Find words that have the same context as the entered word.
First enter a single word and press "Show Similar Words" to see other words with the same context. Then select one or more of these similar words and press "Show Common Contexts" to see the contexts those words have in common. Then select a context and press "Show Occurrences" to see the concordance entries where the selected words are used in that context. Then select a concordance entry to read its full chapter, takes notes, and browse to other chapters and books.
Use a case-sensitive search to match a word only in its exact form, for example, to match "LORD" but not match "Lord" or "lord." Otherwise, searching for "lord" will match all three forms.
Use a Tagged search to match the word only when used as the entered grammatical part-of-speech. For example, NN is the tag indicating a noun, so seaching for "leave/nn" matches the word "leave" but only when used as a noun. VB is the tag for a verb, so "leave/vb" matches only the verb form. Refer to the POS Tags page to become familiar with all the tags, and read the help on that page to learn more about Bible tagging.
Use a Tags Only search to enter a tag instead of a word, to match any word with the entered tag, and to show context as tags only.
Use an Untagged search to just enter a Bible word and not be concerned with part-of-speech. This is the default.
Set the number of words of context on the left and on the right that have to match for words to be considered similar. Select multiple counts to show a separate list of similar words for each count.
Select the punctuation characters that context is never allowed to cross regardless of the word count. Context can never cross a period no matter what.
A word count of three would find some similarity with Balaam and Uzza because of the following two passages:
Here both Balaam and Uzza are found with the same three words to the left. If the comma is a context boundary then these two names have no matching words to the right, because there's a comma right after the names, but this is still considered a context match on the right. They both have an "empty" context on the right in this case. If the comma is removed as a context boundary then these passages end up with three matching words of context on the right, and so a word count of three without the comma as a context boundary would still result in these two passages lending some similarity between Balaam and Uzza.
If the context word count is increased to 4, these two passages no longer lend similarity to these two men, regardless of context boundaries.
All such matches are considered, and the top words are shown.
Enter a word and show other words that are used in the same contexts. Results are sorted from most similar to least similar.
Enter a list of words and show the contexts that lend similarity to all the words. This is basically the reverse of showing similar words. The tilde character (~) is shown in the context results in place of the word.
Click on a similar word result from above to pair it with the original search word in the "Words" field for common contexts. Ctrl-Click (PC) or Cmd-Click (Mac) to add multiple similar words.
Show all the occurrences of a word or phrase, along with some context before and after, as you can from the Concordance page. See the help on that page for how to do that. Click on a concordance result to bring up it's full chapter, browse to other chapters and books, and take notes on books, chapters, and verses, as you can from the Chapters page. See the help on that page for how to do that.
Click on a common contexts result from above to fill it into the "Phrase" field for the concordance.