But you know what? Your mind is working hard right now and the last thing you want is too many pieces of information to look at. Wow, we have just a handful of results ( 7). In the search bar, you type out " Sam* AND Jews." You want a "logical operator" and in our case the operator is " AND." You're not sure if these two things are close enough together, but it's worth a shot in order to get fewer results to search through. You remember something from the verse: "Jews." So in our example, these all would be returned: sam1, samsomething, samsam.Īfter seeing the results you decide that there are too many and you're in a hurry. This works because the asterisk ( *) is a "wildcard," which just means anything at and after this point is ok. You could search for " Sam*", which would work as long as you have time to read through all the results. It won't figure out what you want or do topical searching (not sure any apps do this), but it will find words in text.īlue Letter Bible also allows for some more advanced searching, such as logical operators and a wildcard, which I like a lot.įor example, you want to find the woman at the well and you're not sure how to spell Samaritan and as mentioned, topical searching doesn't work. Oddly enough, the Android version has a little better UX (user experience) in this case. This menu option needs to be brought out the home screen or perhaps a new main menu. Instead, if you want to read your highlights, tap on a random verse to bring up the menu screen then scroll down to the very bottom and tap on "View All Highlighted Verses." And from here you can drill down into your categories and highlights. If you're on iOS, the main problem is navigation to read your highlights is very clunky.įor example, if you want to read your notes, there's an icon on the main screen that goes to the notes section. Overall, the highlighting feature is pretty good. This is great because rather than relying on a color, you could name the label something like "God's Promises." I like the there's a preview while you create your highlight and that you can label the new highlight. Showing how to create a new highlight category in the Blue Letter Bible app.īut for those who take things up a notch, the iOS version has a RGB (Red, Blue Green) slider as well as a HEX code input-a HEX code looks like this: F2FF30 (instead of RGB: 242, 255, 48), which is the code for a type of yellow. Now, if you're not a design aficionado with your highlights and you just want red, blue, green, etc, then you'll be just fine with either version. With the Blue Letter Bible app, you can create as many categories & colors as you want (or even multiple categories for the same color).īoth the iOS and Android versions allow for custom colors, but the iOS version of this screen is far superior. I use color to differentiate meaning, so having all my highlights solely lumped into one big listing doesn't help. I also like that the colors are actually categories, which is very important to me. When you want to highlight a passage, you can just tap anywhere on the screen and then select the passage start/end when you get to this screen. Once you select your highlight, you then confirm the start and end verse. Pretty simple.Īside from color highlights, you can also single or double underline the passage. To highlight a verse, you simply tap the verse, scroll down to "Highlights" in the new screen and then select your highlight. With that out of the way, let's dive into the app, which is a free download and doesn't look like it has any ads nor in-app purchases. "Blue Letter Bible provides powerful tools for an in-depth study of God's Word through our free online reference library, with study tools that are grounded in the historical, conservative Christian faith."Īlso according to their website ( Blue Letter Bible), the Blue Letter Bible was created 25 years ago. "The Blue Letter Bible Project is an initiative of Sowing Circle, a United States-based, non-denominational Christian ministry that has created a study Bible and Bible study tools "to make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding." Your first question might be: just what is a "blue letter Bible?" When I first heard about BLB (Blue Letter Bible), I thought it was the words of Jesus in a nice blue color.įor the answer, here's what Wikipedia said: Today I continue on my valiant quest of looking for a go-to Bible study app by diving into Blue Letter Bible, which is available on both iOS and Android.
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