Is there a way to view a module in Reading Mode while changing the module's preferences to appear like the night mode in iOS?

I started using Accordance to project the text onto a whiteboard in Bible class and with my lighting situation, a black background and white text is ideal. But I like how Reading Mode displays minimal interface.

Where did you get all of those fonts? I'm using Accordance 10.1.6, and all of those fonts beginning with the letter "o" do not appear in my list.

Joe

I'm sure this is very easy to do, but I can't figure it out and I haven't found the answer yet in the instructions. If there is a simple way, please let me know! 

Thanks, 

PT

tks

Thanks for these mini-tutorials.  I am finding them very helpful in learning how to use Accordance more effectively.

As for the history of Accordance, Accordance was first released in 1994, not 1989. OakTree Software released The Perfect Word in 1989, which eventually was purchased by Zondervan and rebranded as MacBible, so we essentially started over with Accordance.

When it comes to why some resources are available and others not, each developer sets priorities differently, has varying degrees of success establishing relationships with specific publishers, is willing to accept terms the others may not be willing to accept, etc. While Accordance may lack resources other developers offer, we also offer many resources those developers lack, and we're adding more all the time.

Hope this helps.

thank you for all your helpful posts in this series so far. However, this time I wonder whether I missed some initial setup, since the option for "Workspaces" does not show up in my Accordance settings at all:

Greetings

Daniel

I'm a new Accordance user, having switched over from Logos, who is throughly pleased with Accordance's design (its focus on the Holy Bible), speed (very fast in opening my modules), and capablities. Thanks for your blog which offers some insightful tips in utilizing Accordance more effectively.

Anyway, I'm really writing to make a requests for the following e-books that I find, disappointingly, to be missing from Accordance's offerings. I don't know where to pose the request or to who, so here is what I really would LIKE TO HAVE OFFERED:

Hebrew Studies:

• Botterweck's “Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament (FULL 15 Vols.)”;

• Girdlestone's “Girdlestone Synonyms of the Old Testament”;

• Holladay's “Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament”;

• Merwe's “Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar”;

• Rosenthal's “A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic”;

• Singer's The Jewish Encyclopedia (12 vols.).

Greek Studies:

• Balz's “Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament (3 vols.)”;

• Cremer's “Biblio-Theological Lexicon of the New Testament”;

• Lampe's “A Patristic Greek Lexicon”;

• Moulton/Howard/Turner's “A Grammar of the New Testament (5 vols.);

• Muraoka's “A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint”;

• Thackeray's “A Grammar of the Old Testament in Greek”;

• Zodhiates' “The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament”.

P.S. I don't understand: how come Accordance has been around since 1989 but Logos since 1992 and yet Logos offers many more modules (e-books) than Accordance? For instance: they offer all my requests (except for Botterweck, Lampe, and Muraoka) albeit Logos 5 is much SLOWERRRRRRRR than Accordance.

Sincerely, Tom.

I must admit I'm constantly amazed (and unfortunately confused!!) by the searching in Accordance. So thank's for these posts they do help me to understand the type of things that can be done. 

A couple comments...I'm very impressed that Accordance identified those geminite forms which appear "apocopated" or shortened. Some geminites appear with both double consonants, while others "drop" the second of the doubled consonants. Accordance caught them all!

Secondly, I had a to take a different route to set the parameter of a search for a VERB. I went to the SEARCH menu, then the ENTER TAG submenu, then selected VERB.

Great work on these posts. It's these kinds of tips that demonstrate actually searches that are most helpful to me.

Brad

A couple comments...I'm very impressed that Accordance identified those geminite forms which appear "apocopated" or shortened. Some geminites appear with both double consonants, while others "drop" the second of the doubled consonants. Accordance caught them all!

Secondly, I had a to take a different route to set the parameter of a search for a VERB. I went to the SEARCH menu, then the ENTER TAG submenu, then selected VERB.

Great work on these posts. It's these kinds of tips that demonstrate actually searches that are most helpful to me.

Brad

http://jpnee.blogspot.com/2013/02/an-interview-with-daniel-r-streett.html

Great to know that there are experts like you to help guide us in the use of these great tools!

Kevin.

Thanks for the tips.  It helps us use this awesome - but at times almost overwhleming - tool.

In Christ,

Bret

We can certainly consider such a change if enough of you request it.

Thank you again,

Kevin.

Is it possible to name a tab with a Greek word (if it's a list of search results on that word, for example)?

I wonder what your Sunday school participants "took away" on a practical level--not only for their own development of digging deeper within the whole of God's counsel, but also allowing this richer understanding to be used in their lives personally during Advent?  

It's amazing to think how God never neglects human suffering as part of the equsation for those who hope. Most of the book of Revelation creates an immense hope that both the Spirit and the Bride cry: "Come... Lord Jesus." (Rev 22.17&20)

I just got through reading the plot of the Grinch that Stole Christmas. Cute, but hardly getting at the essence of what the birth of Christ is all about. As much as I don't like the story of Herod's infanticide at Bethlehem, it was a Matthew's warning to all Christ's followers that we are to be constantly aware that political systems usually are opposed to God's will; and their "left hand [often doesn't] know what their right hand" does. (cp 1Cor 2.8) I love how our culture uses Christmas to celebrate (the birth of the Messiah) and that families meet to reunite and recollect all they mean to one another. This is a gift from God. But for us to miss (or neglect) the reality that Christ's birth was an assult on the kingdoms of this world, is to miss the entire point of Christmas. 

For those with smaller screens, try dragging one of them below the other instead of beside it.

Glad to be getting your posts again.  I didn't realize that Mountian Lion did away with RSS in Mac Mail and I wasn't getting your feed!  Using the email method now.

Thanks again for the great tips.

Once again thank you for a clear and easy to follow teaching.

Gratefully,

Kevin.

Thanks,

Moises

Do you have any news on whether or not you're going to release "Theology Dictionary of the Old Testament" (Full Ed.) in the future? I would really enjoy doing similar word studies using this dictionary.

Thanks, James.

I also found that if I modify my text query in the first tab, then hit enter, Accordance automatically switches to the second tab with the infer command which updated automatically. 

I appreciate being informed today about the INFER command. Thank you!

Thank you for these posts, the are invaluable to me.

For the others, the word "dont" does not occur in their text and any search with words that do not exist would return no hits.  E.g. "zzzz" <OR> "do not fear" on any resource that hasn't got a word "zzzz" will somehow return no hits.

Not sure what the story with the other two translations is, have you reached the limit?  Accordance Help says that "Up to 50 verses of a text, or 50 paragraphs of a tool are displayed" on the Right Pane. :)

The ' in don't is blocking the other translations.

'Be not afraid' 

— no chance to find it with the search you tried.

Peace, Kerry

Peace, Kerry

Assuming it shows up the same on your screen, it looks like this:

‎מִקְדָּשׁ

As for being able to copy from the window, you couldn't copy from the first iteration of the revamped Search All window, but that has been fixed in recent updates. Try it!

As for the marker boxes in each section, you place the characters you want BEFORE each part of the citation in the first box, and the characters you want AFTER it in the second box. For example, to place quotation marks before and after the citation, you would put one quotation mark in each box of the Content section. To have the citation reference enclosed in parentheses, put an open quote in the first box and a close quote in the second.

I have found that saying, "Let's have family devotions" is bit like saying, "Let's give the cat a bath!"  Easier said...

That's the way I've been doing it for years, but I've always found it cumbersome. Way too many steps, but the "pay off" still merited it.

Now it's just: shift asterisk key shift command A key, and shift command R key then type in passage I'm studying. Fantastic. What a gem and time saver. 

Thanks so much! 

⁴For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

 ⁵Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

 ⁶Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

 ⁷Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

Would not this wallof partition that existed in Jesus day made Isaiah 56:4-7 impossible?

Some cross references that come to mind:Lucifer for he shines as a minister (messenger) of light; also, many passages that descibe God/Jesus as light. 

If we stay even in God's shadow, we are in a light that outshines all of God's "illuminators" (Heb 1.13-14 comes to mind).

With respect to the search for "Lord" also getting hits of <i>adonai</i>, once again you're right. However, since my Analysis graph by Key number rather than by English word, the presence of <i>adonai</i> didn't pad the results for <i>YHWH</i>. It would have done so in the graph of the English words "Lord" and "God," though.

Also, as your chart at the bottom of the image shows, I'd also be concerned that a search for the English word Lord would result in hits pertaining to adonai as well as YHWH. 

So would a better search be  [KEY H3068] <OR> [KEY H0430] <OR> [KEY H0136] limited to the Psalms?

Again, I realize this is family devotion time :-)

Thanks!

I suggest selecting some text and choosing Parsing from the right-click menu or Resource palette. This gives you a tab with each word on a new line, with additional information. Then use command-T (Set Parsing Display) to determine what additional information you show, including transliteration. This tab can be printed, but of course, it can only be read vertically.

You can also export a whole passage as transliteration, saving to an RTF file. See Preferences: Greek & Hebrew to set these options.

Another feature of Accordance has really helped me learn to recognize the forms.  I have done searches in the GNT-T for, say, all the subjunctives of a difficult verb.  That has been very helpful.  The more I use Accordance, the more I love it.

I've had three years of Greek at this point, which is all the college offers.  Since there is a different instructor for 3rd year Greek next year, it was recommended by last year's teacher that I sit in on the class, so that's the plan.  

A thousand times over I want to thank you for providing pics along with the narratives in your blogs - these step-by-step explanations really brings out your thoughts w/exceeding clearness!

REQUEST:

Could you PLEASE!, PLEASE! ask the web master to add MOREEEEEEEEEE pictures, even videos, to each of the A's module web-pages (just as was done to the new "Highlighting Some New Features in Accordance 9.4")? As I'm browsing through the "Products" pg. to look for new modules I would like to see far more visual-pics to see how it both LOOKS in A. and how it WORK in A.

THANK YOU!

P.S. I'm primarily a visual learner...if you haven't already figured that out...THANKS!

I'm wondering if it's possible to combine this tip with searching for highlighting using the STYLE command to accomplish the following:  If I read an article in a tool such as NIDNTT, highlighting as I go, can I then search for the highlighting style in that particular article and have the results displayed in a reference window or someplace where I can then copy the highlighted phrases (without the intervening text), and then paste my highlighted text into a user tool?  This would be a real time saver.

Many thanks,

Kerry

What I want you to see is that Accordance offers so much flexibility (even without your requested feature), that you should almost never have to export a map to a graphics program to add your own labels.

Believe it or not, I deliberately left the near-collision between Judah and Philistia so I could show still another way to customize the appearance of the map. Look for that in today's post.

-Jon

Harry, the degree of overlapping names you experience depends on which layers you have on the map. By adjusting my Major Biblical Sites layer, I was able to eliminate the overlapping names you see in my screenshots with a single click. Another option would be to shift-click the names in an existing layer that you want to keep, and then choose Convert to Custom Layer from the Site pop-up menu. This will create a special layer containing only the sites you selected.

I'll cover these tips in more detail in future posts.

But how about updating to 3D views with Satellite images?

son of <followed by><within 1 word> (God <or> man)

It would be nice to have a mechanism for incorporating a boolean expression within a phrase that is more succinct than the "<followed by><within 1 word>" idiom.

Nice tutorial, a friend of mine who is currently studying in the US told me about  the Accordance bible software. As a fellow Christian I have never heard about a bible software before but think that it could be very useful for our community. These tips help me to understand it better and to decide whether to buy it or not.

Though, how about UPDATING-MODERNIZING ALL the charts, & visuals for that matter!, to bring it up 2011?

Thanks.

To find words in common, in the second tab simply use:

[HITS 1Thess] <AND> [RANGE 2Thess].

To fiond words only used in 2 Thess use:

*@-[HITS 1Thess] <AND> [RANGE 2Thess]

whihc is the Accordance way of defining "all words in the current range which are not hits in the defined tab.

I hope this helps.

I'd like to compare GNT-T words between two books, say 1 & 2 Thes. Obviously, I'm doing something wrong.

1. I've set up two tabs that have searched for word contents of each book:

a. * <and> [RANGE 1th]

b. <and> [RANGE 2th]

Can you point this new Accord user in the right direction?

(mercy <NOT> <FOLLOWED BY> <WITHIN 1 Words> seat) <NOT> (mercy <NOT> mercy seat) 

to do it in one window. Parentheses are your friend in dealing with infix boolean operators :-).

Tab one I opened up KJVS and entered:

mercy <NOT> mercy seat

In a second tab (KJVS 2) I searched for:

mercy <NOT> <FOLLOWED BY> <WITHIN 1 Words> seat

In a third tab (KJVS 3) I searched for:

[CONTENTS KJVS 2] <AND> <NOT> [CONTENTS KJVS] and found Exodus 37:9:

Ex. 37:9 And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.

Check to make sure your preferences for Greek/Hebrew in Accordance are set to export as Unicode. I'll email you as well in case I need to explain in more detail or provide a screen shot.

Not complaining!

(is this the Langbot posting queued items in absentia?)

Great idea. Thanks for sharing. 

Tom

I haven't yet explored the print options from within Accordance. Something to try out when I get home tonight.

I'm curious as to why you are exporting to Pages to translate on paper. Why not just print directly from Accordance?

I'm starting to apply this in Accordance with the GNT-T and NET translations side-by side, with Comfort, Metzger and NET-Notes in panes beneath. 

It's also nice to export a few verse to Pages, and print out a page to work through translating by hand. 

Will the third edition of Mounce be available as an easy install download? The current edition seems to be only available as part of a package. 

While the JPS only contains a translation of the OT, I felt that it provided a much different interpretation of the text. It's interesting in many ways precisely because it does not follow the NT tradition, and takes a much different ideological stance. 

I've also become a fan of comparing any translation against the NET, especially when I have the extensive NET notes pane showing, as it often illuminates the translation decisions. 

being able to copy the Hebrew and paste it into TWOT for example is very useful. A drop-down list of possible Hyperlinks would obviously be better... but all in all a good start.. Many thanks for the hard work...

1. In the text window, the color difference between "Words" and "Verses" is rather subtle to my tired old eyes.

2. The HALOT isn't available for use in a parallel pane. thus one must close out of the text, and open the HALOT. While that's a bit awkward, it's still OK. What's not OK is that when you go back to the text, what gets displayed is Gen 1:1, rather than the place where you left off. Thus, the app is not-yet-ready-for-prime-time when it comes to word study.

Keep up the great work.

Also, what about the possibility of incorporating airplay to project our notes, text, etc., onto the bigger screen using Apple TV?

A big thanks to the team there at Accordance for making a great Bible study software program even better using iOS!

I'd still love to see some sort of lightbox effect on the thumbnails, so a full pic version can be viewed without opening a whole new window.

Danny

Edersheim, who I consulted later, in the Temple and its sacrifices comments that if the practice had been in force during the time of the Septuagint we might have expected some clues in the LXX text.  If he is right then it might not have been during the second Temple era but that of Herod's temple.

Edersheim writes..."We may here at once state, that the later Jewish practice of pushing the goat over a rocky precipice was undoubtedly on innovation, in no wise sanctioned by the law of Moses, and not even introduced at the time the Septuagint translation was made, as its rendering of Leviticus 16:26 shows. "

the first goat is the picture of the punishment of sin, the second is the picture of the remission of sin.  In fact, this 'letting go' of sins is the foundation stone of the Bible concept of 'remission'.  Sins are remitted, sinners are forgiven.  Many translations obscure this distinction.

Christ, of course,'became sin' (2Cor 5). We have a sobering picture here of the Saviour as the 'goat' whose life is forfeit and the 'goat' carries away the sins.  Both goats fused together give the fuller shadow of the coming reality.

The later addition of 'pushing the goat off the cliff' confuses the separate idea of punishment and function.  The first goat speaks of the punishment, the second of the result of that punishment.  Human addition to divine instruction seldom makes the story clearer.

I'm wondering though, what you think would be the best solution for a situation where the majority of my time I've got a dual-monitor setup (when I'm at work plugged into my external monitor too), but sometimes I'm just at my MacBook. Is there a way to set up one style of "window" for when I have the two monitors, and another setup for when I'm stuck with just my MacBook screen?

Thanks.

Is there a way to see words from a particular pericope listed in order of the frequency with which they occur in the whole NT? For instance, could one get a list of the words in Col 1:1-14 from the most rare (in the NT, not in the pericope) to the most frequently occurring? I can't quite figure out how to automate this in Accordance.

In order to avoid breaking this commandment altogether, they erected a fence around the Perfect Law of God, effectively alienating their new gentile brothers. However by avoiding all gentiles (even those who are of the faith), they "made void with their tradition" the plethora of commandments to not treat the "strangers sojourning among them" with hostility. Therefore, Jesus stripped away the authority (abolished) those man-made commandments contained in ordinances.The greek word Paul used for abolished is Katargeo meaning: "to deprive of force, influence, power." I wouldn't dare say that Jesus was sent by God to remove the the authority, influence, or power of His Law.

The Law of God was not the problem; never is the problem; how dare we say that it's the instrument of hostility when God says that His Law is "for our good always and for our survival - Deut 6:24. 

The barriers or fences proclaimed in ordinances in order to avoid defiling themselves that these men put in place was the instrument of hostility. For it prohibited fellowship and true worship as one new man. The commandment to be separate from the worls is still in place (for ALL of God's people  - Jew and Gentile), however, man-made commandments were being used to separate God's people from those gentiles "who are no longer of the world." To say that God's purity laws were in the way of unity is a false dilemma. It assumes that Jesus' goal was to bring Jew and pagan gentile together. Jesus' goal is revealed in His prayer in John 17 "I don't ask on behalf of these alone (jewish disciples) but for those (gentiles) who BELIEVE in me through their word." Jesus is asking on our behalf that we be sanctified together from the world. Sanctified by His word or commandments.

Something else was in the way of "true" unity between believers. Therefore, the man-made commandments had to be stripped of their authority by our Messiah in order for believing Jew and and believing Gentile to be one as God intended all along.

I'll explain how to do each of these things in upcoming posts, but for now, I hope this will get your wheels turning as to how you could use Accordance to do inductive Bible study.

I am trying to find the follow-up post(s) regarding how you set up Accordance for this type of study.  What worked, what didn't?  I would like to try this out but I am a little overwelmed with how to start.

Tom

I hadn't tried the clause search, Helen. I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip. The longer I work with Accordance, the more I learn. 

Helen

If you'd like to search for the root of any word you come across, right- or control-click it and choose Root in the Search For submenu of the contextual menu.

Also, Barry gave me some good ideas on how to include parsing and other data. Look for another 'advanced' screencast/blog in the future (once I get my current project turned in!). 

We're all for observing standards where they clearly exist, but we're not going to change a keyboard shortcut that has been around since Accordance 1.0 simply because a few web browsers use that keyboard shortcut for something different.

Thanks

I'm having a problem, though, with TextEdit.  When I hit command E the "find box" does not show up.  Please help, because it's a real pain to replace them all manually. Thanks.

My apologies, I have edited the post accordingly. As Helen indicated, simply enter a minus before the particle tag to negate it. Thanks for pointing this out! :-)

In fact you simply edit the entry and add a minus before the [PARTICLE] tag.

Thanks a lot for the post above.  My "not" box is not showing up; a glitch I suppose. Any idea how I might fix it?

Mark

I have a related question about searching for word or scripture clusters in other non-bible resources.  For example, I was searching for the scripture Rom 9:18-29 in all of the theological journal library.  Needless to say I got a ton of reference without any way to tell which ones mention my verses once in a footnote and which ones are entirely about this scripture and so mention it dozens of time.  Is there any way to prioritize this kind of search so that I can find the most helpful resources first?

thanks,

Ahshuwah

This was a helpful and practical tool for showing the step-by-step to accomplish something with Accordance.  I use Accordance mainly for my own study of the Bible and have no formal Bible training per se.  I would love to see more of these, maybe the "Accordance Exercise of the Week" or something along those lines.

Thanks!

-Paul 

Happily, we can search by Key number as well as by English words. Doing so ensures that we won't miss any occurrences of a Greek word because we couldn't anticipate all the different ways it might be translated into English.

To do this, I duplicated your search and found the examples you noted. Then I hovered my cursor over the English word to see that the Key number for anago is G321. I then used the History to go back to my original search and added the Key number as follows:

((rose, Rais*, ris*) <OR> [KEY G321] ) <WITHIN 5 Words> (dead, death)

I've got several things to explain here, like the use of the Key command and why I used nested parentheses. I'll try to do that in a follow-up post. For now, you can use this search to get Details which include anago as well as anistemi and egeiro.

Hope this helps.

Benoit.

Tim has also done three recent podcasts on the construct search that you might want to check out.

It has been on my mind to ask for more tutorials on the Construct Search, and now here they are!

The step by step instructions are great.  I hope you can do several more to help us get our brains wrapped around how the Construct Search works.

An entire series of tutorials would be wonderful.  Starting from the very basic use of the Construct Window to more advanced searches.  By step learning the capabilities of the Construct Search, I believe it would help us to the "think through" the Construct Search method and thereby unleash its benefits for us.  At this point I only "think through" the basic Search Entry box method, but would love to get a grasp on the Constructs.

Thanks for the great posts!

Jerry T

My appreciation of Accordance grows as I use and become more familiar with it.  I eagerly await each additional post to this blog; I learn something new about Accordance with almost every entry.

See an example here:

http://homepage.mac.com/rmansfield/assets/misc/italics.jpg

There is yet another way to do this:

You can also create a custom site layer, select the sites in Acts-Rev from the pop-up menu, select all the sites that appear in the first list and add them all to the second list. Now (or later) you can delete any sites that are not mentioned in Acts, and you have a custom layer of just the sites you wanted.

Gratefully, Tom

If you're ever unclear what is meant by such Accordance "lingo," try typing it into the Search field of the Accordance Help menu. I just tried that with "amplify" and got a page defining it and explaining it in detail.

Hope that helps.

I was a bit frustrated with Accordance at first because it required a different method to accomplish simple tasks.

One of the things I could not get over was loosing my primary passage when doing a word search.  I was accustomed to a concordance type window popping up when I did word search and then selecting the verse from list I wanted to see.

However, upon discovering the amplifying method which brings up a new tab I learned how much more powerful Accordance's way is.  Now Accordance's way is MY way.

I did not know however, that you could just click the Search button to amplify a word or phrase.

It just keeps getting better and better.  Thanks for the tip!

One more indication of how well thought out Accordance is!  Thanks for the tip.

I have been experimenting here for a few minutes and have figured out how to set up custom groups to search with the same tool. Great feature.

One of my New Year's resolutions is to go over Accordance keyboard shortcuts and other training/support materials. Until I find the time to do it systematically, having a few tips tweeted to your followers is wonderful. Thanks.

For many years I had read through the Bible using a paper-based system in Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek. However, I had come to a pragmatic accomodation with the size of the reading: I would read one of the average three-per-day OT chapters in Hebrew/Aramaic, the average full-chapter NT reading in Greek, a psalm and a proverb. This meant that, in theory, I'd work my way through the New Testament every year and the HB/OT every three years.

Three years ago I decided this compromise had run it course and no longer accurately reflected my convictions and training as a biblical scholar. Henceforth, I'd do the three daily chapters in Hebrew, the single chapter in Greek, a psalm and a proverb, thus making full circuit of the biblical canon annually.

Shortly thereafter I discovered the Accordance module that is mentioned in today's post. Happily, it provides not only the daily HB/OT and NT readings but also the daily readings from Psalms and Proverbs to which I had grown accustomed. That allowed me to jettison my paper-based subscription and save the cost of renewing it year-on-year.

I set my Accordance preferences to open each morning to three workspaces of tabbed readings: HB/OT, NT, and 'support'. For example, the HB/OT set contains tabs marked 'Daily OT reading', 'Daily Psalms reading', 'Daily Proverbs reading', and 'OT whiteboard'. The latter tab provides me a handy tab on which to track down stray thoughs that emerge during my reading.

I also resolved to blog for twenty minutes or so on some passage that had surface on any given morning's reading schedule (if interested, see www.canterbridge.org).

Because my command of the Bible's languages and literatures is less than native-language level, Accordance's floating detalls pane accompanies me helpfully and assures that this discipline remains for the most part a rapid-reading exercise.

I take the time to write all of this down in the hope that Accordance's potency and this testimony of frailty and resolution will encourage other Accordance users to make 2010 the first of many years of reading through the entire Bible in its original languages.

Sadly, I shall have to await future OakTree upgrades to lose those last ten superfluous pounds I'm carrying. I trust that, as

Muchos estudiantes de la biblia en el mundo de habla española se encontrarán dichosamente capacitados por medio de la incursión de Accordance y OakTree en su ámbito.

Gracias por tomarlos/nos en cuenta en sus planes.

¡Viva Accordance!

Gracia y paz,

Timothy Archer

One way that I made Accordance part of our Christmas this year was to take advantage of the holiday specials and buy a family member the Accordance Library Introductory package. I've certainly introduced lots of people to Accordance before, but this year, I took a greater step and personally paid for their introductory package.

Maybe this is something new that I can start doing every year.

To borrow from another slogan:

Accordance: when you care enough to give the very best :-)

This works for me if I use shift CONTROL plus or minus, or an appropriate number but does not work with shift command.

This works for me if I use shift CONTROL plus or minus, or an appropriate number but doies not work with shift command.

How come?

Chris

One thing that would also be helpful along these lines would be to have these bibliographic records available for import into a program like Endnote, using one of the industry standard export formats. This may also help overcome interoperability issues with Pages, which supports Endnote integration.

Steve: I didn't discuss any future plans in the blog post, but we're already cooking up some intuitive ways on how we may be able to do this type of thing in a future revision (plus some other stuff that you probably haven't thought to ask yet!). For now, you may want to experiment with creating a user tool for all your resources, then copy it to your final bibliography. 

Thank you, Accordance, in adding this feature!  It's just one of thousands that Accordance includes to help in understanding the Scriptures!

Thankful to God for Accordance,

Drew

I also wish that accordance supported the default Safari keys for changing tabs which is I think command{ and command}. Better to follow the lead of Apple on this stuff.

And I'm always hitting Command-T to open a new tab as per Safari as well. I think the key setup in Accordance needs to be brought in line with standards.

BTW, since at least on short keyboards you have to press shift anyway to get a +, I'm not sure what the distinction between ctrl-+ and ctrl-shift-+ is. Maybe it will be obvious when I get it downloaded.

If it ran the search automatically, Accordance would then tell you if the search fails. Since you might be control-plussing several times to skip one tool and get to another, the automatic search would present more of a hassle than hitting return.

For example, if I search the reference field of EBC for Isaiah 40 I get a hit. If I then go to NAC, I don't. If I then go to WBC-OT, I do. If I proceed to WBC-NT, I don't. Automatically running this search every time I control-plus would give me an error message when I go to NAC and WBC-NT, which I might have intended to skip past anyway.

At any rate, using shift-control-plus to change the contents of a Search window pane does update automatically without rerunning the search.

Thanks for the good work Accordance team!

Nice for those with keyboard skills (I lack them).

As Rick pointed out, I did mention the Details button, but I can certainly see how you missed it. I should have put it in bold or done something else to emphasize it. I\'m sorry for your frustration.

… I just want to graph the results to get an overview of what was found. To do this, I click the Details button, and in the Details Workspace that opens, I'll select Analysis Graph from the Graph pop-up menu.

I hope you get to know the Details function more, it will help you to get below the surface on any search you perform. For more on this, see the "Working with Search Results: Getting Statistical Details" section of the Training DVD, available here, for free.

If you ever run into a question on something like this, don't hesitate to post it on our user forum where an answer is just moments away. :-)

Hope this helps…

Thanks for blog.

Tom

I started using Keynote when it was first released because I was so frustrated with the lack of attention that Microsoft had given to PowerPoint over the years. In particular video didn\'t work well in PowerPoint, and in my opinion it still doesn\'t because it cannot actually be embedded as can be done in Keynote. 

Admittedly, Microsoft has finally improved PowerPoint a good bit, but I\'ve found Keynote to be so very superior that I use it exclusively now--at least twice a week at minimum. I still prefer the presenter screen in PowerPoint, but at least the Keynote presenter screen is customizable which helps. I generally give half my screen to my notes, moving current and next slide vertically to the left.

By the way, although I usually create a table in Keynote to put biblical texts side by side, especially when comparing translations, there are also times when I\'ve simply grabbed a screenshot of the Accordance Window since it looks pretty good, too!

This resource is designed to work alongside the KJV, but as David has shown in the screenshot above, you can display the ESV in parallel and still get some use out of it.

If you haven't seen it, we also offer the New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament in the Zondervan packages. This was written according to the critical Greek text (UBS/NA27), and contains references to the G/K numbering system.

Make sure you are subscribing to the correct feed address. If you click on the RSS icon on the right hand side of the page under the blog post titleit should direct you to Google Reader (or your default reader). You can also click the RSS icon in your browser's address bar, or copy / paste the following into Google: http://www.accordancebible.com/common/rss2/?channel=blog

Thanks

sclough:  I don't know of a single keyboard shortcut that will work, but you can right-click (or control-click) on the place name in a text, and then a contextual menu appears.  "Favorites" is one of the options in the contextual drop down menu, and workspaces are listed at the bottom of the Favorites list.

Peace, Kerry

One of the key things I like about this is the sharing of content connected with the power of the tool. I often find that I know how to use the tool, but am unable to connect it with the right content. Sure, I get the obvious ones, but half I never would have thought to include! 

I personally would love to see more specifics on how to unlock the value of the content like this!

Thanks sooo much!

I really like the blog design changes (and THANKS for thinking about the blog for this site design tweak!).

We have a wealth of resources available to aid in the use of Accordance, which you seem to allude to. I would encourage you to go through the Training DVD, which is now posted in entirety online for free. This will make a big difference in your use of Accordance.

Also, if there is ever a specific question you have on something, don't hesitate to post it in our forum where anyone from power users to Accordance developers can help.

That said, this exercise also shows the (current) limitations of highlighting, despite their current HIGHLY flexible capabilities. When it comes right down to it, one of the things I really like about the Precept approach is the ability to put symbols over words to visually communicate meaning. Color and pattern alone are just lacking meaning in all a but a few rare cases. 

Wouldn't it be great if you could highlight using a symbol font for the shape+pattern? Then I could highlight using a heart, a cross, a red X (the symbol I use for sin in my inductive study bible), a triangle (I use a blue one for God the father) and so on.  

What do you think David?

NA27 App  |      GNT-T

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Metzger      |  Translation 

The GNT-T and NA27 Apparatus are the top panes, and in the bottom have Metzger Text Commentary and a translation.  The NA27 Apparatus then has the NA27-GBS text for its Hypertext. 

Oh, and the new feed seems to have lost the little lamp icon when viewed in a blog reader.

As far removed as Ephesus was from Jerusalem, it was nevertheless a cosmopolitan port city with a sizable Jewish community. I don't think it's naive to believe that Ephesian Gentiles would have been aware that they were not permitted to enter the temple in Jerusalem.

One request, though. Could you think of some situations where these search criteria could be used for actual significant Bible searches; I'm not sure I'll ever have a need for knowing what the longest word in Isaiah is. ;-)

Excellent idea to have a quiz for those who know how to do some searching and want to sharpen their skills.  I have not come near competence and so appreciate not just the answer sheet but the explanation on how to do it.  Excellent teaching technique. Accordance is an incredible software package but the teaching you guys give adds exponential value. 

God's richest blessings to you all at Accordance!

All you need to do now is highlight these words. To do this open your highlight palette (cmd + option + 4), then hold down Shift and click any of the highlight styles. This will only highlight the search hits.

Now you can navigate to to any selection of Romans in a standard verse search and the words occurring fewer than 20x will be highlighted.

I hope that helps clarify.