Bible-Discovery - Bible concordance software - Change log

• Changes:
  • The registration process has become simpler.

• Changes:
  • The greatest novelty of this version is the etymological (word-origin) analytical function: a tree structure shows which word (Strong-number) originates from which one. Convenient search options are also provided.
  • The function that allows the Bible verses to be copied to the text editor or to the clipboard has been revewed significantly. Showed by a majority of vote, the most popular formats have been inserted replacing the old ones. Copying of the search results has become much nicer.
  • Another great feature of the verse copier function is that dictionary entries of the words can also be copied to the clipboard. The words with Strong-numbers and explanations are listed below the verses.
  • The program has been improved by a new, attractive skin. It is named by 'Nimbus', and it can be chosen from the 'Look and feel' menu. It can be used if the 1.6.version of Java motor has been installed on the computer.
  • It can be set which dictionary should the Stong-number bubble use.
  • KJV English Bible translation contains grammatical forms and morphology of the words too. They help you to determine what kind of inflection the translated Hebrew word has in the original Hebrew language.
  • The Strong, BDB dictionaries contain morphology explanation to KJV Old Testament.
  • Updated Bible translations (each one will be updated by the installation of the new program):
    • KJV: Download the King James Version Bible translation >>
    • WLC: Download the Hebrew Old Testament: Westminster Leningrad Codex >>
    • HUN: Download the Károli Gáspár Bible translation >>
  • Updated dictionaries (each one will be updated by the installation of the new program):
    • Strong - Download the Ancient Hebrew-English, Ancient Greek-English Strong's dictionary : Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible >>
    • BDB - Download the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon >>
    • Thayer - Download the Thayer's Greek Lexicon >>
    • GreekHebrew - Download the Greek to Hebrew Dictionary of Septuagint Words >>
    • HebrewGreek - Download the Hebrew to Greek Dictionary of Septuagint Words >>

• Changes:
  • This update is mainly aimed at the convenience features. Several features have been included to facilitate the operations.
  • The bookmark manager has been renewed.
  • There is a new Portuguese user interfase.

• Changes:
  • There are two new user interfase: Spanish and Rusian.

• Changes:
  • The language of the German interface has been updated.
  • A German Web site has been added: www.bible-discovery.com/de/

• Changes:
  • The interface of program is clearer and more unambiguous.
  • Knowledge of the advanced search window has grown significantly.
  • The KJV (King James) Bible was reimported and contains morphological tags.

• Changes:
  • The Bible-Discovery software 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.