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Word or Phrase Search

Enter the information you wish to search for. There are several different kinds of searches that you can perform--each one is listed below:

1.Single word search--Enter the word that you want to search for. All occurances of that single word will be displayed. Examples: boat John salvation

2.Wild card search--Enter the partial word followed by an asterisk (*). All occurances that match the specified letters. Examples: lov* (will find every word that begins with the letters "lov"; love, loved, loving, et cetera) forg* (will find every word that begins with the letters "forg"; forged, forgotten, forgive, forgave, et cetera)

Note: You can also use the question mark character (?) as a single-character wild card. Examples:

forg?ve (will find every word that begins with "forg", ends with "ve", with any single character in between; forgive, forgave)

confus??* (will find every word that begins with "confus", followed by two or more characters; effectively excluding "confuse")

3.Single phrase search--Enter the phrase you wish to search for, in double quotation marks ("). All occurances of all the words in the phrase, in the exact order listed, will be displayed. Examples: "in the beginning" "Jesus said"

4.Complex searches--You can enter a more complex search expression that contains search operators. The + (and) search operator searches for all specified words/phrases in the same location (e.g. a Bible verse when searching the Bible, an article when searching Dictionaries/Encyclopedias, and so forth). The or (or /) search operator searches for any one of the specified words or phrases. The ˜ (tilde) search operator acts as a "not"--excluding references that contain the specified word or phrase. Examples: fruit + trees (will find all instances where both "fruit" and "trees" appear) God / love (will find all instances where "God" or "love" appears)

God ˜ love (will find all instances where "God" appears but not "love")

5.Compound searches--You can use the parentheses to specify groupings within a search. Examples:

(fruit / trees) + multiply (will find all instances where either the word "fruit" or the word "trees" appears, and the word "multiply" appears, in other words all instances where "fruit" and "multiply" appear and all the instances where "trees" and "multiply" appear)

(love / charity) + (God / Jesus) (will find all instances where either the word "love" or the word "charity" appears, and the word "God" or the word "Jesus" appears, in other words all instances where "love" and "God" appear and all the instances where "love" and "Jesus" appear and all the instances where "charity" and "God" appear and all the instances where "charity" and "Jesus" appear)

Also see:

Searching for Special Characters and Text Types for instructions on focusing your search on a special character or text type.