahushua — What's the Difference?" — answering the questions readers most commonly ask about the sacred names
- New Frequently Asked Questions page covering what a sacred name Bible is, whether the app is free, offline use, privacy, and installation
🎨 Improved
- Search engine optimization: the FAQ page includes structured FAQ data and each new article includes Article structured data, helping search engines understand and surface the content
- The Learn section and the homepage now link to all the new pages so they are easy to discover
v58
May 10, 2026
🎨 Improved
- SEO indexing fixes: every page now has proper Open Graph tags, Twitter Card tags, and explicit robots meta. The homepage now includes a crawlable noscript block with internal links to all Learn articles so Googlebot can find them without JavaScript.
- Fixed welcome.html canonical: it was pointing to the homepage, telling Google not to index welcome.html separately. Now points to itself, so Google indexes it as its own landing page.
- Added internal-link footers to changelog.html and privacy.html so Google can crawl back to the rest of the site from those pages.
v57
May 5, 2026
✨ New
- New 14-day reading plan: “The Two Covenants Understood” — a verse-by-verse walk through the biblical case that there is ONE everlasting covenant. What is called the “old” is its broken state (flesh-based attempts to accomplish YHWH’s promises); the “new” is the same covenant renewed and written on the heart
- Six new covenant-themed parallel passages: The Everlasting Covenant Established (Gen 15+17+Gal 3), Hagar and Sarah: Two Covenant Patterns (Gen 16+21+Gal 4), Sinai Republished and Broken (Exo 20+24+32), The Gospel Was Preached to Israel (Exo 20+Heb 4), The Law Written on the Heart (Deut 30 → Heb 10 thread), Walk in the Old Paths (Jer 6 thread)
🎨 Improved
- Existing covenant parallels updated to reflect the everlasting-covenant view: “The New Covenant Promised” → “The Covenant Renewed”, “A New Covenant” → “The Renewed Covenant Promised”, with notes explaining that “new” in Heb 8 means refreshed/renewed, not replacement
v56
May 5, 2026
✨ New
- Parallel Passages massively expanded: 65 new entries including 30 Messianic prophecy/fulfillment pairs, 25 of the most important OT verses quoted in the NT, and 10 theme threads (Living Water, Bread of Life, Light of the World, the Lamb of YHWH, the Promised Seed, the Day of YHWH, the Shepherd of Israel, Circumcision of the Heart, My Servant, I Will Be Their Elohim)
- Verse-level parallels: open the parallel panel from a verse and it auto-scrolls each column to the matching verse, with the target verse highlighted
- Type categorization: parallels are now organized into Synoptic Parallels, Parallel History, Theological Connections, Prophecy & Fulfillment, OT Quoted in NT, and Theme Threads — each with its own color-coded badge
🎨 Improved
- When a chapter has parallels of multiple types, the picker groups them with section headers (e.g. opening Hebrews 8 shows 3 categories with the New Covenant theme connecting them)
v55
May 5, 2026
✨ New
- Compare with KJV: tap the new ⚖️ button on any selected verse to see the Restored text and the original KJV side by side, with the differences highlighted
- Study Topics: a new sub-tab in Saved for free-form study notes on themes (e.g. "The Names of YHWH", "Yahushua's Father-references"). Auto-saves as you type and persists across sessions.
v54
May 5, 2026
✨ New
- New reading plan: "The Spirit of YHWH" — a 14-day study walking through the biblical case that the Set-Apart Spirit is the Father's spiritual presence and power, given through the glorified Son. Pairs with the new Learn article.
v53
May 4, 2026
✨ New
- Manual "Check for Updates" button in Settings → Offline Access for users who want to force-check anytime
🎨 Improved
- Safe-update flow: when a new version installs, the service worker now copies all of your existing cached files into the new cache before deleting anything. If you go offline mid-update, your app keeps working with the version you already have.
- Update popup now shows clear "Updating..." feedback while the new version installs
- Coming back online now shows a quick toast confirming the app is checking for updates
- Safety reload: if the update fails to take effect within 10 seconds of tapping "Update Now", the page reloads anyway
🐛 Fixed
- Fixed an edge case where activating a new service worker could leave you with no cached Bible data if the network dropped during activation
v52
May 4, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Aggressive update detection: the app now checks for updates immediately on every load, every 15 minutes while open, when you return to the tab, and the moment your device reconnects to the internet
- Service worker registration uses updateViaCache:none so the browser always checks the server for the newest sw.js (no 24-hour caching delay)
- Service worker now does network-first for HTML page navigations, ensuring online users always get the latest content while offline users still get the cached version
- Old caches are now properly purged when a new version activates
v51
May 4, 2026
✨ New
- Full offline support: the app now works completely without internet. Visit Settings → Offline Access to see what is cached.
- New "Download All for Offline" button caches every Bible file, Strong's Concordance, cross-references, learning articles, and fonts at once (about 8 MB)
- All Learn articles, the welcome page, and the about page are now pre-cached so they work offline
🎨 Improved
- Self-hosted the Cinzel and EB Garamond fonts (76 KB total) so the app renders correctly without internet — no more falling back to system fonts when offline
- Service worker now uses a 3-tier caching strategy: critical files for first paint, secondary pages in background, study tools on demand
- Offline page navigation now shows a friendly fallback if a page is not cached
v50
May 4, 2026
✨ New
- New Learn article: "What Is the Set-Apart Spirit?" — the biblical case that the Spirit is the Father's spiritual presence and power, not a third being
🎨 Improved
- Existing Learn articles updated to align with the biblical understanding: the Father is the only true Elohim, Yahushua is His Son sent by the Father (John 17:3, 1 Cor 8:6), and the Set-Apart Spirit is the Father's spiritual presence flowing through the glorified Son
- Removed Trinitarian language ("three persons," "unity-in-distinction") from articles where it had crept in
- Added cross-links so all articles connect to the Set-Apart Spirit explanation
v49
May 4, 2026
✨ New
- New Learn section at /learn/ with six articles on sacred names, Bible study, and translation comparisons — designed to help newcomers understand the restored names
- Saved tab now has sub-tab navigation: Collections, Quick Saves, and Notes are separate sections instead of stacked together
🎨 Improved
- Improved color contrast throughout the app for better readability — secondary text now meets WCAG AA standards
- Added /learn/ articles to sitemap for search engine discovery
v48
May 4, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Critical iPhone Safari fix: the site now loads correctly on iPhone Safari browsers. A reference to the Notification API at script load time threw a ReferenceError on iOS Safari (which does not expose the Notification global outside of installed PWAs), crashing the script before the splash could be dismissed. Wrapped the reference in a typeof check.
v47
May 3, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Initial page load is now ~3.6MB lighter — Strong's Concordance and cross-references are loaded only when you actually use them
- QR code library is loaded only when you open the Share App dialog
- Strong's word lookups are cached so common words (YHWH, Elohim, etc.) are instant on repeat taps
- Scroll handling is now throttled with requestAnimationFrame for smoother scrolling on slower devices
- Google Fonts now use font-display:swap for faster initial text render
v46
May 2, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Quick word lookup now requires a double-tap instead of a single tap. This prevents the Strong's popover from appearing accidentally while scrolling. Long-press still opens the full Strong's entry as before.
🐛 Fixed
- Word popover no longer appears when you tap-and-scroll
v45
May 2, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Added accessibility labels to verse highlight color buttons for screen reader users
🐛 Fixed
- Storage layer (notes, bookmarks, highlights) now gracefully handles iOS Safari private browsing mode where IndexedDB is restricted
- Migration from old storage to new storage no longer crashes the app if IndexedDB is unavailable
- storeGet and storeSet now properly catch errors so the app never crashes from a storage failure
v44
May 2, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Added a 10-second emergency loading timeout. If the app fails to load (stuck on splash screen), it now automatically clears the cache and offers a reload button. This fixes the iPhone Safari stuck-loading issue caused by stale cached data from earlier broken versions.
🐛 Fixed
- Loading screen no longer stays stuck forever on iPhone Safari
v43
April 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- QR code now actually scans and opens the website. The previous QR generator library was producing a malformed bit pattern that no scanner could decode. Replaced with the industry-standard qrcode-generator library.
v42
April 25, 2026
🎨 Improved
- QR code in Share App now loads with multiple fallbacks: local generator first, external API second, helpful message if both fail
- QR code is now properly sized (210x210) for cleaner scanning
- Hardcoded the share URL to https://restoredsword.com/ so the QR always points to the canonical site
🐛 Fixed
- Three of four search result paths were navigating to the chapter top instead of the exact verse
- Removed duplicate saveCollections function definition
v41
April 25, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Share App now generates a clean QR code that always points to restoredsword.com
- Falls back to an external QR service if the local generator fails, so the QR is always available when online
🐛 Fixed
- QR code in the Share App dialog was sometimes blank or broken
v40
April 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Saved tab now opens correctly after bookmarking a verse or adding a note. The render function had a reference to an undefined variable that crashed the rendering pipeline whenever a verse with cross-references was being rendered in the Saved tab.
v39
April 25, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Saving a verse now shows a brief confirmation message instead of opening a modal — the Saved tab is immediately accessible
🐛 Fixed
- Saved tab no longer becomes inaccessible after bookmarking a verse or adding a note
- Stuck modals are now automatically dismissed when switching tabs
v38
April 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Saved tab now works correctly when you have bookmarks or notes — tapping the tab always opens it
- Verse cards in the Saved tab no longer attach heavy word-press handlers, removing the event conflict that blocked the tab bar
v37
April 25, 2026
✨ New
- Collections: create named collections to organize verses by topic — like playlists. Give each collection a name, description, and icon (Prayer, Faith, Prophecy, etc.).
- Add any verse to a collection by tapping the 📚 button in the verse action bar, or the folder icon on saved verses.
- When you save a verse and have collections, you are immediately offered to add it to one.
- Collections show all their verses in order, each tappable to navigate directly to that verse.
- Quick Saves section shows any saved verses not yet added to a collection.
🎨 Improved
- Saved tab is now organized: Collections at top, Quick Saves below, Study Notes at the bottom
v36
April 25, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- Bookmark button now works correctly — saved verses appear in the Saved tab without errors
- Saved tab no longer renders bookmarks twice, which was causing the display to be blank or buggy
- Folder badge and Move to Folder button now show correctly on each saved verse card
v35
April 25, 2026
🎨 Improved
- Search mode buttons now highlight immediately when selected — Exact Phrase, All Words, and Any Word are clearly marked as active
- Testament filter buttons (All Books, Old Testament, New Testament) also highlight correctly
🐛 Fixed
- Search mode buttons were not showing as selected even after being tapped
v34
April 25, 2026
✨ New
- Three search modes in the Search tab: Exact Phrase finds the words in order, All Words finds verses containing every word you type (great for “two wombs” style searches), Any Word finds verses with at least one of your words
- Search results now highlight the matched word or phrase inside the verse text
- Each result shows the verses before and after for context
🎨 Improved
- Single-word searches now work (previously required 2+ characters)
- Clicking a search result navigates to the exact verse, highlighted and scrolled into view
v33
April 25, 2026
✨ New
- Share chapter image: tap the Share button on any chapter to generate a branded image with a key verse for social media
- Parallel passages: chapters with Gospel parallels or Old Testament parallels show a Parallel button for side-by-side comparison across books
- Bookmark folders: organize saved verses into named folders like Sermon Prep or Personal Study
- Chapter progress bar: a thin gold bar shows how far through the chapter you have scrolled
- Back-to-top button: appears after scrolling down and returns you to the top of the chapter
🎨 Improved
- Tapping any restored name (YHWH, Elohim, Yahushua, Mashiach, the Master) now opens the correct Strong’s entry. Elohim in the New Testament shows the Greek entry (G2316, theos)
- Archaic KJV verb forms like wouldest, hast, shalt, and mayest now resolve correctly in Strong’s
- Subtle divider lines every 5 verses make long chapters easier to read
- Landing page at restoredsword.com/welcome.html and About page at restoredsword.com/about.html
🐛 Fixed
- Loading screen no longer gets stuck
- Update popup now appears correctly after new versions are deployed
v17
April 17, 2026
✨ New
- Quick Gloss: double-tap any word for an instant Hebrew/Greek popover — original script, transliteration, one-line definition
- Long-press still opens the full Strong's Concordance panel
- Cross-reference inline previews: tap any reference to expand the verse text without leaving the chapter
- Daily reading reminder: set a time in Settings → Display & Reading to get a push notification
- Share note from the note editor: tap 📤 Share when a note has content
🎨 Improved
- Export Study Notes already available in Settings → Your Data (PDF, Markdown, Email)
v16
April 17, 2026
🐛 Fixed
- NT name accuracy: 261 instances of YHWH referring to Yahushua corrected to "the Master" throughout Gospels, Acts, and all Epistles
- Only direct OT quotations in the NT now carry YHWH — all other uses restored to "the Master"
v15
April 17, 2026
✨ New
- Textual note on Mark 16:9–20 — the Long Ending, absent from Sinaiticus and Vaticanus
- Textual note on John 7:53–8:11 — the Pericope Adulterae, manuscript history and instability
- Textual note on Acts 8:37 — the Ethiopian eunuch's confession, absent from all early manuscripts
v14
April 16, 2026
📚 Content
- Complete NT restoration: all 1,349 instances of "God" restored to "Elohim" across every New Testament book
- Hebrews 1:10: "Lord" restored to "YHWH" (quoting Psalm 102:25)
- Revelation: "Lord God Almighty" title restored to "YHWH Elohim Almighty" (4:8, 11:17, 15:3, 16:7)
- "Godhead" preserved unchanged in Acts 17:29, Romans 1:20, Colossians 2:9
v13
April 16, 2026
✨ New
- Textual note on John 1:1 explaining the Greek article distinction (ho theos vs. theos)
📚 Content
- John 1:1–2: Restored Greek article distinction — "the Elohim" (with article, identifying the Father) vs. "Elohim" (without article, divine nature)
- John 1:6, 12, 13, 18: "God" restored to "Elohim" per anarthrous Greek (no article)
- John prologue restoration complete — all 8 instances of theos now reflect the original Greek grammar
v12
April 16, 2026
✨ New
- What's New popup so you always know what changed after an update
- Settings → "What's New" card with full version history
- Public changelog page at restoredsword.com/changelog.html
🎨 Improved
- Update notification now shows the specific version number
- Scroll position is preserved when you select or highlight a verse