Accordance Bible Software vs Cross+Reference

Accordance® is a fast and powerful Bible study app that lets you read, search, and explore the Bible. Read • Read the Bible and follow along with a commentary or your own study notes • Compare two Bible translations side by side that will scroll in sync with one another • Follow a Bible reading plan • Take notes, create highlights, and add bookmarks that will sync with the desktop version of Accordance Search • Search the Bible for words or verses • Search the Bible using powerful tags and commands • Search Greek and Hebrew Bibles (samples included) by lemma, inflected form, or root Explore • Press and hold when reading to bring up the magnifying glass, then select a word to view Instant Details (definition and/or parsing if available) • Look up unfamiliar words in Bible dictionaries and lexicons • Tap on hyperlinked verse references to view the full passage in the Instant Details popover The following resources are included in your initial download of Accordance: • ESV Bible with Strong’s numbers (ESVi) • World English Bible (WEB) • Samples of the Greek New Testament and Hebrew Bible • Easton’s Bible Dictionary • Outlines of each book of the Bible • Margin notes and cross-references • Bible Lands PhotoGuide Sampler • Kohlenberger/Mounce Concise Hebrew–Aramaic Dictionary • Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary • BiblicalTraining.org If you register an Accordance account, you will also be able to download a iOS Starter collection including: • The 1901 American Standard Version (ASV) • French: Louis Segond Bible • German Elberfelder 1905 • German Lutherbibel 1912 • Greek and Hebrew Strong's Dictionaries • Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names • Nave's Topical Bible • Portuguese Bible: João Ferreira De Almeida Atualizada (ALMEIDA) • Spanish 1909 Reina Valera with Strong's numbers • Dr. J's Bible Study Methods • Maps Sampler • Timeline Sampler • Chronological Readings • Devotional Readings • Classic Passages • Parables & Miracles If you would like to add more resources to your library, Accordance has an extensive collection of Bibles and study tools available for purchase. These materials range from Christian classics to Jewish publications to high-end reference works to the Dead Sea Scrolls in Hebrew. Whatever your Bible study needs may be, Accordance has you covered. Questions or comments? Come join the discussion in our support forums at https://accordance.bible/forums/

Cross+Reference is a new way to Study the Bible. Read+Research+WriteItDown The App focuses on having a selected verse. This Sync verse gives context to what you are reading. The Sync Verse updates the content in other panels allowing them to be updated in the context of the Verse. Are you a Diligent Seeker? Cross+Reference is designed to help both the novice and experience Bible Scholars in research and improving their understanding of scriptures. You may display content to fill from one to ten Panels. Each Panel contains any of several content types from Bible verses to Notes and Videos. The full list of Panels is listed below by category. The Panel layouts are highly customizable and may be saved and recalled for quick access. Automatically Sync your Study (collection of notes, videos, etc.) between iPhone and iPad. Key Concepts: - Reading - Using the sync verse (see above) gives the Cross+Reference user the ability to quickly lookup a person or location without going to another App or the Web to get the details. The cities and kings of Israel are very important to understanding the deep details of how and why certain things happened the way they did through out the Bible. Using a research tool like the built in Easton Dictionary allows you to get context for the people and places of the selected verse. Cross+Reference quickly looks up each word in the selected verse and displays the found entries in a list. Selecting an entries displays the details. Additionally, Naves and Thompson concordances give similar ability with their content. - When taking notes simply typing a Book:Chapter:Verse reference (1Sam:16:15 for example) highlights as a link that when tapped immediately updates the Primary Bible sync verse to that verse. These links can even be copied into other Applications such as Apple Notes and can be tapped on there and opened in Cross+Reference - The Study - A Cross+Reference Study is a user document that contains Notes, web pages, documents, Videos links and a variety of other content that relates to a specific Bible topic. Whether it is for a personal study, Bible Study notes or the outline for an upcoming sermon, Cross+Reference provides many of the tools to aid in reading and research. Loads of features with lots to explore With 14 different Panel Types (see panel help for details) Reading Panels Primary Bible Panel - the Bible version that updates the Sync verse. It has 3 variations - Primary Bible - Select the Header to select the Version, Book Chapter and verse - Alternate Bible - Same as Primary but displays two Bible version side by side - Verse Selection - Same as Primary but the Version, Book Chapter and verse overlay remains available while scrolling the Bible Standalone Bible - same as Primary Bible except it does not update the Sync Verse Reader Version - Chapter based instead of verse base. allows reading in a more traditional way Multiple Bible Version - Allows displaying a the current Sync verse for Bible Version available Favorite - Create and maintain favorite verses for easily recalling the verse text. Research Panels Chapter Overview - provides a short write up for quick access to the major events and topics in a chapter. Based on the Westminster Reference Bible summaries. Search - Detailed search for finding specific word searches topics within the Bible. Also provides a convenient Web Search tab for searching the Web for a topic. Verses Reference - See all the text related to the sync verse Easton Dictionary Thompson Topics Naves Topical Concordance WriteItDown Panels Tag Bookmarks - Tag verses and research tools search terms for a Study Notes - with Bible verse link detection Notations - Notes Notation - Note taking - Bible Link Notation - A verse - Image with Note Notation - Web Notation - Web page - Document Notations - PDF, Office, iWork Docs, and other doc types - Video Notations - YouTube Video Links, Web Video URLs, video files from Photos and Files