ArabBible 4.9
Device: Mac OS
Category: Education
Price: $89.99, Version: 4.8 -> 4.9 (iTunes)
Description:ArabBible is an innovative and powerful app, designed to help English-speakers interactively learn the Classical Arabic of the Arabic Bible.
FROM A JOURNAL REVIEW...
“ArabBible is the most sophisticated and comprehensive aid available for students of the Arabic New Testament. Packed with features that will enhance any student’s understanding of the Arabic New Testament, ArabBible fills a significant gap in this important area of study.”
FROM A PROFESSOR OF MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES...
“You can’t imagine how much easier my own Arabic language studies would have been had I had a tool like ArabBible.”
FEATURES…
• Complete grammatical explanations for every single word in the Arabic New Testament, plus several Old Testament books (more than 220,000 words). Click on any word to find a wealth of lexical and syntactical information. Not only is there a dictionary entry for each word, but contextual details are included as well. Grammatical analysis is something not even the best dictionary can provide.
• Covers the entire New Testament, plus a growing number of crucial Old Testament portions (Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, Daniel, Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, Haggai and Malachi).
• Back translation into English helps you see the structure of the literal Arabic at a glance. It can immediately remove the confusion involved in understanding a particular verse or word.
• High-quality audio recitation capability for each verse in the New Testament. The Scriptures are carefully read by a native Arabic-speaker.
• Capability to slow down audio recitation to 50% of normal reading speed without reducing quality.
• Verse notes help clarify difficult passages. They also point out important, unusual or interesting issues concerning the verse. Using the notes is like having an Arabic expert sitting right beside you.
• Bible Concordance. ArabBible features a 'smart searcher' that provides for a much more comprehensive and accurate search than a typical word-search function. This is especially critical in Arabic, as a word may include prefixes and/or suffixes, and so may obscure the actual word core being sought. Amazingly, this Concordance will match a word that appears in ANY form!
• Root Analyzer. It is widely recognized that having a good understanding of words grouped by root will flatten the learning curve required for Arabic vocabulary acquisition. When you select an Arabic root, ArabBible will compile a listing of all root-related words used in Scripture.
• Most Frequently Used Words. The most efficient and satisfying way to retain the vocabulary of the Scriptures is to focus on learning those words which appear most frequently, and leave the more obscure words until you have a better grasp of the language. But how do you know which words occur often and which do not? ArabBible solves this problem for you by presenting a list of the most frequently used words in the Scriptures. You can choose how many words you want to be presented with, as well as what kinds of words.
• Chapter Vocabulary. Grouping words in the context of a particular chapter can greatly help memorization. ArabBible facilitates this with the Chapter Glossary section. All the words of a particular chapter may be viewed and printed out, being grouped by part of speech.
• Verb Conjugator. With the click of a button, a selected verb is conjugated for you. Verb conjugation can sometimes be difficult for the beginner to remember, and this kind of grammatical aid elucidates not only the verb in context, but also gives a quick reminder as to how a particular kind of verb is parsed. Even for an advanced-level student, an occasional visit to the Verb Conjugator can help, especially when investigating infrequently used verbs, uncommon forms (e.g. Form XII), or verbs that simply defy explanation.
What's New
• Added the books of Joel and Haggai.
• Optimized program performance.
• Minor bug fixes.
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