Restricting WebApp Bible search to specific book ranges

Is there any way to constrain a Web App bible search to specific books of the bible, as in the desktop? I see no obvious way to do it. I find it hard to believe this is as impossible as it seems as this is pretty basic functionality. Want me going to biblegateway.com? 🤣 I wanted to search only the book of Acts for "Confess". I got the Study Assistant to do it correctly, but that's expensive.

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Andrew Batishko

There isn't a button to do it, but there is an example of how to do this using Precise syntax in the "Advanced Syntax" section below the search box before you enter any search text:

Find a word within a milestone (see above):
Spirit IN milestone:bible:"1 Corinthians"

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Dave Hooton

The Find box can be used to select books via their metadata e.g. type:commentary, series:niv-application, subject:Job

You can use the above individually or in combination, separated by a space.

Eric Ewanco

Sorry by "book" I meant Acts, John, Matthew … etc.

Dave Hooton

subject:Acts or title:Acts will do that

Andrew Batishko

There isn't a button to do it, but there is an example of how to do this using Precise syntax in the "Advanced Syntax" section below the search box before you enter any search text:

Find a word within a milestone (see above):
Spirit IN milestone:bible:"1 Corinthians"

Eric Ewanco

That did not work.

Eric Ewanco

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1399971#Comment_1399971

That worked, thank you! hopefully I can remember that … perhaps I can find it in Help and make a Note for it??

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1399972#Comment_1399972

What I thought you meant was a Book Search for resources with a specific title or subject, where the latter metadata refers to commentaries, etc. addressing a specific bible book e.g.

The Find box is where you type book metadata like subject:Job or title:Job.
Because a commentary could refer to other bible books, the Search "milestone" restricts the word to that part of the commentary.

If you wanted only a Bible Search then this is what you do:

Phil Gons (Logos)

confess IN bible:Acts