These contain the text and brief, additional notes and explanations to help the reader find and understand other passages that deal with the same verse or topic in the Bible. These Bibles contain several different translations of the Bible. Due to size limitations, these are often only of the New Testament. These contain factual information about people, places or events in the Bible. These contain brief to medium length descriptions about people, places and events in scripture.
Some dictionaries also do commentary on specific items.
They comment on the meaning of the biblical text either by section or verse. All commentaries have a bias as to how they interpret any given passage. An alphabetical index of all the words in the Bible and where they occur in the text. These contain broad general articles about Biblical or Christian topics or theology. Contains a list of the periodicals it abstracts and the abbreviations it uses.