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Biblical Feast Date Calculator

An Excel spreadsheet has been added (LINK) which calculates Biblical feast day dates for Passover, Pentecost, Tishri 1 (Blowing of Trumpets), Tishri 10 (the day of Atonement) and the Feast of Tabernacles for any year 20 BC to 100 AD, or 1900 to 2049 AD.  Verification testing has shown 100% agreement with feast dates cited by Harold Camping in his book "We Are Almost There" (pages 26-29).  The chart below summarizes these feast dates and significance as outlined by Camping along with results of the Feast Date Calculator:

Desktop Strong's Reference Tool

The desktop Strong's number viewer for Greek is a convenient tool for viewing Greek word meanings that is fully editable, permitting the user to modify and save custom Greek word meanings. In addition, the Excel file search worksheet allows custom searching of defintions, meanings and Greek words. The zip file (Strongs_Greek_Lookup.zip) contains the Visual Basic application and Excel database.

Below is a screenshot of the viewer:

The viewers small size permits it to sit on the desktop during Bible reading or study, ready to instantly lookup any Greek Strong's number.  Both consice and extended definitions are provided (labeled "Meaning" and "Translation"), both of which can be user edited.  The label "Edit Excel Database" permits the user to open the Excel Database file for editing.  The Excel file consists of 3 main worksheets, Lookup, Vocabulary and Search:

The Lookup worksheet is used by the Viewer to locate the Strong's number queried.  To edit a meaning, enter the Strongs number in Cell B4 and hit the "Goto Vocabulary Word" command button to display the raw data in the Vocabulary tab:

The Vocabulary worksheet is displayed and the target of the word seach is highlighted.  Note that text in column E is displayed by the viewer by the label "Meaning", while column H is displayed by the label "Translation".  These are the main fields users will want to edit.  Note also column G, which is a listing of Strong's numbers for other Greek words with related meanings.  Any words included here will be displayed in the viewer under the "Similar words" heading, with individual numbered shortcut links:

Clicking any of the numbered links will update the display for the similar word.  Whenever a similar word shortcut is clicked a return shortcut (RET) is provided back to the original word: 

Once any editing of the Excel Datebase is complete any changes can be saved by selecting the "Hide/Save Database" button on the viewer: 

The Search worksheet in the Excel Database can be used to search for common words in Vocabulary worksheet, either the Meaning (column E) or Translation (column H).  In the example below the word "mercy" is found in all the Strong's numbers displayed, allowing one to notice similar or related words. 

The search feature is also useful to a study of related Greek words, for example:

In the example above, all Greek words containing the word "γνῶσις" are displayed.  As one can see, the root word G1108 is found, along with the root word with various prefixs (ana, dia, epi and pro).  While each of these other words will have distinct meanings, they are often helpful in better appreciating the core meaning of a word. 

Note: this Excel Database is a work in progress!  The starting point for this database was the standard Greek word meanings attributed to Dr Strong, and it was these word definitions that were originally put into the Meanings of column E.  However since that time many modifications have been made based on various sources, a significant one being Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon.  It should be noted and emphasized however that the proper way to determine a words meaning is to study and understand how the Bible itself uses a word.  As this is done the Meanings in column E have been updated, and the Translation in column H created from scratch.  The Translation column is intended to be a concise defintion that can be used in translating the Greek Bible into English.  One will frequently notice the following format in the Translation column: 

The Translation here is "mercy [compassion, pity]".  This format was adopted because in very many cases a single English word is unable to capture the full sematic range of a Greek word, and this format allows for the addition of various clarifying words or even phrases, so that a fuller understanding of the Greek word could be immediately known even without doing a Strong's number lookup.  As an example consider the screen shot of Revelation 1 taken from a custom e-Sword module: