NEW: Smart Bible Search

Anna Adent · 2025-02-25T00:35:49+00:00

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Smart Bible search gives you the ability to easily search individual Bibles for whatever you are looking for, without needing to know special syntax. Now you can use natural language to search your Bible in a brand new way, using this new mode to run searches like courageous women or care for the needy.

Smart Bible search typically finds more relevant verses faster than using Precise search and results will be shown in order of relevance rather than canonical or resource order. This search mode will also use the Smart search engine by default, unless you enter Precise search syntax (such as using an exact phrase/in quotes, query contains special syntax, or the entire query is in Greek or Hebrew).

The license for Smart Bible search is included in all subscription plans, and users without a subscription have the opportunity to try it out!

This new search mode is available on Desktop and Web today. It will be available on Mobile tomorrow.

Let us know what you think in the comments!

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Comments

Dave Hooton

Where named on a Map, Scythopolis is sometimes accompanied by Beth-shan in parentheses, and is recognised as a variation of Beth-shan in AYBD. But Beth-shean is recognised as an alternative in other Bible Dictionaries.

The Place datatype is only recognised for Beth-shan (or Bet-Schean in your language UI).

See my post post about the treatment of the names.

Mark Barnes (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1360513#Comment_1360513

It's crossed our minds, too 😁. Nothing's imminent, but it's a natural extension of the technology.

Pastor Don Carpenter

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1360513#Comment_1360513

YES, YES YES!!!

Stephan Thelen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1360513#Comment_1360513

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https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1360631#Comment_1360631

Smart Bible Search is very good and useful, thank you Logos again! I did the following two searches:

God tells people the time has not yet come
People tell God the time has not yet come

Beautiful!

Jeffrey Benson

I love Bible Smart Search and Smart Search. These two new smart searches provide an easy button for utilizing logos and tapping into our extensive libraries.

For example, when starting a Bible Study on a book (like 1 John) you can ask Smart Search questions about the background, historical context, culture, author, and more and get AI summarized insights from your library with links back to the resources. You can also ask smart search who, what, when, where, and why questions of the text to help interpret the passage. Then you can ask the bible smart search questions related to important parallel passages or cross references, other passages the talk about similar themes or doctrinal topics, etc.

These AI features provide an "easy button" for the software and make it much more enjoyable to use.

The data sets and links you have created in the past that power precise search are amazing. And smart search has made it all even better. Thank you!

Donovan R. Palmer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1361725#Comment_1361725

I agree its usefulness has continued to increase and therefore I am going through my AI credits faster than I did last year when Smart Search for books was launched.

I am hopeful that Logos will eventually have a more interactive tool, maybe similar to Perplexity, that shows me resources in my library but will also allow me to ask followup questions.

Bruce Dunning

I'm loving this new feature. What an excellent improvement that should keep people from using Google rather than Logos Bible search.

John Brumett

Would love smart search results to be filtered through our passage lists. For example I created a passage list on creation verses in the Bible. I can ask the inquiry to filer results through my passage list only.

Yasmin Stephen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1364252#Comment_1364252

This ability is presently in beta testing. We're likely to see it in the next update to the stable version (41). As a workaround, you can select all the verses (CTRL-A), start a new passage list, and use Add passage from: … clipboard (upper left in Add option).

xnman

Wellll…. I took some time today and played with Smart Search… Gotta say, I love it!! Because of this Smart Search, Logos has become a bible software above all rivals. The Search is that good.

Great work to the Logos Team!! Love it! Love it! Love it! 😎

GaoLu

I have to agree. For my wants and needs, its as good as @xnman says. Thanks Logos.