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Query Syntax
- Chris Burrell
- David Brewer
The following page outlines the supported query syntax.
Query syntaxes are usually prefixed with their 'search type prefix'.
| Search prefix | Search type | Example | Description |
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| 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:
You can use brackets to group terms together:
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:
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.
A number of specific prefixes are also made available to access different portions of the underlying Bible:
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
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| og~= | Greek related word search (Original Greek + related words) | og~=agathos | Searches for all forms of that Greek word and related words Supports:
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| oh= | Hebrew word search | oh=hesed | Searches for all forms of that Hebrew word Supports:
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| oh~= | Hebrew related word search (Original Hebrew + related words) | oh~=bara | Searches for all forms of that Hebrew word and related words Supports:
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| 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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