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Dedication

Bro. Gosey was a "walking Bible". He was well known for his elaboration of the Bible charts originally published by Larkin. He could quote a verse if he was given the book, chapter, and verse, or if given the words, he could identify its book, chapter and verse. He could also do this if given a fragment of a verse. He did this all from memory. His preaching was very powerful.

While I was able to count all three of these men as friends, and they all spent many hours one on one with me during the months leading up to my conversion, teaching me from the Bible, it is in memory of the the "walking Bible" himself, Bro. C. C. Gosey, that the MyWord KJV program is dedicated.

Why KJV?

This is not King James dogmatism; it is simple pragmatics. If MyWord KJV is to be freely available, it must be derived from freely available sources. The KJV and the references coupled to it best suit this requirement. There is no claim here that the KJV is the most accurate translation, nor is there any claim that it is not! It is simply that the KJV best suits the needs and goals of the MyWord KJV Bible browser program.

The KJV text used in MyWord KJV was derived from "The 1769 Authorised Version with The 1833 Webster Update" as supplied in "The Online Bible" Version 6.11 ©1994, Woodside Bible Fellowship. The most recent version is available for free download at:

Features

• Chapters are divided into sections by subtitles. A summary view will show only those subtitles, providing a quick way to see what material a chapter covers.
• Each verse is clearly delineated by a fine separating line.
• Each verse is identified by its book, chapter, and verse, and in a form (Ge 1:1) that may be used as a search key.
• Paragraph symbols (¶) are properly displayed.
• Italics are used in the conventional manner to indicate wording added by the translators to clarify the text.
• The tetragrammaton is properly indicated by "LORD" to distinguish it from "Lord", as this has significance in interpretation.
• The words of Jesus are indicated by red letters, after the convention of many paper Bibles.
• Footnotes are indicated by ^superscripts, and the phrase to which they apply is indicated by underlining. (Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly display this underlining; Mozilla Firefox does.)

• Any complete chapter may be played as an mp3 audio track, recorded in a live human voice.
• Each verse is one click away from the associated discussion in Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary.
• Each word in the text of the Bible is one click away from its dictionary and encyclopedia entry, and from its Hebrew or Greek word entry in Strong's Lexicon.
• An advanced searching capability allows verses to be looked up by book, chapter, and verse entry, such as Joh 3:16. This supports a wide variety of formats that are used in the literature. Just enter the book, chapter, and verse into the search form and hit return. A new window will pop up containing the verse at the top, highlighted in yellow.
• Multiple verses may be retrieved by entering several references at once, such as: Jer 36:10-12, 36:26,32, Mat 13:52. In the case of multiple passages, each passage will be highlighted in alternating pink and green colors to make it easier to see where the breaks between passages are.
• A keyword search capability allows searching for verses that contain a keyword. All verses that match the search criteria will be displayed, with the matching words highlighted with a colored background.
• The keyword may be given in English, or, using the Strong's number, in Hebrew or Greek. Hebrew Strong's numbers have a leading zero to distinguish them from the Greek words of the same number. The background will be highlighted yellow for English, tan for Hebrew, and green for Greek.
• If more than 50 verses match, a table listing the book, chapter, and verse will be displayed instead of all the actual verses. Clicking on an entry in the table will pop up a window containing the chapter with the verse at the top, highlighted in yellow.
• A boolean AND search may specify words that must all be in the verse.
• A boolean AND-NOT search may specify words that must not be in the verse.
• A boolean OR search may specify several words. If any of these words are in a verse, that verse will be displayed.
• Compound searches may specify a mix of English and Strong's numbers.
• Searches may be over the entire Bible (the default), or they may be constrained to a specific range of verses. The range is specified in exactly the same way as for multiple verses as described above.
• Margin references in black for The New Chain Reference Bible, by Frank Charles Thompson, B. B. Kirkbride Bible Co. Inc., Indianapolis, 1934. (out of copyright)
• Index from The New Chain Reference Bible, by Frank Charles Thompson, B. B. Kirkbride Bible Co. Inc., Indianapolis, 1934. (out of copyright)
• Gazeteer of places keyed to Google Maps from www.OpenBible.Info.
• Margin references in white to the Gazeteer.
• The URL always contains all the information needed to re-display the page.
• The displayed query results page may be bookmarked.
• The URL may be copied and pasted into an email, another web page, etc. When you are composing an email or the body of a web page, you can paste that URL into it, and it will display the MyWord KJV page when it is clicked on later.
• You can use the URL for the contents of a frame or an iframe in a web page, and all the hot text features will be present right in the middle of your document.

The Page Layout

The picture at left shows the top portion of a typical browser window displaying Genesis 1. The color scheme of white, red, blue, and purple comes from the colors of the curtains of the tabernacle.

It should be noted that MyWord KJV makes extensive use of pop-up windows. In order for this to work properly, your browser needs to allow pop-ups from this site. Don't allow pop-ups from every site, or you will be bombarded by annoying commercials. MyWord KJV will never use pop-ups for anything other than displaying Bible information. If you do not enable pop-ups for this site, you will not see all the information that you should.

The first thing you should know about is the "Help" button on the right side at the top. Clicking on this button will pop up a window containing the Help Page that you are now viewing.

The other item at the top of the page is to the left: the phrase "MyWord KJV". When you click on this, it will take you back to Genesis 1.

The Navigation Cross

• Clicking on the arrow pointing to the right will take you to the next book.
  

• Clicking on the arrow pointing to the left will take you to the previous book.
  

• Clicking on the arrow pointing up will take you to the previous chapter.
  

• Clicking on the arrow pointing down will take you to the next chapter.
  

• Clicking on the circle in the center will close that page.
  

Other Header and Footer items

• Clicking on the book name will pop up a page containing Matthew Henry's summary of that book.
  

• Clicking on the chapter number will pop up a page containing Matthew Henry's summary of that chapter.
  

• Clicking on the ear to the right will play an audio recording of a human reading the chapter. If no ear is displayed, then the page is not a single complete chapter, and cannot be played in audio.
  

• The number following "Vs:" is the number of verses in the chapter.
• The two numbers following "En:" are the total number of English words in the chapter, and the number of different English words in the chapter.
• The two numbers following "He:" or "Gr:" are the total number of Hebrew or Greek words in the chapter, and the number of different Hebrew or Greek words in the chapter.

The Actual Text Part of the Page

Hot Text

If you look at the bottom of the browser window, you will see:

This shows that the Strong's number for the highlighted word "cried" is 2898. The "t1" indicates new testament, so it is Greek. The old testament will show "t0", and indicates Hebrew. When searching, Hebrew word Strong's numbers need to be entered with a leading zero to differentiate them from the Greek Strong's numbers. Due to the nature of translation from Hebrew or Greek into English, some English words do not have Strong's numbers associated with them.

If you click on a word that has an associated Strong's number, three windows will pop up: the Strong's Lexicon entry for that word, the Wikipedia encyclopedia entry for that word, and the Webster's Hypertext Dictionary entry for that word.

This dictionary window frequently includes entries from Easton's or Hitchcock's Bible dictionaries in addition to the more usual English dictionary entries.

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The superscript numbers embedded in the text are associated with the underlined words and linked to The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. When you point to one of these superscript numbers with the mouse, its background is highlighted in light purple:

When you click on the superscript number, a window pops up containing the original passage highlighted in yellow, with the underlined referrenced portion highlighted in light purple. This is followed by either some commentary highlighted in light purple, or a set of verses that are related to the underlined portion, or both:

All of the text displayed in the new window is mouse sensitive, and may be clicked on just like the text in a whole chapter display. If you click on the book, chapter, and verse in the left column, it will pop up a window containing the entire chapter that contains that verse, with that verse highlighted in yellow.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

When an entire chapter is being displayed in a window, the left column containing the book, chapter, and verse is mouse sensitive. Hovering over it will highlight it:

Clicking on it will pop up a window containing the associated commentary:

Any scriptural references will appear with white text instead of black. Clicking on these will pop up a window containing the referrenced verses.

Subtitles

Clicking on a subtitle:

pops up a new window containing the same chapter, but with the KJV text suppressed, so that only the subtitles show, with the clicked-on subtitle highlighted in orange at the top of the window:

This is useful for obtaining a quick overview of the chapter. The window may be scrolled to show subtitles preceding the selected one.

Clicking on the identifier part in such a summary window:

takes you back to the original view, only with the subtitle you clicked highlighted and at the top:

Looking Up a Passage

When we hit the "Enter" key on the keyboard, it pops up the desired passage, with the first verse highlighted in yellow:

You can also specify a particular verse, as in Psalms 150:4, and it will highlight that verse and place it at the top of the display. You can specify a range of verses, such as Psalms 150:3-5, and it will display only those selected verses, not the entire chapter:

(If you want to display a single verse, such as you might want to do when composing an email with an embedded URL, or a web page with an embedded iframe, just specify a range like John 3:16-16. Using the same verse number as the first and last verse referrence causes MyWord KJV to display only a single verse.)

Smart Book Name Abbreviations

• It doesn't care how you capitalize the name. Psalms, PSALMS, psalms, and psAlmS, will all get you the the book of Psalms.
• It allows you to abbreviate the book name. Psalms, Psalm, Psal, Psa, and Ps will all get you the the book of Psalms. In fact, you only need to specify enough of the first few letters to be different from any other book. Thus Mal will get Malachi, and Mat will get Matthew, but Ma will get you an error message!
• Books such as 1 Samuel, 2 Chronicles, and 3 John must be specified without a space between the book number and the name: 1s, 2c, and 3j. This last example is very streamlined. No capital letters were used, and the shortest possible book name was used. While this may not be conventional style, it is handy when you just want to get to a passage quickly.

Simple Range Specifiers

• First, you can abbreviate here also by dropping the space between the book and the chapter. Thus something like ps150:3-5 is allowed. This is also handy when you just want to get to a passage quickly.
• You can use a period (.) instead of a colon (:); this is easier to type, since you don't have to hold the shift key down. So ps150.3-5 is also allowed. (You can also use a space instead of a period, but it looks confusing to me.)

Compound Range Specifiers

Notice how each separate passage is distinguished from those before and after it by contrasting background colors. This aids rapidly scanning the query results.

MyWord KJV is very flexible in how it interprets these search arguments. The program was designed to allow you to copy almost any referrence to a Bible passage with the mouse and paste it into the search form to retrieve the associated text. This can be very useful when you are reading something that has such referrences in it and want to actually see the text being referrenced. Occasionally you may have to remove a space in something like 2 Ki, making it 2Ki to get it to work, but most of the time it "just works"!

Basic Keyword Search

Pressing the "Enter" key results in:

Wildcard Keyword Searching

The simplest wildcard is the "asterisk", or "star". It represents any sequence of characters. It is usually used in combination with other non-glob characters. We can use it to perform the witch etc. search above:

Pressing the "Enter" key gives us:

MyWord KJV implements wildcards using the Linux bash shell scripting concept of globs, which may be understood in detail by clicking here. Wildcards provide a lot of flexibility, but rather than delve into that here in this Help page, the interested reader should follow the link to learn all the capabilities that they offer.

Hebrew and Greek Searching

Pressing the "Enter" key gives us:

This gives a few more verses, as the same Hebrew word also got translated as "sorcerer". Notice how the English words were highlighted in yellow, but the Hebrew words got highlighted in tan.

The Greek word for "sorcerer" is "magos", and its Strong's number is 3097. A Greek search is done the same as a Hebrew search except that the leading zero is ommited for Greek words:

Pressing the "Enter" key gives us:

Notice that the Greek words are highlighted in green. This is easy to remember, because "Greek" and "green" both start with the letters "GR". Notice that once again, the original Greek word also has another meaning: "wise men".

Remember that the Strong's number can be obtained either by clicking on the word and looking at the lexicon page, or by hovering over the word and looking at the bottom of the window, as described earlier in the section Hot Text.

Too Many Verses

Clicking on a reference in the table will pop up a window containing the associated verse, highlighted in yellow, in the context of the full chapter in which it occurs:

Compound Searches

Compound searches allow finding all verses that contain either one specified word or another specified word. An example would be finding all verses that contained either "witch" or "sorcerrer" (or both). We do this by preceding the first word with a slash, and following the first word with a vertical bar (|), and then the second word:

Pressing the "Enter" key gives us:

It is also possible, using a compound search, to find all verses that contain both a specified word and also another specified word as well. This is done by successive slash operators. Thus to find all verses that contain both "witch" and "fire", we enter /witch/fire into the search form.

If we want to find all verses that contain one word, but not another, then we use the backslash (\) operator. Thus to find all verses that contain "witch" but not "fire", we enter /witch\fire into the search form.

Dictionary Display

Which produces a table of all the words appearing in that range, sorted alphabetically:

We can also display them sorted by occurance count, which is how many times each word appears in the range. We do this by using the exclamation point operator:

Which produces:

From which we can see that the word "praise" occurs more than any other word in Psalm 150.

We can also get the list of Hebrew or Greek words in the range, in Strong's number order, by using the number sign (#) operator:

Which produces:

Clicking on one of these Strong's numbers pops up a window with the associated Strong's lexicon entry in it.

And we can get the same Strong's numbers sorted in frequency of occurrance by using the at sign (@) operator:

Which produces:

More on Subtitles

Which produces:

Notice how we have displayed not one, but two chapters from Proverbs.

As before, clicking on one of the displayed subtitles will pop up a new window containing the subtitles from the chapter where the clicked on subtitle is found, with the clicked on subtitle highlighted in orange at the top of the display. Likewise, clicking on the book, chapter, and verse reference in the left column will display the containing chapter, with the clicked on subtitle highlighted in orange at the top of the display.

Thompson Chain Reference

If you click on a TCR note, you will cause the Thompson Chain Reference Index to be loaded into a separate window. The index only gets loaded the first time you click on a TCR note. This is a large file, so please give it time to load. After it has loaded, it will be positioned so that the top line of the window that lists verses that are all keyed to that same topic. If you hover the mouse over the list of scriptures, the entire list will be highlighted. If you then click on that list, a new window will pop up containing the text of all those scriptures.

If you click on another TCR note, without exiting the Index window, then the Index window will be quickly positioned to the appropriate set of verses for the TCR note you just clicked on; you will not have to load the index again.

Of course, you may also manually load the TCR Index by clicking the Index button at the top or bottom of a scripture window. You may also manually search the index either with the scroll bar or the Alt-F search function of your browser.

Gazeteer

In the Gazeteer window, the name of the place appears in the red margin to the left, and the list of all the scriptures that mention that place is in the white area to the right. If you hover over the list of scriptures, it will be highlighted. If you then click on it, a new window will pop up containing all those scriptures.

If you click on the place name in the Gazeteer window, a new window will pop up taking you Google Maps. The location of the selected place will be shown by a marker on the map.

If you click on another Gazeteer note, without exiting the Gazeteer window, then the Gazeteer window will be quickly positioned to the appropriate place for the Gazeteer note you just clicked on; you will not have to load the Gazeteer again.

Of course, you may also manually load the Gazeteer of Places by clicking the Gazeteer button at the top or bottom of a scripture window. You may also manually search the Gazeteer either with the scroll bar or the Alt-F search function of your browser.

Conclusion