Lesson 9: Researching, Part 1

As you add additional books and diversify your digital library it will become essential to learn how to search it effectively.

Introduction to Logos Searching Concepts

• Assignment: Watch the video (2:36, 1.97MB).

Bible Search Engine

Have you ever just wanted to search a portion of the Bible? Have you ever wanted to search multiple bible at once? Welcome to flexible Bible Search engine for searching exclusively Bibles.

• Assignment: Watch the video (3:16, 2.86MB).
• Exercise: Search for the word “propitiation” in all of your available bibles?
• Question: Does this word appear in the Old Testament?
  Click for Answer

  Yes

Basic Search Engine

When it comes to searching non-bibles, that is your books, the basic search engine is extremely flexible. By the way, you can search your Bibles too!

• Assignment: Watch the video (6:10, 5.5MB).
• Assignment: Read the article Exploring Logos Searching.

Bible Speed Search—Advanced

The Bible speed search is really a concordance search. It can search any Bible translation for any word. In fact, it can even search for Hebrew and Greek Words.

• Assignment: Watch the video (2:36, 1.79MB).

Fuzzy Searching

When you are searching for a phrase, but are not certain exactly how it is phrase, then look no further than the “Fuzzy Search”

• Assignment: Watch the video (2:52, 2.91MB).
• Exercise: Look for the phrase “the will of God” in the New American Standard Bible with the Fuzzy Search Engine.
• Question: What phrase did it find with a 68% similiarity?
  Click for Answer

  “then will you liken God?”