Accordance is a Bible study program for Apple

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and Android, developed by OakTree Software, Inc.OakTree Software
on company site Although originally written exclusively for the

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(and then

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), Accordance was then released in a Windows-native version, although it was available prior to this by using the Basilisk II emulator. Since 2018 there has also been an Accordance app for Android. The program is used for both private and academic study.

OakTree Software

OakTree Software, Inc. is based in

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, United States. The company has focused on the study of Biblical texts.

Program history

Roy Brown, OakTree Software's president and application developer, created one of the first Bible programs available for the Macintosh, known as ThePerfectWord, in 1988. ThePerfectWord was later bought by another company and renamed MacBible. By the early 1990s there were a number of general Bible study programs for the Macintosh. However, Brown saw the need for a new program which would make it easy to engage in more sophisticated Bible study, enabling scholars and pastors to perform in-depth analysis of the original

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texts of the Bible. Accordance 1.0 was released in February 1994.Accordance: History
on company site The translators of the Holman Christian Standard Bible, completed in 2004, used it for word studies, comparisons and instant searches. A version of Accordance 5.0 rewritten to run natively under

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was released in 2002. The company has continued to add and improve features, such as adding the native

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rendering system. Version 8 was released in May 2008 and introduced a universal binary for Intel-based Macs. Additional versions were released in 2010 through 2016. Version 12 (2016) saw a refreshing of the packages available, where, apart from individual modules, users must purchase collections from a specialized stream (Hebrew, Greek, English or Graphics). Version 13 was released in November 2019 that included a new look, built-in training, and import from PDF. Accordance for iOS was released on December 30, 2010, as a free app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. After running through an emulator for many years, in 2013 Accordance released as Windows-native software, with upgrades and updates generally running in parallel with the Mac software. Accordance for Android was released in 2018.

Modules available

The program is centered on the Biblical text,User interface concepts
on company site but has many additional texts. There are optional modules, detailed study tools for the original Hebrew and Greek, commentaries and reference dictionaries, with a

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system to interconnect the Biblical text with libraries of ancient extra-biblical material. Some modules available include: *

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Targum A targum (, ''interpretation'', ''translation'', ''version''; plural: targumim) was an originally spoken translation of the Hebrew Bible (also called the ) that a professional translator ( ''mǝṯurgǝmān'') would give in the common language o ...

Pseudepigrapha A pseudepigraph (also :wikt:anglicized, anglicized as "pseudepigraphon") is a false attribution, falsely attributed work, a text whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past. Th ...

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and early Christian writings such as the

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Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, abbreviated as BHS or rarely BH4, is an edition of the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible as preserved in the Leningrad Codex, and supplemented by masoretic and text-critical notes. It is the fourth edition in ...

with the Groves-Wheeler Westminster Hebrew Morphology *Louw & Nida Semantic Domain Lexicon * GNT Robinson Byzantine *

Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts, ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period (516 BCE – 70 CE). They were discovered over a period of ten years, between ...

*Bible Atlas and Bible Lands Photo Guide *Comprehensive Cross Reference interactive module for Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, Philo, Nag Hammadi Library, Pseudepigrapha, Old Testament Apocrypha, New Testament Apocrypha, Plato, Pythagoras, Dhammapada, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Tacitus, Talmud, New and Old Testaments, Apostolic and Early Church Fathers {{Cite web, url=https://accordancebible.com/comprehensive-crossreferences/, title=New Release: Comprehensive Bible Cross References, first=Rick, last=Bennett, date=December 1, 2011, website=Accordance Although the product has many modules, these are packaged into
Collections
(which have replaced all of the earlier "bundles" and "libraries").

References

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