by Harry Hahne

GRAMCORD is the most powerful Bible program available for Greek New Testament research. It allows more refined New Testament grammatical searches than any other Bible program for two reasons:

1. The GRAMCORD Greek New Testament is the most reliable grammatically tagged Greek New Testament text available. Words are primarily tagged according to grammatical form rather than function, in contrast to the more widely used Friberg Greek New Testament text, which uses more functional tags. (See Interpretive Implications of Using Bible-Search Software for New Testament Grammatical Analysis for more information on differences between machine-readable Bible texts).

2. The GRAMCORD search engine includes numerous refined search options, enabling difficult questions to be answered that are impossible with other Bible programs. Although the GRAMCORD New Testament text is also available with Logos Bible Software level 3 and 4, the GRAMCORD search engine is much more sophisticated.

Versions of GRAMCORD are available for Windows, Macintosh and DOS computers:

• The DOS version of GRAMCORD allows sophosticated grammatical and word searches in the Greek New Testament, but it does not include any English Bibles. The Greek search capabilities are unsurpassed in power and flexibility. Simple to intermediate searches are conducted by selecting choices from a easy to use search dialog. A flexible but easily learned command language can be used for advanced searches. The generated grammatical concordance includes the Greek text of matching Bible verses and statistical information. The results can be sent to a WordPerfect, NotaBene or ChiWriter text file. At only $100, including the ChiWriter Greek/Hebrew/English word processor, GRAMCORD for DOS is an inexpensive tool for advanced New Testament research.

• The Windows version of GRAMCORD uses the Bible Companion program to create a complete integrated Bible study environment. Versions of Bible Companion are available with numerous English Bible versions, Greek lexicons, non-grammatically tagged Hebrew Bible and Septuagint, basic public domain reference books and a few non-English Bible versions. It can perform word searches on the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint, but it does not currently allow grammatical searches (expected late 1997).

• The Macintosh version of GRAMCORD is integrated with Accordance to create a complete integrated Bible study environment. It includes an even richer available selection of Bible versions and reference tools than the Windows version. It also allows grammatical searches on the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint.

  A detailed review of Accordance for the Macintosh is available and a review of Bible Companion for Windows is being prepared.

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  June 23, 1997
  Copyright © 1997 Harry Hahne

System Requirements:
Windows 3.1 or later. Available on CD-ROM or floppy disks.

Version:
Bible Companion: 1.2M
GRAMCORD search engine: 4.06

Availability:
Commercial software available from developer.

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