The following page outlines the supported query syntax.

Query syntaxes are usually prefixed with their 'search type prefix'.

Search prefix	Search type	Example	Description
t= (optional)	Text search	t=John	Searches for words in the selected Bible or Commentaries. This can be done on any Bible of any language. Supports any word, whether English, German, Swahili, Greek, Hebrew, etc. Text searches can used all the standard query operators. By default, the OR operator applies. "Jesus John" means "Jesus OR John". Here are some examples: AND: Jesus AND John + (must operator): +Jesus +John OR: (Jesus OR John) AND baptism NOT (Must not operator): Jesus NOT John - (Must not operator): Jesus -John * (starting with operator): child* (would match child, children) ~ (sounds like operator): melkizedc~ (would match Melchizedek) You can use brackets to group terms together: (Jesus OR David) AND (king) This will look for all places where Jesus or David are mentioned in the same verse as king, kings, kingdom, etc. You can also run 2 text searches together and specify how many verses apart they should be: Jesus ~2 John This would ask STEP to search for all verses where Jesus and John are within 2 verses of each other. Operators such as AND, OR, and NOT should be specified in capital letters. STEP uses Lucene in the background, and the the Lucene Query Syntax page gives more information. This kind of search also supports a range restriction/inclusion. Restrictions are specified in the following way: [Gen-Mal]. An exclusion with the - sign: -[Gen-Mal]* would search just the new testament. A number of specific prefixes are also made available to access different portions of the underlying Bible: strong (strong:H0001) : run a search for a particular strong number xref (xref:Gen.1.1 ): runs a search for all verses annotated with a cross-reference for a given verse. The reference must be in the format: Gen.1.1 (using dots) note (note:"House of David"): runs a search against the notes contained in the selected versions morph (morph:G1080@V-AAI): runs a search against the grammar in selected versions. This example searches for all Verbs in Aorist Active Indicative (not all versions support the grammar feature). Please refer to Robinson morphology for further details. heading (heading:Abraham): run a search against the the headings in the selected versions headingStem (headingStem:genealogy): run a stemmed search against the headings in the selected versions Where a prefix is used, the next term must be a single word, or in quotation marks (note:"house of David")
ot=	Original words Translated as...	ot=love	Searches for all Greek & Hebrew words translated by this word
og=	Original Greek word	og=agathos	Searches for all forms of that Greek word Supports: Unicode Many different transliterations Strong numbers
og~=	Greek related word search (Original Greek + related words)	og~=agathos	Searches for all forms of that Greek word and related words Supports: Unicode Many different transliterations Strong numbers
oh=	Hebrew word search (Original Hebrew word)	oh=hesed	Searches for all forms of that Hebrew word Supports: Unicode Many different transliterations Strong numbers
oh~=	Hebrew related word search (Original Hebrew + related words)	oh~=bara	Searches for all forms of that Hebrew word and related words Supports: Unicode Many different transliterations Strong numbers
sh=	Subject Headings search	sh=throne	Searches across the section headings of the versions selected. The ESV and NIV Bibles are always searched.
sn=	Subjects in Nave's	sn=David	Searches the top-level headings of the Nave's Topical Bible. Results are organised by subject areas.
s=	Subject search - organised in categories	s=love	Searches all the headings of the Nave's Topical Bible. Results are organised by subject areas.
sx=	Search eXtented through the whole text of Nave's	sx=children	Searches all the text of the Nave's Topical Bible. Results are organised by subject areas.
sr=	Search Related verses	sr=Gen.1.1	Finds all verses that are related to the given reference. Results are organised by subject areas.

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