Almeida Concordância

Starting text

The edition starts only from the Almeida, Revista e Corrigida edition (1900/1911), in the public domain, already with updated spelling (the A1911C edition, also ours). No other Bible text is used as a starting point.

Where the text comes from: Project Gutenberg no. 62383

What changed

• Old words and forms get today's form, by rules: “mui” → “muito”, “aborrecer” → “odiar”, “concerto” → “aliança”, “banda” → “lado”, “ajuntar” → “juntar”, “porquanto” → “porque”.
• Verbs and pronouns: “buscar-me-heis” → “me buscareis”, “ordenara” → “tinha ordenado”, “que diz-lhes” → “que lhes diz”, “havendo dito” → “tendo dito”.
• Spelling leftovers in the A1911C (“logar” → “lugar”, “azas” → “asas”) and punctuation (a colon in the middle of a sentence becomes a semicolon).

What did not change

• The classic Almeida style: the rhythm of the sentences, the “vós” form of address and the solemn way of speaking stay.
• Familiar words such as “bem-aventurado”, “porventura”, “ímpio”, “Senhor” and the “vós” form of address were kept on purpose.
• The structure: same verses, same numbering, no empty verse.

Side by side

The same verse before and after. The differences show in the text on the right.

How it was made

Base: the Almeida, Revised and Corrected Edition (1900/1911), in the public domain, already with updated spelling (A1911C). On top of it, 121 general rules and 121 hand-made exceptions, each with its reason noted.

7,808 of 31,102 verses change beyond punctuation (25.1%). The rest stay as in A1911C.

Before and after examples

Archaic words replaced

Words that today's reader does not understand or that sound wrong, replaced by a general rule (one per word and sense):

• logar → lugar896 times
• porquanto → porque607 times
• banda → lado297 times
• concerto → aliança282 times
• pelejar → lutar242 times
• ajuntar → juntar187 times
• parir → dar à luz (mulher)123 times
• mui → muito123 times
• benignidade → bondade120 times
• arrabaldes → arredores112 times
• aborrecer → odiar103 times
• donde → de onde83 times
• fazenda → patrimônio / bens82 times
• caridade → amor76 times
• outeiro → colina73 times
• derribar → derrubar68 times
• ciência → conhecimento58 times
• galardão → recompensa42 times
• presidente → governante31 times
• rogar → pedir31 times
• alumiar → iluminar22 times
• cerrar → fechar19 times
• fressura → vísceras17 times
• quebradura → fratura / rachadura17 times
• aparelhar → preparar16 times
• folgar → alegrar-se15 times
• agravo → ofensa14 times
• arraial → acampamento12 times
• aleijado → deficiente10 times
• inchação → inchaço10 times
• remidor → redentor9 times
• néscio → insensato9 times
• sobejo → resto8 times
• exator → cobrador8 times
• peita → suborno8 times
• fraldas → orlas das vestes5 times
• cousa → coisa1 times
• aleivosia → traição1 times
• alimária → animal1 times

Words that stay, and why

These words were reviewed and kept on purpose (occurrences in the text):

• varão322 timesA well-known biblical word still understood; replacing it with “homem” would lose the tone of the text.
• mancebo152 timesStill recognized and common in Portuguese Bibles; part of the classic tone.
• cingir29 timesA consecrated biblical image (girding the loins); no simple replacement keeps the image.
• lombos63 timesA consecrated biblical image; “waist” or “hips” would change the meaning.
• cerviz19 timesA consecrated expression (“stiff neck”), understood from context.
• porventura487 timesStill current; it gives the tone of a question that expects an answer.
• manjar164 timesStill used for a delicacy; the context makes it clear.
• apascentar32 timesThe image of the shepherd and the flock, central in the Bible.
• moço184 timesA word that is still alive and harmless.
• opróbrio57 timesA consecrated word, understood from context (shame, humiliation).
• enfermidade51 timesStill current, with the right meaning.
• prostrar-se34 timesA gesture of worship, a word still understood.
• aposento7 timesStill used for a room of the house.
• tornar (voltar)369 timesNot replaced across the board: “tornar-se” (become) and “tornar a fazer” (do again) make sense today, and “voltar” (return) needs verse-by-verse reading.
• refrigera2 timesKept by the team's choice: the verb “refrigera” of Psalm 23.3 stays, a very familiar form.
• assentar-se, assentado231 timesKept by the team's choice: “assentar-se” and “assentado” are familiar forms still in use.
• parir (animais e sentido figurado)12 timesFor women it was replaced by “dar à luz” (give birth); it stays for animals and figurative or poetic language (Isa 66.7-9, Gal 4.27).
• vós, tendes, credes3,565 timesThe “vós” form of address (tendes, credes, sois) belongs to the edition's classic style and stays.
• unicórnio9 timesA word from the Almeida tradition, well known; it stays.
• bem-aventurado102 timesA familiar biblical word from the Beatitudes; it stays.

Copy check

An automatic test compares every verse with copies of other protected translations, kept only for checking and never published. Every match needs an explanation: a general rule, a common dictionary word or an exception of ours. Limits: at most 5% of verses with a vocabulary match per translation and 50% per rule. Result today, with no unexplained match:

• ACF: 393 verses with a vocabulary match out of 31,119 compared
• ALMEIDA LIVRE: 43 verses with a vocabulary match out of 31,098 compared

How it was made

A program reads the A1911C and applies, in order, a list of rules (spelling, vocabulary, verb forms and pronouns, punctuation). Where a rule alone would leave a sentence awkward, a manual review fixes only that passage and records the reason. Every difference comes from a rule or a recorded exception, and an automatic test checks this. Another test compares the result with a sample of copyrighted texts and demands an explanation for any coincidence. The full record is in docs/almeida-concordancia.md.

Clean room

Every change comes from a documented rule. No copyrighted Bible (ARC, ARA, ACF, NAA, NVI…) was consulted.

The numbers

12,241 of 31,102 verses changed

Most used rules

• Dois-pontos antes de minúscula (continuação da frase) vira ponto e vírgula.6,435 verses
• logar/logares viram lugar/lugares (grafia atual).818 verses
• porquanto vira porque.592 verses
• Mais-que-perfeito simples (fizera, ordenara, saíra) vira composto (tinha feito, tinha ordenado, tinha saído), na Bíblia inteira; com pronome depois ("vira-o") vira "tinha-o visto".583 verses
• Mesóclise com o h antigo de haver ("ensinar-te-hei"): tira o h; fora do início da oração passa à próclise ("e me buscareis"); no início da oração fica a mesóclise atual ("Exaltar-te-ei").541 verses
• Contrações antigas desfeitas: dum, duma, doutro...366 verses
• Imperativos antigos: dize vira diz; faze vira faz.323 verses
• Acentos e letras que a conversão deixou: glorias, possue, reptis, rezes, siros, jebuseos...307 verses

Who reviewed it, when and which version

Rules and manual review by the Concordância team, with AI help in drafting the rules and checking sentences. The final review of the whole text has not been decided yet, so the edition stays marked “under review”.

Edition version

1.0.0

Date

October 14, 2026

License

CC BY 4.0 (attribution). You may use, copy, share and adapt this edition, including commercially, as long as you credit “Almeida Concordância, © 2026 Concordância, CC BY 4.0 license” and say whether you made changes. The starting text (Almeida 1911) remains in the public domain.

Status

Under review: the whole Bible (66 books) is available; the final review is still to be decided.

All 66 books are available. Until the final review is decided, the edition stays marked “under review”: use it with this notice and tell us if you find an error.

Found a mistake in the text?

Tell us. If you name the verse, we check the rule that touched it and fix it.