Why does the Bible Word Study limit what words I can enter?

Todd Phillips said:

I tried to enter "Lucifer" in the BWS, but it wouldn't accept it--it looks up a similar word (Lucius) if using a new guide or reverts to the last word entered if using an existing guide.  I find this extremely frustrating.

I agree, this doesn't make sense at all. I wouldn't mind if the drop-down box only displayed entries from my favourite Bible, but I should still be able to type in any word I wished - particularly as there's a workaround, as described.

Todd Phillips said:

(Although Lucifer is a "bible word"-- Is 14:12 KJV )

I think if you have KJV as your preferred Bible it would then be accepted. I think that's where the list comes from.

Todd Phillips said:

Why is the BWS entry field restricted? I can't think of any good reason.

Indeed, let's open it up and rename it just "Word Study".

Same behaviour on Mac. Extremely annoying, since I rarely open BWS from inside a resource. Which means that when I can't make it work directly from BWS, I have to first do a search to find an occurrence of the word, before I can do the BWS itself...

Dave Hooton said:

Mmmmm, so you've changed your mind, Mark.

You've got a good memory! It's not so much that I've changed my mind, but that I've given up hope of seeing an interim topic search whilst we wait for the LCV tagging to be completed. I'm still at a loss to explain why we haven't got the functionality of the 'plus' tab, on the definitions section of a BWS as a separate tool called 'Topics'.