Show all the occurrences of a word or phrase, along with some context before and after.
Change how the search phrase works.
Use a case-sensitive search to match words only in their exact case, for example, to match "LORD" but not match "Lord" or "lord." Otherwise, searching for "lord" will match all three. Regardless of this option, results always show in mixed case.
Use a Tagged search to match words only when used as the entered grammatical part-of-speech. For example, NN is the tag for a noun, so seaching for "leave/nn" matches the word "leave" but only when used as a noun. VB is a verb, so "leave/vb" matches only the verb form. Refer to the POS Tags page to become familiar with all the tags, and read the help on that page to learn more about Bible tagging. Either the word or the tag may be an asterisk (*) character to match any word for the entered tag or any tag for the entered word.
Use a Tags Only search to find phrases that match the entered tag sequence. For example, "dt jjs nn" matches all three-word phrases that are a determiner (DT) followed by a superlative adjective (JJS) followed by a common noun (NN).
Use an Untagged search to just enter Bible words and not be concerned with part-of-speech. This is the default.
Change how the results look.
Self-pronouncing results show pronunciation marks on all proper names, and on a few other words. The system of marking was given by Henry Redpath in The Oxford self-pronouncing Bible of 1897. Refer to his prefatory note from that Bible.
Tagged results show the grammatical part-of-speech of each word. See the discussion above on how to use tags in the search phrase, and keep in mind that deciding to show tags in the results is separate from deciding to use tags in the search phrase.
Editable Tags let you change a word's POS tag. This works only if the search phrase is a single word. After showing the concordance results click anywhere in the result line to highlight the search word and its tag, and then click again directly into the tag to edit it. Choices show as you type, and you can click on a choice to select it or type the full tag. When you're done editing press ENTER or just click out of the occurrence to save your change. If you want to undo your unsaved edits while you're typing press ESCAPE and click out of the tag. You can change a tag only to another recognized tag (i.e., you can't invent new tags), and if you click out after entering an unrecognized tag then it automatically reverts and no change is saved.
Untagged results just show Bible words and don't include any part-of-speech tags. This is the default.
Normally each result line is 255 characters wide to show plenty of context around the search phrase, but you can show a shorter line. Shorter lines can be especially useful if you select "Inline" to view each result on its own line. Unless you use a very wide screen (or a very small font size) full-length results viewed inline end up scrolling horizontally, which can be annoying. It's also possible that if your search returns thousands of results that the total size will exceed the backend's limit, and in this case the same search with a smaller line width might work. (If all you want to do is count how many times a single word occurs it's faster to use the Word page for that.)
Use an asterisk (*) character to match any word. For example searching for "a * man" will show "a young man," "a just man," "a hairy man," etc. Asterisks at the beginning or at the end of the phrase are ignored.
Use a tilde (~) character for multiple searches at once with combined results. A Replacement Words field shows and each word you enter there is substituted for the tilde and the results show all matching occurrences. For example, use the search phrase "a ~ man" and replacement words "wise foolish" to show all occurrences of either "a wise man" or "a foolish man." (You'll see this happen in the tools/Context page when you show occurrences of a list of words used in a given context.)
Use up to five "~" placeholders and each one gets its own list of replacement words. All the first words from each list are put into their placeholders to make the first search phrase, then all the second words are put in to make the second search phrase, and so on.
Click in the "Occurrences" area to bring up the chapter of the clicked-on occurrence. From the chapter you can browse to other chapters and books, and take notes on books, chapters, and verses, as you can from the Chapters page. See the help on that page for how to do that.