Comments on: New Tool: Bible Word Locator

By: Tait

Tait — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:34:51 +0000

I would love it if a feature was added where the dots become links to the verse they represent in the Bible. eg. Look up “light”, click the first dot, it takes you to Genesis 1:3. That would allow users to find the specific location of a Bible character or story with greater ease, making the program almost like a stripped-down, speedy concordance.

I like the concept anyway!

By: tim bulkeley

tim bulkeley — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:48:57 +0000

They’re not very visual, just tables and bar charts, but by giving the data chapter by chapter they do enable a more fine-grained complement to what your tool does. I find the chapter level data useful in spotting topics of chapter/sections of books. It still looks as uninteresting as version 5 - but then Bibleworks strength has never been its beauty! You choose the level chapter/book and the sort of statistic:
verses with hit
hits
% vvs with hit / vvs in ch
% hits/ hits in version
% vvs with hit / vvs in version
% hits in ch / words in ch
% hits in ch / words in version
And similar list for book level.

By: openbible

openbible — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:05:48 +0000

@Jonathan: The database schema I’m using makes it difficult but not impossible to handle phrase searches without loading lots into memory. I’ll see if I can come up with something. Thanks for the suggestion.

@Tim: Interesting. I didn’t know BibleWorks did visual statistics. A quick search on their site only revealed one screenshot of the feature, and it’s from BibleWorks 5, so it may no longer accurately reflect the interface: http://www.bibleworks.com/reviews/reviews_thoennes.htm .

By: tim bulkeley

tim bulkeley — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:46:10 +0000

This is really interesting, I often use the Bibleworks stats tool to do something similar. It has the advantages that it is based on a complex search, and that you can “zoom” it to chapters in a book or books in the Bible…

Interestingly family words seem to be high frequency in Chronicles not only because of the genealogies, but also from steady use in every chapter.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:52:02 +0000

So, would it be a difficult extension to the SQL to allow two-word phrases? Ie, find all occurrences of “Spirit” and then search within that for where “Holy” is the previous or next word, for example? I can’t immediately think of the SQL that achieves that, though I’m sure it’s possible.

By: openbible

openbible — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:36:48 +0000

My guess is that it’s probably confusing that the last gray line says “Hebrews.” But everything below that line is Hebrews and after.

By: Lindsay Ingalls

Lindsay Ingalls — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:13:32 +0000

I can’t see past Hebrews on the Bible word locator. What do I need to do.