Help, What's New, and the Road Map
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The Help menu holds three pages. How to Search explains every kind of search with examples you can click to run. What's New is a timeline of every feature since 2009. The Road Map shows what is being worked on now and what is next.
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How to Search
There is one search box, and it tries to work out what you meant. Type a number and you get everything that number touches. Type a reference and you land on the verse. Type a word, a phrase, a Strong's number, or a calculation, and it sorts out which one you had in mind. Everything below is a shortcut for telling it directly.
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Searching the Structure
Most Bible software searches the words. The purpose of this engine is to search the frame — positions, distances, counts, and values — because Scripture is built as well as written. The searches below let you ask questions about that structure directly.
Quick Reference
Every prefix and symbol the search box understands.
H · G
Hebrew or Greek Strong's numberH1-H2
A range of Strong's entriesA
A number written out in words#
Gematria across verse spans=
Calculate the result+ - * /
Move relative to the current number&
Add to the search you just ran-
Exclude a word or phrase|
Either one term or the other*
Wildcard the end of a word" "
An exact phrase@
The nth occurrence in the Bible{n,m}
How many times within one verse"n n n"
A pattern of word lengthsBook c:v
Go straight to a verseBook c.v
Go straight to a verse analysisNumbers & Math
Number Searches
The number search is the one most particular to this site. Search a single number and you get back a sampling of everything related to it. A search for 2424 — the Greek Strong's number for Jesus — returns all of the following at once.
This is the search everything else on the site grew out of. You are not asking one question, you are asking every question I know how to ask about a number, all at once.
2424
186282
Calculated Number Searches
Prefix a calculation with =. In most cases you will not need to — type a calculation and the search works out that you meant to calculate it.
=(1000+234)*10/2
(1000+234)*10/2
+234
+, -, *, or /.Date Difference Calculation
Give it two dates separated by a - and it returns the days between them. The leading = is optional. Leave off the second date and it uses today; the hyphen is then optional too.
The number of days between two dates is a number like any other — which means it can then be searched as a verse position, a word position, or a gematria value.
=5/14/1948 - 8/22/1969
6/7/1967
Alphanumeric Word Searches
Scripture writes its numbers out in words, and rarely the same way twice. Rather than remembering whether it reads an hundred threescore and fifteen or something else, put an A in front of the number and let the search find every spelling.
A730
A153
A666
Gematria Search
Prefix a # to find verse spans whose gematria adds up to the value you searched. Values do not stop at a verse boundary, so a span may run across several verses.
#53787
#24253
Words & Phrases
Word Searches
Search one word or several. You can mix in a Strong's number or an alphanumeric number in the same search. End a word with * to wildcard it.
God loved G2889
A153 fishes
God love*
Append to a Search
To narrow the search you just ran instead of starting over, put an & in front of the new term.
Worth knowing early. Most searches on this site are arrived at by narrowing, not by getting the question right on the first attempt.
& G2424
Phrase Search
Wrap the phrase in quotes " ".
"For God so loved"
"to day"
Occurrence Search
Use @ to jump to a numbered occurrence, counting through the whole Bible: {word}@{number} or {Strong's}@{number}. Leave off the word to count every word.
Israel@1919
@2424
H3068@935
Repeats Within One Verse
To find a word, Strong's number, or phrase repeated inside a single verse, either type it that many times or use the shorthand term{min,max}.
God God God
God{3,}
God{4}
"God loved"{,2}
G2316{2,3}
Negation Search
Put a - in front of a term to exclude the verses containing it.
-man
-"to day"
Or Search
Separate terms with a pipe | to match verses containing any of them.
Elijah|Elias
"to day"|"to morrow"
Word Length Phrase Search
Search by the shape of a phrase rather than its words. Give the word lengths in order, separated by spaces, inside quotes "n n ... n".
This replaced a regular expression nobody was ever going to type. The patterns were always there — they just needed a way of being asked for.
"7 7 7 7"
"4 3 4 21"
"2 3 14 5"
Strong's
Strong's Number Searches
Put an H in front for Hebrew, or a G for Greek.
H430
G2424
Strong's List Searches
Add a hyphen - between two Strong's numbers for a range, or trail a single number with a hyphen to list from there onward.
H452-H477
G2243-
Getting Around
Verse References
Type a reference to go straight there. Book names abbreviate the way you would expect.
John 3:16
Ps 100
Verse Analysis
Use a period . in place of the colon to open the verse analysis instead of the chapter — gematria, positions, distances, and word cloud for that verse.
John 3.16
1Ki 17.1
What you can do here
How to Search
Every search type, filterable by Numbers, Words, Strong's, and Getting Around, with a quick reference of prefixes.
What's New
Every change, dated and grouped as Discovery, Search, Data, and Site.
Road Map
What is in progress, recently done, next up, and on the horizon.
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