HebrewBible App Reviews

For the price I am very disappointed. First, this app is very unpolished for the price. While its nice to have the audio recordings in Hebrew, the sound quality is atrocious: it sounds like a recording from 50 years ago, laden with white noise. There is also no indication of where the reader is in terms of the text. I wish there was a function to isolate what is being read or to be able to fast forward or rewind readings. It will just read a passage entirely from begging to end, there is no method of isolation for study. Furthermore, the search function is broken. I copied and pasted STRAIGHT FROM THE TEXT and it showed no results. Really? For this price? And to top it off you have to have an Internet connection? I had no idea people needed an Internet connection thousands of years ago to read the Tanakh. Finally, this isnt a real Hebrew-to-English such as those done by the Jewish Publication Society (JPS), this is just the Hebrew version pasted next to the King James Version - if you dont know Hebrew youre not getting the real translation! 

I use this app all the time. It can cache bibles or individual books for off line viewing. It has choice of parallel translations (not interlinear) or just Hebrew. My favorite though is the Hebrew reader bible. It has a Hebrew only text but touch any word for an instant dictionary entry with great helpful information. Search for other occurrences of the words. Use the maps. Its all very well done and has been adding regular new features for the year I have used it. There are several options for Tanach and I am sure others are very good but this one is very nicely done.

Its great to have this reference app! The voice used for the reading is and a good match for the text. Tapping a word for its meaning, pronunciation and related grammatical information is quick and thorough. The maps are fantastic for visualizing the progression of story through places and events, easy to use and google-sharp. The English translation isnt King James Version, as another review suggests--although KJV is frequently close in translation--but something closer to a transliterated version which I find helpful in developing a better sense for ancient Hebrew. Thanks to those who created this app. Most apps improve over time, Im sure this one will too. Meanwhile, Im finding it useful, informative and accessible.

I love it. Worth every penny and more. Every update brings huge improvements!

Theres a better one on the AppStore. Similar name, but its complete and 1GB for actual use. Its good, this is a toy.

This program is wonderful. I love the root look up with definitions in each binyan! I have recommended it to many of my friends and they are loving it too! Its a great study tool. Having the BDB page right there is handy as well as the strings number. The only drawback to the BDB here is that my iPhone screen is a bit too small and so i can only see a small portion of the page. I will give it a full five stars and would even pay a bit more if they would add trope and stam options especially if the weekly parshiyot could be looked up by date.

I do like this app; having the spoken Hebrew text is especially nice! One thing would make this even better: highlight each word of text as it is spoken.

This app is sluggish on my iPad 2 and crashes often. The Lexicon is just photographs of a real lexicon. Its nothing intuitive. These photographs actually make the app a larger file than necessary. Three features dont load/open: the Words, Maps and Topics sections dont load/open when i touch each icon. Im deleting this for now. Its not worth the ten dollars. Im glad I downloaded it when it was free. I recommend downloading Olive Tree Bible Reader and getting the free Hebrew Bible there. You can also download QuickMem Hebrew app which is also free.

I love this app, it helps me study on the go, and I even prefer it to my own tanakh at home because of the feature that allows me to se what a word is with the tap of a finger. I wish, however, you could make notes in the bible!! If that was added then I would give 6 stars out of 5 (:

Great app! I use it often.

I appreciate this app very much as it has been a great and valuable resource for my Hebrew and Bible study. Because I love this app, I would like to see some improvement in the following areas: 1. Glitches--it does not go to the chapter it indicates (like when I want it to go to ch 6, it goes to ch 1, all the time), and crashes often. 2. Audio--I would like it to be able to read individual verses, not just reading through a chapter without pausing or fast forwarding/rewinding. This is important to me so I can memorize my favorite verses. 3. Internet connection--I would like at least the body texts to be downloaded to my phone. 4. Word study--hyperlink the words with dictionary or the Strong would be great. Thank you for the future improvement.

This is an awesome, inexpensive app which not only helped through two semesters of Hebrew and Hebrew Bible, but also is helpful in my weekly textual criticism and research! My only suggestion would be parsing information for each occurrence. It would be a big project, but it would make this app significantly more valuable!

As a retired individual who did not have the advantage of this tremendous tool early in my studies, I highly recommend it! After all, you can listen to the entire Hebrew Bible in your choice of dialect, instantly obtain definitions of each word and gain depth with the BDB. Instantly you can go from Book to Book. It is beyond 5 stars...definitely a "10" !

This app is perfect for serious studying and teaching Hebrew. You have the Lexicon and the BDB available in just a touch of the screen. I teach Hebrew at Scofield Seminary and I use it every day.

Being able to listen and read the text at the same time is simply excellent! Thank you!

This app is a great study tool. It is such a benefit to be able to pull together separate hard to find capabilities into one tool. To be able to read the Hebrew Tanakh, have it read to you in audio by a rabbi, look up words by common roots, connect right to the BDB lexicon and pull in maps all in one app is such a blessing. The more time I spend with it, the more it speeds up my learning and understanding. Thank you for your labor to provide this app.

Please make it to where you can adjust the font size of the words, because theyre way too little.

I like to see text highlights when in play /listening mode. Highlight the portion that is being read helps non Hebrew speakers to correspond Hebrew words with translation.

This app is worth every penny I spent. It is great for a beginner Hebrew student as you can hear the text read by a native Hebrew speaker. You can look up words in BDB and find other locations they are used in the text. The map feature is excellent to find the places spoken about and you can get all kinds of information on Bible related topics. This is a fantastic app for a Bible student!!

Having the Biblical Hebrew text and being able to click each individual word and get a basic definition and a link to the Brown Driver Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) page is extremely useful for learning the vocabulary. This app is a great complement to the "biblical hebrew" app, which stores the BDB offline. I would recommend it for all Hebrew teachers and students. Would be great to find a slower Hebrew reading of the bible text for the audio. Abraham Shmuelof reads way too fast for me to learn proper pronunciation on a word-by-word basis.