In the New Testament, the Old Testament is quoted quite frequently, in the epistles often with the phrase "it is written" or "scripture saith" signifying a quote (but not always, especially in the Gospels and Revelations).
In Hebrews 1:6, the author writes "And let all the angels of God worship him." If you search for this phrase in the KJV Old Testament, you won't find it anywhere. The KJV Deuteronomy 32:43 reads simply "Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people" with no mention of angels. But if you search the Septuagint, you'll find it in Deuteronomy 32:43, which has an expanded text that includes "and let all the angels of God worship him." The line simply doesn't exist in the Hebrew Masoretic text that the KJV follows. The author of Hebrews was quoting from the Greek Septuagint.
In Romans 2:24, Paul says "For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written". Remove the "as it is written" part of the text, and search. You won't find this quote in the KJV Old Testament, because the KJV Old Testament is based on the Masoretic text. You will, however, quickly find it in the Septuagint, at Isaiah 52:5.
You've probably done word studies with a concordance. Now you can do phrase studies quickly.
Only about the first 30-60 closest matching results are returned. If you see that your search word or phrase has more than about 30 entries, there may be additional results you cannot see. Try narrowing your search results by selecting a different text or book, or adding more words to the search phrase.
No sanity checking is done, so it's possible to select "Mark" and "Old Testament KJV" and you will get no results. Double check that the search criteria make sense.
The URL reflects your query, so you can copy the URL and use it in a document, share it with a friend, post it on a Bible forum, etc.
Note is is possible to get invalid looking screen snapshots if you fail to hit "submit" after changing the search criteria.
You can select between the entire KJV Bible, The KJV Old Testament, KJV New Testament, and Brenton's Septuagint.
These texts were selected using the following criteria:
If you know of a modern translation that meets these criteria and you want it indexed, feel free to contact the author.
The default is all books of the 66 Book KJV Bible. You can narrow your search results by e.g. selecting "Proverbs".
No sanity checking is done, so it's possible to select "Mark" and "Old Testament KJV" and you will get no results. Double check that the search criteria make sense.
The 14 books of the Apocrypha in Brenton's Septuagint are available in the book dropdown. Select "Brentons Septuagint" as your text to search these books. You can select "All Apocrypha" to search across all 14 Apocrypha books at once, or select an individual book like "Sirach" or "1Maccabees". Note that 3 Maccabees and 4 Maccabees do not have BibleHub links as they are not available on that site.
The scripturesaith search engine indexes the verses using the Open Search program, which is Amazon's open source fork of Elastic Search.
These programs are what is known as "inverted index" databases. Each non-common word is indexed, with the key being the word, and the data being the list of locations that word appears in. Note that a non-common word might be something like "charity", verses the extremely common words "is" and "and". Each word, before it is indexed, is reduced to its root word, so for example "looked" would be indexed as "look".
Overlapping sets of 3 verse groups are indexed into the database. This allows for some search phrases where the words can sometimes appear across multiple verses or even chapters of a book. The verse and chapter designations were added a long time after the books became canon, and the divisions sometimes appear to be arbitrary.
Each word in your search phrase reduced to its root word and is then is looked up in the database. Each word has a set of locations in the Bible it appears in (just like a concordance). The results are ranked by score, and the score is calculated in roughly the following manner:
The result is displayed in highest score sorted first order, with 30-50 results displayed. This means you may see results that don't actually match your search phrase, but this by itself is useful because you may see context about your words you would not catch without a thorough and tedius word study. If you don't see non-matching results it may be an indication that there are results you cannot see due to too many possible results of your search query. For example searching for "LORD" returns far too many results to display.
January 2026 - Added support for the 14 Apocrypha books in Brenton's Septuagint. You can now select individual Apocrypha books (Tobit, Judith, Sirach, 1-4 Maccabees, etc.) from the book dropdown when searching the Septuagint. BibleHub links are provided for most books.
January 2026 - Added a new "Sort by" option. The default "Auto" mode now intelligently adjusts how results are ranked based on the length of your search phrase. Short searches (one or two words) favor keyword matching, while longer phrase searches give more weight to finding text that closely matches your exact wording. You can also select "Phrase match" to sort entirely by how closely the text matches your search phrase, or "Keyword match" to sort purely by word frequency. This should improve results when searching for specific quotations.