How do I search the Bible and the site?

The search box is in the header of every page; on a phone it opens with the magnifying glass . Search understands both Bible references and ordinary words. If there are results in several languages, one is shown, and the others stand above the list with their number of results.

Press the search box or, on a phone, the magnifying glass .
Type a reference, for example John 3.
Choose a suggestion under the box: that chapter opens.

Type a word in the search box, for example love, and press Enter or the magnifying glass .
In the “Translations” list, choose a translation: its code is added to the query, for example love :kjv.
To change the translation, edit the code after the colon, for example love :bsb, and press “Search”.

The “Books” list works the same way: the book you choose is added to the query. The “Operators” button shows all the search conditions.

You can remove a condition by pressing its tag with a cross above the results.

Operators are written after the words, separated by spaces:

:kjv — this translation only; a translation’s code is visible in the address of its page: kjv in /bible/kjv/jhn-3/;
lang:en — translations in this language only;
"faith hope love" — a whole query in quotation marks is searched as one phrase.

Conditions can be combined: light in:gospel lang:en finds the word in the Gospels in English.

Where to search is set by the in: operator:

in:bible — the Bible text only;
in:site — site pages only;
in:qa — Q&A only; the answers exist only in Russian;
in:ot — the Old Testament;
in:nt — the New Testament;
in:dc — the deuterocanonical books, if the translation has them;
in:gen — one book; the book code is the same as in a chapter’s address: gen in /bible/kjv/gen-1/;
in:moses — the Pentateuch;
in:hist — the historical books;
in:wisdom — the wisdom books;
in:prophet-major — the major prophets;
in:prophet-minor — the minor prophets;
in:gospel — the Gospels;
in:paul — the letters of Paul;
in:epistle — the general letters;
in:revelation — Revelation.

Search by words is not responding right now, but Bible references are still found. Try the query again a little later.

Below the results there is a “Search other engines” line: it opens the same query in, for example, Google or Bing.

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