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).
When Jesus says in Matthew 13 and other places in the New Testament "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear", what is he quoting? The answer is Ezekiel 3:27. In this case the Septuagint was searched, because most of the time quotes in the New Testament are taking from the scriptures present in the first century AD, which most closely match our version of the 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.
Currently you cannot select the 14 books of the Apocrypha that are in Brenton's Septuagint. It is an unresolved feature request to add these.
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.