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Search Operators

Example	Operator	What it does
.κύριος	. (AND, default)	Find every verse containing this word (any form). Single-term search.
.κύριος θεός	. word word	AND: both words must appear in the same verse.
.κύριος !θεός	! (NOT)	AND-NOT: κύριος present but θεός absent.
'Ἰησοῦς Χριστός	' (phrase)	Phrase: words must appear in this exact sequence.
/κύριος θεός	/ (OR)	Either word may appear in the verse.
.κύριος θεός;5	;N (proximity)	Both words within N verses of each other.
'Ἰησοῦς *2 Χριστός	*N (gap)	Phrase with up to N intervening words allowed.
(.κύριος).(.θεός)	( ) compound AND	AND of two grouped sub-expressions.
(.κύριος)./(.θεός)	( )./( ) compound OR	OR of two grouped sub-expressions.
(.κύριος).!(.θεός)	( ).!( ) compound NOT	First group present, second group absent.

Wildcards

Example	Wildcard	What it does
.πιστ*	* (any sequence)	Matches any ending: πίστις, πιστεύω, πιστός, etc.
.λόγο?	? (single character)	Matches exactly one character in that position.
.*@vii*	.* with morph code	Any word matching the given morphology code.

Morphology Codes — Greek

Append @code after a lemma: .λόγος@n*  |  Use * as wildcard within codes: .*@viia3s

Example	Code pattern	Meaning
.πιστεύω@viia3s	v + mood + tense + voice + person + number	Verb, indicative, aorist, active, 3rd singular
.λόγος@nnms*	n + case + gender + number	Noun, nominative, masculine, singular
.*@vp*a*	vp = participle	Any participle in active voice
.*@vn**	vn = infinitive	Any infinitive
.*@vi**3p	3p = 3rd plural	Any indicative verb, 3rd plural

Mood: i=indicative  d=imperative  s=subjunctive  o=optative  n=infinitive  p=participle
Tense: p=present  f=future  a=aorist  i=imperfect  x=perfect  y=pluperfect
Voice: a=active  m=middle  p=passive  e=middle/passive
Case: n=nom  g=gen  d=dat  a=acc  v=voc    Gender: m=masc  f=fem  n=neut    Number: s=sg  p=pl

Morphology Codes — Hebrew

Hebrew lemmas use Strong's numbers: .1254@vq*  |  Or type Hebrew directly: .ברא@vqp3ms

Example	Code pattern	Meaning
.1254@vqp3msRq	v + stem + tense + person + gender + number + Rq	Verb, Qal, perfect, 3ms (Qere)
.430@ncmpa*	n + type + gender + number + state	Noun, common, masculine, plural, absolute
.*@vqp*	vqp = Qal perfect	Any Qal perfect verb
.*@vN**	vN = Niphal	Any Niphal verb
.*@vh**	vh = Hiphil	Any Hiphil verb

Stem: q=Qal  N=Niphal  p=Piel  P=Pual  h=Hiphil  H=Hophal  d=Hithpael
Tense: p=perfect  i=imperfect  v=wayyiqtol  a=imperative  r=ptcp.act  s=ptcp.pass  e=inf.const  f=inf.abs
State: a=absolute  c=construct  d=determined    Qere/Kethib: Rq=Qere  Rk=Kethib  Rx=both

Book Limit Command

Type l followed by a book name or range and press Enter. The limit persists until cleared.

Example	Range	What it limits to
l Rom	Single book	Romans only
l Gen-Deut	Book range	Genesis through Deuteronomy
l NT	Named range	Entire New Testament (Matthew–Revelation)
l OT	Named range	Entire Old Testament (Genesis–Malachi)
l Gospels	Named range	Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
l Pentateuch	Named range	Genesis through Deuteronomy
l Torah	Named range	Genesis through Deuteronomy
l Pauline	Named range	Romans through Philemon
l 1 Corinthians	Full name	1 Corinthians only

Greek Keyboard

When a search operator (. ' / !) is typed first, Latin keys are automatically transliterated to Greek.

Key	Greek	Key	Greek	Key	Greek
a	α	h	η	r	ρ
b	β	q	θ	s	σ
g	γ	i	ι	t	τ
d	δ	k	κ	u	υ
e	ε	l	λ	f	φ
z	ζ	m	μ	c	χ
n	ν	x	ξ	y	ψ
o	ο	p	π	w	ω
j	ς (final)

English Link Stemming

With English (BLB) selected, tick Stem next to the language menu to match every form of each search word. Works with phrases, AND/OR/NOT and proximity. Wildcard terms (*, ?) are not stemmed.

Search	Also matches
.love	loved, loves, loving, lover, beloved, lovely
.go	goes, going, gone, went
.rise	rose, risen, arise, arose, raise, raised
.he	him, his

Credits. The word-link table is built from:
• AGID (Automatically Generated Inflection Database), Rev. 4. Copyright 2000–2003 by Kevin Atkinson. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this database, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies. wordlist.aspell.net
• Open English WordNet 2025, by the Open English WordNet Community, licensed under CC BY 4.0; derived from Princeton WordNet 3.0, Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. en-word.net

Credits & Sources

Greek New Testament. The SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT), Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, licensed under CC BY 4.0. sblgnt.com
Morphology and lemmas: Tauber, J. K., ed. MorphGNT: SBLGNT Edition, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. github.com/morphgnt/sblgnt

Hebrew Bible. Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain), with lemma and morphology data from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible project, licensed under CC BY 4.0. github.com/openscriptures/morphhb

Septuagint. Morphologically analyzed LXX text (LXXM) prepared by the CATSS project (Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies) under the direction of R. Kraft, distributed by the Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT), University of Pennsylvania, for scholarly non-commercial use. Based on A. Rahlfs, Septuaginta (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1935). ccat.sas.upenn.edu

English. The Berean Literal Bible, by the Berean Bible Translation Committee, dedicated to the public domain. berean.bible

Lexicon glosses. TBESG and TBESH brief lexicons from STEPBible-Data, by Tyndale House, Cambridge (STEPBible.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0. github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data

English link stemming. AGID and Open English WordNet (see English Link Stemming above).

Software. sql.js (MIT License); Flask (BSD-3-Clause), Waitress (ZPL 2.1) and pywebview (BSD-3-Clause) in the desktop app.

Material licensed under CC BY or CC BY-SA has been converted and reformatted for this app (for example, morphology codes are re-mapped and verses re-aligned). All materials are provided as is, without warranty.