What Achaia Can Do

Ask

• Ask a question and get an answer written from the library, every claim cited to the paragraph it came from. Tap a citation to read the passage, or open it in the book.
• Name the writers you want to hear from (Calvin, the Puritans, the early fathers), or let Achaia find who has written on it. No one author fills the answer.
• Answers can look up a word in Hebrew or Greek, trace a theme through Scripture, compare parallel passages, read what the commentators say on a verse, or set out a passage as a block diagram. You can see each step it took.
• Scripture references in an answer show their verses when tapped; Strong’s numbers show their entry and lead to a word study.
• Attach a PDF, Word document, EPUB, text file or photo, and ask about it.
• Have an answer read aloud, look up an English word in it, copy it with its sources, or keep it in a notebook.
• Chats are titled for you, kept and searchable.

Read

• The library: nearly two hundred works by over two hundred authors, from the early church fathers through the Reformers and Puritans to later commentators and preachers, each readable in full.
• Bibles: the King James, American Standard, Revised, Berean Standard, Berean Literal and Majority Standard versions, the Clementine Vulgate, and the Greek New Testament and Hebrew Old Testament.
• Tap a word in a Bible to see the Hebrew or Greek behind it and what the scholarly lexicons say of it (Louw and Nida, Abbott-Smith, Liddell and Scott, Brown–Driver–Briggs, the UBS Hebrew dictionary), with the verse’s cross references, its themes, its parallel passages and the library’s commentary on it.
• Cross references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ranked by how many readers found each one helpful.
• Select any word in a book to look it up in Webster’s 1913 dictionary or Wiktionary.
• Highlight in several colors and add notes; your highlights are listed in one place and shown wherever the passage appears.
• On a larger screen, read side by side in several panes: a Bible beside a commentary that keeps to the same verse as you scroll, a word study beside the text.
• Your place in every book is kept, on every device. Choose the typeface, size and how Bibles are laid out.
• Have a book read aloud, and download any book you may share as an EPUB.

Study

• Word studies: every place a Hebrew or Greek word stands in Scripture, grouped by its senses and by how it is translated, narrowed to a book or a part of the Bible, with its lexicon entries.
• Themes: a subject from Nave’s and Torrey’s topical Bibles traced through Scripture period by period, with what the library’s commentators say at each stage.
• Parallel passages: the Gospels side by side, and the Old Testament passages the New quotes, with the shared words marked.
• Compare Bibles: a passage in several translations at once, the same words marked.

Notebooks

• Gather what you are studying into a notebook: books or parts of them, passages and the commentaries on them, themes, words, answers and your own files (scanned pages are read for you).
• Ask questions of the notebook alone or of the whole library, with a goal that shapes every answer: your own study, teaching a class, or preaching.
• Have documents written from it: an outline, a study guide, an audio overview, or anything you describe. Keep notes beside them.

Listen

• Audiobooks of works in the library, your place kept as you go and the speed yours to choose.
• The text follows along as it is read, and opens in the reader where you are.

On Your Phone

Achaia works in any browser on a phone, tablet or computer. There is also an Android app, which keeps playing audiobooks with the screen locked and can download them to listen offline; an iPhone and iPad app is on the way.