Online Library

We are blessed today to have free and ready access to many useful Bible study resources. Click on title of a reference to go directly to a wealth of information.

Dictionaries 
(for definitions of words we may not know)

• Dictionary.com
• King James Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• OneLook Dictionary Search
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Thesaurus.com
• Webster's Dictionary, 1828

Encyclopedias and Bible Dictionaries 
(for information about people, places and things mentioned in Scripture)

• International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1939)
• Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-1906)
• New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
• Smith's Bible Dictionary 

Lexicons and Greek Word Study

• A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, Abbott-Smith
• Figures of Speech Used in the Bible, Bullinger
• A Geek-English Lexicon, Liddell & Scott
• Louw & Nida Lexicon
• Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon
• Greek-English Lexicon of the NT, Grimm
• Vine's Expository Dictionary  of NT Words
• Vocabulary of the NT, Moulton and Milligan

Topical Bibles and Concordances
(lists Scriptures on a broad range of topics)

• Nave's Topical Bible
• Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
• Thompson Chain Reference
• The Topical Concordance
• Torrey's Topical Textbook
• Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (by word)
• Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (cross references) another format

Maps

• BibleMap.org
• Bible-History.com (outstanding collection)

            * Organized by books of Bible

• BiblePlaces.com

Other list of maps

Commentaries
(Recommend using commentaries, if at all, only after having studied the Scripture carefully yourself. Even then, only with great caution.)

• Alexander McLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture
• The Biblical Illustrator
• Coffman's Commentaries on the New Testament 
• The Expositor's Bible Commentary
• The Fourfold Gospel (J. W. McGarvey)
• Jamieson, Fausset & Brown Commentary
• Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
• Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament (A. T. Robertson)
• Vincent's Word Studies (Marvin Vincent)

Other

• Creeds of Christendom
• History of the Christian Church, Schaff
• Information Please.com
• Josephus' Writings

• Harmony of the Gospels (A parallel of the four gospel accounts. An excellent aid for comparing the accounts and getting a comprehensive understanding of the Life of Jesus.)

Disclaimer and Caution.
With all books by human authors one needs to be very careful. Scripture charges: 

• "Test all things; hold fast what is good."  (1 Thessalonians 5:21 NKJV)
• "These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so." (Acts 17:11, NKJV)
• "And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, 10 that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God."  (Philippians 1:9-11 NKJV)
• "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world." (1 John 4:1 NKJV)

Appreciation is expressed to everyone who helped make possible these valuable resources.

Updated this page February 1, 2014; October 2, 2016.