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Application "Biblia Internetowa" is designed for fast searching and comparison different Bible versions (including apocrypha and pseudoepigraphs). It can search paralelly through many Bible versions (withing the same language). There are 2974195 verses in 102 Bibles in 23 languages.
Currently the application use two interfaces: Polish and English. The interface is recognized automatically by the browser.
Default books abbreviations use Biblia Tysiaclecia (for Polish interface) and BibleWorks for English one. Almost every book has available few aliases. The following list contains all available abbreviations and aliases (upper or lowercase doesn't matter). You can also use space between number and book name, e.g. np. 1Kor 1:1; 1 Kor 1:2; 1Koryntian 1:3; II Koryntian 1:4; 3 Jana 1,2
Inside "Read" section you can display a verse or a list of verses separated with ; (semicolon):
<book abbrev> <space> <chapter number> : <verse number>
<book abbrev> <space> <chapter number> : <verse number>nn
<book abbrev> <space> <chapter number> : <beginning verse number> - <end verse number>
Characters nn at the end of the verse number means: "all verses to the end of the chapter".
Only full words (with minimum 3 characters) or phrases can be searched. The phrase is any string of characters inside quotation marks. Partial words are not searched unless you excplicite mark it with * (asterix) character (see below)
There is only one global character available: * (asterix). It means any number (including zero) of characters in the word. Eg. heaven* will find all verses containing heaven and (plural form) heavens. It is more usefull and important for languages with more sophisticated grammar than English, e.g. in Polish every word can have even 7 different form.
For boolean queries you have the following operators:
explicit operator AND: &
Luke & Demas find verses containing word Luke and word Demas, the words can appear in any order. There always is implicit AND operator so the same result can be done with: Luke Demas.
operator OR: |
Luke | Demas find verses containing the word Luke ot the word Demas or both words in any order. OR operator precedence is higher than AND, so (this is Polish example) Pan & (nieba | niebios| niebiosa| niebiosami) can be written in shorter form as Panie nieba | niebios | niebiosa | niebiosami or even (in this case) Panie nieba | niebios*
operator NOT: -
Christ -Herod find verses including word Christ but not containing Herod. Queries like "-hell", which implicitly include all documents from the collection, can not be evaluated. This is both for technical and performance reasons. For the sem reason, there is not possible to display more than 1000 verses as result of searching.
grouping: ()
Words and phrases inside quotation marks allows for more complex searching. Quotation marks have the highest priority. Eg. (Jesus Lord) | (Kingdom Heaven) find verses containing words Jesus and Lord or verses containing words Kingdom Heaven (the words can appear in any order).
The application uses extended query search thanks to Sphinx
Searching by Strong's code is similiar like searching any word. To get the best results use Hebrew or Greek versions. Examples: find Logos (code: G3056) in NT or JHWH (code: H3068 in Old Testament. Typing Polish characters without having Polish keyboard
For those who do not have access to Polish keyboard, eg. using Kindle 3G device, there is alternative way for typing Polish characters. It can be done by combination of two characters: ~ (tilde) and latin (ASCII) version. No matter if you use lower or uppercase character, because the searching is case insensitive.
~a = ą, ~c = ć, ~e = ę, ~l = ł, ~n = ń, ~o = ó, ~s = ś, ~z = ż, ~x = ź
If anyone needs such support for another language, please contact with me.
