The power of e-Sword partial search

One of the reasons people can't find things in any computer search function is that they type too much information into the search slot.  Sometimes, less is better than more.  Here is an example.

Lets say you want to find every occurrence of the word "believe" in the Bible but you also want to find other forms of the word believe.  You want to find "believes", "believed", "believing", etc.  All of them.  You can do this easily using the basic search functions of e-Sword.  Of course you could do several searches using each word and then note the results.  But that would be tedious and what if you forgot one form of the word?  In this case, less is more.  Here is how to do it using the iPad version of e-Sword.

Click the hour glass

In the upper left corner click on the magnifying glass.  This is your search function.

This will bring up your search dialog.  Now type a partial word into the search slot.  In this example, type "believ".

Make sure the you flip the "Partial" switch.  Here is what it should look like.

Flip the Partial Match switch

When you have all of your options correct in your search box, go ahead and run the search.

Here is the result that I found using ESV.  I have scrolled down to a point in the results that shows at least three forms of the word believe.  

In this example you can see "believe", "believes", and "believed".  Different forms of the word.

This kind of search can be very handy in your studies. It would take you hours to do it manually using an old fashioned concordance. 

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