April 3rd, 2012Changes:
· Now you can search a text in more than one Bible translation or dictionary at a time.
April 3rd, 2012Changes:
· Verse references of the dictionary entries can now be put into the search result panel of the Bible panel, and into the bookmarks.
· The cross reference collections can now be put into the search result panel of the Bible panel, and into the bookmarks.
April 3rd, 2012Changes:
· The language of the Spanish and Portuguese interface has been updated.
January 18th, 2012· Any audio Bible can be integrated into the program, if every mp3 file contains exactly one chapter of the Bible. Various audio-Bible sound files can be downloaded or purchased on different web sites that can be used in Bible-Discovery software (if they have the proper format). Thus, more than 600 audio Bibles can be integrated.
January 18th, 2012· New e-Books: Jewish History Maps, Smith Bible Atlas, American Bible Society Maps, The Complete Sunday School Atlas
· New dictionaries: Morrish, Vine NT, Vine OT
· New commentary: Vincent's Word Studies
January 18th, 2012· The appearance of the program has been redesigned. Now it looks like the modern Android version of Bible-Discovery.
· Already you can write notes as well (e.g., for preaching, sermons in church), and you can add your own commentary to the verses.
· It is possible to integrate e-Books. Essentially, almost any good quality Christian literature can be made readable, searchable by the program (if the raw text format and the license are appropriate, it can be converted) and MySword and TheWord books can be converted easily in the import menu.
· The version 3.x series is free for those who bought the Bible-Discovery program PC/Mac version in the past one year. (After 2010.11.23) They can still register the new 3.x program version with the old product serial number.
· Those who have purchased the program earlier, can upgrade to version 3.x: we sent them an email with the details.
· Those who do not want to upgrade to version 3.x, we provide a return to version 2.9.2. They can redownload the 2.9.2 version and use it as long as they wish. But the old version will no longer be included the new developments.
January 18th, 2012· This release allows the use of "The Word" Bible translations, dictionaries, and commentaries. First, convert them to MySword format, then import these converted files in the import menu of Bible-Discovery.
· You can publish an alternative download place (link) so that Bible translations, self-made dictionaries, and commentaries can be download within the program.
January 18th, 2012· Fixed a bug in the highlight function
January 18th, 2012· In the Bible and the dictionary panel you can use color and font styles: background color, foreground color, bold, italics, underline.
· The bookmark function has been changed. You can set icon and font style for each bookmark category (background color, foreground color, bold, italics, underline). The verse lists of bookmarks may be added to each other or may be removed from each other.
· There are two new user interfaces: French and Korean.
August 1st, 2011Changes:
· In the Bible panel you can use an automatically verse scrolling function for comfort reading. The scrolling speed can be increased and reduced.
· There is a new button in the dictionary panel toolbar, which collects all of the dictionary in which the given word can be lookup.
July 25th, 2011Changes:
· The importing function has been improved. You can import dictionaries and commentaries as well.
July 25th, 2011Changes:
· There is a new quick bookmarking function. You can use it with right click.
· New commentaries: DTN, DutKant, Geneva, JFB, Lightfoot, MAK, Rieger, TFG
· New dictionaries: Hitchcock, Packard, Robinson, SAOA, TCR
· New Bible translations: Byz, GerAlbrecht, LEB, PorLivre, PorTB
· Displaying of dictionaries was made faster
June 29th, 2011· In the new version you can use commentaries as well. The commentaries are verse comments. Downloadable versions: Barnes, Clarke, MHC, MHCC, Scofield, TSK, Wesley.
· The searching of the verses become faster. Displaying of the parallel verses became faster.
June 13th, 2011Changes:
· Bible panel right click context menu possibilities have been complemented.
June 13th, 2011Changes:
· The main window appearance has changed significantly. Two types of layout can be set (horizontal / vertical).
· When looking up a word, the program marks the dictionaries that contain this word or this Strong's number. It separately marks those in which this word can be looked up, and those in which this word can be searched.
· You can set the default dictionary for word lookups (not only for Strong numbers)
March 8th, 2011· Now you can download and install modules (Bible translations, dictionaries, cross references) from the program
· You can get the verse history last 10 days
· Registration of shareware modules become simplier
· The program checks once every week if there is a newer program version, and displays the changes
· The minimum requirement is Java 1.6
November 7th, 2010· In the Bible panel you can turn the page in the search results
· The verse display speed become approx. doubled. Thanks to the upcoming version of Android Bible.
September 30th, 2010Changes:
· You can open any number Bible window in the program.
· With the middle button of the mouse you can open a new Bible window, contains the current verse or verse reference.
· In the Bible panel can be diplayed the search result.
· More Bible translation has been integrated, you can download from the Internet: 19 English translations, 2 Greek translations, 21 translations with other language
· The installation file will install some new fonts, which can be nicely displayed the Greek and Hebrew characters
September 30th, 2010Changes:
· Updated Bible translation
August 5th, 2010· You can use a new function in the parallel view, use ctrl + left click to tint to red the same Strong number within a Bible verse.
May 14th, 2010Changes:
· 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.
May 14th, 2010Changes:
· There are two new user interfase: Spanish and Rusian.
May 14th, 2010Changes:
· 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.
May 14th, 2010Changes:
· 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.
May 14th, 2010Changes:
· 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.
May 14th, 2010Changes:
· 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
· ? : Matches 0 or 1 character
· + : Matches 1 or more characters
You can use parallel Bible search guiding characters:
· 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
May 14th, 2010Changes:
· 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.
May 14th, 2010Changes:
· 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
May 14th, 2010Changes:
· 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)
May 2nd, 2006· 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.