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Just type a word: grace. BibleSQL uses starts-with matching by default, so grace also matches words beginning with it. Turn on Exact Word Match for the complete word only. Accents don't matter: eternel = éternel, senor = señor.
| Both words | faith AND hope |
| Either word | grace OR mercy |
| Exclude something | love AND NOT law |
| Combine alternatives | (grace OR mercy) AND truth |
| Combine and exclude | (grace OR mercy) AND NOT law |
Parentheses matter: use ( ) to say which parts belong together. NOT needs a positive search to filter: faith AND NOT works works, NOT works does not.
Use the translation controls beside the search box to pick which versions to search. BibleSQL matches terms within one translation, so grace AND truth looks for both words in the same version, not one from English and one from French. For multilingual discovery, use alternatives: light OR lumiere OR luz.
These clauses come after your search and turn a search into analysis.
Control how results are sorted: faith ORDER BY CANONICAL. Sorts: CANONICAL (Genesis to Revelation, the default), BOOK, TRANSLATION, FREQUENCY (strongest matching verses first). Reverse with DESC: faith ORDER BY FREQUENCY DESC.
FREQUENCY: the number of your positive words a verse contains. Excluded (NOT) words never add to the score.
Instead of listing verses, count where matches occur: grace GROUP BY BOOK. Group by BOOK, TESTAMENT or TRANSLATION, then sort the counts: grace GROUP BY BOOK ORDER BY COUNT DESC answers "which books contain the most matches for grace?"
grace LIMIT 25. Clauses work together: grace GROUP BY BOOK ORDER BY COUNT DESC LIMIT 10.
WORDS grace LOGIC AND OR NOT ( ) SORT ORDER BY CANONICAL | BOOK | TRANSLATION | FREQUENCY [ASC | DESC] ANALYZE GROUP BY BOOK | TESTAMENT | TRANSLATION CAP LIMIT 1...N
BibleSQL is sandboxed: a Scripture query language inspired by SQL, not access to the database. Raw SQL, arbitrary wildcards and quoted phrase searches are not accepted. For two-word concepts, use Boolean matching: holy AND spirit, not "holy spirit".
