Sometimes when reading a book, it can be helpful to search within it to find similar phrases, particular morphological forms, or other details. Inline Search enables you to do this in a similar way to the Search tool, allowing you to search the entire contents of your Library and more.
Note: Inline Search options vary depending on the resource you’re searching.
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Perform a Precise Inline Search
Customize a Precise Inline Search
Perform a Smart Inline Bible Search
Perform a Precise Inline Search
Select the Search tab in the resource's dynamic toolbar to expose a search box. Ensure that the search type is set to Precise using the dropdown menu to the left of the search box.
The Search feature has a number of options:
- A search box where you can enter a search term.
- A language selector where you can switch the language of your search between the system language, Hebrew, and Greek.
- A picker enabling you to choose from a list of search fields to constrain your search.
- A control allowing you to switch between searching within a single verse or within a chapter, and also the option to show results within verses, paragraphs or pericopes.
- The option to constrain your search to a portion of the book you are reading
Let's say you want to search your open Bible for instances where grace and love appear together. Simply type your search terms into the search bar and press Enter. Once you have carried out your search, you can use the navigation arrows at the top right corner of the panel to move through the results.
Customize a Precise Inline Search
Using the options above, you can customize how the Inline Search works. Below are some examples showing some of them in operation.
You can conduct a search within the Gospels by clicking All Passages and changing the biblical section to Gospels. Display the search results within the paragraph that contains them by clicking Verse and selecting Match within Verse and Group results by Paragraph.
To further specify your search from the search bar itself, try using search operators (see this article for more information).
You can search within chapter boundaries, so that if you specify multiple terms, you will get hits if the terms appear in the same chapter as opposed to just within verse boundaries, as indicated below.
You can select a subset of text within which to carry out the search, such as that with a particular highlight color, by clicking All Bible Text and selecting your desired filters.
You can carry out a Morph Search within the book.
You can specify that you want to enter search terms in an original biblical language and then select the exact option from a dropdown menu.
Perform a Smart Inline Bible Search
You can also access Verbum's Smart Bible Search, a natural-language search tool that eliminates the need for specific search syntax, directly within your open Bible as a Smart Inline Bible Search. When you navigate to the Search tab in your Bible's Dynamic Toolbar, a dropdown will appear to the left of your search bar that allows you to switch between Smart and Precise searches. Learn more about Verbum's Smart Search here.
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Perform an Inline Search
There are two ways to search within an open book in the Verbum mobile app.
- Select the Search icon at the top of your open book to open the Inline Search panel. This panel has a number of options:
- Inline Smart Search: Search any natural language question or keyword within your open book.
- Inline Search: Filter your open book by your query
- All Search: Uses Verbum's Smart Search in All Search mode to return the most relevant results.
- Open the full Search tool
- Search the book's Table of Contents
- View relevant Factbook articles
- Tap and hold a specific word or tap and drag over a phrase to open the Insights Panel. Tap Search Inline
to see where else your query shows up in this specific book.
Modify an Inline Search
You can modify some of the search parameters, such as the passage range, as when using the Inline Search, though the results will be confined to the current book.
You can also change the display range affecting how much context is shown around the search results.