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Logos 5 features
Explore the Bible, understand the original languages, craft sermons, and more. Logos 5 connects you to the Word.
Timeline
See it all, from Genesis to the present—biblical, church, and world history. Timeline events link to more information, so you can go deeper.
Clause Search
Logos 5 knows what words mean and how they’re used. Search the Bible by part of clause, and Logos brings back exactly what you’re looking for.
Bible Facts
Get instant information on any biblical person, place, thing, or event. When you come across an unfamiliar person or word, Bible Facts gets you up to speed.
Sermon Starter Guide
Brainstorm sermon ideas in seconds. Type in a passage or topic and get a smart list of related Scriptures, commentaries, outline suggestions, sermon illustrations, and visual aids.
Topic Guide
See what the Bible says about important issues. The Topic Guide connects biblical topics to key passages, scholarly articles, and profiles of related people, places, things, and events.
Bible Sense Lexicon
Go beyond biblical words—see how meanings relate. The Bible Sense Lexicon connects Greek, Hebrew, and English word senses, so you can discover how specific or general a given term is.
Bibliography
Logos 5 builds your bibliography for you. When you’re done studying, Logos instantly creates a bibliography you can annotate and export to your word processor.
Search Suggestions
Run smarter searches, whether simple or complex. Logos 5 suggests specific queries, so you can find precisely what you’re looking for.
Scripture Memory Tool
Learn your favorite passages by heart. Logos 5’s tools make it easy to memorize any portion of Scripture.
Bible Word Study
See any biblical word’s roots and meanings. Explore graphs and charts detailing your word’s usage and translation, trace its etymology, and understand how it connects to other words.
Passage Guide
Get fast, comprehensive information on any passage—commentary notes, cross-references, scholarly articles, classical insights, images, and more.
Exegetical Guide
Know the Bible in its original languages—no Greek or Hebrew experience required. Perform word studies, follow complex sentences, and get comfortable with Greek and Hebrew pronunciation.
Community
Ground your Christian community in the Word with shared reading plans, Popular Highlights, Community Notes, and more.
Information Panel
Get an instant overview of any biblical word’s usage and translation—without leaving your Bible.
New Look
Customize your layout and homepage content with Logos 5’s fresh, elegant interface.
Library
Preview your books before you open them, sort your library by importance, and search by description or bibliographic data.
Resources
Choose from more resources than ever before—over 30,000 (and counting) in our format.
Reverse Interlinears
See word-by-word comparisons across translations and access Strong’s numbers, Bible Sense Lexicon, and Bible Word Study with just a click.
Infographics
Get on-the-spot infographics, stats, and charts on word usage and translation variances—perfect visuals for your sermon or lecture.
Maps
Discover Old Testament cities’ history, or track Paul’s journeys across the Mediterranean.
Media Resources
Get dozens of resources that help you put together presentations, create worship sets, and bring the Word to a digital audience.
Lectionaries
Choose from a variety of lectionaries, and see your church or denomination’s daily reading on your homepage.
Ratings
View Logos users’ Community Ratings of your books, and submit your own.
Tagging
View verse references on mouseover, open cross-references with a click, and dig deep into the text.
Personal Books
Add personal books to your library, include them in collections, and search them alongside your Logos books!
Favorites
See favorite translations, dictionaries, and commentaries at the top of your search results.
Collections
Keep your library organized with custom collections.
Synchronized Scrolling
Link resources so that they scroll together as you’re reading—one translation alongside another, your favorite Bible with your favorite study Bible, or any other combination.
Searching
Get smarter, more precise search results with Logos 5.
Graph Search Results
See how many times a given work appears in the Bible (or any of its books), and graph your findings with a click.
Basic Search
Perform complicated searches easily with Logos’ basic search. You can search specific sections of text, such as footnotes or images, or look for terms next to Bible references or other words.
Bible Search
Search your Bibles and original language texts for Greek words—no Greek keyboard required. Search within the words of Christ, find original language words translated a specific way, or search for a particular word in proximity to a specific Bible reference.
Morph Search
Search for original language words by their lemma, morphological form, or surface form, and narrow your search according to your needs. You can find every instance of every form of λογος, or just specific occurrences of λογιζὸμενος.
Syntax Search
Search for specific original language words without typing in Greek or Hebrew. No need to know the words’ linguistic forms—or even what they’re called.
Homepage
Manage your homepage content, control your layout, display your daily readings or favorite lectionary, and stay on track with your reading plans.
Notes
Take notes in your Bible or any resource.
Prayer List
Get prayer reminders, and make them the first thing you see on your Logos 5 homepage.
Reading Plans
Read the Bible in a year, or your textbook in a semester—you’ll stay on track with Logos 5.
Sentence Diagrams
Create new English, Greek, or Hebrew sentence diagrams for your presentation or research paper.
Custom Guides
Create a custom guide that presents search results in categories relevant to you.
Passage Guide
With a click, get everything you need to dig into Scripture—Bibles, commentaries, sermons, and links to study tools and media.
Exegetical Guide
Get into the original languages, even if you don’t know Greek and Hebrew. See a word-by-word breakdown of any biblical passage, and explore lexicons, grammars, sentence diagrams, and audio pronunciations.
Bible Word Study
Target any biblical word to discover its original meaning, trace that meaning’s etymology, and understand how your word relates to others.
Copy Bible Verses
Copy verses from any translation to automatically paste the reference and version.
Explorer
Get instant Bible Facts, cross-references, media, and other content related to the biblical text you’re reading.
Passage Analysis
See on-the-spot graphs and word charts explaining any Bible passage and how that passage differs between translations.
Text Comparison
Compare any two texts side by side, including any combination of parallel Bibles.
Cited By
Automatically search your library for works that cite the Bible passage you’re reading.
Information
Get instant information on any word by hovering over it—definitions, original language info, alternative translations, and more.
Power Lookup
Automatically display and expand all visible verse references in your open book. You’ll see them all without moving your mouse.
Pronunciation
Learn to pronounce biblical Greek with Logos 5’s pronunciation sound clips.
Sermon & Illustration Files
Upload your sermons or illustrations with the Personal Books tool. Logos indexes them automatically, so you can find them by date, passage, speaker, tags, topic, or venue.
Read Aloud
Hear any Logos book read aloud in a library that’s accessible to anyone, anywhere.
Layouts
Create and manage custom workspaces, and save them for the next time you study.
Reading View
When you want to just read, you’ll see your book in full screen, distraction-free.
Window Management
Arrange your panels and windows however you like. Logos’ templates help you make the most of your screen; when you find a setup that you like, you can save it or set it as default.
Gestures
Zoom in or out with a pinch, swipe to scroll, and more.
Shortcuts
Create your own shortcuts, or use Logos’ shortcuts to make highlighting, bookmarking, and saving documents simple.
Lookup Tool
Easily look up any word in any book; then right-click to find grammars, encyclopedia articles, and more.
Syncing
Undelete deleted documents, share documents between machines, and redownload resources—Logos 5 backs up your data instantly.
Sympathetic Highlighting
When you’re reading an English Bible and a Greek Bible side by side, highlight a phrase in the English text and see it lit up in the Greek.
Visual Filters
Toggle visual filters to show Timeline flags, speaker tags, notes, and page numbers in your open resources.
Notes and Highlighting
Take notes anywhere on any book in your library, and highlight any text in any resource.
Link Sets
Set your commentary or study Bible to scroll with your Bible as you read.
Ecosystem
Connect with the Word in new ways—Logos 5 works seamlessly with Vyrso, Biblia, Proclaim, and Faithlife.
Contents Pane
Navigate any resource with a table of contents that’s easy to use and never gets in your way.
Visual Bookmarks
Leave bookmarks in your text, and keep reading right where you left off.
Tags
Mark resources with custom tags—you’ll find, sort, and cite books grouped by your personal categories.
Footnotes
See footnotes by hovering over any in-text footnote number. No need to flip through pages searching for notes—they’re right there when you need them.
Right-Click Menu
Delve into a word study or topical study, or learn about people, places, things, and events. Right-clicking always takes you deeper.
Clippings
Save and search memorable passages and quotes, along with their citations.
Community
Connect with your Christian community over shared reading lists, reading plans, and Faithlife notes.
Multiplatform
Explore your library from nearly any platform—iPad, Android, iPhone, Mac, PC, and more.
Lifetime License
Never stop learning with Logos’ lifetime license for all resources and software.