Advanced Search

These tips apply only to the search bar above that says "Enhanced by Google"
Once you do a search, you can filter or narrow it down by clicking the categories underneath the search bar. For example: Chapter, Bible Stories, Bible Verses About, Similar Bible Verses, 1611, Discussions, Inspirational Image. This attempts to narrow your search to particular sections of the website.
Use quotes to search to match an exact phrase. (this works in the regular search too)
Example search: "Word was God" - this will show John 1:1 as the only result, but without quotes shows thousands of results.
Use an asterisk if you know some words of a phrase, but not all. Example: Word * God
Use the minus sign to eliminate results containing certain words. Example of showing verses containing Adam, but not Eve: Adam -Eve

These tips apply to the 'Search the Bible' search at the very top-left of the screen.
You may type abbreviations for books, chapter, verses, and ranges, and it will go direct to your reading. Example searches:
- Abbreviated book names: '1 Cor 5' or 'Ps 23'
- Search for a verse range: 'John 3:16-17'
- Search for a chapter range: 'Gen 1 - 2'
- The range search only works within a book, and won't extend beyond to other books
Use quotes to search a phrase in that exact order, for example: a search for "Christ Jesus" in quotes will only show occurrences of Christ Jesus in the scripture instead of Jesus Christ. No words may occur outside of the quotes for the exact match search to function.
Searches like Mark, Luke, John or other book names will automatically go to that book's page instead of seeing search results. To see the search results for those names you may type the name within "quotes", like "John"
To search only the original 1611 King James Bible text, use the search within the 1611 KJV Bible section
To search the apocrypha, you may use the regular search engine, but then click 'Limit to Apocrypha' at the top
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