CIted By vs. Power Lookup

Pater Noster

I am struggling with the big picture on these two tools. Is it fair to say Cited By shows various references that Cite whatever you are looking at, while Power Lookup has the text of any citations in what you are looking at? 

Cited By: shows who cites this resource

Power Lookup: shows this resources' citations (in complete text)

???

Thanks!

MJ. Smith

Basically yes.

Verbum Help said:

Cited By

Type a passage in the Search box, or link the tool to a Bible from the Panel menu to display where that passage is cited in other Library resources.

Reference Types

The Cited By tool searches for Data Type References that do not link to a specific resource. For example, [Aug., Conf. 13.19.25] will work, but page 252 of a specific book or commentary will not.

Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).

Verbum Help said:

Power Lookup

Display everything the active resource links to (footnotes, Bible passages, other resources, etc.) by scrolling through the resource.

The Power Lookup tool finds a data type reference in the current article or selection and displays the text associated with each reference.

Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).

DMB

Pater Noster said:

Cited By: shows who cites this resource

Power Lookup: shows this resources' citations (in complete text)

Adding to MJ ...

- Power Lookup does exactly what the tool title describes. Let's say, you have you're Quinta apparatus open, along with your MT text (hebrew). And quite frankly, mousing over all the little footnotes, and references is a major pain. Power Lookup does the mousing automatically, depending on how you attach it. Mr Mouser.

- CitedBy is a different problem. It doesn't care about all those footnotes at all. Instead it concentrates on the Bible verse(s) you're at (typically).  It solves the problem of studying your Bible, and not wanting to have to go check the Fathers, or the Talmud or a set of interesting monographs. He's your library assistent.

Both return text ... one jumps because your primary panel has a footnote/refs and looks them up. The other digs thru your library (however selected) for any Bible ref you're currently working on, and returns a decent snippit.

So, they're both big time savers, depending on your tasking. Passage Guide is a big-brother to CitedBy, so you might check him out too.