Whenever you hover over a word in the ESV and a handful of other Bibles with 'Interlinear' facilities, you can see the underlying Greek or Hebrew vocabulary in a quick red pop-up lexicon. This help you feel in touch with the text that's translated. You only get the start of the information about the word, but that's usually all you need.
Clicking on a word brings up much more information in the side bar - a quick definition, a longer summary of it's use in the Bible, and a full lexicon entry describing how the original readers would have understood it with illustrations from works they might have read. (The NT lexicon is due for upgrade, and the OT lexicon is due for unveiling - more soon).
The Quick lexicon appears at the bottom of the page - or at the top if you are hovering over a word at the bottom - so that it doesn't obscure the text you are reading. But sometimes it is a nuisance. On small screens like phones and tablets, or when you want to see a large portion of text, it gets in the way. Now you can turn it off.
Click on the Options icon (looks like a cog) and untick "Quick Lexicon". You can always turn it on again later. The full details are still available in the Side Bar when you click, but no big red box pops up when you move the cursor.
The Verse Vocabulary box is a powerful feature that's unique to STEP (as far as I know). Hover over any verse number and you can see immediately the complete vocabulary used in that verse. This works for ALL Bibles, whether or not they have been specially tagged. So you can look up a passage in the NIV, or a Spanish or Arabic Bible and find out what Hebrew or Greek word was used for "man" or "love" or "God".
It also tells you how often that original word is used in that book, and in the complete Bible - and clicking on the number shows you all those verses in the same version you are looking at. And clicking on the word itself brings up the Side Bar dictionary. All this without knowing any Hebrew or Greek. There are also links to "Related verses" - which generates a list of verses that use the same Hebrew or Greek vocabulary as found in this verse. And "Related subjects" which lists verses addressing the same themes found in this verse.
Sometimes it is a nuisance, so now you can turn it off. Click on the "Options" cog and untick it. But soon you'll want to turn it back on, because this popup is a great way to start any serious Bible study.
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