Instant Concordance
With the Bible Speed Search you have an instant concordance for any Bible in your Library. Press the Bible Speed Search icon on the toolbar. Select a Bible from the drop down list. Type a word in the search box. Almost instantly every occurrence of that word in your Bible appears.
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This is not the same thing as an instance concordance. A concordance gives me the words and shows me where they are found. What I would like to do is choose a book of the bible, or a section of a book (for example Gen 12-22), and have the program give me a complete list of all the words in that book, or section, and show me where they are found in that section. It would be extremely helpful if it could be limited to words that occur a specific number of times. For example, "Show me all the words that occur in Genesis 12-22, occuring 50 times or less." Then a list comes up which shows all these words and where they are found.
That would be a very helpful concordance feature.
Posted by: Aaron Cantrell | November 28, 2006 2:21 PM
Aaron, the Bible Speed Search does function very much like a typical Bible concordance (Strong's Exhaustive, for example). For a given word, it tells you how many times it occurs, and lists all the occurrences. What makes it superior to print is the speed with which you can ask for a word (typing vs. flipping pages), the massive range of Bibles concorded, and the direct links to open your Bible to a passage where the word occurs.
The feature you describe—which I agree is useful—would more properly be described as a vocabulary guide or list. Logos 3 includes a Vocabulary List feature that makes it easy to produce a list of Greek or Hebrew words within a passage, with word frequencies, and you can sort the list by frequency. This feature is a great help when learning the biblical languages!
Posted by: Daniel Foster | November 29, 2006 11:02 AM