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<TITLE>BLB - Help/FAQ - How to Use the Word/Phrase Search</TITLE>
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<DIV CLASS="head">How to Use the Word/Phrase Search</div>
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<P><B>1.</B> The Blue Letter Bible allows its users to search for words, phrases, and parts of words. The first step to using this tool is to find it. The Word/Phrase search is located on the <A HREF="./index.html" target="_blank">homepage</a>. It is located just below the Verse Selection tool and is labelled "<B>Phrase Search/Concordance</B>" (as seen below).</p>
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<P><B>2.</B> Next there are three main ways to search using this tool. The first of these ways is to to simply input the words for which you are looking (up to five). In this case, we'll type "Jesus faith love." Now we hit the Search Button.</p>
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<P><B>3.</B> This will bring up a chart showing all the different combinations of the selected words. The tools shows that "The word(s) <i>jesus faith love</i> occur in 8 verse(s):" and presents a list of the verse references found in the King James Version that contain at least two of the three words. In the example we're using,</p>
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<P><B>4.</B> Clicking on the the first verse reference in the displayed list, Gal 5:6, will display the verse in its own popup window like this:</p>
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<P><B>5.</B> By clicking on the verse reference within the text "Go to Bible for Gal 5:6" by you can go to the chapter the verse is in to see its context.</p>
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<P><B>6.</B> The second way to search is to hunt for exact phrases in Scripture. In the below example, the phrase searched is "God of my Salvation." Be sure to enclose the phrase you desire to find in quotation marks as shown. Now click the Search button.</p>
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<P><B>7.</B> Below the permutations table, you will find that rather than merely listing the verses in which the four words appear, you are first given the seven verses in which the four words appear in the exact order you specified in your original request (followed by the inexact matches like in the first example). To see the search results of the other permutations, click on another combination of words.</p>
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<P><B>8.</B> The third way to search for a desired word is to search for the first portion of a word by using and asterisk (*) as illustrated below. This becomes useful if you are not certain of the the suffix or final spelling of a word. Now click the Search button.</p>
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<P><B>9.</B> As you can see there are 53 verses in the King James Version that contain words that start with "believ" and "ever." At the top of the table of permutations is a list of different words that match your search. In this case, "believe," "believed," "believers," "believest," "believeth," and "believing" are all matches for "believ*." And for the word search "ever*," you will get "ever," "everlasting," "evermore," and "every."</p>
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<P><B>10.</B> Searches with a large number of results are broken up into multiple pages, in canonical order, with the verse ranges shown. Navigate to your desired page of results by clicking on the verse range listed.</p>
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