Not Just Words
Bible Search + Thesaurus
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About Not Just Words
It's so frustrating when you think you remember a verse, but you have one or two words which are not quite right, and so you just can't find it.
Perhaps you learned it in a different version. Perhaps you only vaguely remember it at all.
Either way, if you don't know the right words to look for then you won't be able to find the verse.
But Not Just Words is smarter than your average Bible Search app.
As well as being able to search for combinations of words it also automatically searches for other forms and synonyms of your search words.
So when you search for “pray”, it also looks for “prays”, “praying”, “prayer”, “prayers”, “prayed”...
And then it uses a thesaurus to broaden the search even further. So search for “speak” and it also find verses with “talk”, “uttered”, etc...
All that in a fraction of a second.
You can also search for references like “rom 1:4” or “Gen 1:1;Ex 12:1”, or you can combine these with other searches to restrict them.
For example you can search for “pray in Romans” to find the references to prayer in the book of Romans. Or “forgive in NT” to find the new testament references to forgiveness.
You can also search for phrases like “holy spirit”. And those searches will also use the thesaurus for each word in the phrase.
And you can combine searches with “and”, “or” or “not”. Or “near” to find words within a couple of verses of each other.
This app includes the ability to search
AMP Amplified Bible
ASV American Standard Version
CCB Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
CCB Chinese Contemporary Bible (Trandiational)
CEB Contemporary English Version
CEV Contemporary English Version
CSB Christian Standard Bible
CUV Chinese Union Version (Traditional)
CUVS Chinese Union Version (Simplified)
DARBY Darby's Version
ESV English Standard Version
GNT Good News Translation
ICB International Children’s Bible
JCB Japanese Christian Bible
JCOL Japanese Colloquial Bible
JLB Japanese Living Bible
KJV King James Version
MSG The Message
NASB New American Standard Version
NIV New International Version
NIV1984 New International Version (1984 Version)
NKJV New King James Version
NLT New Living Translation
NRSV New Revised Stanard Version
TLB The Living Bible
WEB World English Bible
WEBLWT World English Bible with Little Watchman Translation New Testament
WYC Wycliffe Bible
YLT Young's Literal Translation
It also includes the Japanese Colloquial Version using the advanced search features, including the ability to find all the forms of the words you searched for.
This version also includes settings which allow you to specify which kanji (if any) you recognise. Unknown kanji will then be replaced by your choice of furigana, hiragana, or romaji. You can also insert spaces between Japanese words to make reading easier for beginners.
Similarly for the Chinese Union Version. Both traditional and simplified versions. And you can search either by Chinese characters or pinyin.
And if you’re not interested in either Japanese or Chinese, you can just turn them off and never see them again.
We also let you set up a daily reading plan, and you can have your phone read it to you each day (using Siri's voice) while you're commuting if that fits your lifestyle. We won’t nag, but we will politely remind you if you get behind. You can turn that off too if you don’t like it.
All Bible data is stored locally and does not require an internet connection for reading or searching.
Find the verse you’re looking for and make the most of every opportunity.
Perhaps you learned it in a different version. Perhaps you only vaguely remember it at all.
Either way, if you don't know the right words to look for then you won't be able to find the verse.
But Not Just Words is smarter than your average Bible Search app.
As well as being able to search for combinations of words it also automatically searches for other forms and synonyms of your search words.
So when you search for “pray”, it also looks for “prays”, “praying”, “prayer”, “prayers”, “prayed”...
And then it uses a thesaurus to broaden the search even further. So search for “speak” and it also find verses with “talk”, “uttered”, etc...
All that in a fraction of a second.
You can also search for references like “rom 1:4” or “Gen 1:1;Ex 12:1”, or you can combine these with other searches to restrict them.
For example you can search for “pray in Romans” to find the references to prayer in the book of Romans. Or “forgive in NT” to find the new testament references to forgiveness.
You can also search for phrases like “holy spirit”. And those searches will also use the thesaurus for each word in the phrase.
And you can combine searches with “and”, “or” or “not”. Or “near” to find words within a couple of verses of each other.
This app includes the ability to search
AMP Amplified Bible
ASV American Standard Version
CCB Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
CCB Chinese Contemporary Bible (Trandiational)
CEB Contemporary English Version
CEV Contemporary English Version
CSB Christian Standard Bible
CUV Chinese Union Version (Traditional)
CUVS Chinese Union Version (Simplified)
DARBY Darby's Version
ESV English Standard Version
GNT Good News Translation
ICB International Children’s Bible
JCB Japanese Christian Bible
JCOL Japanese Colloquial Bible
JLB Japanese Living Bible
KJV King James Version
MSG The Message
NASB New American Standard Version
NIV New International Version
NIV1984 New International Version (1984 Version)
NKJV New King James Version
NLT New Living Translation
NRSV New Revised Stanard Version
TLB The Living Bible
WEB World English Bible
WEBLWT World English Bible with Little Watchman Translation New Testament
WYC Wycliffe Bible
YLT Young's Literal Translation
It also includes the Japanese Colloquial Version using the advanced search features, including the ability to find all the forms of the words you searched for.
This version also includes settings which allow you to specify which kanji (if any) you recognise. Unknown kanji will then be replaced by your choice of furigana, hiragana, or romaji. You can also insert spaces between Japanese words to make reading easier for beginners.
Similarly for the Chinese Union Version. Both traditional and simplified versions. And you can search either by Chinese characters or pinyin.
And if you’re not interested in either Japanese or Chinese, you can just turn them off and never see them again.
We also let you set up a daily reading plan, and you can have your phone read it to you each day (using Siri's voice) while you're commuting if that fits your lifestyle. We won’t nag, but we will politely remind you if you get behind. You can turn that off too if you don’t like it.
All Bible data is stored locally and does not require an internet connection for reading or searching.
Find the verse you’re looking for and make the most of every opportunity.
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Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version 4.4.2
Last updated on Apr 22, 2024
Vieilles Versions
support for dark mode.
a few other small improvements.
a few other small improvements.
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Version History
4.4.2
Oct 15, 2022
support for dark mode.
a few other small improvements.
a few other small improvements.
4.4.1
Jul 25, 2022
fixes a small but annoying bug when trying to change the selection point while typing
4.4
Dec 19, 2021
Just made a few small changes.
4.3.3
May 16, 2021
We changed the "Share" button on the Search screen to use PDF format instead of html.
We also made it format the verses as a block if they are a block of text.
We also made it format the verses as a block if they are a block of text.
4.3.1
May 12, 2021
We kept the audio playing for daily reading, even when the screen goes to sleep.
4.3
May 10, 2021
We added a speed setting for speech. So you can have your daily reading read to you faster, (or slower), if you want.
And we added an auto continue reading option, so speech will automatically move to the next chapter and keep reading for you.
And we added an auto continue reading option, so speech will automatically move to the next chapter and keep reading for you.
4.2
Apr 20, 2021
We fixed a bug where the app could crash if you rotated your phone too fast while in the parallel Bibles mode.
We also added a new way of searching for verse ranges “Rom 1:12-e” will find verses from 12 to the end of the chapter.
So will “Rom 1:12+”
“Rev 16-e” will show chapters 16-22 of Revelation
So will “Rev 16+”
We also added a new way of searching for verse ranges “Rom 1:12-e” will find verses from 12 to the end of the chapter.
So will “Rom 1:12+”
“Rev 16-e” will show chapters 16-22 of Revelation
So will “Rev 16+”
4.1
May 31, 2020
We added a setting so you can turn off the daily reminders if you're behind in your reading.
4.0
Feb 24, 2020
We completely rewrote everything from scratch to take advantage of the new generation of operating systems.
We added speech for daily reading and search results, so your phone will read the chapter or verses to you.
This also improved performance, enabling us to expand the thesaurus.
We added the ability for you to edit the thesaurus. In case we missed some words you search for, or if you want to change some of the ones we already have.
We added ~ search. You could already do =search to find just that word, ~search will let you find variations of the word, but it won't reference the thesaurus.
So you if you specifically want to search for prayer, you can search for "=prayer" to find just prayer and Prayer. "~prayer" will find pray, prays, praying, prayer, prayed, prayers, ...
But "pray" will find all those plus petition, beseech, etc...
We added Chinese bibles and they also have the "smart kanji" feature that the Japanese bibles have.
And they can be read with pinyin as ruby text, or as just pinyin with no Chinese characters if that's what you prefer.
And we included NIV 1984 version.
We added speech for daily reading and search results, so your phone will read the chapter or verses to you.
This also improved performance, enabling us to expand the thesaurus.
We added the ability for you to edit the thesaurus. In case we missed some words you search for, or if you want to change some of the ones we already have.
We added ~ search. You could already do =search to find just that word, ~search will let you find variations of the word, but it won't reference the thesaurus.
So you if you specifically want to search for prayer, you can search for "=prayer" to find just prayer and Prayer. "~prayer" will find pray, prays, praying, prayer, prayed, prayers, ...
But "pray" will find all those plus petition, beseech, etc...
We added Chinese bibles and they also have the "smart kanji" feature that the Japanese bibles have.
And they can be read with pinyin as ruby text, or as just pinyin with no Chinese characters if that's what you prefer.
And we included NIV 1984 version.
3.9.2
Nov 12, 2019
We fixed a bug where searching in a book or group where the search target was also the name of a book or group, would find the wrong things.
For example, searching for "gospel near baptism in NT" would match gospel on all the gospel books instead of just the verses with the word gospel in them.
For example, searching for "gospel near baptism in NT" would match gospel on all the gospel books instead of just the verses with the word gospel in them.
3.9
Dec 7, 2018
updated to the latest revision of Little Watchman Translation
3.8
Dec 4, 2017
fixes the issue caused by changes in iOS11.1 where the app would freeze every time it showed you a message.
3.7.1
Apr 14, 2017
Fixed a bug where searches weren't being added to history.
3.7
Jan 25, 2017
We just updated the WEBLWT version due to a new revision of the LWT New Testament.
3.6
Jul 28, 2016
Fixed a bug with searching for multiple references separated by ;s
Fixed a bug searching the Japanese Bible for a phrase in romaji.
Fixed a bug searching the Japanese Bible for a phrase in romaji.
3.5
Jul 18, 2016
We added the "=" option for searching just for the specific word and not any of its derivatives or matching words from the thesaurus.
So searching for "kingdom" will find kingdom, king, ruler, etc... but searching for "=kingdom" will only match kingdom and Kingdom.
You can use this when search for phrases too, so you can now search for "=kingdom of =god" to find only that exact phrase.
So searching for "kingdom" will find kingdom, king, ruler, etc... but searching for "=kingdom" will only match kingdom and Kingdom.
You can use this when search for phrases too, so you can now search for "=kingdom of =god" to find only that exact phrase.
3.4
Jul 5, 2016
We added the ability to search for phrases. When you do it will still use the thesaurus, so searching for "eat bread" will also find verses with "ate bread", "eaten bread", etc... You can also combine searches for two phrases with "and", "or" and "not". And you can restrict the search to certain books or collections.
We added the ability to search for two words or phrases near each other using the new keyword "near". So searching for "Adam near Eve" will find all the verses with Adam which are within two verses of a verse with Eve.
And we increased the number of words in the thesaurus to make finding verses even easier.
We added the ability to search for two words or phrases near each other using the new keyword "near". So searching for "Adam near Eve" will find all the verses with Adam which are within two verses of a verse with Eve.
And we increased the number of words in the thesaurus to make finding verses even easier.
3,2
Apr 9, 2016
We fixed a bug that was showing incorrect results for users searching the ASV Bible.
There were no other changes, so skip this upgrade if you don't use the ASV.
There were no other changes, so skip this upgrade if you don't use the ASV.
3.1
Apr 1, 2016
We added the ability to export your search results using airdrop, email, sms, etc...
3.0
Jul 30, 2015
As well as making things work a bit more smoothly for existing versions...
The big news for this update is that we added the Japanese Colloquial Bible.
Along with that we added settings for furigana, hiragana, romaji and spacing for the Japanese text. You can also specify which kanji (if any) you do or don't recognise and the ones you don't know will be automatically replaced with furigana, hiragana or romaji.
We added the ability to ignore particular words when searching. So now you can search for "pray -praying" to find verses with any form of "pray" but not "praying".
We fixed a few small bugs which didn't occur very frequently.
One to do with searching using the @ keyword to specify the range of books to search.
One where the Bibles in the "Parallel Settings" could sometimes have blank names.
And one where the Parallel Settings could be missing some Bibles you have access to.
We also improved the layout for search results and particularly for the parallel view.
The LWT was updated since the last version, and we have merged it with the WEB Old Testament so you can still search a whole Bible.
The big news for this update is that we added the Japanese Colloquial Bible.
Along with that we added settings for furigana, hiragana, romaji and spacing for the Japanese text. You can also specify which kanji (if any) you do or don't recognise and the ones you don't know will be automatically replaced with furigana, hiragana or romaji.
We added the ability to ignore particular words when searching. So now you can search for "pray -praying" to find verses with any form of "pray" but not "praying".
We fixed a few small bugs which didn't occur very frequently.
One to do with searching using the @ keyword to specify the range of books to search.
One where the Bibles in the "Parallel Settings" could sometimes have blank names.
And one where the Parallel Settings could be missing some Bibles you have access to.
We also improved the layout for search results and particularly for the parallel view.
The LWT was updated since the last version, and we have merged it with the WEB Old Testament so you can still search a whole Bible.
2.8
Oct 10, 2014
Using LORD instead of Yahweh is just superstition. We added an optional processor (see Settings) which will change it back.
Jesus is a made up name derived from the Latin Iesus. We added an optional processor (see Settings) which will change it to the more accurate Hebew/Aramaic name Yeshua.
Jesus is a made up name derived from the Latin Iesus. We added an optional processor (see Settings) which will change it to the more accurate Hebew/Aramaic name Yeshua.
2.7.2
Aug 8, 2014
Fixed a bug where selecting some chapters in your reading plan wouldn't work (for example, 1 John 1).
2.7.1
Jul 15, 2014
We added a badge to the Home View to tell you if you are behind in your Daily Reading.
We fixed a couple of little bugs with the daily reading plan.
We fixed a couple of little bugs with the daily reading plan.
2.7
Jul 7, 2014
We added support for several new versions.
Young's Literal Translation
King James Version
World English Bible
American Standard Version
Little Watchman Translation (New Testament Only)
We have decided not to support any translations which are sold for profit.
You can now change the order that Bibles appear in the parallel view.
Young's Literal Translation
King James Version
World English Bible
American Standard Version
Little Watchman Translation (New Testament Only)
We have decided not to support any translations which are sold for profit.
You can now change the order that Bibles appear in the parallel view.
2.6
Jun 13, 2014
We updated the look and feel a bit.
We fixed a bug with the Daily Reading plan which could tell you that you were behind in your reading even when you didn't have it turned on.
We fixed a bug where the bottom line of the verse could sometimes be cut off halfway on an iPad.
We fixed a bug where clicking "Next" in the Parallel view could cause a problem if there was only one verse in the results.
We fixed a bug with the Daily Reading plan which could tell you that you were behind in your reading even when you didn't have it turned on.
We fixed a bug where the bottom line of the verse could sometimes be cut off halfway on an iPad.
We fixed a bug where clicking "Next" in the Parallel view could cause a problem if there was only one verse in the results.
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