HebrewFlash Biblical
By Paul Avery
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Description
The perfect Biblical Hebrew flash card app. No more carrying a stack of flash cards around anymore. It's all right there on your iPhone or iPod touch.
This app contains all words used 50 or more times in the Hebrew Old Testament. That's 667 words total. This is perfect for Bible scholars and students. Note: Due to the resources I had available, I was not able to include the number of appearances for the individual words.
Navigating through the words couldn't be simpler. To see the next Hebrew word in order, tap the top right half of the screen, top left half for the previous Hebrew word. To see the English translation, tap anywhere on the bottom half. If you prefer a more card-like interface, just rotate the device horizontally.
Need to focus on some specific words? No problem! Just create your own user customized list.
What's New in Version 3.0.1
- Bugfix: Corrected support for iPad
- Bugfix: Corrected Hebrew word display in Create/Edit list view
Customer Reviews
Love this app
This is a very good app! The only reason I give it a 4 star rating is because sometimes it glitches and turns off. Also there are some misspellings of the English definition words. But there aren't many mistakes and whenever it glitches, just turn it back on and its usually fine. But this is an extremely valuable app for those heading to seminary. It's obviously much easier to carry around on an iPad or iPhone than a bunch of flash cards and its certainly much cheaper. Furthermore, you can work on vocabulary in almost any down time. It has really helped me to be prepared as I jump into seminary this fall. Thanks Paul Avery! Now we just need a parsing app!
A few noticeable mistakes and needs
The app is overall good but basic. A few of the definitions are misspelled and even translated wrongly. Verbs are presented In the form of roots and translated as the simple pa'al form. This causes problems with many of the roots which have different definitions in other verb forms. It would be helpful to have a quiz feature. Overall, this is a nice way to review vocab but I would not recommend it for learning.
Making your own lists
It's a decent little app. It's really nice on an iPod touch or iPhone. It needs some work though. It's list making function works but it needs an easier way to find the words you want to include. The words in the main list are not at all random but they are ordered by the number of times they show up in the Biblical text so all you have to do is find out that number from another source such as "The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew" by Van Pelt and Pratico which lists all words used 10 or more times. The book give you the words ranking number that you can use to get close to the word in the main list. It would be great if the ranking number appeared in the main list but alas it doesn't. BUT, when you're working through the cards of the main list or your own list creation the ranking number is that little number you see at the top of the card. So the ranking number is there in the app already; how hard can it be to show that number in the main list? One caveat though--different ranking lists can have slightly different counts leading to slightly different ranking numbers but the word in one list will be close to the same number in another list.
- $2.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: May 20, 2011
- Version: 3.0.1
- Size: 6.0 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Paul Avery
- © 2011 Paul Avery
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later
