Let’s continue our search one step further. Let’s add any word that begins with
“baptiz”. Click on the “Add Phrase to Search Criteria” button or press Ctrl-P
[Command-P] and enter “baptiz*” in the 3
rd
Search Phrase:
The “baptiz*” entry uses the “*” wildcard to find anything beginning with the
letters “baptiz”. This includes things like baptize, baptized, baptizest, baptizeth,
batizing, etc., while excluding baptism, baptisms, Baptist, and Baptist’s. In other
words, it happens, in this particular case, to be all of the action forms of the word
while excluding the passive nouns.
Hint: When entering
words into a Search
Phrase Editor, you can
instantly see the list
matching part of any
word you currently
have typed. To see the
matching words, just
move the cursor to somewhere on top of the word, and press the Down-Arrow
Key. A drop list will be displayed showing the matching words (as illustrated).
Pressing the Shift-Key while the list is displayed, will take you to the first close
match for the current word. If you want to replace the word in the editor with
one of the words in the list, simply select it in the list and press ‘Enter’ or click it
with the mouse.
Now that we’ve entered “baptiz*” we see that it too has 77 occurrences in the
Entire Bible. This shows one of the fingerprints of God’s divine inspiration on the
King James text. Not only do we have each of these phrases appearing exactly 77
times, but we have a noun, the “church”; we have a verb, “baptize” or
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