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Bible Vocab+ Screenshots

iPad

iPhone

About Bible Vocab+

Bible Vocab+ is a simple and fun way to learn vocabulary from the Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Old Testament. Watch our online tutorial here: https://youtu.be/W63jhYWNNv0

Professor Robert Plummer (co-author of Going Deeper with New Testament Greek) said about the app: 'Who could imagine that a Greek New Testament vocabulary app with this much power and flexibility even existed? I'm amazed at the intuitive design and ability to customize vocabulary acquisition to particular sections of text. I'm confident that this vocabulary app will help thousands of pastors and students read the Greek New Testament with greater fluency, confidence, and understanding. I enthusiastically endorse it.'

* Vocab Lists *
You can choose vocab lists from any passage in the Bible or from the following leading Greek and Hebrew textbooks:
* Fuller & Choi, Invitation to Biblical Hebrew
* Garrett & DeRouchie, A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew
* Hackett, A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
* Pratico & Van Pelt. Basics of Biblical Hebrew (eds. 2 & 3)
* Ross, Introducing Biblical Hebrew, Baker Academic
* Seow, A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew
* Baugh, A New Testament Greek Primer
* Decker, Reading Koine Greek, Baker Academic
* Duff, The Elements of New Testament Greek
* Kostenberger, Merkle, & Plummer. Going Deeper with New Testament Greek
* Merkle & Plummer, Beginning with New Testament Greek
* Mounce, Basics of Biblical Greek
* Rollinson, Online Greek Textbook

NB. The vocab items may occasionally be in a different form to how they appear in the textbook.

* Spaced Repetition *
The smarter way to learn vocab. This allows you to test yourself on items at set intervals which increase the more times that record that know it correctly. Just tap on the spaced repetition button (the arrow button in the right corner) and it will tell you the words you need to study next.

* Reading Mode *
Use the power of spaced repetition to get better at reading whole verses in the Bible. If you've learned enough vocab in Spaced Repetition mode to cover whole verses, Reading Mode will introduce these verses to you, first with the parsing, dictionary form and glosses and thereafter you will need to read it just the original language. These verses will be shown to you at intervals which increase the more familiar you are with each verse.

* Slideshow Modes *
Vocab Mode: where you see the words in their dictionary form
Parsing Mode: where you see the words in the way they appear in the text and you are tested on their grammatical form.
Verses Mode: see whole verses as well as parsing, dictionary forms, and glosses.

* Greek Audio *
Dr. George Athas from Moore College in Sydney has recorded the audio for all the words in the Greek New Testament using a restored koine pronunciation system. You can try the audio for the 100 most frequently occurring used words for free and if you like it you can pay to download more.

* Data Sources *
You can choose between four Greek Testament texts: SBL, Westcott-Hort, Tischendorf, and Byzantine. The OT text is based on the Westminster Leningrad Codex, as provided by Open Scriptures. The Greek Lexicons are:
* Dodson (2010) - greeklexicon.org
* Mounce Concise Greek-English Lexicon (© 1993. William Mounce. All Rights Reserved - billmounce.com/greek-dictionary)
The Hebrew/Aramaic Lexicon is derived chiefly from the Brown-Driver-Briggs, as provided by Open Scriptures.
You can also use the glosses from the available textbooks.

* Try for Free! *
'Bible Vocab+' is the full paid version of the app which will not need to be unlocked. If you would like to try it for free, you can download the 'Bible Vocab' app here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bible-vocab/id518563673?ls=1&mt=8
That app can be unlocked to the full features of 'Bible Vocab+' as an In-App Purchase.

For more information, check out our website:
http://www.bible-vocab.com
Check out our Facebook page for recent updates and tips:
https://www.facebook.com/BibleVocabApp

What's New in the Latest Version 5.20

Last updated on Jul 30, 2020

Old Versions

Now has two new textbooks!
* Merkle & Plummer, Beginning with New Testament Greek
* Pratico & Van Pelt, Basics of Biblical Hebrew (edition 3)

Version History

5.20

Jul 30, 2020

Now has two new textbooks!
* Merkle & Plummer, Beginning with New Testament Greek
* Pratico & Van Pelt, Basics of Biblical Hebrew (edition 3)

5.13

Aug 20, 2019

Adding in vocab from Shirley J. Rollinson's Online Greek Textbook (freely available here: http://www.drshirley.org/greek/textbook02/contents.html)

5.10

Jan 8, 2019

Adding Jo Ann Hackett's 'A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew' to the available textbooks.

5.05

Nov 27, 2018

Adding textbook: Garrett & DeRouchie 'A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew'

5.02

Aug 21, 2018

Fixed bug when display randomly would crash.
Fixed bug when selecting all in the Review files list.

5.01

Aug 18, 2018

Now a universal app which works on your iPad
Adding Hebrew morphology for most of the Old Testament
Bug fixes

4.32

Aug 23, 2017

Fixing problems with backup up.

4.31

Apr 26, 2017

New in Version 4.31
* Adding vocabulary lists from Ross: Introducing Biblical Hebrew
* Minor corrections to Hebrew entries in database

New in Version 4.30
* Adding vocabulary lists from Rodney Decker's 'Reading Koine Greek'

4.30

Apr 19, 2017

* Adding vocabulary lists from Rodney Decker's 'Reading Koine Greek'

4.27

Feb 21, 2017

* Adding 'Night Mode'. You can set the background to automatically be black from a certain time in the evening so to help you go to sleep.
* Fixing some truncated glosses for 'Basics of Biblical Greek'

4.25

Jan 20, 2017

*** New in 4.25 ***
* With the previous update, you were able to get into Spaced Repetition Mode or Reading Mode and review all your You can now review all your stale words through the whole Bible first and then be introduced to new words in your passage selection. To do this you can now either double-tap or tap and hold onto the Spaced Repetition Button or the Reading Mode button.
* You can now manually set the skip interval for when you press the skip button in Spaced Repetition Mode or Reading Mode. Just tap and hold onto the skip button and you can choose how long you want to wait until you see skipped words again.

*** New in 4.2 ***
* There are graphs in Spaced Repetition Mode and Reading Mode - just double-tap the stats at the bottom of the screen.
* There is now the ability to back-up your Bible Vocab data. In 'Settings', tap the button saying "Email 'Bible Vocab' Backup" and then email the file to yourself at an address which you will be able to open on your device. To restore your database later on, find this email in your 'Mail' app on your device and then tap on the attachment and then select 'Bible Vocab' as the application to open it in.
* New textbook: Seow - A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew
* Adding a new great way to start Spaced Repetition Mode and Reading Mode. If you're like me, you often want to review all your old stale words/verses first for the whole Bible before starting to learn new words from a passage or textbook. For example, I'm currently learning vocab from Seow's Hebrew Textbook, but I still want to keep reviewing the Greek and Hebrew words that I already have in my system. To do this, just select the passages that have the new words/verses that you want to be introduced to and then press and hold the 'Spaced Repetition' button or the 'Reading Mode' button.

4.22

Jan 10, 2017

*** New in 4.22 ***
* Adding a new great way to start Spaced Repetition Mode and Reading Mode. If you're like me, you often want to review all your old stale words/verses first for the whole Bible before starting to learn new words from a passage or textbook. For example, I'm currently learning vocab from Seow's Hebrew Textbook, but I still want to keep reviewing the Greek and Hebrew words that I already have in my system. To do this, just select the passages that have the new words/verses that you want to be introduced to and then press and hold the 'Spaced Repetition' button or the 'Reading Mode' button.
* If you choose, iCloud sync now, it will not overwrite your settings now. This means that you can have different settings on your devices even when you are syncing in iCloud.

*** New in 4.20 ***
* There are graphs in Spaced Repetition Mode and Reading Mode - just double-tap the stats at the bottom of the screen.
* There is now the ability to back-up your Bible Vocab data. In 'Settings', tap the button saying "Email 'Bible Vocab' Backup" and then email the file to yourself at an address which you will be able to open on your device. To restore your database later on, find this email in your 'Mail' app on your device and then tap on the attachment and then select 'Bible Vocab' as the application to open it in.
* New textbook: Seow - A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew

4.21

Jan 6, 2017

*** New in 4.21 ***
* Fixing bugs in Hebrew database
* Fixing iCloud sync bug

*** New in 4.20 ***
* There are graphs in Spaced Repetition Mode and Reading Mode - just double-tap the stats at the bottom of the screen.
* There is now the ability to back-up your Bible Vocab data. In 'Settings', tap the button saying "Email 'Bible Vocab' Backup" and then email the file to yourself at an address which you will be able to open on your device. To restore your database later on, find this email in your 'Mail' app on your device and then tap on the attachment and then select 'Bible Vocab' as the application to open it in.
* New textbook: Seow - A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew

4.20

Dec 4, 2016

* There are graphs in Spaced Repetition Mode and Reading Mode - just double-tap the stats at the bottom of the screen.
* There is now the ability to back-up your Bible Vocab data. In 'Settings', tap the button saying "Email 'Bible Vocab' Backup" and then email the file to yourself at an address which you will be able to open on your device. To restore your database later on, find this email in your 'Mail' app on your device and then tap on the attachment and then select 'Bible Vocab+' as the application to open it in.
* New textbook: Seow - A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew

4.14

Nov 7, 2016

* New in Version 4.14 *
Fixing bug in the morphology listing.

******* New in Version 4.1 *******
New Textbooks:
* Fuller & Choi's 'Invitation to Biblical Hebrew'
* Duff's 'The Elements of New Testament Greek'

Plus other minor enhancements.

******* New in Version 4 *******

* Textbook chapters *
You can now add vocab from chapters of popular Greek and Hebrew textbooks.

* Search *
You can search for words, glosses and grammatical forms in the List Modes. Just pull the list down to reveal the search box and type your query. To search in Greek or Hebrew, add a Greek or Hebrew keyboard in your device's settings.

* New Lexicons *
The option of using the Mounce Concise Greek-English Lexicon (© 1993. William Mounce. All Rights Reserved - https://billmounce.com/greek-dictionary) is now available, as well as the glosses from the available textbooks.

4.12

Sep 21, 2016

******* New in Version 4.12 *******
Fixing iCloud problem for iOS 10.

******* New in Version 4.1 *******
New Textbooks:
* Fuller & Choi's 'Invitation to Biblical Hebrew'
* Duff's 'The Elements of New Testament Greek'

Plus other minor enhancements.

******* New in Version 4 *******

* Textbook chapters *
You can now add vocab from chapters of popular Greek and Hebrew textbooks.

* Search *
You can search for words, glosses and grammatical forms in the List Modes. Just pull the list down to reveal the search box and type your query. To search in Greek or Hebrew, add a Greek or Hebrew keyboard in your device's settings.

* New Lexicons *
The option of using the Mounce Concise Greek-English Lexicon (© 1993. William Mounce. All Rights Reserved - https://billmounce.com/greek-dictionary) is now available, as well as the glosses from the available textbooks.

4.11

Sep 17, 2016

******* New in Version 4.11 *******
Correcting entries for Fuller & Choi's 'Invitation to Biblical Hebrew' to be closer to the textbook.

******* New in Version 4.1 *******
New Textbooks:
* Fuller & Choi's 'Invitation to Biblical Hebrew'
* Duff's 'The Elements of New Testament Greek'

Plus other minor enhancements.

******* New in Version 4 *******

* Textbook chapters *
You can now add vocab from chapters of popular Greek and Hebrew textbooks.

* Search *
You can search for words, glosses and grammatical forms in the List Modes. Just pull the list down to reveal the search box and type your query. To search in Greek or Hebrew, add a Greek or Hebrew keyboard in your device's settings.

* New Lexicons *
The option of using the Mounce Concise Greek-English Lexicon (© 1993. William Mounce. All Rights Reserved - https://billmounce.com/greek-dictionary) is now available, as well as the glosses from the available textbooks.

4.1

Sep 8, 2016

******* New in Version 4.1 *******
New Textbooks:
* Fuller & Choi's 'Invitation to Biblical Hebrew'
* Duff's 'The Elements of New Testament Greek'

Plus other minor enhancements.

******* New in Version 4 *******

* Textbook chapters *
You can now add vocab from chapters of popular Greek and Hebrew textbooks.

* Search *
You can search for words, glosses and grammatical forms in the List Modes. Just pull the list down to reveal the search box and type your query. To search in Greek or Hebrew, add a Greek or Hebrew keyboard in your device's settings.

* New Lexicons *
The option of using the Mounce Concise Greek-English Lexicon (© 1993. William Mounce. All Rights Reserved - https://billmounce.com/greek-dictionary) is now available, as well as the glosses from the available textbooks.

4.0

Jun 24, 2016

* Textbook chapters *
You can now add vocab from chapters of popular Greek and Hebrew textbooks. Currently available textbooks are:
* Basics of Biblical Hebrew
* Basics of Biblical Greek
* Going Deeper with New Testament Greek
You can also change the Greek or Hebrew Lexicon to match the glosses in the corresponding textbooks. NB. The vocab items may occasionally be in a different form to how they appear in the textbook.

* Search *
You can search for words, glosses and grammatical forms in the List Modes. Just pull the list down to reveal the search box and type your query. To search in Greek or Hebrew, add a Greek or Hebrew keyboard in your device's settings.

* New Lexicons *
The option of using the Mounce Concise Greek-English Lexicon (© 1993. William Mounce. All Rights Reserved - https://billmounce.com/greek-dictionary) is now available, as well as the glosses from the available textbooks.

3.71

Mar 1, 2016

** New in 3.71
* Adds ability to use the Spaced Repetition mode in the background and to control it through your headphones remote or bluetooth control.

** New in 3.70
Adding new Morphology List mode which lists all the morphological forms that occur for a particular word.
Just press and hold on a word in a list mode to bring it up. You can also enter this mode by pressing and holding on the word when it is introduced to you in Spaced Repetition mode.

3.70

Feb 5, 2016

Adding new Morphology List mode which lists all the morphological forms that occur for a particular word.
Just press and hold on a word in a list mode to bring it up. You can also enter this mode by pressing and holding on the word when it is introduced to you in Spaced Repetition mode.

Also in this update:
* fixes bug for the 'Word in Context' Slideshow for Hebrew words.
* interface enhancements

3.63

Jan 20, 2016

* New version of the video tutorial
* Interface enhancements
* Back to age range of 4+

3.62

Nov 21, 2015

New in 3.62
* Fixed problem for those who did Hebrew Spaced Repetition before upgrading to version 3.6

New in 3.6
** Verses Slideshow mode **
You can few entire verses in Slideshow Mode with parsing, lemmas and glosses available for each word in each verse.

** Reading Mode **
You can used to read complete verses so that the app will show you new verses where you have learned each vocab item in the verse in the Vocab Spaced Repetition mode. It will then show you these verses at increasing intervals the more times that you've read the verse.

** List Mode Enhancements **
There are now three list-types in List Mode: it list the dictionary form of the vocab with English glosses, or the parsing of the word as it exists in the text with the dictionary form on the right and English gloss, or it can show the verses in order. You can tap on individual vocab items to listen to the audio for them if it is downloaded and available.

** Context Slideshow **
In Spaced Repetition, you can tap the 'Slideshow' icon when the gloss is displayed for a word, and this will give you a slideshow of all the verses in the Bible with this word present so you can gather the meaning in context.

** Parsing Mode works for Hebrew **
Basic parsing information is finally available for the whole of the Bible with a complete morphology being available for some passages in the Old Testament. This parsing data is from Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible project (https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb) and more morphology data will be added to this app as that project becomes more complete.

* Auto-progress works in slideshow modes again.
* Minor interface enhancements.

3.61

Nov 18, 2015

** Verses Slideshow mode **
You can few entire verses in Slideshow Mode with parsing, lemmas and glosses available for each word in each verse.

** Reading Mode **
You can used to read complete verses so that the app will show you new verses where you have learned each vocab item in the verse in the Vocab Spaced Repetition mode. It will then show you these verses at increasing intervals the more times that you've read the verse.

** List Mode Enhancements **
There are now three list-types in List Mode: it list the dictionary form of the vocab with English glosses, or the parsing of the word as it exists in the text with the dictionary form on the right and English gloss, or it can show the verses in order. You can tap on individual vocab items to listen to the audio for them if it is downloaded and available.

** Context Slideshow **
In Spaced Repetition, you can tap the 'Slideshow' icon when the gloss is displayed for a word, and this will give you a slideshow of all the verses in the Bible with this word present so you can gather the meaning in context.

** Parsing Mode works for Hebrew **
Basic parsing information is finally available for the whole of the Bible with a complete morphology being available for some passages in the Old Testament. This parsing data is from Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible project (https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb) and more morphology data will be added to this app as that project becomes more complete.

* Auto-progress works in slideshow modes again.
* Minor interface enhancements.

3.24

Oct 6, 2015

** New in version 3.24
* Interface improvements
* Parsing mode bug fix

** New in version 3.21 **
* Added Greek audio In-App-Purchase. Dr. George Athas from Moore College in Sydney, Australia has recorded the audio for all the words in the Greek New Testament using a restored koine pronunciation system. You can down try the audio for over 100 words for free and if you like it you can pay to download more.

** New in version 3.0 **
** Spaced Repetition is here! **
The smarter way to learn vocab. This allows you to test yourself on items at set intervals which increase the more times that record that know it correctly. Just tap on the spaced repetition button and it will tell you the words you need to study next. It's available through the 'Progress Arrow' icon at several points in the app. For more information, check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

If you are just starting or don't have any old words to review, then it will introduce new words by showing you both the word and its meaning together. Slide right once you are finished looking at it. This word is now 'in your system' and will be reviewed a regularly spaced intervals.

When there are words due for you to review, it will show them in Spaced Repetition mode. To review a word, it will just show you the word without the meaning or a comment. If there is a sound, it will play it. Swipe right or tap the 'tick' if you are confident that you know the word correctly. This will place the item in a higher 'box' which will need to be reviewed at a later time. If you wish to skip this word for a few minutes, tap the 'clock' icon. If you can't remember it or are unsure, swipe left or tap the 'cross' to display the meaning. You can still mark the item as correct by tapping the 'box' icon on the bottom right. If the item is marked as incorrect, then it will be reset and put it in box 1 and you will start reviewing the item as if it were a new word. This will give you the practice on the item that it needs. If you wish to manually choose when the item show be reviewed next, then press and hold on the 'box' icon. More information on the 'info/help' screens in the app.

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