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What is the Bible Word Study Guide?

Use the Bible Word Study guide to find in-depth information about a specific word.

Available in:
Logos 4
Logos 5 and Verbum 5
iPhone
Android
iPad
Kindle Fire
How to use a BWS
All Roads Lead to the Text
Grasping God’s Word
Learn to Study the Bible

This wiki page describes the BWS (Bible Word Study) Guide.
- It does not discuss functions that work across all guides such as the features built into the resource icon, section title bars, and document management tools. However, it provides links to this information.
- On the forum and in this wiki the abbreviation BWS is often used for the Bible Word Study guide.

The Bible Word Study Guide is a group of tools which can aid you in exploring and learning about a Bible word.
- The BWS is useful when you want to learn about a specific word and how it is used throughout the Bible. It is best used in conjunction with the Bible Sense Lexicon which emphasizes concepts.
  - To see how a specific word is used relative to a specific verse, the Exegetical guide may be a better tool.

When you enter word or select a word for a Bible Word Study you get one of two forms:
- If you enter an English word (or any word not in an original language) you will see this form.

If you enter an Original Language word (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek) you will see this form.

There are various tool sections in the guide which will help you find:
- Definitions and distribution of your word with links to Topics Guide and Sermon Starter Guide (Definition and Lemma sections).
- Example uses in various grammatical positions of your word (Example Uses).
- Grammatical Relationships between your word and other words (Grammatical Relationships).
- Phrases (idioms) which use your word with definitions and links to Topic Guides (Phrases).
- Prepositional usable with your word (Prepositions section).
- Root of your word with related words and distributions (Root section).
- Senses in which your word is used, other words sharing those senses and the classification hierarchy (Senses section).
- Textual searches for the occurrences of your word (Textual Searches section).
- Translations of your word, their distribution and locations (Greek Words, Hebrew Words, Translation and Septuagint Translation sections).

The Starter Base Package does not include all features of the Bible Word Study Guide. See Logos comparison chart for details.
Phrases, Root and Senses are new in Logos 5.

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Vocabulary from SIL

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Glossaries in Logos

These glossaries provide the vocabulary for the grammatical resources available in the Example Uses and Grammatical Relationships sections of the Bible Word Study.

Glossary of Morpho-Syntactic Database Terminology | Dr. Michael S. Heiser, Ph.D.
A Systematic Glossary to the Andersen-Forbes Analysis of the Hebrew Bible | Francis I. Andersen and A. Dean Forbes
The OpenText.org Syntactically Analyzed Greek New Testament Glossary | Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O’Donnell and Jeffrey T. Reed
Cascadia Syntax Graphs of the New Testament: Glossary | Andi Wu and Randall K. Tan

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How do I open the Bible Word Study Guide?

Logos Help | Bible Word Study | Generate a Bible Word Study report

Useful set-up
Collection of reverse interlinear Bibles
Common elements
Right click context menu
Hover
Click
BWS | concordance entry of translation ring
BWS | related root of Root section
BWS | lemma of Senses section
EG | lemma of Word by Word
BSL | lemma of Bible Sense Lexicon
Search | document in My Content
Right click
On open Bible
Selection | Bible Word Study
Lemma | Bible Word Study

There are several methods open a Bible Word Study guide. Note opening a Bible Word Study Guide will either create a new guide or open a saved guide.
- From the Toolbar | Guides menu | Bible Word Study
- From the right click menu inside a Bible: English, Original Language from a reverse interlinear, Original Language. For right click on other resources see Common functions: Context Menu.)
- Opening from the Command Box
- Additional supplemental methods
  - Opening from another Bible Word Study

Opening from the Toolbar

In the Toolbar click on the Guides menu.
Click on Bible Word Study on the left side to open a blank Guide in a new tab. Notice that hovering over Bible Word Study pops up a brief description of the BWS.
To select a saved Bible Word Study, select the BWS Guide from the list on the right side.

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Opening from a Bible

For a Bible Word Study on an English word

While not necessary, you may find it useful to make a collection of your reverse interlinear Bibles as they are ones that support a BWS.

In an open English Bible, select a word and right click.
On the right side, select “Selection”.
On the left side, click on “Bible Word Study”.
This runs a BWS against all passages in the open English Bible. It opens in a new tab.

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For an original language Bible Word Study from a reverse interlinear Bible

In a reverse interlinear Bible, select a word and right click.
On the right side, select “Lemma”.
One the left side, click on “Bible Word Study”.
This runs a BWS against all passages selecting both the original language data and the corresponding English data from the open reverse interlinear Bible. It opens in a new tab.

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For an original language Bible Word Study from an original language Bible

In an open original language Bible, select a word and right click.
On the right side, select “Lemma”. Note that sometimes there are multiple lemma entries from which to choose.
On the left side, click on “Bible Word Study”.
This will run a BWS against all passages in the open original language Bible. The corresponding English data will be taken from your highest priority reverse interlinear Bible. It opens in a new tab.

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