Searching for words or phrases in the selected text database is made easy by simply entering the words that you are looking for. As well, there are many ways you can customize your search to get only those words and phrases that you are interested in, leaving off the words that you do not want included in the search results. The examples below will help you to search quickly and accurately. Please refer to the notes section below for additional help

EXAMPLE 1 - SINGLE WORD SEARCH:
Simply enter any single word and submit the search. This produces text samples containing the word entered

• King James Bible Example: revelation

• Spurgeon Devotional Example: faith

EXAMPLE 2 - MULTIPLE WORD SEARCH:
Enter any set of words, separated by spaces, and submit the search. This produces text samples containing any or all of the
words or any combination of those words

• King James Bible Example: into the water

• Spurgeon Devotional Example: grace for life

EXAMPLE 3 - PHRASE SEARCH:
Enter a set of words with double-quotes on each end, such as "john the baptist". This produces text samples containing the phrase entered

• King James Bible Example: "john the baptist"

• Spurgeon Devotional Example: "grow upward"

EXAMPLE 4 - INCLUDE SPECIFIC WORDS ONLY:
Enter several words with a plus sign preceeding each word, such as: +peter +james +john. This produces text samples containing
all of the words entered

• King James Bible Example: +peter +james +john

• Spurgeon Devotional Example: +faith +prayer +communion

EXAMPLE 5 - INCLUDE SPECIFIC WORDS, BUT NOT OTHERS:
Search for text with a specific word in the text, excluding texts that have other specific word, such as search for 'revelation' but
exclude texts containing the word 'mystery'

• King James Bible Example: +revelation -mystery

EXAMPLE 6 - SEARCH FOR WORDS WITH A KNOWN ROOT, BUT UNKOWN SUFFIX:
Use the asterisk (*) wildcard to search for text with a word or words that have an un-specified ending, such as 'joh*' and 'bapti*'

• King James Bible Example: bapti*

• King James Bible Example: joh*

• Spurgeon Devotional Example: bapti*

• Spurgeon Devotional Example: pray*

SEARCH FOR SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
Enter the book name, ( optionally include the chapter and verse separated by a colon[:] )
(NOTE: 1, 2, and 3 are equivalent to I, II, and III at the beginning of the book name)

• King James Bible Example: IChronicles 5

• King James Bible Example: John 1:1

• King James Bible Example: 1John 5:7-8

NOTES ABOUT SEARCHES:

1. at least one space is needed between each word in the search string
2. Allowed special characters:
   DOUBLE-QUOTE (") used on either end of a search string, containing a phrase
   PLUS SIGN (+) tells the search engine to include the word in the search
   MINUS SIGN (-) tells the search engine to exclude the word in the search
   ASTERISK (*) is the wildcard, telling the search engine to look for combinations of the root word
3. special characters will be stripped out of the search string, when found
4. the search string entered will be 'fixed up' to help with searching of the database
5. depending on the search string provided, some searches will be limited in the number of results returned
6. common words, such as 'the', 'on', 'them', 'when' may or may not be included in search results, depending upon how your search string is formulated