Showing posts with label spanish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spanish. Show all posts

Friday, April 4, 2008

Kalos: Free Greek Dictionary and Morphological Analysis Resource

Thanks to a link from Danny Zacharias on his Deinde blog, I gave the Kalos greek software a try. Here is their description:

Kalós is a free Classic Greek Dictionary, trilingual, with definitions in English, French and Spanish. It contains approximately 25,000 entries

You are welcome to download it, and start enjoying it right away.

Kalós also includes New Testament and koiné vocabulary, including biblical names, which makes it a very useful resource for religion and theology scholars.
It has versions for both Windows and Mac, and you set up language/font preferences the first time you start the program. It is indeed free and fully functional, but to get rid of an occasional nag screen, you can purchase an activation key for US$29.

The dictionary works as you would expect. When you type in the dictionary form of a word (either typing in Greek letters or using Beta code), you can use diacritics or ignore them and specify a part of speech in order to speed up the search. The morphological analysis tool is similarly helpful for entering any form.
Perhaps most helpful is the inflection tool. Using the word you entered in the Dictionary tab, the inflection tab lets you generate tables based on that word and then save the table in PDF, HTML, RTF, CSV, or XLS format.
In addition, it can generate a number of other tables for prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions... (Check the sample tables here.)

It is a classical Greek tool (so you have the option to include dual forms or Doric infinitives), but it includes most Koine Greek vocab including biblical names. All in all, a fine Greek resource you may wish to add to your collection. In another post, I will describe additional ways of creating paradigm charts using other software resources.

Spanish Bible Software Resources

I encouraged my daughter to take Spanish in school, but I confess that I do not know Spanish at all. Still, I'm glad to see Bible software resources being produced for Spanish speakers. Phil Gons at the Logos blog just posted on Spanish resources available in Logos/Libronix. The only other Spanish-based Bible software that I know of are the ones that the American Bible Society produced quite early on, i.e., around 2000. They still have some for sale--and note that they offer a simple Mac program and the Win-based programs are Libronix ones--but it appears that Logos has pretty much superseded them.
If you know of and want to recommend other Spanish-based resources, please add them to the comments here.