Inter-active with the optional companion bilingual dictionary/thesaurus Super Milon

Bilingual commentaries, verse by verse, of Rashi, the Torah exegete of the Middle Ages.

Comprehensive User’s Manual

Help Menu includes Contents and Index for quick and immediate consultation

Bilingual databases

Powerful bi-directional dictionary Hebrew to English, English to Hebrew

User expandable bilingual dictionary

Automatic prompting by the program to enter the English translation when adding a new word

Bilingual Lexicon database

Complete list of all Biblical names with their English equivalents and meaning

List of thousands of first names with their transliteration to Hebrew

Date converter from Hebrew calendar to Gregorian calendar

Date converter from Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar

Number converter, ordinal and cardinal, to Hebrew characters

Years database

Copy and paste of Hebrew words from the bilingual databases into the Search input fields.

Research features

Verses can be retrieved according to seven different methods, including key words.

Retrieved verses can be saved in a file, and pasted into any document.

Chronology of the Bible personalities and events.

Description of the Biblical festivals

List of the 613 commandments according to Maimonides, keyed to the Biblical text.

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Gematria features

Dictionary/concordance according to Gematria values

Seven methods of Gematria calculation

Unique user specified value alocation to letters

Gematria calculator

Search for words according to Gematria values

Search for phrases according to Gematria values

Search for verses according to Gematria values

Letter substitution

Letter analysis

Statistics features

Automatic calculation of expected number of key code occurrences before the search is executed

Automatic comparison between expected occurrences and actual number found ?Automatic report of Standard Deviation and Odds about the found key codes

Automatic statistics report generator

Search features

Automatic search of the key code as entered and in reverse order of the letters

Multi-code initial search, for key code and up to six alternative codes each time

Cut and paste between the key code and alternative codes input fields

Copy and paste of Hebrew words from the bilingual databases into the Search input fields.

Copy and paste from the Anagram function into the Search input fields.

Automatic and manual specification of the range of text to be searched

Unlimited number of skip intervals (determined only by range of text)

Maximum skip value can be entered manually or automatically calculated by program.

Automatic correction of maximum skip value if the number specified by the user is too large

Retrieves key codes up to a limit of 10000 occurrences

Automatic calculation of the maximum possible number of skips in the specified range

Automatic calculation of expected number of specified key code occurrences

Automatic display on screen table and printouts of the search results

Clicking any letter of the code on the screen table shows the letter in-context in the text.

Can import from the optional companion program bilingual dictionary/thesaurus Super Milon

Sorts found key codes occurrences by location, skip and codes

Saves your found code for immediate retrieval.

Includes pre-saved codes for immediate automatic retrieval

Matrix features

Found key code is shown in a vertical column in red letters inside circles.

The alternative codes found can be shown horizontally, vertically or diagonally

Codes found are shown in separate colors ?Codes found are shown inside different geometrical shapes, such as circles and squares ?Saves your retrieved matrix for immediate retrieval ?Area inside matrix can be specified for statistical calculations

Matrix can be printed

Matrix can be saved for later search within search

Areas can be marked in the matrix for statistical calculations of the codes inside ?Matrix can be reversed from left to right as in a mirror

Matrix can be shown horizontal or vertical

Matrix screen can be saved as an bmp file and pasted in any document ?Grid lines can be turned on/off

Geometrical shapes can be turned on/off

“Nikud (Hebrew vowels) can be turned on/off ?Includes pre-saved matrixes for immediate automatic retrieval ?Search within search in the matrix for unlimited number of additional codes

Additional codes can be searched horizontally, vertically, diagonally and diagonally “with steps? Search can be done in the visible matrix or in any specified area of the retrieved text

Identifies Hebrew words in the matrix and retrieves them with their English translation

Allows skip split that turns the two-dimensional matrix into a virtual multi-dimensional matrix Allows changing the parameters of the retrieved matrix, including range of text and length of line

Proximity feature ranks clustered codes

Instant “pop-up?of the Hebrew verse and its English translation when clicking on any letter

Instant identification of any letter in the matrix shows its number and location in the text.

Shows list of the codes marked in the matrix with their English translation, in their color and shape.

User-specified colors for highlighting any letter in the matrix. ?User-specified geometrical shapes for highlighting any letter in the matrix. ?Zoom-in and zoom-out allows you to increase or decrease the size of the visible matrix.

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About Gematria

Gematria is a method of exegesis (critical explanation or analysis of a text) used since the time of the Second Temple to derive insights into the sacred writings, to obtain interpretations of the text, or to illustrate a secular matter. The Hebrew language uses its letters to represent numbers. The first nine letters represent the numbers I to 9 respectively; the next 10 letters represent the numbers 10, 20... to 90; and the next four represent 100 to 400. The cipher alphabet makes possible the method known in Hebrew as gematria. The term gematria is based on the Greek geometria. In talmudic times the rabbis began to mean by it "calculation" in general. In this sense, they used the numerical value of the letters of one word or verse to construct a different word or verse, the numerical value of whose letters equals that of the original passage, in order to give the original verse an added or a different meaning. For example, in Genesis 32:5, Jacob sends a message to his brother, Esau, saying: “I sojourned with Laban? The Hebrew for "I sojourned" is "garti" , yod is 10, tav is 400, resh is 200, and gimmel is 3, adding up to a total of 613, which is the number of commandments specified in the Torah. In other words, the rabbis understood that Jacob was saying: “Although I sojourned with Laban, I kept the 613 commandments? The Book of Revelation in the New Testament uses Gematria to disguise the name of the emperor Nero by writing the Greek form of his name in Hebrew characters, which gives it a total numerical value of 666, (Revelation 13:18). The Keys to the Bible includes 7 different Gematria methods, plus one additional unique method: User Specified Values, found only in The Keys to the Bible. Letter substitution This encoding method, (substituting one letter for another), was used by the prophet Jeremiah to hide his references to Babel. For generations biblical scholars had been baffled by references in the book of Jeremiah to a city called Sheshach. The city was not mentioned anywhere else in the Bible nor in any contemporary document, and yet Jeremiah mentioned it twice, (25:26 and 51:41). Finally, a scholar applied the Letter Substitution decoding method, and discovered that Sheshach was in fact a code word for another very well known city, Babel! The decryption process is deceptively simple. The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, aleph, is substituted for the last letter, tav; the second letter, beth, for the one before the last one, shin, and so on. Sheshach in Hebrew is spelled Sh-Sh-K. Substituting the letters the word becomes B-B-L which is the Hebrew spelling for Babel. Since the decoding of Sheshach several more words that have been encoded in the Bible by the Letter Substitution method have been uncovered in the Hebrew text, unveiling hidden meanings that the scholars had no idea were there. The Keys to the Bible includes four methods of letter substitution: atbash (aleph for tav), atbach (aleph for het), previous (beth for aleph), and next (gimmel for beth).

Verse Retrieval

The Keys to the Bible allows you to retrieve specified verses, either from the Hebrew text or from the English text, into a separate file which you can export to your word processor. It includes eight different methods of specifying the verses to be retrieved: by key words, by range of text, by first letters of sequential words, by last letters of sequential words, by first letters of sequential verses, by last letters of sequential verses, by first/last letters of verses, and by strings of letters.

Biblical Festivals

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The program includes a description of all the biblical festivals, and a special concordance of all the verses in the Bible where they are mentioned.

Chronology

The Keys to the Bible includes a detailed chronology of all the events in the Bible, which will help you to better understand, and place them into their time perspective.

Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar date converter and vice versa The program includes a feature which converts the Gregorian calendar to the Hebrew calendar, and vice versa. Plus it gives additional information such as the Torah portion of the following Saturday. This screen also allows you, by pressing a button, to go to that Torah portion.

The Torah and the Prophets readings for the week. This feature allows you to instantly go in the text to the Torah and/or Prophets portion of the week. You can even choose if the text of the Prophets to be read is according to the Ashkenazi or Sephardi tradition!

Rashi commentaries of the Torah

Rashi, (acronym for Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac who lived in France in the 11th century), is the greatest Jewish commentator on the Bible and the Talmud. His commentary on the Bible, and particularly on the Torah, (which is included in The Keys to the Bible), has had the most profound influence on Jewish and Christian biblical scholars. The bilingual comment is given verse by verse, and it is full of insights.

The 613 commandments of the Torah according to Maimonides The work of the great Jewish-Spanish philosopher, physician, and codifier of the Middle Ages, Maimonides, (Rambam in Hebrew), is today studied and honored by people of all backgrounds and religions. Maimonides analyzed the Torah and found there six hundred and thirteen commandments, 248 Mandatory, and 365 Prohibitions. The Keys to the Bible has arranged these commandments according to subjet. By pressing a button next to any one of them, the program takes you to the place in the biblical text where the commandment appears.

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