Today’s guest post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos training seminars.
Think how big an exhaustive phrase concordance for a Bible would be in print! With Libronix, however, you have the capability of finding every occurrence of a phrase in any Bible.
Press the Bible Speed Search icon on the toolbar. Select a Bible from the drop down list. Type a phrase in the search box enclosing the phrase in quotation marks like: “kingdom of God”. Almost instantly every occurrence of that phrase in your Bible appears.
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Is the “Bible speed search” available on the Mac version? If not, is there a work-around?
Gregg,
At this time, there is no Mac equivalent to the Bible Speed Search. In order to do a similar search on a Mac, you would first have to find a particular phrase within an open resource since there is no box to fill in a word or phrase of choice. Here is how it works:
After finding a text within your selected reading, highlight the word or phrase, then right-click. Hover over Selected Text: “word or phrase.” The secondary pop-up box will give you several options including, Speed Search This Resource. If your resource is your Bible translation, you have the closest thing to a Bible Speed Search for Mac.
Hope that helps!
Gregg,
Actually you can do a pretty good version of this on the Mac.
1. In the Menu bar: Search -> Bible Search
2. In the search box: Enter “Kingdom of God”
3. In the drop down box labeled “Bibles:” select: “All Available Unlocked Bibles” (this is very cool) or the translation you have memorized the phrase from.
4. In the drop down box labeled “Range:” select: “Bible”
Press the “Search” button
There you go!
Is this Bible Speed Search in Logos 4 ?
David,
It is still there. Now all you have to do is go to Search| and then click on the tab for a Bible search| and begin typing in your query.