What's New

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

App Description

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.

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

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • April 23, 2012 Initial release
  • July 25, 2012 New version 1.2
  • August 08, 2012 New version 1.2.1
  • September 14, 2012 New version 1.3
  • October 05, 2012 New version 1.4
  • October 11, 2012 New version 1.4.1
  • March 09, 2013 New version 2.0
  • March 16, 2013 New version 2.0.1
  • March 05, 2014 New version 2.1.1
  • April 30, 2014 New version 2.1.2
  • October 19, 2014 New version 2.2
  • December 20, 2014 New version 2.2.6
  • January 05, 2015 New version 2.2.7
  • January 14, 2015 New version 2.3
  • August 18, 2015 New version 3.0
  • August 20, 2015 New version 3.01
  • September 01, 2015 New version 3.02
  • September 10, 2015 New version 3.21
  • September 19, 2015 New version 3.22
  • September 20, 2015 New version 3.23
  • October 03, 2015 New version 3.24
  • November 07, 2015 New version 3.60
  • November 14, 2015 New version 3.61
  • November 25, 2015 New version 3.62
  • January 20, 2016 New version 3.63
  • February 14, 2016 New version 3.70
  • June 30, 2016 New version 4.0
  • November 05, 2016 New version 4.12
  • November 21, 2016 New version 4.14
  • December 10, 2016 New version 4.20
  • June 14, 2019 New version 5.10
  • August 28, 2019 New version 5.13
  • October 23, 2020 New version 5.20

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