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Wild Card "?" Search

A helpful Libronix wildcard search is the "?". In Windows applications the "?" represents one character. Choose Search | Bible Search. Type this in the Search box: Jona?. This search locates all five letter words beginning with Jona. The fifth letter can be anything. Use as many questions marks as you desire and place them anywhere. Just remember, for every question mark there has to be a letter. Try typing 15 questions marks to discover all the 15 letter words in the Bible!

Posted by on July 8, 2006 6:00 AM |

Comments

I am actually trying to fins all of the questions in a book. (Romans) How do you search for a "?". I get all the single letter words back when I try.

Posted by: Garry Judge | July 2, 2007 12:05 AM

Garry, if you're using Logos 3, type Ctrl+F (or click Edit | Find) to open the 'find' text box, type a ? character and click "Next" to cycle through all the question marks. Right now, this is the only way, as we don't currently index punctuation for use in the normal Bible Search
dialog.

You may also be interested in the electronic book "All the Questions in the Bible" which is included in 4 of the 7 base collections from Logos. It lists all the questions in the KJV.

Posted by: Daniel Foster | July 5, 2007 2:28 PM

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