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Bible-Discovery Program

Complex Bible studying software

2.1 2007.10.24.

Changes:
- The Bible-Discovery program is a purchareable, time-limited, shareware software.
- The program supports typing of Greek and Hebrew letters.
- In the Hebrew Bible you can search without vowels.
- The installer sets up the Hebrew Ezra SIL and the Greek MgOpen Canonica fonts.
- Accented ancient Greek Bible: Tisch: Tischendorf's Eighth Edition GNT
- More Bible translations were added.
  - Aleppo: Aleppo Codex
- Reimported Bible translations: ASV, ChiUn, ChiUns, FreLSG, FreDarby, GerLut, Iceladic, ItaDio, ItaRive, Kekchi, RST, RWebster, Tisch
- Some fixes.

2.0 2007.08.15.

Changes:
- A new search analyzing and word analyzing program part was developed, which collects up the words and their incidence rate in a window. The Cross Reference systems modules are necessary to use it.
- Pressing the Shift, Ctrl, or Alt keys reverses the bubble help working mode.
- The KJV Bible was reimported.

1.9 2007.04.16.

Changes:
- You can copy verses, search results, and bookmarks to the clipboard with character formatting.
- Ctrl-c copying now also copies character formatting with texts.
- You can use words surrounded by quotes to search for complete phrases.
- You can use special and separator characters only isolate and with quotes.
- In a search expression, the "AND", "OR", and "NOT" keywords must be uppercase.
- A bubble help appears in the dictionaries if you move the mouse pointer over a Strong number.
- More dictionaries were added.
  - BDB - Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
  - Thayer - Thayer's Greek Lexicon
  - GreekHebrew - Greek to Hebrew Dictionary of Septuagint Words
  - HebrewGreek - Hebrew to Greek Dictionary of Septuagint Words
  - ISBE - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
  - Smith - Smith's Bible Dictionary
  - Torrey - R. A. Torrey's New Topical Textbook
- More Bible translations were added.
  - RST: Russian Synodal Translation
  - FreDarby: French Darby Bible
  - FreLSG: French Louis Segond (1910)
- The Strong dictionary now is a freeware module, not a shareware module.

1.8 2007.02.12.

Changes:

Quick verse chooser dialog window.
Advanced search possibilities:
- You can use wildcard characters and matching characters:
  - * : Matches 0 or more characters, and can be used anywhere in the character string
    Example: whe*: finds: where, when, ...
  - ? : Matches 0 or 1 character
    Example: wh?t: finds: what, whit, whet, ...
  - + : Matches 1 or more characters
    Example: whe+t: finds: wheat, whereabout, ...
- You can use parallel Bible search guiding characters:
  Example: <KJV>spirit
- You can use Strong numbers:
  Example: G5547 H4899
- You can use regular expressions
- Verse proximity
Searching guide dialog window. Find results:
- With all of the words
- With at least one of the words
- Without the words

Search examples:

David
Containing the word "David"
David Jonathan
Containing both "David" AND "Jonathan" anywhere in the verse in any order
David or Jonathan
Containing either "David" OR "Jonathan"
Jonathan not David
The word "Jonathan" but NOT the word "David"
David <verse 5>and Jonathan
"David" AND "Jonathan" within 5 verses of each other
Jonathan <verse 5>and not David
The word "Jonathan" but NOT the word "David" within 5 verses
(David or Jonathan) Saul
Either "David" OR "Jonathan" AND "Saul" in the same verse
(David <verse 2>and Jonathan) or (David <verse 5>and Saul)
"David" AND "Jonathan" within 2 verses OR "David" AND "Saul" within 5 verses

1.7 2006.11.14.

Changes:
- 2 cross reference systems (Hundreds of thousands of references)
  - Cross reference system (Based on Nave's Topical Bible references)
  - Cross reference system (Based on Gaspar Karoli's references)
- User interface in German.
- The software recognizes and highlights Bible references in Easton's and Nave's dictionary.

1.6 2006.09.25.

Changes:
- Possibility to compare Bible translations.
- Importer window has been improved with many functions.
- User interface in Romanian.
- More dictionaries
  - Nave's Topical Bible
  - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
- More Bible translations
  - AKJV - English: American King James Version
  - RWebster - English: Revised Webster Version (1833)
  - Tyndale - English: William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
  - Webster - English: Webster Bible
  - Wycliffe - English: John Wycliffe Bible (1395)
  - GerSch - German: German Schlachter Bibel (1951)
  - UMGreek: Unaccented Modern Greek Text
  - LXX - Greek Old Testament: Septuagint with Strongs Numbers (without accents)
  - Tisch: Tischendorf's Eighth Edition GNT (without accents)
  - WHNU: Westcott-Hort with NA27/UBS4 variants (1881) (without accents)
  - ItaDio - Italian: Italian Giovanni Diodati Bibbia 1649
  - ItaRive - Italian: Italian Riveduta Bibbia (1927)
  - Norsk - Norwegian: Norsk Bibelen
  - Peshitta - Syriac: Syriac Peshitta
  - Viet - Vietnamese: Vietnamese Bible (1934)
  - Alb - Albanian: Albanian Bible
  - Est - Estonian: Estonian Bible
  - Icelandic - Icelandic: Icelandic Bible
  - FinBiblia - Finnish: Fineish Biblia (1776)
  - FinPR - Finnish: Finnish Pyhä Raamattu (1933/1938)
  - Cro - Croatian: Croatian Bible
  - ScotsGaelic - Scots: Scots Gaelic Gospel of Mark
  - Swahili - Swahili: Swahili New Testament
  - Tagalog: Tagalog (John & James)
  - Kekchi: Kekchi Bible
  - Uma: Uma New Testament
  - Xhosa: Xhosa Bible

1.5 2006.08.16.

Changes:
- Bubble help for displaying lexical descriptions of Strong's numbers.
- Morphology tags for the Greek Textus Receptus Bible.
- Greek inflection tables.
- The WLC (Hebrew) Bible has been reimported from crosswire.org.
- The Bible translations import function has been improved with a new file syntax.
- There are more push buttons in the program for better convenient usage.
- New Bible translation: LXX - Greek Old Testament: Septuagint with Strongs Numbers (without accents)

1.4 2006.04.27.

Changes:
- More Bible translations
  - AraSVD - Arabic: Smith & Van Dyke Arabic Bible
  - ChiUn - Chinese: Chinese Union Version Traditional
  - ChiUns - Chinese: Chinese Union Version Simplified
  - Korean - Korean: Korean Bible
  - PorAA - Portuguese: Portuguese Joao Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada
  - SpaRV - Spanish: Spanish Reina-Valera
  - SpaSEV - Spanish: Spanish Sagradas Escrituras Version Antigua (1569)
- From program menu you can request a trial period extending registration code.
- The Hebrew Bible can be read by Latin transcription. (Under development)
- The Greek Bible can be read by Latin transcription.
- In advanced search pane of the dictionary pane you can search based on entry and pronunciation of entry.

1.3 2006.03.25.

Changes:
- Bible translations can be imported from text files.
- Comparative and concurrent reading.
- Search without accents.
- New Greek Bible: TR - Textus Receptus (1550/1894).
- Refined font and color adjustment.

1.2 2005.12.19.

Changes:
- The Hebrew Bible can be read phonetically. (Under development) (Hungarian)
- The Greek Bible can be read phonetically. (Hungarian)
- The default font size can be changed. Visually impaired persons also can adjust it suitably.
- Fixed: the operation of the program in read only directories (Linux)
- Show the license agreements.

1.1 2005.11.29.

Changes:
- More Bible translations
  - English: ASV (American Standard Version), BBE (Bible in Basic English), WEB (World English Bible)
  - Czech: CzeBKR (Czech Bible Kralicka)
  - German: GerLut (German Luther Bibel 1912), GerLut1545 (German Unrevidierte Luther übersetzung von 1545).
  - Hebrew: HebModern (Modern Hebrew Bible)
  - Romanian: RomCor (Romanian Cornilescu Version)
  - Ukrainian: Ukrainian
- Unabbreviated Ancient Greek-Hungarian dictionary.

1.0 2005.11.10.

First release. The following main features are included:
- Bible translations
  - Bible in Hungarian language translated by Gaspar Karoli.
  - Bible in English language translated by King James (KJV).
  - Original Bible in Greek (GNT).
  - Original Bible in Hebrew (WLC - Westminster Leningrad Codex).
- Dictionaries.
  - Digital Ancient Hebrew-English dictionary.
  - Digital Ancient Greek-English dictionary.
  - Digital Ancient Greek-Hungarian dictionary.