Specify what you want to search for. Search criteria may be specified in a wide variety of ways. Search capabilities vary depending upon whether searching the Bible or WordLinks and whether the search is being run on the Website or from a CDROM.
Search For | Description | Available on CDROM |
Available on WEB |
Bible Address | To open the Bible at a known address, just type the address. For example, John 3:16 | Bible & WordLinks |
Bible & WordLinks |
All Words |
To search for all verses containing both God
and love specify: God love
|
WordLinks | Bible |
Phrase | To search for verses containing a phrase, place the phrase within quotes: 'Jesus wept'. Phrases can occur anywhere a word can and can be combined into arbitrarily complex search criterial such using logic operators (AND, OR, NOT, parenthesis). | WordLinks | Bible |
Variable Ending | To search for verses containing variations of a common word, use an asterisk to specify the variable portion of the word. The example above (overcom*) finds all variations such as overcomes, overcomer, overcoming, etc. As another example, to find all verses which deal with curse, curses, curseth, cursed, etc. specify: curs*. | WordLinks | Bible |
Any Character | Use a question mark to match any character. To find all verses which contain help, hell, or held, specify: hel? | WordLinks | Bible |
Any Word | To search for verses dealing with life or death, specify: life OR death | WordLinks | - |
Logical Combination of Words |
To search for verses containing
eternal and life or death, specify:
eternal AND (life OR death) To search for verses
containing holy, but not ghost or nation
specify: holy AND NOT (ghost OR nation).
(As the search criteria logic becomes more complex, searching will take longer. The most "expensive" logic operator is NOT.) |
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Character Range | Use brackets to match a range or set of characters. To find all verses which contain love or dove specify: [ld]ove | WordLinks | - |
Strong's Number |
To search for the Hebrew word ruwach (spirit - Strong's number
h7307) enter: h7307. When searching for Strong's numbers, the
results indicate the various words the underlying Greek or
Hebrew was translated as in the English text. These are sorted by
frequency of appearance. For example:
h7307 = spirit:227, wind:81, breath:27, winds:11, mind:5, side:5, spirits:5, blast:4, vain:2, air:1, anger:1, breath(h5397):1, cool:1, courage:1, quarters:1, sides:1, spiritual:1, tempest:1, whirlwind:1, windy:1 In the example above, the results include another Strong's number h5397. Where this occurs, it indicates that the Strong's number in the search criteria is combined with the other Strong's number to produce the word shown. When Strong's numbers are included in the search criteria, the matching verses are display with full Strong's numbering. When Strong's numbers are not specified, the Strong's numbers are suppressed from the results. Strong's numbers operate like any other words and can be arbitrarily combined with each other and English words. For example: (h430 OR h7307) AND darkness The only limitation when using Strong's numbers with searching is the inability to combine Strong's numbers with phrases. When Strong's numbers are used without English words, if Strong's numbers corresponding only to Hebrew or only to Greek words are specified, then the search range automatically narrows to only include the Old Testament (Hebrew words) or NT (Greek words). |
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