Table of Contents
Help on ...
• Basics
• Installation
• How-To
• Home Page
• My Library
• Resources
• Documents
• Guides
• Searching
• Tools
• Layouts
• Importing
• Advanced
• Interactives
Basics
• Getting Started
• Help
• Command Box
• Gestures
• Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
• Notification Center
• Print/Export
• Shortcut Bar
• Synchronization
• Toolbar
• Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
Installation
• Automatic Resource Updates
• Automatic Updates
• Indexing
How-To
• How do I bring up the Sign In window again?
• How do I change the resource display from one column to two or more columns?
• How do I combine Passage and Exegetical Guide results into one report?
• How do I copy a Bible verse or passage into my document?
• How do I disable automatic downloading of updates?
• How do I enable diagnostic logging?
• How do I enter a Bible book abbreviation that will be recognized by Logos?
• How do I enter Greek or Hebrew text and switch between keyboards?
• How do I enter Greek or Hebrew text and switch between keyboards?
• How do I find my Logos Mac files in the Mavericks and Yosemite operating systems?
• How do I find the total number of resources in my library?
• How do I quickly increase or decrease the font scaling of a panel?
• How do I remove a book from my Library?
• How do I search for a specific Bible reference in my library?
• How do I share my custom documents and settings between my office and home computers?
• How do I stop Cited By, Explorer, etc. from following as I scroll through a Bible?
• How do I use my library to learn about a certain topic?
Definitions
• Data Type
• Data Type Reference
• Inflection
• Lemma
• Metadata
• Milestones
• Morphology
• Pericope
• Syntax
• Transliteration
• Verse Map
Home Page
• Getting Started
• Choose Preferred Bible
• Home Page
• Lectionary
• Reading Plan Document
• Toolbar
My Library
• Library
• Library Filter Fields
• Library Options
• Resource Priority
Resources
• Community Tags
• Logos Media
• Parallel Resource Sets
• Read Aloud
• Report Typos
• Resource Panel
• Resource Panel Menu
• Timeline Resources
• Visual Filters
Documents
• Bibliography Document
• Clippings Document
• Handout Document
• Handout Options
• Notes Document
• Passage List Document
• Prayer List Document
• Reading Plan Document
• Reading Plan Options
• Sentence Diagram Document
• Sentence Diagramming
• Syntax Search Advanced
• Syntax Search Document
• Visual Filter Document
• Word Find Puzzle Document
• Word Find Puzzle Options
• Word List Document
Guides
• Bible Word Study
• Edit Guide Template
• Exegetical Guide
• Passage Guide
• Sermon Starter Guide
• Topic Guide
Searching
General
• Basic Search Options
• Basic Search Panel
• Bible Search Options
• Bible Search Panel
• Choose a Graph
• Clause Search Options
• Clause Search Panel
• Everything Search
• Graph Bible Search Results
• Graph Bible Search Results Options
• Inline Search
• Media Search Options
• Media Search Panel
• Modify the Graph Data
• Morph Search Options
• Morph Search Panel
• Search Analysis
• Search Suggestion
• Syntax Search Panel
Tools
• Ask the Author
• Atlas
• Bible Sense Lexicon
• Bookmarks
• Cited By
• Cluster Graph
• Collections
• Compare Pericopes
• Copy Bible Verses
• Copy Bible Verses Styles
• Copy Bible Verses Syntax
• Explorer
• Factbook
• Favorites
• Groups Tool
• Highlighting
• History
• Information
• Morph River
• Passage Analysis
• Passage Analysis Options
• Personal Books
• Personal Books Syntax
• Power Lookup
• Pronunciation
• Reading Lists
• Search Fields
• Self Tests
• Settings
• Text Comparison
• Timeline
• Version River
• Visual Copy
• Wikipedia Tool
• Word Tree
Layouts
• Layouts
• Shortcut Bar
• Toolbar
• Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
Importing
• Importing Libronix DLS Documents
Advanced
• COM API
Interactives
• Ancient Inscriptions Interactive
• Before and After: Ancient and Modern Biblical Archaeology Sites Interactive
• Bible Outline Browser Interactive
• Biblical Event Navigator Interactive
• Canon Comparison Interactive
• Counting the Ten Commandments Interactive
• Days of Creation Interactive
• Greek Alphabet Tutor Interactive
• Hebrew Alphabet Tutor Interactive
• Hebrew Cantillations Interactive
• Interactive Infographics from the Faithlife Study Bible
• Interlinear Explorer Interactive
• Israelite Feasts and Sacrifices Interactive
• Lives of Bible Characters Interactive
• Morphology Charts Interactive
• Narrative Character Maps Interactive
• Numeric Converter Interactive
• Parallel Gospel Reader Interactive
• Proverbs Explorer Interactive
• Psalms Form and Structure Interactive
• Text Converter Interactive
• Weights and Measures Interactive
Help Details
Getting Started
Welcome to Logos Bible Software!
• The first thing you see when you open Logos is the Home Page. You can start your Bible study right from
this page by entering a passage or topic in the box in the upper-left corner and clicking Go.
• The main Toolbar at the top of the program window provides access to most of the features in the
program.
• Click on the Help icon (?) on the toolbar and choose Logos Bible Software Help to open the Help panel.
In Windows, press F1 in any panel to open Help for that feature.
• There are many Mac Keyboard Shortcuts and Windows Keyboard Shortcuts you can use in place of
mouse clicks.
• For information on the Logos Indexer, please see help on Indexing.
• If you are not able to find the help you need here, go to Help and choose View online tutorial videos,
View online forums, View online user-edited wiki, or Report a problem. For customer support, please
call 800-875-6467 (USA/CAN), or 0871-218-1700 (UK), or 360-527-1700 (direct). You can also email
[email protected]. For online support for Windows, click here. For online support for Mac, click here.
Help
Logos provides the help you need to get started, to learn how to use a particular feature, and to get
additional help when needed.
Click on Help icon (?) on the toolbar to access the following menu options:
• To open the Help panel and search for help on a specific feature, choose Logos Bible Software Help, or
press F1 from anywhere in the program (in Windows).
• To have a feature explained both audibly and visually (currently Windows only), choose Explain the
screen, or press F9.
• To learn how to use the software by watching a video, choose View online video tutorials.
• To get help from other users, and to see what is included in recent software and resource updates,
choose View online forums.
• To view tips and help articles written by other users, choose View online user-edited wiki. (English User
Interface only.)
• To refer a friend to Logos Bible Software, choose Tell a friend.
• To report a problem not found in Help, online forums, or at http://www.logos.com/support, choose
Report a problem.
• To check the version of your Logos Bible Software, who it is licensed to, and the current user’s largest
base package, choose About Logos Bible Software. (On Mac, go to Logos menu and choose About Logos
Bible Software.)
Command Box
The Command Box is for those who prefer to type quick commands to get results.
1. Click into the Command Box on the Toolbar at the top of the program window.
2. Type a command and press Enter, or first choose the exact command from the suggested matches
displayed as you type. An example is create visual filter, which opens a new visual filter document.
3. You can also type just the name of a feature, such as ‘home’, ‘passage guide’, or ‘history’, and press
Enter to open those features. This is equivalent to typing the command ‘show’ in front of the names. An
example is library, which opens Library in a floating window.
Available Commands include:
• add
• close all
• copy
• create
• go, go to
• help
• import – see Importing Libronix DLS Documents for more information
• load new = create
• look up – opens keylink resource
• make = create
• open [document name]
• open = show – when opening guides and tools
• open new = create
• read, read aloud, start reading aloud, stop reading aloud
• rebuild index
• reindex
• scan, with path – scans internal or external drives for resources
• scan optical media (Mac), or scan DVD (Windows) – scans connected CD/DVD-ROM drives in which
media is inserted
• search (basic), bible search, morph search, syntax search
• set
• show = open
• show new = create
• sync now
• uilang – switch language interface
• update
Examples:
1. Add:
• add note jn 1.1 in my bible notes – adds a note to John 1:1 in all Bibles with that passage, and to a
Note file named ‘My Bible Notes’
2. Close All:
• close all – closes all open docked and floating panels
3. Copy:
• copy John 1:1 from esv – copies the verse from the ESV Bible
4. Document:
• create clippings – opens a new untitled Clippings document
• create prayer list named My Prayers – opens a new Prayer List document named ‘My Prayers’
• open My Notes – opens an existing Notes document named ‘My Notes’
5. Help:
• help on searching – opens the Help panel to articles on searching
6. Import:
• import all – imports Favorites, Highlighting (Visual Markups), Notes, and Prayer Lists from Libronix
DLS 3
• import notes – imports only Notes from Libronix DLS 3
• import delete all – deletes all imported documents from Logos
• import delete favorites – deletes all imported Favorites
7. Look up: (or lookup)
• look up [word] – may open a dictionary, a Bible dictionary, Greek or Hebrew lexicon, depending on
the word
8. Open:
• open Factbook to Moses – opens Factbook panel to Moses
• open esv in new tab – opens the ESV Bible in a new tab in active panel
9. Passage Analysis:
• show compare pericopes – opens Passage Analysis to Compare Pericopes
• show compare pericopes for John 3:16 – opens Passage Analysis to Compare Pericopes for John 3:16
10.
Read aloud:
• start reading aloud – starts reading active resource at current location
• stop reading aloud – stops reading active resource
11.
Rebuild index:
• rebuild index – rebuilds the Library and Bible indexes and restarts the Indexer from the beginning if it
is already running
• rebuild bible index – rebuilds the separate Bible index
• rebuild library index – rebuilds the separate Library index
• rebuild personal book index – rebuilds the separate Personal Book index
12.
Reindex:
• *reindex x – forces a reindex of specified resource, where x is the resource ID or title, e.g “reindex
ESV”
13.
Scan:
• scan x:\path – scans path on drive x:\ for resources (replace ‘x’ with the appropriate drive letter) –
restart required
14.
Scan DVD – command for Windows:
• scan dvd – brings up a choice of connected CD/DVD-ROM drives in which media is inserted and scans
that drive (restart required)
15.
Scan Optical Media – command for Mac:
• scan optical media – brings up a choice of connected CD/DVD-ROM drives in which media is inserted
and scans that drive (restart required)
16.
Search:
• bible search for “Jesus Christ” – opens Bible Search panel and generates results on “Jesus Christ”
query
• search for hermeneutics – opens Basic Search panel and generates Topic and Library results for
‘hermeneutics’
• Note: press Ctrl+Enter to search Top Bibles, or Ctrl+Shift+Enter to search Entire Library (Windows
only)
17.
Set:
• set default font to comic – changes default font to Comic Sans MS
• set default text size to 120 – changes default text size to 120%
• set old default notes text size to 12 – change to 12 point the text size of notes which used the default
size set in Program Settings and have not been edited for size since the option was removed
• set show home page at startup to no – home page will not load at startup
18.
Sync Now:
• sync now – prompts the program to initiate synchronization.
19.
Uilang:
• uilang en – switch to English user interface (restart required)
• uilang es – switch to Spanish user interface (restart required)
• uilang pt – switch to Brazilian Portuguese user interface (restart required)
• uilang sv – switch to Swedish user interface (restart required)
20.
Update:
• update active layout – saves changes made to the currently active layout.
• update now – searches for and starts downloading any program updates based on your current
update channel (Stable, Beta).
• update resources – searches for and starts downloading any updates to resources you have in your
Library, or resources you recently purchased and have not yet downloaded.
Gestures
Gestures are an easy way to perform common functions without having to move your hand away from
your mouse or position it over toolbar buttons or menus.
To perform the desired action, click and hold down the right mouse button, move the mouse in the shape
of the gesture, and release the button. A tip will appear in the bottom center of the screen displaying the
recognized gesture at the top with the description below. The tip will fade out within five seconds.
Left
go Back
Right
go Forward
Up
Previous article, etc.
Down
Next article, etc.
Down, then Right
Close tab
Down, then Up
New tab
“C” shape
Toggle contents pane on or off
“Star” shape (try this: up right, down right, up left, right, down left)
Add to Favorites
Up to the right diagonally
Show reading view
Down to the left diagonally
Hide reading view
Down to the right, then down to the left (i.e., right angle bracket or ‘greater than’)
Start Read Aloud
“Square” shape (down, right, up, left)
Stop Read Aloud
Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
General Mac Shortcuts
Shortcut
Action
Command-C
Copy
Command-H
Hide windows (use to minimize L5 main screen)
Command-M
Minimize
Command-P
Print
Command-Q
Quit Logos
Command-V
Paste
Command-W
Close
Command-X
Cut
Command-Z
Undo
Command-Tab
Unhide windows
Shift-Command-G
Opens the “Go to Folder” window (use this to
open hidden folders)
Shift-Command-Z
Redo
Logos-specific Shortcuts
Shortcut
Action
Backspace
Clear Page in Drawing Mode
Command-D
Add current location to Favorites
Command-F
Find (in this panel)
Command-K
Apply Highlighting
Command-L
Show Library
Command-O
Open/close Documents menu
Command-P
Open Print/Export panel
Command-R
Read Aloud
Command-W
Close current panel
Command-[
Back in History
Command-]
Forward in History
Command-accent (`)
Go to next window (moves between floating
windows and main window)
Command-1 ..9
Navigate to Bookmark (1-9)
Command-F8
Enter Drawing Mode (on some keyboards, FnCommand-F8 may be necessary)
Command-Down arrow
End (e.g., last article)
Command-Up arrow
Home (e.g., title page)
Ctrl-Tab
Go to next tab
Ctrl-Shift-Tab
Go to previous tab
Esc
Dismiss / Exit Drawing mode / Exit Find box
F7
Quick comparison of the active verse/selected
text
Left arrow
Navigate to previous parallel resource
Right arrow
Navigate to next parallel resource
Option-Command-B
Open Copy Bible Verses tool in a floating window
Option-Command-C
Copy location as [URL] [HTML] [Wiki] [RL]
Option-Command-F
Open panel in floating window
Option-Command-L
Focus Command bar
Option-Command-R
Show Reading View
Option-Command-W
Close all panels
Option-Shift-Command-F
Dock panel or tab
Option-Shift-Command-1 ..9
Set Bookmark (1-9)
Shift-Command-C
Show Table of Contents
Shift-Command-E
Replace a reference typed into an app that uses
Services with the passage
Shift-Command-H
Show Home
Shift-Command-J
Open Copy Bible Verses in a floating window from
apps that use Services
Shift-Command-K
Erase Highlighting
Shift-Command-L
Show Locator Bar
Shift-Command-N
Copy this panel to a new tab
Shift-Command-P
Columns (paged view)
Shift-Command-S
Open Search
Shift-Command-Opt-V
Paste without formatting
Shift-Command-accent(`)
Go to previous window (moves between floating
windows and main window)
Shift-Command-]
Go to next tab
Shift-Command-[
Go to previous tab
Shift-Command-Down arrow
Go to next verse, chapter, article, etc.
Shift-Command-Up arrow
Go to previous verse, chapter, article, etc.
Shift-Command-Right arrow
Go to next equivalent resource
Shift-Command-Left arrow
Go to previous equivalent resource
Shift-Spacebar
Page Up in a resource
Spacebar
Page Down in a resource
Rich Text Editor shortcuts
Command-A
Select All
Command-B
Bold
Command-C
Copy
Command-E
Align Center
Command-I
Italic
Command-K
Insert Hyperlink
Command-L
Align Left
Command-]
Increase Indent (in lists only)
Command-[
Decrease Indent (in lists only)
Command-R
Align Right
Command-U
Underline
Command-V
Paste
Command-X
Cut
Command-Z
Undo
Command-.
Bulleted list
Command-/
Numbered list
Command-=
Subscript
Command-Shift++
Superscript
Command-Shift-F
Change Font Family
Command-Shift-P
Change Font Size
Command-Shift-K
Toggle Small Caps
Command-Shift-U
Toggle Strikethrough (not currently supported)
Command-Shift-Z
Redo
Notification Center
The Notification Center takes many of the alerts that were in various places throughout the program and
puts them in one convenient location.
Messages for indexing, resource updates and application updates appear in the yellow Notification Bar.
Actions available from the Notification Center:
• Dismiss the notification bar: Click the (X) on the right side of the bar.
• Click to download updates: When updates have been found and “Automatically download updates” is
set to NO.
• Cancel download: To interrupt a download in-progress.
• Click to restart Logos: Once application updates have been downloaded.
• Pause indexing for 4 hours: To interrupt the indexing process.
In addition to the horizontal yellow bar, the Notification Icon - a yellow (!) icon near the Sync arrows – can
display alerts. The notification icon becomes yellow/enabled when:
• A notification in the Notification Bar is dismissed by clicking the (X).
• An additional notification is received.
Print/Export
Use the “Print/Export” dialog to preview, print, copy, or save content from almost any place in Logos.*
• The first step in any panel, is to click on the panel icon and choose Print/Export from the menu, or just
press Cmd-P for Mac and Ctrl+P for Windows. The dialog will open in a floating window.
• Generally, the print and export functions are standard across the Logos features, however, there can be
variations, such as “Bibliography only,” depending on the panel. Where applicable, the variation may
also be covered in the individual Help article for a particular feature. Resource printing and exporting
will be covered below the main section.
• Main Print/Export components:
• Left side:
• Margins – Choose from Normal, Narrow, Moderate, or Wide margins.
• Some features include a WYSIWYG printing option on the left: “Print as shown on screen.” Where
that is available, there will also be the alternate option to “Print as exported.”
• Some panels, such as Sentence Diagram documents, include a “Fit to page” checkbox on the left.
• Search panels include a “Visible results only” checkbox on the left, which is checked by default.
When unchecked with “Print as exported” selected, collapsed results will be expanded in the
preview.
• Middle: Preview
• Scroll through multiple pages using the page number arrows at the bottom of the preview, or
scroll using the mouse wheel.
• Hold the Ctrl key down and scroll with the mouse to zoom out or in, or press Ctrl with the plus or
minus keys to zoom.
• Click on “Actual Size” on the toolbar to view the preview in its actual size. Click and drag up, down,
right, or left to see more of the text.
• Click on “Fit” on the toolbar to restore it to the original preview size.
• Right side:
• Print
1. Choose the printer and click on Properties to set specific properties for the print job if needed.
2. Click the Print button to send the job to the printer.
• Page
1. Choose a Page size supported by the selected printer.
2. Choose a Page orientation (Portrait or Landscape).
• Export
• Copy to clipboard
• Save as file:
• General file types: Rich Text Format (Word, etc.), Text Document, Web Page (HTML), and
PDF (Mac) or XPS (Windows) Documents.
• Variable file types: Image (choose from PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, or GIF), Spreadsheet (Excel,
etc.), iCalendar (for Reading Plans), and citation file types (for “Bibliography only” in
Clippings and Collections).
• Send to new document: Microsoft Word / Microsoft Excel / Microsoft PowerPoint / Keynote
(Mac) – Opens a Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Keynote document and pastes the
previewed content. (Available links depend on Apple or Microsoft Office software installed
and the panel being exported.)
• Paste into open document: Microsoft Word / Microsoft Excel / Microsoft PowerPoint /
Keynote (Mac) – Pastes previewed content into an open Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or
Keynote document. (Available links depend on Apple or Microsoft Office software installed
and opened, and the panel being exported.)
• Resource printing and exporting**
• To print/export selected text, first select the text, then open the Print/Export dialog. The “Use
selected text” radio button will be pre-selected.
• To print/export content from a specified location, open the dialog and select the middle radio
button, if available. Click into the text box and choose from the available passage or page number
options, or enter a new one.
• To print/export a particular section of the resource, open the dialog and select the “Use these
sections:” radio button. Check the box(es) for the section(s) to be previewed. To select all of the
subsections under a section heading, right-click on that heading and choose “Select all.” To clear the
selections, right-click on the heading and choose “Clear all.”
• “Columns: Auto | Single”
• “Auto” (multi-column) is the default setting.
• The last setting will be remembered and is shared across all resources.
• Clause Visualizer resource options:
• Select a graph or graphs first, then open the Print/Export dialog. “Use selected text” will be
selected.
• Open the dialog and choose “Use current graph” to preview the current graph displayed in the
resource.
• “Fit to page” – Condenses a graph that may be too wide to fit on one page, so that it does not
extend to a second page.
*Exceptions: Copy Bible Verses, Home, Layouts, and Library
**Media resources (such as “1000 Bible Images”) do not include selected text or section settings, and the
Print/Export menu option is not available when the Overview page is active.
Shortcut Bar
Add shortcut buttons to the Toolbar for one-click access to resources, documents, guides, tools and more.
The shortcut bar is the area of the toolbar between the Command Box and Layouts.
Below are a few different examples of shortcuts and how they are placed in the area above using drag and
drop:
1. Drag a resource panel tab to the shortcut bar.
2. Drag a Favorite or Bookmark from the Favorites panel.
3. Drag a Named Layout from the Layouts drop-down pane.
4. Drag another program’s shortcut to open that program from Logos.
Modify a shortcut:
1. Right-click on a shortcut.
2. Add a label by selecting Show Label: and entering the label text.
3. Change the icon by clicking on one of the available icons.
4. Display both label and icon by selecting both checkboxes, or deselect one or the other (one style must
be selected).
Delete a shortcut:
1. Right-click on a shortcut and choose Delete.
Synchronization
Access your custom documents and settings on more than one computer
PREREQUISITE: For synchronization to work, the computers must be signed in under the same logos.com
account.
• Synchronization is enabled by default if Use Internet is enabled in program settings.
• Click the sync arrows or type Sync Now in the Command Box to manually prompt the program to
synchronize.
• If synchronization fails, the sync icon (at top right on main toolbar) will change to a yellow warning icon.
Potential causes include:
• disconnection from internet;
• recently awakened computer acquiring IP address;
• Logos performing maintenance on the sync server.
Toolbar
The Toolbar is at the top of the Logos 5 window.
It provides access to:
• Home Page (home icon)
• Library (book icon)
• Search (magnifying glass icon):
• Basic Search Panel
• Bible Search Panel
• Clause Search Panel
• Morph Search Panel
• Syntax Search Panel
• Documents menu: Create or open a:
• Bibliography Document
• Clippings Document
• Handout Document (Windows only)
• Notes Document
• Passage List Document
• Prayer List Document
• Reading Plan Document
• Sentence Diagram Document
• Syntax Search Document
• Visual Filter Document
• Word Find Puzzle Document
• Word List Document
• Guides menu: Run a:
• Passage Guide
• Exegetical Guide
• Bible Word Study
• Sermon Starter Guide
• Topic Guide
• Edit Guide Template
• Tools menu: Access various tools:
• Collections
• Favorites
• Highlighting
• History
• Personal Books
• Reading Lists
• Self Tests
• Factbook
• Bible Sense Lexicon
• Timeline
• Program Settings
• Copy Bible Verses
• Explorer
• Passage Analysis
• Text Comparison
• Community Notes
• Cited By
• Information
• Power Lookup
• Pronunciation
• Command Box
• Shortcut Bar
• Layouts
• Help
Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
General keyboard shortcuts
Alt
go to menu bar (then press underlined letter keys
to open or activate)
Alt+-
activate panel menu
Alt+left arrow
go back
Alt+right arrow
go forward
Alt+Bksp
undo
Alt+A
open/close Layouts
Alt+C
open/close Customize home page menu
Alt+D
go to Command Box
Alt+down
next
Alt+Enter
clear and focus Passage List Reference box
Alt+F4
close program
Alt+G
open/close Guides menu
Alt+H
open/close Home Page
Alt+Home
go to Home Page (from a floating window)
Alt+L
open/close Library
Alt+O
open/close Documents menu
Alt+P
open/close Help menu
Alt+S
open Search panel
Alt+space
activate window menu
Alt+T
open/close Tools menu
Alt+up
previous
Ctrl
forces sign in prompt at startup (keep Ctrl held
down until Sign In appears)
Ctrl+=
zoom in
Ctrl+-
zoom out
Ctrl+0
zoom to fit
Ctrl+right arrow
navigate to next parallel resource (use this if
current resource has a horizontal scrollbar)
Ctrl+left arrow
navigate to previous parallel resource (use this if
current resource has a horizontal scrollbar)
Ctrl+Page Up
switch to previous tab
Ctrl+Page Down
switch to next tab
Ctrl+Alt+C
Copy location as [URL] [HTML] [WIKI] [RL]
Ctrl+Enter
search for [word, “phrase”] in Top Bibles (after
typing search term in Command Box)
Ctrl+Shift+Enter
search for [word, “phrase”] in Entire Library (after
typing search term in Command Box)
Ctrl+A
select all
Ctrl+C
copy
Ctrl+D
add current location to Favorites
Ctrl+E
expand all timeline groups
Ctrl+F
Find / Filter (in this panel)
Ctrl+F4
close current panel
Ctrl+F6
switch keyboard focus to next panel
Ctrl+Shift+F6
switch keyboard focus to previous panel
Ctrl+F11
float a panel
Ctrl+Shift+F11
dock a panel
Ctrl+G
go to reference box of current resource/guide
Ctrl+H
open History
Ctrl+Ins
copy
Ctrl+K
apply highlighting
Ctrl+Shift+K
erase highlighting
Ctrl+L
open Library in a floating window
Ctrl+P
opens the Print/Export panel
Ctrl+Shift+1...9
set Bookmark (1-9)
Ctrl+Shift+left
previous equivalent resource
Ctrl+Shift+right
next equivalent resource
Ctrl+Shift+N
copy current panel to a new tab
Ctrl+Shift+S
open Search (from a floating window)
Ctrl+Shift+Tab
go to previous tab
Ctrl+Tab
go to next tab
Ctrl+T
open new tab
Ctrl+V
paste
Ctrl+W
close panel
Ctrl+Shift+W
close all panels
Ctrl+X
cut
Ctrl+Y
redo
Ctrl+Z
undo
Del
delete
Esc
dismiss (or exit drawing mode)
F1
help
F2
rename the current item
F3
navigate to next ‘Find’ hit
Shift+F3
navigate to previous ‘Find’ hit
F5
refresh
F7
quick comparison of the active verse/selected text
F8
enter drawing mode or clear drawing
F9
explain current screen
F10
go to menu bar (then press Enter key to open or
activate)
F11
toggle Show reading view (available in all panels)
right arrow
navigate to next parallel resource
left arrow
navigate to previous parallel resource
Shift+Del
cut
Shift+Ins
paste
Shift+Spacebar
Page Up in a resource
Spacebar
Page Down in a resource
Rich Text Editor keyboard shortcuts
Ctrl+A
select all
Ctrl+B
bold
Ctrl+C
copy
Ctrl+E
align center
Ctrl+I
italic
Ctrl+K
insert hyperlink
Ctrl+L
align left
Ctrl+M
increase indent
Ctrl+R
align right
Ctrl+U
underline
Ctrl+V
paste
Ctrl+X
cut
Ctrl+Y
redo
Ctrl+Z
undo
Ctrl+.
bulleted list
Ctrl+/
numbered list
Ctrl+=
subscript
Ctrl+Shift++
superscript
Ctrl+Shift+F
change font family
Ctrl+Shift+P
change font size
Ctrl+Shift+K
toggle small caps
Ctrl+Shift+U
toggle strikethrough
Ctrl+Shift+M
decrease indent
Panel menu keyboard shortcuts
Some shortcuts are not available in all panels.
Ctrl+Z
Undo
Ctrl+Y
Redo
F5
Refresh guide/panel
Ctrl+F
Find (in this panel)
Ctrl+Shift+L
Show/hide locator bar
Ctrl+Shift+C
Show/hide table of contents
Ctrl+Shift+R
Show/hide interlinear pane
Ctrl+R
Read aloud
Ctrl+P
Print/Export
Ctrl+Shift+P
toggle Columns (paged view)
F11
toggle Show reading view
Ctrl+Shift+N
Copy this panel to a new tab
Ctrl+F11
Float this panel
Ctrl+Shift+F11
Dock this panel
Ctrl+Alt+C
Copy location as [URL] [HTML] [WIKI] [RL]
Copy Bible Verses panel menu
Ctrl+Alt+B
Global shortcut—open Copy Bible Verses tool in a
floating window from any Windows application (if
Logos 5 is running)
Automatic Resource Updates
Resource updates are automatically detected by Logos.
• With Logos open and Automatically Download Updates and Use Internet both enabled in Settings,
resources will be downloaded to your computer when one of the following occurs:
1. An update to a resource already in your library is available.
2. A resource you own is missing from your library.
3. New resources have been purchased and unlocked.
• Resource updates can be scheduled to download between certain hours of the day. Automatically
Download Updates must be set to Yes to see this option. Right-click on the Indexer icon and choose
“Download Now” to override the schedule, or enter the “Update Now” command.
• After a resource download, you may see a prompt to install Updates. Click in that tooltip to begin the
update. If you do not see the tooltip, but do see the small, blue Logos icon on the right side of the Mac
toolbar or Windows taskbar, click (right click) on the icon and click on Install Updates or Restart Logos.
• A list of updated resources for a particular date will be displayed on the Home Page in a Resources
Updated section.
• If the resource can be accessed from your Library, its title will be a hyperlink to open the resource. If
the update cannot be accessed, (such as a syntax database), it will not be a hyperlink.
• The Last Updated column, if enabled in Library, will display the resource update day or date.
See also Library Options.
Automatic Updates
Software updates are automatically detected by Logos.
• With Logos open and Automatically Download Updates and Use Internet both enabled in Settings,
updates to the software will automatically be downloaded to your computer.
• Software updates can be scheduled to download between certain hours of the day. Automatically
Download Updates must be set to Yes to see this option. Right-click on the Indexer icon and choose
“Download Now” to override the schedule, or enter the “Update Now” command.
• After the download, you may see a prompt to install Updates. Click in that tooltip to begin the update. If
you do not see the tooltip, but do see the small, blue Logos icon on the right side of the Mac toolbar or
Windows taskbar, click (right click) on the icon and click on Install Updates.
• The program will automatically close and reopen during the update process.
• Along the top bar of the Home Page will be two sections listing “# resources updated” and “Installed 6.0
#”, which can be clicked to view full details of the updates.
Indexing
The Logos Indexer makes possible far-reaching and quick searches of your entire library.
Some important information about indexing:
• It builds one index to be searched instead of searching one-by-one through each book in your library.
• It is essential to finding all that you can in every resource in your library.
• It enables searches to finish much faster than in Libronix DLS 3.
• It allows search results to show you the top hits ranked by number and relevance.
• When new books are added to your library, they are indexed so the program knows the position of
every word in that resource.
• The initial indexing process can take a very long time, but the upshot is fast and comprehensive
searching.
Indexing Tips:
• Allow indexing to complete the first time without pausing or restarting the program. Once the index is
built, you will be able to search your library.
• Hover over the small, blue Logos icon on the right side of the Mac toolbar or Windows taskbar to check
the indexer status; click (right click) to pause or resume indexing.
• Once the initial index is built, when you purchase and download new books, you can work in Logos as
usual as it indexes.
See also Basic Search Panel, Bible Search Panel, Morph Search Panel, and Syntax Search Panel.
How do I bring up the Sign In window again?
For Logos Windows, hold the Ctrl key down as you double click the Logos shortcut, and continue to hold it
down until the Sign In window appears.
For Logos Mac, click the Logos icon in the dock, then immediately press and hold the Cmd key, holding it
down until the Sign In window appears.
Possible reasons to bring up the Sign In window:
• To sign in under a different account.
• To open to blank layout, select the ‘Blank Layout’ box before clicking on the ‘Sign in’ button.
• To work offline, click on the ‘Work Offline’ button.
• To enable diagnostic logging for that session, if requested by a customer support technician.
• To enter proxy server settings, click on ‘Proxy settings’.
How do I change the resource display from one column to two or more columns?
• Click on the book cover icon in the upper left corner of the resource panel to open the resource panel
menu (or press Cmd+Shift+P for Mac or Ctrl+Shift+P for Windows).
• Choose one of the Columns selections: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or Auto. Logos will remember the last setting the
next time a resource is opened.
• With Auto selected, click and drag the edge of the panel to increase its size and display more columns.
• Column view can be enabled while a resource is in reading view as well. Logos will remember the last
setting the next time a resource is opened in reading view.
How do I combine Passage and Exegetical Guide results into one report?
1. Click on Guides | Passage Guide.
2. Follow steps in Edit Guide Template to customize the guide, adding all sections from... Exegetical Guide.
This will add the Exegetical Guide sections below the Passage Guide sections. (The sections can be
reordered using drag and drop.)
3. Change the title from “Copy of Passage Guide” to “Passage and Exegetical Guides.”
4. Close the template, click on Guides and choose Passage and Exegetical Guides under Custom Bible Study
Guides.
5. Enter a passage in the guide and press Enter. Both Passage and Exegetical Guide results will be
displayed in one panel.
How do I copy a Bible verse or passage into my document?
Use the Copy Bible Verses tool, which gives you a choice of formats, including ones with and without
footnotes and citations, and it allows you to create your own format styles.
On Windows, you can also use Logos Bible Software 4 Smart Tags to replace a typed reference in Microsoft
Word with a passage, open your preferred Bible to the passage in Logos, or open the Copy Bible Verses
panel for additional formatting options.
How do I disable automatic downloading of updates?
• During setup (Windows):
1. Select Custom on the ‘Choose Setup Type’ screen.
2. Uncheck the Automatically Download Updates box and continue with the installation.
• After installation, in Logos (Mac or Windows):
1. Click on Tools | Program Settings.
2. Change Automatically Download Updates to No.
How do I enable diagnostic logging?
It may be necessary to provide log files to a Logos support representative by email or on the Logos forum
to troubleshoot a bug or crash in the program. Although brief crash reports may be generated
automatically when a crash occurs, full diagnostic logging is not enabled by default.
Diagnostic logging can be enabled on a temporary or permanent basis. Follow the steps below for either
Mac or Windows.
Enable logging on Mac
Temporary
1. Quit Logos.
2. Click on Logos icon in Dock and immediately press and hold the Cmd key, keeping it held down until the
Sign In window appears.
3. Click the Sign In button to open Logos. Logging will be enabled for that session only.
Permanent
1. Quit Logos.
2. Open Terminal, type the following command, and press Enter: defaults write com.logos.Logos
LoggingEnabled -bool YES
3. Open Logos.
Disable permanent logging
1. Quit Logos.
2. Open Terminal, type the following command, and press Enter: defaults write com.logos.Logos
LoggingEnabled -bool NO
3. Open Logos.
Locate Log files in Mac
IMPORTANT: After enabling logging and reproducing the bug or crash, DO NOT reopen Logos until log files
are retrieved.
1. Press [Cmd+Shift+G] to open the “Go to Folder” window.
2. Type ‘~/Library’ and click Go.
3. From the Library folder, open Application Support > Logos4 > Logging.
Enable logging in Windows
Temporary
1. Close Logos.
2. Press and hold the Ctrl key when you open the program, keeping it held down until the Sign In window
appears.
3. Click the Sign In button to open Logos. Logging will be enabled for that session only.
Permanent
1. Close Logos.
2. Download and open the EnableLogging.js file. A message window will pop up that reads “Logos 4
logging has been enabled.” Click OK. (If Internet Explorer is not your default web browser, a web page
displaying lines of script may open instead. If that occurs, open IE, copy the following URL into the IE
Address field, and choose Open when prompted:
http://www.logos.com/media/tech/4xLogging/EnableLogging.js.)
3. Open Logos.
Disable permanent logging
1. Close Logos.
2. Download and open the DisableLogging.js file. A message window will pop up that reads “Logos 4
logging has been disabled.” Click OK. (If Internet Explorer is not your default web browser, a web page
displaying lines of script may open instead. If that occurs, open IE, copy the following URL into the IE
Address field, and choose Open when prompted:
http://www.logos.com/media/tech/4xLogging/DisableLogging.js.)
3. Open Logos.
Locate Log files in Windows
IMPORTANT: After enabling logging and reproducing the bug or crash, DO NOT reopen Logos until log files
are retrieved.
1. Close Logos.
2. Click on the Start button, type ‘Logos Log Files’ in the Search programs and files box, and click on the
result at the top of the Start menu. Or, open Computer and navigate to C:\Documents\Logos Log Files.
(The path to \Documents or \My Documents may vary.)
How do I enter a Bible book abbreviation that will be recognized by Logos?
The abbreviations listed below are recognized by Logos. This same list can also be found in the Bible Book
Abbreviations in Logos 4 support article at the Logos.com website.
Genesis
Gen, Ge, Gn
Exodus
Exod, Exo, Ex
Leviticus
Lev, Le, Lv
Numbers
Num, Nu, Nm, Nb
Deuteronomy
Deut, De, Dt
Joshua
Josh, Jos, Jsh
Judges
Judg, Jdg, Jg, Jdgs
Ruth
Rth, Ru
1 Samuel
1 Sam, 1 Sa, 1S, I Sa, 1 Sm, 1Sa, 1Sam, 1st Sam, 1st Samuel, First Sam, First Samuel
2 Samuel
2 Sam, 2 Sa, 2S, II Sa, 2 Sm, 2Sa, II Sam, IISam, 2 Sam, 2Sam, 2nd Sam, 2nd Samuel, Second Sam, Second
Samuel
1 Kings
1 Kgs, 1 Ki, 1K, I Kgs, 1Kgs, I Ki, 1Ki, 1Kin, 1st Kgs, 1st Kings, First Kgs, First Kings
2 Kings
2 Kgs, 2 Ki, 2K, II Kgs, 2Kgs, II Ki, 2Ki, 2Kin, 2nd Kgs, 2nd Kings, Second Kgs, Second Kings
1 Chronicles
1 Chron, 1 Ch, I Ch, 1Ch, 1 Chr, I Chr, 1Chr, I Chron, 1Chron, 1st Chron, 1st Chronicles First Chron, First
Chronicles
2 Chronicles
2 Chron, 2 Ch, II Ch, 2Ch, II Chr, 2Chr, II Chron, 2Chron, 2nd Chron, 2nd Chronicles, Second Chron, Second
Chronicles
Ezra
Ezr, Ez
Nehemiah
Neh, Ne
Esther
Esth, Es
Job
Jb
Psalms
Psalm, Pslm, Ps, Psa, Psm, Pss
Proverbs
Prov, Pro, Pr, Prv
Ecclesiastes
Eccles, Eccle, Ecc, Ec, Qoh
Song of Solomon
Song of Songs, Song, So, SOS, Canticle of Canticles, Canticles, Cant
Isaiah
Isa, Is
Jeremiah
Jer, Je, Jr
Lamentations
Lam, La
Ezekiel
Ezek, Eze, Ezk
Daniel
Dan, Da, Dn
Hosea
Hos, Ho
Joel
Joe, Jl
Amos
Am
Obadiah
Obad, Ob
Jonah
Jnh, Jon
Micah
Micah, Mic, Mc
Nahum
Nah, Na
Habakkuk
Hab, Hab, Hb
Zephaniah
Zeph, Zep, Zp
Haggai
Haggai, Hag, Hg
Zechariah
Zech, Zec, Zc
Malachi
Mal, Mal, Ml
Tobit
Tobit, Tob, Tb
Judith
Jdth, Jdt, Jth
Additions to Esther
Add Esth, Add Es, Rest of Esther, The Rest of Esther, AEs, AddEsth
Wisdom of Solomon
Wisd of Sol, Wis, Ws, Wisdom
Sirach
Sirach, Sir, Ecclesiasticus, Ecclus
Baruch
Baruch, Bar
Letter of Jeremiah
Let Jer, Ltr Jer, LJe
Song of Three Youths
Song of Three, Song Thr, The Song of Three Youths, Pr Az, Prayer of Azariah, Azariah, The Song of the
Three Holy Children, The Song of Three Jews, Song of the Three Holy Children, Song of Thr, Song of
Three Children, Song of Three Jews
Susanna
Susanna, Sus
Bel and the Dragon
Bel, Bel
1 Maccabees
1 Macc, 1 Mac, 1M, I Ma, 1Ma, I Mac, 1Mac, I Macc, 1Macc, I Maccabees, 1Maccabees, 1st Maccabees,
First Maccabees
2 Maccabees
2 Macc, 2 Mac, 2M, II Ma, 2Ma, II Mac, 2Mac, II Macc, 2Macc, II Maccabees, 2Maccabees, 2nd
Maccabees, Second Maccabees
1 Esdras
1 Esdr, 1 Esd, I Es, 1Es, I Esd, 1Esd, I Esdr, 1Esdr, I Esdras, 1Esdras, 1st Esdras, First Esdras
Prayer of Manasseh
Pr of Man, Pr Man, PMa, Prayer of Manasses
Additional Psalm
Add Psalm, Add Ps
3 Maccabees
3 Macc, 3 Mac, III Ma, 3Ma, III Mac, 3Mac, III Macc, 3Macc, III Maccabees, 3rd Maccabees, Third
Maccabees
2 Esdras
2 Esdr, 2 Esd, II Es, 2Es, II Esd, 2Esd, II Esdr, 2Esdr, II Esdras, 2Esdras, 2nd Esdras, Second Esdras
4 Maccabees
4 Macc, 4 Mac, IV Ma, 4Ma, IV Mac, 4Mac, IV Macc, 4Macc, IV Maccabees, IIII Maccabees, 4Maccabees,
4th Maccabees, Fourth Maccabees
Ode
Ode, Ode
Psalms of Solomon
Ps Solomon, Ps Sol, Psalms Solomon, PsSol
Epistle to the Laodiceans
Laodiceans, Laod, Ep Laod, Epist Laodiceans, Epistle Laodiceans, Epistle to Laodiceans
Matthew
Matt, Mt
Mark
Mrk, Mar, Mk, Mr
Luke
Luk, Lk
John
John, Joh, Jhn, Jn
Acts
Act, Ac
Romans
Rom, Ro, Rm
1 Corinthians
1 Cor, 1 Co, I Co, 1Co, I Cor, 1Cor, I Corinthians, 1Corinthians, 1st Cor, 1st Corinthians, First Cor, First
Corinthians
2 Corinthians
2 Cor, 2 Co, II Co, 2Co, II Cor, 2Cor, II Corinthians, 2Corinthians, 2nd Corinthians, Second Corinthians
Galatians
Gal, Ga
Ephesians
Ephes, Eph
Philippians
Phil, Php, Pp
Colossians
Col, Co
1 Thessalonians
1 Thess, 1 Th, I Th, 1Th, I Thes, 1Thes, I Thess, 1Thess, I Thessalonians, 1Thessalonians, 1st Thess, 1st
Thessalonians, First Thess, First Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
2 Thess, 2 Th, II Th, 2Th, II Thes, 2Thes, II Thess, 2Thess, II Thessalonians, 2Thessalonians, 2nd Thess, 2nd
Thessalonians, Second Thess, Second Thessalonians
1 Timothy
1 Tim, 1 Ti, I Ti, 1Ti, I Tim, 1Tim, I Timothy, 1Timothy, 1st Tim, 1st Timothy, First Tim, First Timothy
2 Timothy
2 Tim, 2 Ti, II Ti, 2Ti, II Tim, 2Tim, II Timothy, 2Timothy, 2nd Tim, 2nd Timothy, Second Tim, Second
Timothy
Titus
Titus, Tit, Ti
Philemon
Philem, Phm, Pm
Hebrews
Hebrews, Heb
James
James, Jas, Jm
1 Peter
1 Pet, 1 Pe, I Pe, 1Pe, I Pet, 1Pet, I Pt, 1 Pt, 1Pt, 1 P, 1P, I Peter, 1Peter, 1st Peter, First Peter
2 Peter
2 Pet, 2 Pe, II Pe, 2Pe, II Pet, 2Pet, II Pt, 2 Pt, 2Pt, 2 P, 2P, II Peter, 2Peter, 2nd Peter, Second Peter
1 John
1 John, 1 Jn, I Jn, 1Jn, I Jo, 1Jo, I Joh, 1Joh, I Jhn, 1 Jhn, 1Jhn, 1 J, 1J, I John, 1John, 1st John, First John
2 John
2 John, 2 Jn, II Jn, 2Jn, II Jo, 2Jo, II Joh, 2Joh, II Jhn, 2 Jhn, 2Jhn, 2 J, 2J, II John, 2John, 2nd John, Second
John
3 John
3 John, 3 Jn, III Jn, 3Jn, III Jo, 3Jo, III Joh, 3Joh, III Jhn, 3 Jhn, 3Jhn, 3 J, 3J, III John, 3John, 3rd John, Third
John
Jude
Jude, Jud, Jd
Revelation
Rev, Re, The Revelation
How do I enter Greek or Hebrew text and switch between keyboards?
Install a Greek and Hebrew keyboard in Windows
1. Go to http://www.logos.com/support/downloads/keyboards to download and install keyboards for
Ancient Languages.
2. Once the keyboards are installed, you can switch input languages by pressing Left Alt+Shift. (This can be
modified in Control Panel | Region and Language | Keyboards and Languages | Change Keyboards |
Advanced Key Settings.)
Add a Greek or Hebrew keyboard in Mac
1. Open System Preferences to Language & Text
2. Check the desired keyboards on the ‘Input Sources’ screen.
Use the “untransliteration” feature in Logos
1. Type a ‘g:’ for Greek or an ‘h:’ for Hebrew in front of the transliterated word and choose the correct
search term from the list of suggested matches. For example, typing ‘g:logos’ in a Search panel will bring
up matches beginning with ‘λόγος‘. Typing ‘h:mym’ will bring up matches beginning with ‘‫‘ ַמיִם‬.
How do I enter Greek or Hebrew text and switch between keyboards?
Install a Greek and Hebrew keyboard in Windows
1. Go to http://www.logos.com/support/downloads/keyboards to download and install keyboards for
Ancient Languages.
2. Once the keyboards are installed, you can switch input languages by pressing Left Alt+Shift. (This can be
modified in Control Panel | Region and Language | Keyboards and Languages | Change Keyboards |
Advanced Key Settings.)
Add a Greek or Hebrew keyboard in Mac
1. Open System Preferences to Language & Text
2. Check the desired keyboards on the ‘Input Sources’ screen.
Use the “untransliteration” feature in Logos
1. Type a ‘g:’ for Greek or an ‘h:’ for Hebrew in front of the transliterated word and choose the correct
search term from the list of suggested matches. For example, typing ‘g:logos’ in a Search panel will bring
up matches beginning with ‘λόγος‘. Typing ‘h:mym’ will bring up matches beginning with ‘‫‘ ַמיִם‬.
How do I find my Logos Mac files in the Mavericks and Yosemite operating systems?
It may be necessary to locate log files if requested by customer support or someone on the forums. Logs
are found in the ~/Library/Application Support/Logos/Logging folder. In the Mavericks and Yosemite
operating systems, the user Library folder is hidden. To access the folder, follow the steps below:
1. Press [Cmd+Shift+G] to bring up the “Go to Folder” window.
2. Type ‘~/library’ and click Go.
3. From the Library folder, open Application Support > Logos > Logging.
How do I find the total number of resources in my library?
Click on the Library book icon on the main toolbar to open Library. The total number of resources is located
on the right side of the Find box, next to the magnifying glass. That number adjusts as you start typing in
the box.
How do I quickly increase or decrease the font scaling of a panel?
Most panels include a text size slider on their panel menu. Just click on the panel icon in the upper left
corner of a panel to open the menu. If it is available in that panel, the text size slider will be at the very top
of the menu. Click and hold on the vertical bar on the slider and slide it left to decrease or right to increase
the text size, or click on one of the incremental marks on the slider.
How do I remove a book from my Library?
Use the Hidden Resources feature in the Program Settings tool to remove books from your Library (and
hard disk drive).
1. Click on Tools | Program Settings.
2. Click the Hidden Resources heading to expand that section.
3. Drag resources you want to hide from the Library panel to this section. (Tip: Open Library in panel next
to Program Settings panel.)
4. Restart Logos for changes to take effect. Indexing will run for a short time. (Note: The hidden resource’s
book file will be deleted, so if you are low on hard drive space, you can just hide a resource without
having to locate its book file to delete it manually.)
5. To Unhide a resource, hover over the resource in the Hidden Resources list to highlight the title, and
then click on the delete (X) button. Restart Logos for the change to take effect. After restarting, the
resource will be downloaded automatically and reindexed.
See also Library Options.
How do I search for a specific Bible reference in my library?
An easy way to do this in Logos is to use the Cited By tool. You can also use the Bible data type in your
search query in the Basic Search panel or Command Box. An example is: <bible = John 3:16>.
How do I share my custom documents and settings between my office and home
computers?
Just sign in to Logos on both computers using the same logos.com account. The Logos Bible Software
synchronization process will do the rest.
How do I stop Cited By, Explorer, etc. from following as I scroll through a Bible?
• To change the setting of an auto-follow Tool (Cited By, Explorer, etc.), open the tool’s panel menu and
change Link set to None.
• This setting will be remembered the next time that tool is opened from the Tools menu.
How do I use my library to learn about a certain topic?
Use the Reading Lists tool to find topics that interest you, and to see what books in your library cover those
topics.
Data Type
Simple Definition: A type of data, a distinct kind or family of information.
Some of the Data Types found in Logos:
• Bible
• Day of Year (for daily devotionals)
• Languages, including English, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Spanish
• Greek Strong’s Numbers and Hebrew Strong’s Numbers
• Louw-Nida Semantic Domains
• Nag Hammadi Codices
• Page Number
• Pseudepigrapha
• The Laws of Hammurabi
• Works of Philo
See also Data Type Reference.
Data Type Reference
Simple Definition: A reference to a particular data type. Generally, data type references are marked as
hyperlinks, so clicking on the link will open the most appropriate resource for that reference.
For example: When a commentary on the book of Job mentions a particular passage, clicking on the
“Bible” data type reference will open your preferred Bible to that passage. Similarly, a reference to page 45
of the current book may be a data type reference to the “page number,” and clicking on it will open the
book to page 45.
See also Basic Search Panel and Basic Search Options.
Inflection
Simple Definition: The “inflected form” of a word is what we commonly think of as a word; it is a word as
used in context, complete with any prefixes and suffixes that may indicate its grammatical function in a
given clause or sentence.
Dictionary Definition:
• in-flec-tion \in-ˈflek-shən\
a : the change of form that words undergo to mark such distinctions as those of case, gender, number,
tense, person, mood, or voice b : a form, suffix, or element involved in such variation
Inc Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary., Eleventh ed. (Springfield, Mass.:
Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2003).
Lemma
Simple Definition: The dictionary form of a word, or the form of any word that you are likely to find in a
lexicon. This is sometimes called a “root word.”
Dictionary Definitions:
• lem-ma \’le-mə\
• a glossed word or phrase (Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed.)
• a word or phrase defined in a dictionary or entered in a word list (Concise Oxford English Dictionary,
11th ed.)
Metadata
Simple Definition: Information about a Logos resource, such as copyright, subject, etc.
Dictionary Definition:
• metadata
n. a set of data that describes and gives information about other data.
Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th ed. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004).
Milestones
Simple Definition: A milestone marks a specific location in a Logos resource.
In Personal Books milestone tags can be added to the source document to mark page numbers, Bible
references, etc., but are not visible in the compiled book. An example is [[@Page:p 1]], which does not
appear in the book, but when ‘Page 1’ is entered in the active reference box, the book will navigate to that
location.
Morphology
Simple Definition: A description of a word’s grammatical form and function.
Libronix Corporation, Libronix DLS Bible Tools Addin Help..
Dictionary Definition:
• mor-phol-o-gy \mȯr-ˈfä-lə-jē\
a : a study and description of word formation (as inflection, derivation, and compounding) in
language b : the system of word-forming elements and processes in a language
Inc Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary., Eleventh ed. (Springfield, Mass.:
Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2003).
Pericope
Simple Definition: Any Bible passage of one or more paragraphs studied as a unit. An example is: “David
and Goliath” (1 Sam. 17:1-58). Not all Bibles use pericopes.
Dictionary Definition:
• pericope /pə’rɪkəpi/
n. an extract from a text, especially a passage from the Bible.
Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th ed. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004).
Syntax
Simple Definition: Word-to-word or phrase-to-phrase relationships, and how they function together.
Dictionary Definitions:
• syn-tax \’sin-taks\
1 a : the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (as phrases or
clauses)
b : the participle of grammar dealing with this
(Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary,
11th ed.)
1 The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences.
analysis of this.
(Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th ed.)
A set of rules for or an
Transliteration
Simple Definition: A phonetic spelling of the Hebrew or Greek in the English.
Dictionary Definition:
• trans-’lit-er-ate
v. write or print (a letter or word) using the closest corresponding letters of a different alphabet or
language. – trans-lit-er-’a-tion n.
Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th ed. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004).
Verse Map
Simple Definition: Some Bibles versify (number) passages differently. A verse map represents these
differences.
For example: Psalm 3:2 in a Hebrew Bible, such as the BHS, would be versified as Psalm 3:1 in most English
Bibles.
A verse map can be specified in many Bible reference input boxes in Logos. Common verse map names are:
BHS, KJV, LXX-R, NA27, VUL-W.
The full list (subject to change) includes: AFR1933, AFR1983, AKESONS, ALFNT, ARA, ARC, AT, AT2, B2000,
BFC, BIBEL82, BHS, BUBER, BYZTXT, CAP, DANBIB, DANCLV, DR, DSS, EINHEIT, ELBER, ESV, GNB, GNB-NR,
HB, JFA, JPS, JPS1917, KJV, LSG, LUT1912, LUT1545, LUT1984, LXX-B, LXX-R, LXX-S, LXX-S2, MENGE, NAB,
NA27, NASB95, NBG, NBS, NBV, NJB, NO78-85, NKJV, NTLH, NRSV, NRSVCE, N-VUL, OSG, OTP, PESH, PESH2,
RMNT, RST, RSV, RSVCE, RVR60, SCRIV, SVV, TB, TGV, TISCH, TOB, UBS4, UT, VPEE, VUL-C, VUL-W, WH,
WV95.
Choose Preferred Bible
Your preferred Bible determines which Bible opens when you click on a Bible data type reference in a
resource or report. It will also be the first Bible to open when you enter a passage to search on the Home
Page.
1. Open the Home Page by clicking on the Home icon on the main program toolbar. Near the top of the
Home Page will be the Choose Preferred Bible tile.
2. Click the more hyperlink, scroll down the list, or use the Find box, and choose your preferred Bible.
3. To select additional Bibles, and other preferred resources, use the Prioritize feature explained in
Resource Priority help.
Home Page
The Logos Bible Software Home Page is the main portal to vast amounts of information.
Click on the Home button and discover all you can do from its pages:
• Search for a passage or topic to simultaneously generate a list of commentaries, cross references, maps,
word-by-word analysis, and more on a specific passage.
• See a list of recently updated resources with individual links to open each new resource.
• Scroll through a dynamically loaded collection of your subscribed Blogs, Devotionals, interesting images
and more.
• For new users, a “Getting Started” video will be featured on the Home Page for several days. This
answers a lot of new user questions and helps direct you on where to go for further help.
The home page sidebar features your daily content:
• Access your Reading Plans.
• Access your Prayer Lists.
• Access your Lectionaries.
To open pre-defined study layouts:
• Enter a topic search in the box next to the Go button. This will open a Topic Guide, Sermon Starter
Guide (if applicable), and a Bible Word Study along with your preferred Bible and up to 5 dictionaries.
• Enter a Bible passage in the box next to the Go button. This will open a Passage Guide, Exegetical Guide,
your preferred Bible and up to 4 others, a Bible dictionary, and the Information and Text Comparison
panels.
• Click on the Lectionary widget in the sidebar to open a layout: click the title for the first reading in that
lectionary, or on a specific reading to open directly to that instead. This will look similar to the Bible
passage layout, but the guides will be replaced with the listed Lectionary.
To customize the Home page:
• Click on the gear icon in the top right corner. A popup window will appear with several options.
• Select/deselect the Sidebar items to display at the left in the home sidebar.
• Drag Sidebar items, such as Lectionary, Prayer Lists, and Reading Plans to change their displayed order.
• Select/deselect the Content to display.
• Available Content sections:
• Choose Preferred Bible
• Choose Preferred Lectionary
• Courses
• Daily Devotional
• Excerpt
• Faithlife Blog
• Faithlife Women
• From Your Library
• Getting Started
• Logos Academic Blog
• Logos Blog
• Logos Community Pricing
• Logos Pre-Pubs
• Media
• My Logos Messages
• Proclaim Blog
• Recent Reading Lists
• Updated Resources
• Verse of the Day
• Vyrso Voice
See also Getting Started, Basic Search Panel, Passage Guide, Exegetical Guide, and Resource Priority.
Lectionary
The Lectionary feature on the home page displays the liturgical readings for the upcoming Holy day from
your top-ranked lectionary resource.
1. Click on the lectionary heading to open that resource to the day’s reading.
2. Click on a passage reference to open your preferred Bible, Commentary, Daily Devotional and more to
the selected passage.
Reading Plan Document
Reading Plan documents remind you to read a portion of text on a scheduled day. They are visible as a
Visual Filter and on the Home Page sidebar.
To create a new Reading Plan:
1. Click on Documents | New | Reading Plan.
2. A floating window will appear, with three options. These are:
• Choose a predefined Reading Plan: Allows you to choose a reading plan from those created ahead of
time by Faithlife.
• Generate a Reading Plan: Creates a reading plan for you by allowing you to select a book and set a
schedule, then splits the book into daily readings for you.
• Custom Reading Plan: Gives full control over which sections of any number of books you read, able
to be selected on a fully customized basis.
Predefined Reading Plan:
1. Click “Choose a predefined Reading Plan” from the panel.
2. Click either “5 Days on Spiritual Growth” or select a plan from the list below to change the desired plan.
3. See Reading Plan Options for details on customizing the resource, frequency, start date, and sharing
options.
4. Click “Start” to create the plan, or “Cancel” to return to the Plan type selection window.
Generated Reading Plan:
1. Click “Generate a Reading Plan” from the panel.
2. See Reading Plan Options for details on customizing the passages, resource, frequency, start date, end
date, and sharing options.
3. Click “Start” to create your defined Reading Plan, or “Cancel” to return to the Plan type selection
window.
Custom Reading Plan:
1. Click “Custom Reading Plan” from the panel.
2. Click “today” to change the start date.
3. For adding reading sections to a session, you can either:
• Drop a shortcut, or resource panel, into the darker text stating “Drop shortcut here”. This will add
the active reference from that panel to the session.
• Click Choose an open resource to see a dropdown of options from currently open resources. This
includes general references and references specific to that resource.
• Click Type in a reference to open a text box where you can type in reference ranges to add to the
session specifically.
4. Any number of references can be added to a particular session. When you’re satisfied with that day’s
reading, click “Add session” to save it for that day. It will appear in the bottom section with the date.
5. The date in the top section will move to the next day, and you can continue adding sessions until you’re
satisfied. Days can be skipped, if desired.
6. When the Reading Plan is complete, click “Done”.
You can view your Reading Plans on the Home Page. They are located in the left sidebar.
• Click on a day’s reading link to open the resource to that location.
• Click in the checkbox for that day’s reading to mark it as complete. The next reading will go to the top of
the list.
For more information go to Reading Plan Options.
See also Choose Preferred Bible.
Library
The central access point to all of your Logos electronic books.
The Logos Library is similar to a bookshelf full of books, only better, as it does all the work for you of
finding a suitable book, opening it, providing a brief description and publisher information, tagging your
favorites, and sorting them in various ways with a click of the mouse.
1. Click on the book icon on the main program toolbar to open the Library drop-down window.
2. Click on a book title to open it.
See also Library Options, Library Filter Fields, Choose Preferred Bible, and Resource Priority.
Library Filter Fields
Use filters to reduce the number of items in the Resource list in Library and Collections.
To filter the resource list, type one of the filter fields below, followed by a colon, and then the filter. An
example is type:dictionary. More examples are listed next to each field.
• Abbreviated Title > abbrev – abbrev:nas (displays only those resources with title abbreviations that
begin with ‘nas’)
• Author > author – author:smith (displays only those resources by an author with the name ‘Smith’)
• Edition > edition – edition:logos (displays only resources built by Logos for Logos Bible Software and
purchased by the user, filtering out ‘User Created’ and ‘eBook’ (Vyrso) resources)
• Electronic Publication Date > epubdate – epubdate:2009 (displays only those resources with e-pub date
of ‘2009’)
• Language > language (or lang) – language:greek, lang:spanish (displays only Greek texts, or only Spanish
texts)
• My Tags > mytag – mytag:favcom (displays only those resources with ‘favcom’ tag)
• Publication Date > pubdate – pubdate:1900 (displays only those resources with print publication date of
‘1900’)
• Publisher > publisher – publisher:logos research systems (displays only those resources published by
Logos Research Systems)
• Rating > rating – rating:5 (displays only those resources with a 5-star user rating)
• Series > series – series:anchor (displays only those resources that are part of the Anchor Yale Bible
Commentary series)
• Subject > subject – subject:”bible study” (displays only those resources tagged with the ‘Bible Study’
subject—quotation marks (” ”) are used to filter out resources with only ‘Bible’ as subject)
• Title > title – title:”holy spirit” (displays only those resources with ‘Holy Spirit’ in the official or user
title—quotation marks (” ”) are used to filter out resources with only ‘Holy’ in the title)
• Type > type – type:bible (displays only those resources tagged with the ‘Bible’ data type)
See also Library Options.
Library Options
Customize your Library to make it easier to find the books you use the most:
• Right-click on the Library button to choose how to open it:
• Open: opens in a floating window.
• Open in a new tab: opens as a panel on the left side of the main window.
• Open in a floating window: opens in a floating window.
• Drag and drop the Library tab to the left or right side of the main window so it becomes a half panel that
will remain open after you open a resource. As with other panels, you can select Float this panel from
the Library icon menu to open it in a separate window.
• Toggle between Tiles and Details views by clicking on the View button on Library toolbar.
• Find a specific resource:
1. Scroll down or up in Library to locate books sorted in alphabetical order.
2. Type a title or abbreviation in the Find box. As you type, the list of books will be narrowed down to
those matching your entry. The total number of resources on the right side of Find will adjust as you
type.
3. Use Library Filter Fields to narrow the list of resources to only those matching certain criteria.
4. Click the drop-down menu to the right of the Find box to filter your library by My Content (personal
books), All Open Resources, specific open resources, user-defined collections, user-defined tags and
ratings, and system-defined series.
• Find more information about the resource:
1. With a book title selected, click on the Information icon (“i” in a circle) on the Library toolbar. The
resource information pane will open on the right side of the Library panel.
2. Click on a pencil icon to edit the full title or abbreviated title.
3. Click on one of the star icons to rate the book from 1 to 5 stars.
4. Click on add tag to add a category or subject to the book.
5. Add a tag to a group of books at once by selecting them and clicking on the Information icon. (Tip: To
select a consecutive series, select the first book, hold the Shift key down, then select the last book.
To select nonconsecutive books, hold the Cmd key down (Mac) or Ctrl key down (Win) as you click on
each.)
6. Click on the links under the Collections section to view resource collections the book is a part of.
7. Click on the Set Series link to create custom series data for a resource or group of resources.
• Sort resources by clicking on a column heading (in Details view), including: Title, Author, My Tags, and
Rating.
• Add or remove columns by right-clicking on a column heading and selecting or deselecting columns,
including: Type, Abbreviated Title, Publication Date, Subjects, and Last Updated.
• Clear tags, ratings, or user titles:
1. Select some or all of your resources (Mac: Cmd-A; Windows: Ctrl+A).
2. Click on the Information icon on the Library toolbar.
3. Click on the appropriate button. A button is grayed out when the selected resources do not contain
any tags, ratings, or user titles.
• Prioritize resources – see Resource Priority.
• Hide Resources:
1. Select one or more resources.
2. Hold down the Opt key (Mac) or the Ctrl key (Win) and right-click on part of the selected area.
3. Choose Hide this resource from the menu to move the selected resource(s) to the ‘Hidden Resources’
section in the Settings panel.
Resource Priority
Prioritizing your favorite English, Greek and Hebrew resources will ensure that the resources you refer to
most often will be listed first when you click on a data type reference link, and use Search, Guides, and
other tools.
• Open Library from the main program toolbar.
• Prioritize resources using step 1., or steps 2-3.
1. Right-click on a resource title and choose Prioritize this resource from the context menu. (Note: If the
resource is part of a series, you will also have the option to Prioritize this series.) This action will
open the Prioritize pane.
2. Click on Prioritize on the Library toolbar to open the Prioritize pane.
3. Drag one or more preferred resources to that pane. (Note: When you drag a resource title that is part
of a series, the whole series will be added. If you only want one, follow step 1. instead.)
• Change the preferred order by dragging resources up or down in the pane.
• Remove a resource by right-clicking on it and choosing Remove from this list.
See also Choose Preferred Bible and Library Options.
Community Tags
Community Tags are a way for users to add their own tagging to resources, similar to the reference and
entity tagging provided by Faithlife. This data is then synced to other users and can be searched in
Everything Search.
This requires an internet connection.
To add a tag:
1. With the desired resource open, select the text you wish to apply a tag to.
2. Right-click your selection, and click the top Selection tab on the right section of the Context Menu.
3. In the left side of the context menu, click “Add community tag”.
4. The “Add community tag” dialog will open. Type the text of your tag into the box, and an autocomplete
list will appear.
5. Select the desired entity from the list to add the tag.
6. A gray dotted underline will appear if you have the “Community tags” Visual Filter enabled.
To view others’ tags:
1. In the resource you would like to view tags, click the Visual Filters toolbar icon (a triangle of three
circles).
2. Make sure the “Resource” section is checked, and check the box next to “Community tags”.
3. To enable Community Tags for all resources, right-click the “Community tags” item and select “Show in
all appropriate resources”.
To search community tags:
1. Open Search to Basic Search, and select “Everything” from the resource picker.
2. Enter the term you wish to search community tagging for and run the search.
3. In the “Community tags” section of Everything Search, resources which have tags matching your search
term will be listed.
4. Expand the resources by clicking the title, which will show excerpts of the tagged passages.
To remove community tags:
1. In the resource, right-click on the words with the gray dotted underline indicating a community tag.
2. In the context menu, click “Remove community tags” from the left side
• If the tag is one you added, it will be removed from your and others’ resources.
• If the tag is someone else’s, it will be removed from your resource and will be reported to Faithlife.
After several reports, it will no longer sync to others’ resources.
Logos Media
Logos Media is a web-based service that provides a wealth of media content to Media Search, Visual Copy,
and Atlas. This requires an internet connection.
Sections the Logos Media contributes to:
1. Visual Copy
• Verse of the Day art
• Smart media templates – for creating slides, including some author- and resource-specific slides
• Photo libraries from various resources
2. Atlas
• Media related to the currently selected map, including additional maps and/or videos
3. Media Search
• The Logos Media section lists media relevant to the search term entered, curated by Logos.
Parallel Resource Sets
Choose which set of resources will be accessible when using left and right arrow buttons or keys to view
parallel resources.
• Click on the Parallel resource sets drop-down on the resource toolbar.
• Select the pre-built All parallel sets, or a user-defined collection (see Note below), by clicking on the
corresponding column header.
• Click on a resource in the drop-down list to open that resource directly.
• To edit a collection, right-click on the title and choose Edit [collection] to open it in the Collections
panel.
• To remove a collection from the list of parallel resource sets, right-click on the title and choose Remove
collection from list. (The collection can be added again by editing it to reselect ‘Show in parallel
resources’.)
Note: Collections must have their Show in parallel resources option enabled to be listed on the drop-down.
Read Aloud
Resources can be read to you using your computer’s system narrator or, for some resources, a recorded
human narrator.
To start using Read Aloud:
• Navigate to the passage you would like to have narrated.
• Press Ctrl-R (Command-R for Mac) to begin narration.
• A media player bar will appear in the top-right of the window, next to the Sync arrows.
• Pressing Ctrl-R / Command-R again will stop narration and close the media player bar.
Media player controls:
• Pause/Play will stop or start narration without closing the media player bar.
• The current reference being read will be displayed.
• This “30” button will reverse playback 30 seconds.
• The X will close the media player and stop playback, if applicable.
For resources with a dedicated narrator (such as the LEB):
To switch between system and recorded narrators:
1. Click the resource icon in the top left of the resource panel.
2. Mouse over the Narrators menu option.
3. Select an option (i.e. for LEB, the options are “System Narrator” and “Marv Allen”).
Report Typos
Send Logos a typo report with suggested correction for a misspelled word, reference with missing
hyperlink, or other typo. (Note: The Use Internet program setting needs to be Yes.)
1. Right click on the word or reference containing the typo.
2. Choose Selection from the right side of the context menu.
3. Choose Report Typo from the left side.
4. Type the correction in the Should be: field.
5. Enter any additional comments and click Submit.
See also Settings.
Resource Panel
Open each book in your library in a resource panel that can be floated, maximized, linked, read aloud, and
more.
Resource Panel Menu
1. Click on the panel icon to open the drop-down menu.
2. Go to Resource Panel Menu help for information on each menu item.
Reference box
1. Type the passage, page number, dictionary word, etc. you want to navigate to in the resource and press
Enter. (Note: Bible reference input boxes support the specification of a versemap to use when parsing.)
Visual Filters
1. Click on the tri-circle icon next to the reference box to select or deselect the available Visual Filters.
Parallel Resource Sets
1. Click on the icon with two vertical lines, next to the visual filter icon, to select parallel resource sets:
either the built-in set (All parallel resources), or a user-defined collection.
Interlinear
1. Click on the Interlinear button, if available, to toggle the reverse interlinear pane on or off in a reverse
interlinear Bible.
2. The interlinear pane can be panned left or right by dragging with the mouse.
Display
1. Click on the Display button, if available, to select or deselect the interlinear lines to be displayed in a
Greek-English, Hebrew-English, or Hebrew-Aramaic Interlinear Bible, and in some ancient manuscripts,
such as Lightfoot’s Apostolic Fathers in Greek.
Back and Forward arrows
1. Click the left arrow on the right side of the toolbar to go back to a previously visited location in the
resource.
2. Click the right arrow to go forward to a previously visited location in the resource.
Information pane
1. Click on the Information icon (“i” in a circle) next to the back and forward arrows. The resource will flip
over to display its bibliographic information.
2. Click Done in the upper-right corner to flip back to the resource.
Contents Pane
1. Click on the double right arrows below the book cover to show the table of contents.
2. Click on the double left arrows to hide the table of contents.
Locator Bar
1. Next to the table of contents toggle button, is the Locator Bar. Click on the book name, chapter, or
article displayed under the reference box to jump to the beginning of that book, chapter, or article.
2. Choose the navigation option used by the up and down arrows on the right side of the locator bar.
Options include: Article, Book, Chapter, Verse, Reference, Annotation, Filter Highlight, or Search Result.
(This list will vary depending on the resource, and the presence of highlighting, visual filters, or search
results.)
Scrollbar bookmarks (“read-wear marks”)
• History (gray), Favorites (blue), and current Search Results (orange) are displayed as colored lines on the
resource scrollbar.
• Hover over a gray mark to see places you’ve visited. The longer you spent time there, the darker the
mark.
• Hover over an orange mark to view a current search result.
• Hover over a blue mark to view a place you’ve saved as a Favorite.
• Go to Tools | Program Settings to turn scrollbar bookmarks off or on.
See also Basic Search Panel, Bible Search Panel, Favorites, and Report Typos.
Resource Panel Menu
Text Size Slider
Change the default text size of the resource. The change will apply to the panel, rather than the
resource, so that a named layout that contains two panels of the same resource will respect each
panel’s text size.
Find (in this panel)
Cmd+F (Mac), Ctrl+F (Windows)Display a find box in the upper-right of the resource.
Link set
Resources that are indexed by the same data type can be linked together so they navigate to the same
reference at the same time.
Clear all links
Clear Link sets in all linked resources at once.
Send hyperlinks here
The resource becomes the default destination for a data type reference.
Show locator bar
Shift+Cmd+L (Mac), Ctrl+Shift+L (Windows)See where you are in the resource, and move up from an
article to a chapter or higher by clicking in the location path.
Show table of contents
Shift+Cmd+C (Mac), Ctrl+Shift+C (Windows)Toggle the contents pane open or closed.
Show interlinear pane
Cmd+Shift+R (Mac), Ctrl+Shift+R (Windows)Toggles the interlinear pane at the bottom of a reverse
interlinear Bible.
Read aloud
Cmd+R (Mac), Ctrl+R (Windows)Start or Stop reading aloud. (Not available in all resources.) An audio
player will be visible on the right side of the toolbar, next to layouts.
Print/Export
Cmd+P (Mac), Ctrl+P (Windows)Open the Print/Export dialog to select text, preview, and Print, Copy to
clipboard, or Save as an .rtf, .txt, .html, or .xps file.
Columns
Shift+Cmd+P (Mac), Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows)Displays resource text in columns for easier reading with
page scroll buttons in the lower-right corner (lower-left for RTL resources). Scrollbar is hidden with all
column choices except ‘None’.None = one column in non-paged view1 = 1 column in paged view2 = 2
columns3 = 3 columns4 = 4 columns5 = 5 columnsAuto = the number of columns adjusts automatically as
the resource panel is resized.
Show footnotes on page
Toggles footnote content in a resource (when the resource is set to column paged view.)
Show reading view
Shift+Cmd+F (Mac), F11 (Windows)Toggles full screen view on or off.
Copy this panel to a new tab
Shift+Cmd+N (Mac), Ctrl+Shift+N (Windows)Open the resource into a second panel.
Float this panel
Open the resource into a new window.
Copy Location as
Opt+Cmd+C (Mac), Ctrl+Alt+C (Windows)Copy a location to the clipboard in one of the available formats:
URL, HTML, WIKI, or RL. URL = An address, suitable for inputting as a hyperlink target in a word
processing document, email message, or web page.HTML = A fully formatted link ready to embed into a
web page.WIKI = A link formatted for Logos Wikis, ready for use on websites like topics.logos.com.RL =
A link formatted for use in a Reading List, at http://topics.logos.com.
Close
Cmd+W (Mac), Ctrl+F4 (Windows)Close the resource panel.
Timeline Resources
The Timeline resources display chronological information in a graphical timeline format.
1. In the Library Find box, type timeline to bring up a list of timeline resources. (Tip: If you click on View in
Library to view details, then click the Type column heading to sort by type, all the timeline resources will
be grouped together. Click the right arrow to expand that group.)
2. Click on a timeline from this list to open it.
3. Click into the date field to change the given time period to narrow in on a particular period.
4. Move your mouse scroll button up or down to zoom in or out.
5. Click the [-] button to the right of the date field to contract in and the [+] button to expand out.
6. Click the Fit button to fit the timelines to the panel size.
7. Click Expand All (or Ctrl+E in Windows) to expand all the groups.
8. Hover mouse cursor over small button in top-left corner of a group to see if it is collapsed [+] or
expanded [-]. Click the button to expand or collapse that group.
9. Click the style drop-down arrow to change the style of the timelines. There are a selection of eight
possible designs. Thin is the default. The others are Minimal, Vibrant, Classic, Informal, Cartoon, Comic,
and Graffiti.
10.
Hold down the left mouse button and drag the timelines up and down or right and left.
11.
Right-click on a timeline and choose Copy Visible Timeline, to copy the portion of timeline visible
in the panel to the clipboard to be pasted into a word processing or other document. Or choose Save
Entire Timeline, to save the complete timeline as an image file.
Visual Filters
Visual Filters draw attention to specific categories of text or grammar in a resource.
• Click on the Visual Filter or ‘three circles’ button on a resource toolbar to view the available visual filters
for that resource. Filters will be organized by type, such as Notes, Reading Plans, etc.
• Turn visual filters on or off for each resource by clicking the toolbar button and selecting or deselecting
the filter.
• Right click on a visual filter to “Show in all appropriate resources” or “Do not show in any resources.”
Available Visual Filters and how they work when enabled:
Resource: Individual filters can be toggled on or off, and unchecking the “Resource” filter will disable them
all, preserving your selection and allowing them to be toggled as a group.
• Ask the Author: For resources with participating authors, this will enable the icon next to text ranges
indicating where a question has been asked.
• Bible Text Only: Displays only the actual words of the Bible, with various formatting options which can
be toggled on/off individually:
• Bible text formatting
• Chapter/Verse numbers
• Footnote indicators
• Non-Bible text
• One verse per line
• Clause Participants: Adds icons depicting people, places, or things referred to in the text. Hovering over
the icon will give a preview popup of the entity.
• Community Tags: Enables the gray dotted underline beneath text indicating that other users have
tagged the text with additional information.
• Links to Open Panels: Highlights Bible reference links that are being used by any open windows.
• Outline Formatting: An option for certain lexicons and dictionaries, this filter breaks the difficult to read
text into a convenient, easy to follow outline format.
• Propositional Outlines: An option for Bibles, this filter reformats the filtered Bible text in the style of a
“flow diagram” and then labels each part in the margin.
• Show all articles
• Show Page Numbers: Modifies an open resource by inserting text marking the top of each page in the
print edition. This visual filter is only available in resources with page number milestones.
• Speaker labels: Displays an icon for referent data which links to the associate Factbook entry.
• Sympathetic Highlighting: Highlights the parallel text in a second Bible when you select a word or phrase
in the first Bible, if both have a reverse interlinear (or are fully-tagged Greek and Hebrew texts).
Community Notes: Displays community note icons where you or another member of one of your
Faithlife.com groups has made a note. Requires an internet connection.
• Faithlife groups you are a part of with community note data will be listed individually, so you can toggle
their notes on/off separately.
Notes: Displays note icons and highlights where they have been added to text.
• Your Note documents will be listed individually, so you can toggle their notes on/off separately.
Reading Plans: Marks the starting and stopping points of a day’s reading in the corresponding resource.
• Your Reading Plans will be listed individually, so you can toggle their notes on/off separately.
Visual Filters: Highlights text in a resource according to the criteria in a selected Visual Filter document.
• Your Visual Filter documents will be listed individually, so you can toggle their notes on/off separately.
Bibliography Document
Create a Bibliography document to edit, annotate, and print lists of resource citations.
1. Click on Documents | New | Bibliography.
2. Click in the “Untitled Bibliography” text box to type a unique title.
3. Click on the Add drop-down and choose to Add citations from:
• ... selected text – adds citation for selected resource text
• ... all open resources – adds citations for all resources currently opened
• ... another bibliography – brings up a list of saved bibliographies from which to add to the current
bibliography
• ... a clippings document – brings up a list of saved clippings documents from which to add citations to
the current bibliography
• ... a collection – brings up a list of saved collections from which to add citations to the current
bibliography
• ... clipboard – adds citation for the text copied to the clipboard
• ... history – brings up a list of recently viewed resources from which to add citations to the current
bibliography
Add a citation directly from a resource:
1. Select text in a resource.
2. Click and drag the text over to the bibliography document or Click Add and select “...selected text”.
Bibliography Options
• Click on Sort, next to the Add button under the document tab, to sort citations in alphabetical order.
• Drag and drop a citation above or below another citation.
• Click on a citation to add notes to that citation.
• Choose Save as Collection from the panel menu to create a Collection of resources cited in this
bibliography.
• Choose a citation style from the drop-down list, or leave the default style:
• APA Style (6th ed.)
• Chicago Manual of Style
• DIN 1505 Style
• Harvard Style
• MLA Style
• SBL Handbook of Style
• Turabian
Print or export the Bibliography document content:
1. Click on the Bibliography panel menu.
2. Choose Print/Export.
3. Choose Bibliography only to exclude any notes added to citations, or leave the notes in the document.
4. Click on Print, Copy to clipboard, or save as Rich Text Format (Word, etc.), Text Document, Web Page
(HTML), PDF (Mac) or XPS (Windows) Document, BibTeX, Refer/BiblX, or RIS Style.
Delete a Bibliography document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
See also Rich Text Editor Windows keyboard shortcuts.
Clippings Document
Create a Clippings document to store brief excerpts from any resource to use later.
Open a new or existing Clippings document and add a clipping to it:
1. Click on Documents | New | Clippings to open a new document, or open an existing document from the
list in the Documents popup window.
2. Open a resource, select the text to clip, and click on the Add Clipping button on Clippings panel toolbar.
You can also drag and drop the selection to the Clippings panel.
3. Change what font is used for ‘Default’ by changing the Default Notes Font in Tools | Program Settings.
Add a clipping directly from a resource:
1. Select text in a resource.
2. Right-click in the selection and choose Add a clipping to ” ”.
Flip the clipping ‘index card’ over to the Bibliographic info side:
1. (On Windows) Hover the mouse cursor over the lower-right corner of an individual clipping (right of the
Notes button) to reveal a page beginning to turn and a right arrow.
2. Click on the ( i ) icon on Mac or the arrow on Windows to ‘flip’ the card over.
3. Leave the current citation style, or choose a different one from the style drop-down list.
4. Click the Copy button to copy the bibliographic citation to a Note or to a word processing or other
document.
5. Click again on the right arrow on Windows or the ‘Done’ button on Mac in the corner to return to the
clipping side.
Rearrange Individual Clippings within a Clippings document
1. Click on the top or bottom of a clipping (not within text box) and drag it above or below another
clipping, dropping it where the insertion bar indicates.
Print or export the Clippings document content:
1. Click on the Clippings panel menu.
2. Choose Print/Export.
3. Click on Print, Copy to clipboard, or save as Rich Text Format (Word, etc.), Text Document, Web Page
(HTML), PDF (Mac) or XPS (Windows) Document.
Print or export the Clipping citations to a bibliography:
1. Click on the Clippings panel menu.
2. Choose Print/Export.
3. Check the “Bibliography only” box.
4. Choose a Citation style from the drop-down list, or leave the default style.
5. Click on Print, Copy to clipboard, or save as Rich Text Format (Word, etc.), Text Document, Web Page
(HTML), PDF (Mac) or XPS (Windows) Document. Citations can also be saved in BibTeX, Refer/BiblX, or
RIS citation formats.
Delete a Clippings document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
See also Rich Text Editor Windows keyboard shortcuts.
Handout Document
(Windows Only)
Create a Handout document to share with students, small group members, etc.
1. Click on Documents | New | Handout to open a new document, or open an existing document from the
Documents | Open list.
2. Enter a Bible reference or keyword in the Reference/Keywords box and press Enter, or first choose a
pericope and passage, or word and passage, from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
3. Go to Handout Options for more ways to add to and customize your handout.
4. Click on Print to print your handout (or click on the panel icon and choose Print/Export from the menu).
Note: A handout is created automatically as part of a Passage Guide.
Handout Options
Add items:
1. Click on Add Item.
2. Enter a verse, such as John 1:1, or a word, such as Egypt or robe.
3. Drag any of the found items you want in your handout document to the left pane.
4. To close the Add Item pane, click the X in the top right corner, or click on Add Items again.
5. Click Edit on any of the added items to change the title or add a caption, then click Done.
6. Click on Add Blank Item to add your own content to the handout. Click Done when complete.
7. Reorder items using drag and drop.
8. To remove an item, right-click on it and choose Delete.
Change the title and date:
1. Click on the handout title on the preview side to change it to a text box (you’ll see a pencil next to it).
2. Type a unique name for your handout and press Enter. The new title will appear in the handout
preview.
3. If the handout will be given out on a date other than today’s date, click on the date drop-down arrow to
bring up a calendar. Click on the correct date. The preview will display the new date.
Change the view and layout:
1. Click on Pages or Sheets at the top-right corner of the Handout preview to change the view.
2. Click on the Booklet drop-down arrow in the lower-right corner of the preview to change the layout to
Sheet.
3. In Sheet layout, you can choose Single Side or Double Side.
4. In either layout, you can change the page size by clicking the Letter drop-down arrow. The other options
are Tabloid and A4.
Change the design:
• Below the Handout preview is a selection of eight possible designs. Thin is the default. The others are
Minimal, Vibrant, Classic, Informal, Cartoon, Comic, and Graffiti.
1. Click on each of the seven to see how your handout looks with the different designs.
2. Click on the page number arrows above the designs to preview each page of the handout.
Delete a Handout document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
See also Bible Facts.
Notes Document
Create a Notes document to jot down comments and add references as you study.
Add a note to a resource Reference or Selection:
1. Right-click on a word or selected text to bring up the context menu.
2. Choose Selection or Reference at the top right of the menu, then click on Add a note to “New Notes”
(see note below), or other listed Notes document. The note will be added to the Notes document, and a
note icon will be added to the selection or reference in the resource, with the selection highlighted.
• Note: Adding a note to a Bible Reference will add the note to all Bibles and Bible Commentaries with
that reference.
• Note: “Add a note to New Notes” will only be available when there are no existing Notes documents.
3. In the note, click into the text box to the right of the reference to create or modify the title of your note.
Add a note that is not attached to a resource Reference or Selection:
1. Click on Documents | New | Notes to open a new document, or open an existing document from the
Documents | Open list.
2. Click on the title, Untitled Notes, to open a text box and type a unique name for your document; press
Enter.
3. Click on Add note. The cursor will be in the Content box.
4. Type or paste the note content, which can be formatted with font, font size, font attribute, paragraph
justification, indentation, bulleted or numbered lists, and inserted hyperlinks.
5. Click into the Title box, above the note content, to enter a reference or subject for your note.
Notes Options
• Set font, font size and bold/italic/small caps defaults by making changes to the Rich Text Editor toolbar
in the Notes panel when no note item has focus. (Press the ‘Esc’ key to ensure no note item has focus.)
• Change what font is used for ‘Default’ by changing the Default Notes Font selection in Tools | Program
Settings.
• Click on Compact to collapse notes.
• Content is displayed in grey text next to title when note is collapsed. If content does not fit on one
line, an ellipsis will mark the continuation of text. A new line within the text is collapsed to a space.
• Click on Full to expand notes.
• Click on Split to view an overview of all note items and the content of an individual note.
• Note indicators and titles are not editable in the left-hand overview pane.
• Reorder notes within a document by dragging and dropping one note above or below another note.
• Move notes between two open Notes documents by dragging and dropping a note from one document
to the other.
• Choose one of the sort options on the panel menu to sort notes:
• Sort by reference
• Sort by date added
• Sort by title
• Sort by note color
• Choose Save as Passage List on the Note panel menu to create a Passage List document to save passages
in notes added to references.
Change note indicator style and color for a note added to a resource Reference, or a note that is not
attached to a resource Reference or Selection:
1. Click on the note indicator in the Notes document to view the options.
2. Click on a Note Indicator option to change the style, or choose ‘No indicator’ if you do not want the
indicator to appear in the resource.
3. Click on a Note Color to change the color of the indicator.
4. Click on Use this style by default if, after making changes, you want the new indicator style and color to
be applied to all new notes added to a Reference.
5. Click on Reset to change the indicator style and color back to the original settings.
Change note indicator style and color for a note added to a resource Selection, or a note added for applied
highlighting:
1. Click on the note indicator in the Notes document to view the options.
2. Click on a Note Indicator option to change the style, or choose ‘No indicator’ if you do not want the
indicator to appear in the resource.
3. Click on a Note Color to change the color of the indicator.
4. Expand a Note Highlight palette to change the style used to highlight the note selection or other
highlighted text; or choose Highlight with note color or No highlight.
5. Click on Use this style by default if, after making changes, you want the new indicator style, color, and
highlight style to be applied to all new notes added to a Selection.
6. Click on Reset to change the indicator style, color, and highlight style back to the original settings.
Delete a note:
1. To delete a note while in the Notes document, hover over the right side of a note and click on the red
Delete button. (If a note is deleted by mistake, press Cmd+Z on Mac or Ctrl+Z on Windows to Undo the
deletion.)
2. To delete a note while in the resource, right-click on the note indicator or in selected text and choose
Remove annotations.
Delete a Notes document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
For information on importing Notes from Libronix DLS 3, see Importing Libronix DLS Documents.
See also Rich Text Editor Windows keyboard shortcuts.
Passage List Document
Create a Passage List document to save, import, and organize passages from resources, search results,
notes, and text files.
1. Click on Documents | New | Passage List.
2. Click in the “Untitled Passage List” text box to type a unique title.
3. Click on the Add drop-down and choose to Add passages from:
• Reference – enter a passage manually
• URL – enter the URL of a webpage containing Bible references
• ... selected text – adds passages within selected resource text
• ... another passage list – brings up a list of saved passage lists from which to add to the current list
• ... a file – brings up an Open dialog to choose an existing Text file (*.txt) to import passages from
• ... clipboard – pastes passages that are scanned from text copied to the clipboard to the end of the
passage list
• ... highlighter style – brings up a list of applied highlighter styles to add passages from highlighted
text
Passage List Options
• Click into the Reference box at the end of the existing list (or press Alt+Enter to go directly to the box) to
quickly add a new passage.
• Drag and drop a passage above or below another passage.
• Click on Sort, on the right side of the panel toolbar, to sort passages in canonical order.
• Click on the Merge drop-down on the toolbar to choose an existing Passage List to merge with, then
choose the way to merge them. A new list will be created without modifying the original lists.
• Click on Compact to display the reference without the text.
• Click on Full to display the text and the reference.
• Choose Save as Word List from the panel menu to create a Word List Document with words added from
the passages in this list.
Memorize View
• In Memorize View, you can choose to either practice memorizing bible verses in the passage list, or quiz
yourself on your memorization of the verses in the passage list.
• Practice
1. Click Memorize in the upper right.
2. Select the word Practice from the first dropdown link in the sentence along the upper portion of the
panel.
3. Select which Bible you want the verse text to appear in using the dropdown link.
4. Select how you want the words or letters to be hidden from you using the dropdown link.
5. Click the Start Practice button.
6. Begin typing. You will have six steps of typing the same verse with different words hidden.
7. When you’ve finished with one verse, you will get your results and a Next Verse button to take you
to the next verse.
8. Exit the practice session at any time by clicking the Exit Practice link in the upper right.
• Quiz
1. Click Memorize in the upper right.
2. Select the word Quiz from the first dropdown link in the sentence along the upper portion of the
panel.
3. Select which Bible you want the verse text to appear in using the dropdown link.
4. Click the Start Quiz button.
5. Type the words of the verse into the blanks.
6. After each verse you will see your results for that verse and a Next Verse button to take you to the
next verse.
7. When you have completed all of the verses, you will see the Total quiz results page which will show
your results for the entire quiz.
8. Take the quiz over again by pressing the Restart quiz button.
9. Exit the quiz at any time by clicking the Exit quiz link in the upper right.
Delete a Passage List document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
For information on importing Passage Lists (Verse Lists) from Libronix DLS 3, see Importing Libronix DLS Documents.
See also Bible Search Options, Morph Search Options, Syntax Search Panel, and Notes Document.
Prayer List Document
Create a Prayer List document to remind you to pray for a specific item on a scheduled day.
1. Click on Documents | New | Prayer List.
2. Click in the “Untitled Prayer List” text box to type a unique title.
3. Click next to the checkbox to begin a new prayer.
4. Type a name for the prayer in the Prayer name box.
5. Enter specific information in the Notes... box.
• Content is displayed in grey text next to title when prayer is collapsed. If content does not fit on one
line, an ellipsis will mark the continuation of text. A new line within the text is collapsed to a space.
6. Select Pray for this item every day and choose a schedule to pray:
• Click on every to change how many days to pray (i.e., every ‘1’ day, every ‘2’ days, etc.).
• Click on day to change the frequency per week, month, or year; or you can choose a starting and
ending date.
• Choose day of the week options if applicable.
7. Enter a comment in the Answer... box when the prayer has been fulfilled. This will change its status to
Answered.
Share an existing Prayer List with a Faithlife group.
1. Click on Documents | Share documents.
2. Log in to Faithlife if necessary, and a list of your documents will appear.
3. Mouse over a Prayer List, and click the blue Actions box.
4. Click Collaborate
5. Select the group you would like to share the Prayer List with, and click the green Collaborate button.
6. Members of the group can now make changes to the Prayer List, and you will see them when viewing
the Prayer List.
Delete a Prayer List document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
For information on importing Prayer Lists from Libronix DLS 3, see Importing Libronix DLS Documents.
Reading Plan Options
1. The default resource in a new Reading Plan document is your preferred Bible. You can change this to a
different Bible or any other resource by selecting a different one from the Read drop-down list.
2. Choose a pre-defined passage range or plan, or enter a custom range in the New reference range box.
• A page range can be entered for non-Bible resources that include page numbers.
• Create Parallel Reading Plans by using the pipe character [ | ] between ranges. Examples: John | 1
John – 3 John, or 1-10 | 20-30 | 40-50 (page numbers).
• Enter duplicate verses in the reference range box to read a passage twice (e.g., Psalms,Psalms will
read through Psalms twice).
• Choosing the M’Cheyne Reading Plan creates the plan for the year of the starting date, and overrides
all other time options.
3. Choose a starting date, if not today’s date.
4. Choose or enter a finishing date. (Not available for predefined plans.)
5. To collaborate your Reading Plan with one of your Faithlife.com groups, change by myself to a group
name.
• Plans collaborated with a group will no longer be editable except for Bible version used.
• Plans can be collaborated after being generated.
6. Click Generate to generate the reading plan.
7. Click on the Title and type a unique name in the text box if desired. (The Title automatically changes to
the resource title and plan duration.)
8. Toggle between Overview (daily), Calendar (monthly), and List view. Click on a day’s chapter or article
link to open the resource to that location.
9. To change the status to Read:
• In Overview view, check the box to mark today’s session read or the first unread reading (if you are
behind).
• For collaborated plans, you can also post comments to your group’s newsfeed.
• In Calendar view, move the mouse cursor to the upper-right corner of a day and click the word Done,
or right click on a day and choose Mark as read.
• If you haven’t had a chance to read every day, you can choose Catch up to here from the context
menu.
• If you are behind, you can right-click on a day and select Adjust plan from here, which pushes
everything back so that you start reading on that day.
• In List view, check the box next to a reading when it has been completed for that day.
10.
Click on Export to iCal (Mac) or Export to Outlook (Windows) to export your reading plan to your
iCal or Outlook Calendar (have the program open open). Typical appointment options (Calendar used,
Start/End times, Reminder, Show as free/busy) can be determined before clicking Export.
Print or Export a Reading Plan
1. Open the panel menu and choose Print/Export from the menu. (See the Help article on the Print/Export
dialog for general instructions.)
2. To print or export the Calendar view (only PDF on Mac or XPS on Windows), choose “Print as shown on
screen” on the left side of the dialog. Only List view is supported for export to RTF, Text, and HTML.
3. Click on “iCalendar” under “Save as file” to export to an .ics file for import into mail programs that
support it.
Delete a Reading Plan document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
See also Choose Preferred Bible.
Sentence Diagram Document
Create a Sentence Diagram document to diagram the grammatical structure of a biblical passage. This
feature provides a fully interactive graphical interface designed on standard sentence diagramming
notation.
Insert a passage:
1. Click on Documents | New | Sentence Diagram to open a new document, or open an existing document
from the Documents | Open list. It will open into a new window.
2. Click in the “Untitled Sentence Diagram” text box and type a unique title.
3. Click on Insert passage and click in the Insert Reference box.
4. Type a passage and press Enter.
5. Leave the preferred Bible or click on it to choose another Bible.
6. Leave line diagram or click on it to choose text flow diagram. (See Sentence Diagramming for
descriptions of these options.)
7. Leave No Alternate or click on it to choose an alternate text option available for the selected resource
(e.g., Lemma, Transliterated, Morphology, etc.) Note: An alternate text display option must be chosen
from the Display drop-down to see the alternate text.
8. Click Insert or press Enter.
Create a sentence diagram from a Bible Harmony resource:
1. Open a harmony resource, such as “Parallel Passages in the Pastoral Epistles.”
2. Click on the book cover icon to open the panel menu and choose Send to Sentence Diagram. A new
Sentence Diagram document will open with the title and passages from the resource already inserted.
Select diagramming tools:
The Shapes palette on the left-hand side of the Sentence Diagram panel contains standard grammatical
notation lines.
1. Hover over a shape button to see its description.
2. Click on a shape and then click on a preferred location in the document to place that item (or click and
drag/drop to the location).
3. Click and drag the shape to move it.
4. Click a node in a shape and drag to adjust the length or shape.
Choose Copy image, Send to, and other options from the context menu:
Right-click on a diagram and choose from the following options (grayed-out options are dependent on a
prior action):
• Undo | Redo
• Cut | Copy | Paste | Delete
• Select All
• Copy image | Send to Proclaim | Send to PowerPoint | Send to KeyNote (Mac)
Print a Sentence Diagram:
1. Sentence diagrams can be printed or exported to a PDF document on Mac or an XPS document on
Windows only.
2. Open the panel menu and choose Print/Export from the menu. (See the Help article on the Print/Export
dialog for general instructions.)
3. To fit the diagram on one page, if the preview extends to two or more pages, check the “Fit to page”
box on the left side of the dialog.
Delete a Sentence Diagram document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
See also Sentence Diagramming for descriptions and options.
For information on importing Sentence Diagrams from Libronix DLS 3, see Importing Libronix DLS Documents.
Consult the resource “Diagrammatical Analysis” for help with sentence diagramming.
Sentence Diagramming
Descriptions
• Line diagram: Passages will be inserted with each word as an individual item, which can be moved and
manipulated.
• Text Flow Diagram: Passages will be inserted with words grouped into a wrapping column. When
moving one word, all following words in the paragraph are moved as well.
• Primary and Alternate Text:
• Primary text is the actual surface text.
• Alternate text, if available, is the corresponding lemma form, transliterated form, morphology,
Strong’s number, etc. (depending on the resource).
• Primary and alternate text can be edited by double-clicking a word to open the Text dialog.
• Join: Multiple individual words will become a single unit.
• Split: Multiple joined words will become individual units.
Options
• Page
• Show page guides in diagram: Enable this to see what part of the text will fit on a page while editing
the diagram. Text beyond the guide line will continue on to another page when printed/exported.
• Margins: Choose from four margin settings. This setting is carried over to the Print/Export panel.
• Letter (page size): Choose from the available page sizes. This setting is carried over to the
Print/Export panel.
• Portrait (page orientation): Choose Portrait or Landscape. This setting is carried over to the
Print/Export panel.
• Display
• Informal lines: When enabled, inserted lines/shapes and wrapping column’s movement line handles
will appear to be “hand-drawn.”
• Always show shape handles: Enable this setting to make it easier to resize and link shapes.
• Primary – displays only the primary text.
• Alternate – displays only the alternate text.
• Primary (alternate above) – displays the primary text more prominently than the alternate text, with
the alternate positioned above the primary.
• Primary (alternate below) – displays the primary text more prominently than the alternate text, with
the alternate positioned below the primary.
• Alternate (primary above) – displays the alternate text more prominently than the primary text, with
the primary positioned above the alternate.
• Alternate (primary below) – displays the alternate text more prominently than the primary text, with
the primary positioned below the alternate.
• Hidden – displays no text.
• Text
• Font: Choose from the available Fonts.
• Font size: Choose from the available font sizes.
• Formatting: Click on one or more of the text formatting options: B (bold), / (italic), U (underline)
• Color: Choose from the available text colors.
• Alignment: Align text at Left, Center, or Right within a text box that contains more than one line of
text.
• —— (Line)
• Style: Choose from Solid, Dash, or Dot line styles.
• Weight: Choose from the available line thicknesses.
• Color: Choose from the available line colors.
• End: Choose a line without arrows, or a line with an arrow at one or both ends.
• Join: Select the words to be joined together (using Shift+click or Ctrl+click), then click Join to join them.
• Split: Select the words to be split (using Shift+click or Ctrl+click), then click Split to separate them.
Applying Attributes
• If options are made with no text or shapes selected, all new text or shapes will be created with the
selected attribute (i.e., font, color, style, weight, etc.)
• Select multiple items, using Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click, to apply an attribute to all of them.
• Shapes can be copied or cut and pasted by right-clicking on the shape and choosing an option from the
context menu. Copied items will maintain their attributes.
Tools palette
• Hover over a Tool button to see its description.
• Selection (pointer):
• Click on the pointer, then click on a shape to select.
• Click on the shape and drag it to move the shape.
• Click on a shape’s attachment handle to unjoin a shape from another one.
• Use Ctrl+Click to select multiple shapes.
• Text (“T”): Creates a text box as an independent shape.
• Click on the ‘T’, click into the document to create a text box, then type the text. When you are
finished typing you can click and drag the text shape as with any other shape.
• Drawing (pencil icon): Draws an arbitrary path, which may be recognized as a shape.
• Click on the pencil, click into the document, and begin to draw.
• Line (\): Creates arbitrary lines. The origin of the line is wherever the user starts drawing.
• Click and drag the line handle to change the size or direction of the line. When moving the handle,
the line origin will remain in the same place and the line will move in increments.
• Hold the Shift key down as you move the handle for a smoother, more precise placement.
Shapes palette
• Hover over a Shape button to see its description.
• Click on a shape and then on a location in the diagram to place that shape, or click and drag the shape to
the diagram.
• Click and drag the shape to move it. (Do not click on the resize dot.)
• Click a resize dot in a shape and drag to adjust the length or shape. For some shapes (such as Box,
Ellipse, Curves) the shape can be constrained to its original shape when resized (e.g., a ‘box’ shape
remains as a square rather than becoming a rectangle). Hold the Shift key down as you drag the resize
dot to constrain the shape.
• LTR | RTL: Toggles shapes in palette from a left-to-right to a right-to-left orientation, and vice-versa. This
feature facilitates diagramming in right-to-left languages such as Hebrew.
See also Sentence Diagram Document.
Consult the resource “Diagrammatical Analysis” for help with sentence diagramming.
Syntax Search Advanced
Note: See Specifics Pane section for information on “Matching skips levels.”
Search Pane
The left pane of the Syntax Search document is used to create an outline diagram that represents the
grammatical structures you wish to find. Queries are created by adding and configuring “terms” that
represent grammatical features. These include Sentence, Clause, Phrase, Word, Segment, and other terms,
depending on the syntax database being searched against. (Note: Not all databases will support all types of
grammatical constructions.)
• Each search term in the search pane represents a single grammatical construction. The form of the
query will exactly match all occurrences of the same forms within the syntax database. For example,
adding a clause term will find all of the clauses within the database. Adding a phrase beneath that
“clause” will match all phrases that are within a clause.
• The order of terms is significant. That means that a subject term placed directly before an object term in
the query will match only those instances in the database where an object construction immediately
follows the subject. It will not match subject first and then object.
• Hovering over a term in the search pane will display plus (+) signs on all four sides. Click on a (+) to add a
new search term.
• Click the left (+) to add a “parent” term.
• Click the right (+) to add a “child” term.
• Click the down (+) to add a sibling term that is at the same level and has the same parent as the term
above it.
• Click the up (+) to add a sibling term that is at the same level and has the same parent as the term
below it.
• Click on a term and drag it to one of the plus signs of another term to make it a child or sibling of that
term. (Drop the term when the cursor changes to an arrow with an outlined box underneath and the
plus sign turns dark blue).
Specifics Pane
• The right pane of the Syntax Search window specifies the options for the currently selected search term.
To edit the specifics for a term, click on it in the left pane.
• Options are grouped within the Specifics pane under headings within grey bars. To show a group of
specifics, click the gray bar for that group. To hide the group, click the gray bar again.
• Matching skips levels (under General)
• Since Syntax refers to relationships between elements and how they function together in a
constituent phrase or clause, the “Matching skips levels” setting determines whether the search will
be more broad (checked) and include hits for the search term when the relationships are more
distant, or whether it will be more narrow (unchecked) and include hits only when the search term
relationship is immediate child to parent.
• When checked, the line connecting the nodes changes to a dotted line.
See also Syntax Search Panel.
Syntax Search Document
Design the structure of a Syntax Search and save it for future queries.
1. Click on Documents | New | Syntax Search, or click on New Syntax Search from the Syntax Search panel.
2. Click on “Untitled Syntax Search” or the pencil next to it to type a unique document name.
3. Click on All Passages to choose a different range to search, if desired.
4. Click on the current ‘Search in’ resource to choose another Greek or Hebrew text, if desired.
The left-hand pane of the Syntax Search document is used to create a diagram or tree that represents the
grammatical structures to search. This tree consists of search terms and the relationships between terms,
and is read from left to right, top to bottom.
1. Click on the (+) next to “Add search terms here” to begin adding terms.
2. Select a term to open the Specifics pane on the right.
3. Right click on a term to bring up additional options.
Available search terms depend on the syntax database used by the selected resource. Terms on the left are
specific to the database, and those on the right are common to all databases:
• Anything matches any portion of the parent term;
• Gap allows searching within the “gaps” that occur in non-continuous constructions;
• Group allows terms to be grouped together for algebraic purposes (as parentheses in a string Boolean
query);
• Unordered Group allows child terms to be matched in any order;
• OR provides for the specification of match alternates (e.g., “phrase OR clause”).
Delete a Syntax Search document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
For more Help on creating a Syntax Search document, go to Syntax Search Advanced.
For information on importing Syntax Searches from Libronix DLS 3, see Importing Libronix DLS Documents.
Visual Filter Document
Create a Visual Filter document to store your rules for highlighting text in resources.
1. Click on Documents | New | Visual Filter, or open an existing document from the Documents | Open
list.
2. Click on “Untitled Visual Filter” or the pencil icon next to it to type a unique name for the document.
3. Click on Basic, Bible, or Morph at the top right side of the panel. Under Morph you can type @ as in the
Morph Search panel to bring up a list of morphology terms.
4. Depending on the type of search selected in step 3, choose a range, resource, or morphology for your
filter.
5. Click on the panel menu if you want to select either Match case or Match all word forms.
6. Click into the Find box and type your query.
7. Click into the Formatting box to choose a highlighter from the drop-down list. (You can also tab to that
field and press the down arrow key to scroll through the list of highlighters.)
8. New rows will be added after each entry, allowing you to add more queries and filters to the document.
The changes will be saved automatically, and if one of the resources included in the rules of your Visual
Filter document is open, the formatting you selected will be visible immediately.
9. To remove a visual filter, click the X on the right side of that row.
Delete a Visual Filter document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
See also Visual Filters and Basic Search Options.
Word Find Puzzle Document
Create a Word Find Puzzle document to generate, solve, and save word find games based on a Bible
passage.
• Creating a puzzle:
1. Click on Documents | New | Word Find Puzzle to open a new document, or open an existing
document from the Documents | Open list. It will open into a new window.
2. Type a passage or pericope in the Reference box and press Enter, or first choose a pericope and
passage from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
3. Once the puzzle is generated, you can either solve it within the program, or print it out to solve on
paper.
• Right-click on the puzzle for Copy, Save as, Send to PowerPoint, or Print options, or click on
Print/Export on the panel menu.
• How to Play (if you choose to solve the puzzle on your computer):
1. When you find a word, click on the first and last letter. This will outline the word in blue.
• You can also click on the first letter and drag the mouse until the complete word is outlined.
• Once a word is outlined, the corresponding word in the Word List will be crossed out.
2. Click on Solution on the panel toolbar to outline remaining unsolved words in red. Click Solution
again to remove those outlines.
Delete a Word Find Puzzle document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
See also Word Find Puzzle Options.
Word Find Puzzle Options
1. The puzzle title will match the passage you entered; if you want to change it, click on the title and type a
unique name in the text box; press Enter when done.
2. Click on the Bible drop-down arrow to change the Bible source used for your puzzle.
3. Click one of the size options in the upper-right corner to change the puzzle size. Small is the default.
Other options are Medium, Large, and Extra Large. (With one verse, the only option may be ‘Small’.)
4. Click on Passage in the upper-right corner to display the whole passage, with the words to find in bold.
Click Word List to display just the word list again.
5. Click on the Word Find Puzzle panel icon to Allow diagonal words and/or to Allow backwards words.
Word List Document
Create a Word List document to save, import, and organize words from references, resources, search
results, and passage lists.
1. Click on Documents | New | Word List.
2. Click in the “Untitled Word List” text box to type a unique title.
3. Click on the Add drop-down and choose to Add lemmas from:
• Reference – enter a passage manually
• ... selected text – adds words within selected resource text
• ... another word list – brings up a list of saved word lists from which to add to the current list
• ... clipboard – pastes words that are scanned from text copied to the clipboard
• ... highlighter style – brings up a list of applied highlighter styles to add words from highlighted text
Word List Options
• Click into the Add Lemma box at the end of the existing list to quickly add a new word.
• Click on the Merge drop-down on the toolbar to choose an existing Word List to merge with, then
choose the way to merge them. A new list will be created without modifying the original lists.
• Click on Grid to display the entries in a table layout.
• Click on Cards to display the entries as printable flashcards.
The Grid view can be manipulated in various ways to analyze the data.
• To choose the columns to be displayed, right-click on any of the column headings, and select/deselect a
heading.
• To change the order of the columns, drag a column heading and drop it in another location.
• To sort by a particular column, click the column heading. An ‘up’ triangle will appear to indicate that the
data is being sorted in ‘ascending’ order by that column. (The column width may need to be expanded
to see the ‘sort by’ triangle.) Click a second time to sort in ‘descending’ order (‘down’ triangle).
• To sort by multiple columns, click the first column to sort, then hold down SHIFT and click additional
columns to add secondary sorting.
• To group by a column, drag it to the “Drag a column header here to group by that column” area. For
instance, if you drag the Lemma column to that area, the results will be grouped by Lemma.
• To group by multiple columns, drag columns in succession to the “Drag a column header here to group
by that column” area. Columns in this area can be reordered using drag and drop.
• To remove a column from grouping, click on its column header and drag it out of the above area.
• To expand or collapse a section, click on its section bar. Right-click on the bar to see additional options,
including “Summary view” which displays the grouping hierarchy and hides the results.
Delete a Word List document:
1. Click on the Documents menu.
2. Right-click on the document to be deleted and choose Delete.
For information on importing Word Lists (Vocabulary Lists or Word Lists) from Libronix DLS 3, see Importing Libronix
DLS Documents.
See also Bible Search Options, Morph Search Options, Syntax Search Panel, and Passage List Document.
Bible Word Study
Use the Bible Word Study guide to find in-depth information about a specific word.
Generate a Bible Word Study report:
1. Click on Guides | Bible Word Study.
2. Type (or copy and paste) a Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, or English word in the Reference box and press
Enter, or first choose a word from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
3. To search within a specific range of passages, click on All Passages and choose from the drop-down list,
which will include user-defined ranges. To define a custom range:
• Click on All Passages and type a range in the New reference range field.
• Type a name for the custom range in the Title field. (Note: If the name matches another custom
range title, a “(2)” will be added to the end of the title.)
• Click the Save button.
4. Dictionary entries and lemma analysis results will be generated.
5. Under the Lemma section, click on the speaker icon to hear the word pronounced (available only for
Greek at this time).
6. Click on a keylink resource under Lemma to open it to the corresponding location.
7. Click on a word in the Hebrew Words or Greek Words section to generate a concordance for that word.
8. Click on a section title bar, such as Definition, to open or close that section.
9. Drag and drop a section title bar to change the order of the information in the Bible Word Study panel.
10.
Add a section by clicking on Add on the Bible Word Study toolbar.
Default sections available in the Bible Word Study (language listed in parentheses means section is
available only for words in that language):
Clicking on Settings in most of these sections will allow you to change the Reverse Interlinear Bible
selection. Hovering over a ring slice will show a preview of the ring for that word.
1. Title and Description
• Optional info entered by user
2. Lemma
3. Translation (Greek & Hebrew)
• A graph of words that the word being studied is translated into
4. Case Frames
• Shows the different sets of required arguments for a verb.
5. Septuagint Translation (Greek)
• A graph of Hebrew words that are translated from the Greek word being studied which is found in
the Septuagint
• Hovering over the section bar and clicking the Settings title will allow you to choose between the
Logos LXX and LXX Swete Septuagints.
6. Hebrew Words (English)
• A graph of Hebrew words that are translated into the word being studied
7. Greek Words (English)
• A graph of Greek words that are translated into the word being studied
8. Root (Greek & Hebrew)
• Shows all the roots of the word being studied and all the lemmas derived from those roots
• Click on a root heading to run a Morph search for that root.
• Click on a lemma to run a Bible Word Study for that word.
9. Senses
• Shows the sense identifier rendered as the label, the part of speech, the definition, and a list of
lemmas.
• The hierarchies shown are a series of trees where each tree expresses one lineage within one
relationship for the studied word.
• Click another lemma to open a separate Bible Word Study for that word.
• Click a link under the Type of: header to open the Bible Sense Lexicon to that word.
10.
Case Frames
• A “deep case” for a given verb is a required arguments that verb takes.
• A set of cases required by a given verb is called a “case frame.” A given verb may have several legal
case frames.
• It will only appear when the key lemma is a verb.
11.
Clause Participants
• This section shows a summary of clause search data (including referents), grouped on the Biblical
Knowledgebase entity.
• When the proper resources are owned, this section has two views: Grammatical roles (subject,
object, etc.) and Semantic Roles (agent, patient, etc.).
12.
Example Uses
• Shows examples of how the word is used in different verses in aligned view and grouped
grammatically
• Click on English or Greek/Hebrew to choose the display language of the concordance.
13.
Preposition Use (Greek & Hebrew)
• Hovering over a preposition shows a preview of the Information panel for that word.
14.
Phrases
• Shows any phrases containing the word that the Bible Word Study was run on.
• For English words: Lists the preferred label of the phrase followed by its alternate labels, then its
definition.
• For original language words: Shows the original language phrase with its preferred English label and
English definition.
• The heading is a link that launches a new Search on that phrase.
15.
Textual Searches
• Shows the high-level results of searching for the given lemma across the library
• Only hit counts are displayed. Click on a link to generate full search results.
Sections that can be added to a current or custom Bible Word Study:
• Additional Translation sections
• Additional Greek Words and Hebrew Words sections for English word studies.
• Prior section Grammatical Relationships, which has been superseded by the new Clause Participants
section.
See also Passage Guide, Exegetical Guide, Sermon Starter Guide, Topic Guide, and Edit Guide Template.
Edit Guide Template
Make a new guide template:
1. Click on Guides | Make a new guide template. The Guide Template Editor panel will open.
2. Click in the title area and replace “Untitled Guide” with a unique name, such as “My Passage Guide.”
(Tip: With “My” in front of the name (My Passage Guide), that guide will become the default guide
when opened by another function, such as passage search from home page.)
3. At the top right of the panel, use the Template Type drop-down menu to choose which type of guide to
create:
• Click on Bible reference if choosing a Passage or Exegetical Guide or their components.
• Click on Bible word if choosing a Bible Word Study or its components.
• Click on Sermon Theme if choosing a Sermon Starter Guide or its components.
• Click on Topic if choosing a Topic Guide or its components.
4. Click on a Section on the left side to add it to the template.
5. Change the order of the sections using drag and drop to move a section above or below another section.
6. Click on the x in a section on the right to remove it from the template.
7. The newly edited guide will be available from Guides drop-down in the left column below the system
guide types.
Edit an existing guide:
1. In an open Passage Guide, Exegetical Guide, or Bible Word Study click on the guide icon in upper-left
corner and choose Edit Guide Template from the drop-down menu. This will open a copy of the
template where you can customize your guides.
2. Click in the title area (i.e., “Copy of Exegetical Guide”) and type a unique name, such as “My Exegetical
Guide.” (Tip: With “My” in front of the name (My Exegetical Guide), that guide will become the default
guide when opened by another function, such as passage search from home page.)
3. Click on a Section on the left side to add it to the template.
4. Change the order of the sections using drag and drop to move a section above or below another section.
5. Click on the x in a section on the right to remove it from the template.
6. The newly edited guide will be available from Guides drop-down in the left column below the system
guide types.
• Note: Some sections are passage study based and some a word study based. Some sections will not be
available for some guide types.
Exegetical Guide
Use the Exegetical Guide to generate a detailed analysis of the underlying Greek or Hebrew text in a Bible
passage.
Generate a Exegetical Guide report:
1. Click on Guides | Exegetical Guide.
2. Type a passage or pericope in the Reference box and press Enter, or first choose a pericope and passage
from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
• A verse map can be specified with a Bible reference to use when parsing (e.g., enter BHS Psalm 3:1
for results on the Psalm title that comes before verse 1 in most English Bibles).
3. Results will be generated for sections containing that passage.
4. Click on a resource, passage, or morphological term to open the resource to the corresponding location.
5. In the Word by Word section:
• Click on a Greek or Hebrew word to generate a Bible Word Study guide on that word.
• Click on the speaker icon to hear the word pronounced (available only for Greek at this time).
6. Click on a section title bar, such as Grammars, to open or close that section.
7. Drag and drop a section title bar to change the order of the information in the Exegetical Guide panel.
8. Add a section by clicking on Add on the Exegetical Guide toolbar.
Default sections available in the Exegetical Guide (depend on available resources):
1. Title and Description
• Optional info entered by user
2. Textual Variants - replaces the Logos 5 Guide section “Apparatuses”.
• This section includes several collapsible sub-sections.
• Apparatuses and Commentaries
• Modern Editions
• Transcriptions
• Ancient Versions
• Online Manuscripts.
3. Ancient Literature
• This section is keyed off of a Biblical passage, and provides cross references to ancient literature
related to the Bible.
• The cross references are grouped by type: Citation, Quotation, Allusion, Echo, Topical, Historical,
Lexical, or Phrase.
• Links to cross references in resources you do not own will open the Power Lookup panel listing which
resources contain those references.
4. Grammars
• Explains grammatical principles in Bible passages
• Click on Settings to choose a specific collection of grammar resources.
5. Visualizations
• Contains visual analyses of sentences, clauses and phrases
6. Journals - Similar to Collections, but limited and dedicated to Journals.
7. Word by Word
• An analysis of each word in the passage, including lemma, transliteration, morphology descriptions,
Greek Pronunciation link, English gloss, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon references.
• The Sense for the word, hyperlinked to the Bible Sense Lexicon, and a description of the meaning of
this usage of the word
• Click on Settings to change the number of words and the parts of speech that are shown.
Sections that can be added to a current or custom Exegetical Guide:
• Any Bible Reference section
See also Passage Guide, Bible Word Study, Sermon Starter Guide, Topic Guide, and Edit Guide Template.
Passage Guide
Use Passage Guide to generate a wide range of information about a specific Bible passage.
Generate a Passage Guide report:
1. Click on Guides | Passage Guide.
2. Type a passage or pericope in the Reference box and press Enter, or first choose a pericope and passage
from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
3. Results will be generated for sections containing that passage. For instance, if John 3:16 is the passage,
and there are no maps that reference John 3:16, the Biblical Places section may be grayed out.
4. Click on a resource, passage, or graphic link to open the resource to the corresponding location.
5. Click on a section title bar, such as Commentaries, to open or close that section.
6. Drag and drop a section title bar to change the order of the information in the Passage Guide panel.
7. Add a section by clicking on Add on the Passage Guide toolbar.
Default sections available in the Passage Guide (depend on available resources):
• Title and Description (optional info entered by user)
• Commentaries – Click on Settings to select a specific collection of commentaries.
• Journals – Similar to Collections, but limited and dedicated to Journals.
• My Content (documents and guides you create or customize)
• Ancient Literature
• This section is keyed off of a Biblical passage, and provides cross references to ancient literature
related to the Bible.
• The cross references are grouped by type: Citation, Quotation, Allusion, Echo, Topical, Historical,
Lexical, or Phrase.
• Links to cross references in resources you do not own will open the Power Lookup panel listing which
resources contain those references.
• Cross References
• Parallel Passages
• Literary Typing
• Outlines
• Biblical People (See Factbook)
• Biblical Places (See Factbook)
• Biblical Things (See Factbook)
• Media Resources
• Music
• Topics (Choose from three available views: Tags, Cloud, and List.)
• Illustrations (Choose from three available views: Tags, Cloud, and List.)
• Interesting Words (Choose from available English, Greek, or Hebrew language views.)
• Compare Versions (See Cluster Graph.) – Click on Settings to choose the Bibles to compare and either 2D
or 3D view (view not yet available in Mac version).
• GracewayMedia.com
• SermonAudio.com
• Sermons.Logos.com
• SermonCentral.com
Sections that can be added to a current or custom Passage Guide:
• Any Bible Reference section
See also Bible Word Study, Exegetical Guide, Sermon Starter Guide, Topic Guide, and Edit Guide Template.
Sermon Starter Guide
Use Sermon Starter Guide to generate useful information for preparing a sermon on a topic or passage.
Generate a Sermon Starter Guide report:
1. Click on Guides | Sermon Starter Guide.
2. Type a passage, pericope, topic, or concept in the Reference box and press Enter, or first choose from
the suggested matches displayed as you type.
3. Results will be generated for sections containing that passage or topic. For instance, if Numbers 3:2 is
the passage, and there are no related passages for that reference, the Parallel Passages section may be
grayed out.
4. Click on a resource, passage, or graphic link to open the resource to the corresponding location.
5. Click on a section title bar, such as Commentaries, to open or close that section.
6. Drag and drop a section title bar to change the order of the information in the Sermon Starter Guide
panel.
7. Add a section by clicking on Add on the Sermon Starter Guide toolbar.
Default sections available in the Sermon Starter Guide (depend on available resources):
• Title and Description (optional info entered by user)
• Ancient Literature (for Guides keyed off of a passage)
• This section is keyed off of a Biblical passage, and provides cross references to ancient literature
related to the Bible.
• The cross references are grouped by type: Citation, Quotation, Allusion, Echo, Topical, Historical,
Lexical, or Phrase.
• Links to cross references in resources you do not own will open the Power Lookup panel listing which
resources contain those references.
• Theme
• Passages (for preaching themes)
• Preaching Resources (for preaching themes)
• Thematic Outline
• Collections
• Journals – Similar to Collections, but limited and dedicated to Journals.
• Media Resources
• Lightstock.com
• Commentaries – Click on Settings to select a specific collection of commentaries. (for references)
• Outlines (for references)
• Parallel Passages (for references)
• Topics (Choose from three available views: Tags, Cloud, and List – for references)
• Illustrations (Choose from three available views: Tags, Cloud, and List – for references)
• GracewayMedia.com (for references)
• SermonAudio.com (for references)
• Sermons.Logos.com (for references)
• SermonCentral.com (for references)
Sections that can be added to a current or custom Sermon Starter Guide:
• Any Bible Reference section
See also Passage Guide, Exegetical Guide, Bible Word Study, Topic Guide, and Edit Guide Template.
Topic Guide
Use Topic Guide to collect information from your library about a topic or concept.
Generate a Topic Guide report:
1. Click on Guides | Topic Guide.
2. Type a topic or concept in the text entry box and press Enter, or first choose from the suggested
matches displayed as you type.
3. Results will be generated for sections containing that topic. For instance, if ‘Fruit of the Spirit’ is the
topic, and there are no events for that concept, the Biblical Events section may be grayed out.
4. Click on a resource, passage, or graphic link to open the resource to the corresponding location.
5. Click on a section title bar, such as Illustrations, to open or close that section.
6. Drag and drop a section title bar to change the order of the information in the Topic Guide panel.
7. Add a section by clicking on Add on the Topic Guide toolbar.
Default sections available in the Topic Guide (depend on available resources):
• Title and Description (optional info entered by user)
• Definition
• Related Verses
• Illustrations
• Media Resources
• Biblical People (See Factbook)
• Biblical Places (See Factbook)
• Biblical Things (See Factbook)
• Biblical Events (See Factbook)
• Lightstock.com
• Topics.Logos.com
Sections that can be added to a current or custom Topic Guide:
• Collections
See also Passage Guide, Exegetical Guide, Bible Word Study, Sermon Starter Guide, and Edit Guide Template.
Basic Search Options
Narrow or expand your search:
• To narrow the search to available search fields and/or available pre-defined or custom Highlighting
palettes or styles (depending on the resources being searched), click on All Text and choose from the
drop-down list.
• To change the resource(s) to search, click on Entire Library, enter a resource title or abbreviation in the
Find box, or choose from the drop-down list:
• Everything
• Factbook
• All Resources
• Your Documents (searches user-created Documents, Guides, and Personal Books)
• Community Tags (entities, events, concepts etc. other users have tagged in resources)
• All Open Resources
• Specific Open Resource
• Top Bibles
• All Bibles
• All Open Bibles
• User-defined Collections
• System-defined Series
• Click on the Search panel icon to see more options:
• Send searches here: the current search panel becomes the default destination for searches.
• Match case: runs a search that is case-sensitive.
• Match all word forms: includes results for alternative forms of a word.
• Match equivalent references: includes equivalent references to biblical knowledge entities, etc.
• Expand the Topic and My Content sections to see more results:
• Your Books: includes user-defined Personal Books that contain the search term in title or body of the
document.
• To change the order of Library Results, choose Ranked, By Title, or By Count.
• Ranked: sorts search hits in order of relevance.
• By Resource: sorts search hits alphabetically by book name, then sequentially by chapter or article.
• By Count: sorts search hits by book according to the total number of occurrences in each book
(descending).
• With By Resource and By Count views, individual books are expandable and collapsible. When
searching one book, it will be expanded by default. When searching multiple books, they will be
collapsed by default. Click on a book cover or title to expand/collapse.
Create a new Visual Filter document from a search:
• Click on the Save as Visual Filter button to open a new Untitled Visual Filter document containing the
search term.
See also Bible Search Panel, and Bible Search Options.
Basic Search Panel
Use Basic Search to search for a word or phrase in any resource, to search Everything, or to get a list of
relevant Factbook entries.
1. Click on the magnifying glass icon on the main program toolbar to open the Search panel. Skip steps 2
and 3 if the search type at top right of panel is already set to Basic.
2. Click on Basic (this option will be remembered the next time you search).
3. Tab or click into the Find field.
4. Choose and edit a Search Suggestion or type in your own query. Press Enter or first choose the exact
form of the word from the suggested matches displayed as you type. Follow step 5 below to reuse a
previous search.
5. Click the down arrow to the right of the Find box for a list of recent searches by date.
6. Search results will be displayed in the Search panel.
7. Click on a highlighted word or article title to open the resource to the corresponding location.
To narrow or expand a search go to Basic Search Options.
See also Bible Search Panel, Media Search Panel, Clause Search Panel, Morph Search Panel, Syntax Search Panel, and
Everything Search.
Bible Search Options
Choose which type of Bible search to run:
1. Use the default Search to begin the search after entering the query, choosing a suggested match from
the drop-down list, and pressing Enter (or clicking the Go arrow).
2. Click on Search and choose Search (while typing) to begin the search as you type.
• No suggested matches will appear.
• Results begin generating right away, and will dynamically change with the query as it changes.
Narrow or expand your search:
1. To narrow the search to available search fields and/or available pre-defined or custom Highlighting
palettes or styles (depending on the resources being searched), click on All Bible Text and choose from
the drop-down list.
2. To search a different range of passages, click on All Passages and choose from the drop-down list, which
will include user-defined ranges. To define a custom range:
• Click on All Passages and type a range in the New reference range field.
• Type a name for the custom range in the Title field. (Note: If the name matches another custom
range title, a “(2)” will be added to the end of the title.)
• Click the Save button.
3. To search a specific Bible or group of Bibles, click on All Bibles, enter a resource title or abbreviation in
the Find box, or choose from the drop-down list:
• Search in: This box supports Library filtering syntax, and will create a “Quick Collection” of resources
matching the entered filter.
• Top Bibles (top 5 Bibles in resource priority)
• All Bibles
• All Open Bibles
• Specific Open Bible
• User-defined Collections
• System-defined Series
4. Click on the Search panel icon to see more options:
• Send searches here: the current search panel becomes the default destination for searches.
• Match case: runs a search that is case-sensitive.
• Match all word forms: includes results for alternative forms of a word.
• Match equivalent references: checking this merges results for equivalent terms but of different
types, such as Marriage (Topic) and Marriage (Cultural Concept).
• Show whole verses: the complete verse is displayed, with the text wrapping to the next line(s) as
necessary (Grid view only).
• Save as Passage List: creates a Passage List document with passages added from the search results.
• Save as Visual Filter: creates a Visual Filter document with the fields filled out matching the selected
search terms.
• Save as Word List: creates a Word List Document with words added from the search results.
Change the search results view:
1. To change how the results are displayed, click on:
• Grid: displays rows of verses containing the search term and columns of Bibles included in the
search. The book, chapter and verse number are on the left side of each row; in the middle are
colored boxes corresponding to each Bible (highest priority Bible in the group listed first); and on the
right side is partial verse text from only the first Bible listed.
• Click the verse on the left to open the top prioritized Bible.
• Click in a colored box to open the corresponding Bible to that verse (solid for exact term match or
outlined for variation).
• A circle with a line through it indicates that Bible does not include the verse in that row.
• Verses: displays book, chapter and verse number on the left and complete verse text on the right for
each Bible searched, sorted alphabetically by resource.
• Aligned: aligns the search term within each verse result, sorted alphabetically by resource.
• Analysis: provides a spreadsheet-type view of all the data associated with the search results. Choose
the columns to display, and sort or group search hits by any available data type. Click on the Search
panel menu to Export the data to an Excel worksheet. For more details, see Search Analysis.
2. To graph the results, click on Graph results on the Search toolbar.
See also Bible Search Panel, Graph Bible Search Results, and Graph Bible Search Results Options.
Bible Search Panel
Use Bible Search to search for a word or phrase in a Bible.
1. Click on the magnifying glass icon at the top left side of the program to open the Search panel. Skip
steps 2 and 3 if the search type is already set to Bible at the top right of panel.
2. Click on Bible (this option will be remembered the next time you search).
3. Tab or click into the Find field.
4. Choose and edit a Search Suggestion or type in your own query. Press Enter or first choose the exact
form of the word from the suggested matches displayed as you type. Follow step 5 below to reuse a
previous search.
5. Click the down arrow to the right of the Find box for a list of recent searches by date.
6. Search results will be displayed in the Search panel.
7. Click on a highlighted word or article title to open the Bible to the corresponding location.
To narrow or expand a search go to Bible Search Options.
See also Graph Bible Search Results, Basic Search Panel, Media Search Panel, Clause Search Panel, Morph Search
Panel, and Syntax Search Panel.
Choose a Graph
1. Click on a graph at the bottom of the Graph Bible Search Results panel:
• Result Map
• Displays a graphical representation of the Bible, plotting search hits in each Bible book within the
major Bible divisions, such as Pentateuch, Poetry, Minor Prophets, Gospels, and General Epistles.
• Each search result is indicated by a colored line at the verse location. A darker line indicates more
hits at that location.
• Hovering cursor over a colored bar changes it from a hand to a pointed finger and causes the verse
to appear in tooltip.
• Clicking on a colored bar opens the selected resource to that verse.
• Bar Chart
• Chapter labels are on the left and search hit labels are on the bottom of the chart.
• Horizontal bars, for each Bible selected, will be displayed across columns to the right of each
chapter. The shorter the bar, the smaller number of search hits. The longer the bar, the greater
number of search hits.
• Hovering over a bar displays the book name and number of search hits in a tooltip.
• If multiple Bibles are selected, each Bible’s bar will be displayed with different shading or color.
• Column Chart
• Search hit labels are on the left and chapter labels are on the bottom of the chart.
• Vertical bars, for each Bible selected, will be displayed across rows above each chapter. The
shorter the bar, the smaller number of search hits. The taller the bar, the greater number of
search hits.
• Hovering over a bar displays the book name and number of search hits in a tooltip.
• If multiple Bibles are selected, each Bible’s bar will be displayed with different shading or color.
• Pie Chart
• Chapter labels are listed along the right side of the panel and number of search hits are indicated
by the size of the pie slices.
• Pie slices are shaded or colored according to the corresponding chapter.
• Hovering over a bar displays the book name and number of search hits in a tooltip.
• Only one Bible can be selected for this graph.
See also Modify the Graph Data, Bible Search Panel, and Bible Search Options.
Clause Search Options
Narrow or expand your search:
1. To search a different range of passages, click on All Passages and choose from the drop-down list, which
will include user-defined ranges. To define a custom range:
• Click on All Passages and type a range in the New reference range field.
• Type a name for the custom range in the Title field. (Note: If the name matches another custom
range title, a “(2)” will be added to the end of the title.)
• Click the Save button.
2. To change the resource to search, click on the second drop-down and choose from the available list.
3. Click on the Search panel icon to see more options:
• Send searches here: the current search panel becomes the default destination for searches.
• Match case: runs a search that is case-sensitive.
• Match all word forms: includes results for alternative forms of a word.
Change the search results view:
• To change how the results are displayed, click on:
• Verses: displays book, chapter and verse number on the left and complete verse text on the right for
each Bible searched, sorted alphabetically by resource.
• Analysis: provides a spreadsheet-type view of all the data associated with the search results. Choose
the columns to display, and sort or group search hits by any available data type. Click on the Search
panel menu to Export the data to an Excel worksheet. For more details, see Search Analysis.
See also Clause Search Panel, Basic Search Panel, and Bible Search Panel.
Clause Search Panel
Use Clause Search to search in the Bible for a term using a required field.
1. Click on the magnifying glass icon on the main program toolbar to open the Search panel. Skip steps 2
and 3 if the search type at top right of panel is already set to Clause.
2. Click on Clause (this option will be remembered the next time you search).
3. Tab or click into the Find field.
4. Choose and edit a Search Suggestion or type in your own query. Press Enter or first choose the exact
form of the query from the suggested matches displayed as you type. Follow step 5 below to reuse a
previous search.
5. Click the down arrow to the right of the Find box for a list of recent searches by date.
6. Search results will be displayed in the Search panel.
7. Click on a highlighted word or article title to open the resource to the corresponding location.
Clause Search Fields
The following fields can be used in a Clause Search.
Field Name
Meaning
adverbial
an entity in an adverbial clause modifier
adverbial-lemma
a lemma in an adverbial clause modifier
adverbial-surface
an original-language word in an adverbial clause
modifier
indirect-object
an entity acting as an indirect object of the clause
indirect-object-surface
an original-language word in the text indicating
the clause’s indirect object
indirect-object-lemma
a lemma in an indirect object of the clause
location (OT only)
an entity indicating the location of a clause
location-lemma (OT only)
a lemma in a location clause modifier
object
an entity acting as a direct object of the clause
object-surface
an original-language word in the text indicating
the clause’s direct object
object-lemma
a lemma in an direct object of the clause
subject
an entity acting as a subject of the clause
subject-surface
an original-language word in the text indicating
the clause’s subject
subject-lemma
a lemma in the subject of the clause
participant
an entity that is participant of a clause
participant-lemma
a lemma in phrase that indicates a participant of a
clause
person
a person mentioned in the clause
place
a place mentioned in the clause
polarity
whether the clause in normal (positive) or
negated (negative)
related
an entity mentioned in the clause but not falling
into another semantic role
thing
a thing mentioned in the clause
verb
the main verb of the clause
verb-lemma
the lemma of the main verb of the clause
verb-ln
the Louw-Nida semantic domain of the main verb
of the clause (Greek only)
verb-morph
the morphology of the main verb of the clause
(Logos morphology, as in morph search)
verb-gloss
translation-language text main verb of the clause
verb-root
the root form of the original-language text main
verb of the clause
verb-surface
the original-language text main verb of the clause
To narrow or expand a search go to Clause Search Options.
See also Basic Search Panel, Bible Search Panel, Morph Search Panel, and Syntax Search Panel.
Everything Search
Everything Search is a form of Basic Search.
It searches most aspects of Logos, including some online required sections only available through
Everything Search.
Sections included in Everything Search:
1. Prioritized Bible
• This will list passages relevant to your search term from your highest prioritized Bible.
2. Your Documents
• Any hits from your user-created Documents will be listed.
3. Your Books
• Any hits from your user-created Personal Books will be listed.
4. Factbook
• Entities matching your search term that are available in Factbook will be listed.
5. Library Resources
• This section turns your search term into a filter for the Library, providing resource covers, and a link
to open a filtered view of the Library.
• Clicking a resource cover will open the book and highlight search hits within the resource.
6. Media
• This section provides previews of media items in your Library related to your search, and a link to
Media Search for the term.
7. Atlas Results - online required
• Maps from the Atlas database that are relevant will have previews here. Clicking a map opens the
Atlas panel.
8. Community Tags - online required
• This section searches resources you own that have been tagged by other users, and will list any with
tags matching your search criteria.
9. Books.Logos.Com - online required
• This searches the online http://books.logos.com website of Facsimile Resources, which are image
scans of manuscripts that have been tagged to support searching within Logos.
• Facsimile resources can be downloaded from http://books.logos.com and downloaded directly into
Logos and added to your Library.
• Clicking the title of a resource will provide previews of the manuscript with your search term
highlighted, and a link to search for the term on the website.
10.
Library Results
• This section functions much in the same way of an “All Resources” Basic search. Resources will list
the # of hits, and can be expanded/collapsed to display the relevant passages.
Graph Bible Search Results
Use Graph Bible Search Results to graphically show the number of search hits found in a book.
1. Click on the Graph results button on the Bible or Morph Search toolbar.
2. Click on one of the Graph types found at the bottom of the Graph Bible Search Results panel:
To find ways to modify the graph data, go to Graph Bible Search Results Options.
See also Bible Search Options and Morph Search Options.
Graph Bible Search Results Options
Choose a Graph
Modify the Graph Data
Inline Search
Inline Search is a new option in the resource panel, available via the magnifying glass icon on the toolbar
after the Interlinear pane.
It creates a filtered view within a resource based on search terms listed by Verse, Paragraph, or Pericope
for Bibles.
To perform an Inline Search:
1. With a resource open, click the magnifying glass icon on the toolbar, or right click a selection and click
“Search: this resource (inline)” from the context menu.
2. The Inline Search panel will appear below the toolbar.
3. Select either “Basic”, “Bible”, or “Morph” from the left dropdown to choose which type of search to run.
4. Click “All Bible Text” or “All Text” to select particular search fields.
5. For Bibles, click “All Passages” to limit the verse ranges you search.
6. Enter your search terms, and hit Enter/Return to run the search.
7. The resource view will filter to show the text ranges which contain your term, based on whether you
view by Verse, Paragraph, or Pericope.
To send the results of Inline Search to another Document:
1. After running a search, click the Send To button (upwards arrow in a box) and click where you want to
send it. Options are:
• Bibliography Document
• Passage List Document
• Search panel
• Visual Filter Document
• Word List Document
To close Inline Search:
1. Click the “x” button at the right side within the filter box to remove the filter and return to normal
resource viewing with the panel still open.
or:
1. Click the “X” button at the right side of the panel to close the Inline Search panel completely.
Media Search Options
Narrow or expand your search:
• To narrow the search to available media types, click on All Media and choose from the drop-down list.
• To change the resource(s) to search, click on All Resources, enter a resource title or abbreviation in the
Find box, or choose from the drop-down list:
• All Resources
• Your Documents (searches user-created Documents, Guides, and Personal Books)
• All Open Resources
• Specific Open Resource
• User-defined Collections
• System-defined Series
• Click on the Search panel icon to see more options:
• Send searches here: the current search panel becomes the default destination for searches.
• Match case: runs a search that is case-sensitive.
• Match all word forms: includes results for alternative forms of a word.
• Match equivalent references: include or exclude references that are tagged as equivalent, but have
distinct entities
See also Media Search Panel.
Media Search Panel
Use Media Search to search for media (images, audio, video) from your resources, online sources, or Logos
Media services and Books.Logos.com.
1. Click on the magnifying glass icon on the main program toolbar to open the Search panel. Skip steps 2
and 3 if the search type at top right of panel is already set to Media.
2. Click on Media (this option will be remembered the next time you search).
3. Tab or click into the Find field.
4. Choose and edit a Search Suggestion or type in your own query. Press Enter or first choose the exact
form of the word from the suggested matches displayed as you type. Follow step 5 below to reuse a
previous search.
5. Click the down arrow to the right of the Find box for a list of recent searches by date.
6. Search results will be displayed in the Search panel.
7. Hover over an thumbnail for information on the location of the media or click to open.
Sections include:
• Your Books (Personal Books)
• Logos Media Library (Online required, collection of media supplied and curated by Logos)
• Online Results (Online required, web search not curated by Logos)
• Atlas Results (Online required, maps provided from the Atlas service, some data may be cached)
• Library Results (Media from your owned resources, similar to old Image Search)
To narrow or expand a search go to Image Search Options.
See also Basic Search Panel, Bible Search Panel, Clause Search Panel, Morph Search Panel, Syntax Search Panel, and
Visual Filter Document.
Modify the Graph Data
The graph options are displayed across the top of the Graph Bible Search Results panel, above each graph.
Below are options available for each graph type:
I. Result Map
• Choose one or all of the searched Bibles from the Bible drop-down list.
• Zoom in or out by scrolling up or down with mouse scroll button.
• Click on Export to Excel on Graph toolbar to export the statistical data to an Excel spreadsheet.
II. Bar Chart
• Choose one or all of the searched Bibles from the Bible drop-down list.
• Choose the statistical category by clicking on Number of Hits drop-down list.
• Click on Show zero items to display books with no search hits (can be toggled on and off).
• Choose Gray Scale or Colored to change the style of the graph.
• Click on Export to Excel on Graph toolbar to export the statistical data to an Excel spreadsheet.
III. Column Chart
• Choose one or all of the searched Bibles from the Bible drop-down list.
• Choose the statistical category by clicking on Number of Hits drop-down list.
• Click on Show zero items to display books with no search hits (can be toggled on and off).
• Choose Gray Scale or Colored to change the style of the graph.
• Click on Export to Excel on Graph toolbar to export the statistical data to an Excel spreadsheet.
IV. Pie Chart
• Choose one of the searched Bibles from the Bible drop-down list.
• Choose Gray Scale or Colored to change the style of the graph.
• Click on Export to Excel on Graph toolbar to export the statistical data to an Excel spreadsheet.
See also Choose a Graph, Bible Search Panel, and Bible Search Options.
Morph Search Options
Narrow or expand your search:
1. To narrow the search to available search fields and/or available pre-defined or custom Highlighting
palettes or styles (depending on the resources being searched), click on All Morph Text and choose from
the drop-down list.
2. To search a different range of passages, click on All Passages and choose from the drop-down list, which
will include user-defined ranges. To define a custom range:
• Click on All Passages and type a range in the New reference range field.
• Type a name for the custom range in the Title field. (Note: If the name matches another custom
range title, a “(2)” will be added to the end of the title.)
• Click the Save button.
3. To search a specific morphologically-tagged resource or group of resources, click on All Resources, enter
a resource title or abbreviation in the Find box, or choose from the drop-down list:
• Open resource
• User-defined Collections
• System-defined Series
• Specific resource
4. To specify the morphology to use, click on the current morphology and choose another from the dropdown list. (Note: Choosing All resources searches all resources that have the specified morphology.)
5. Click on the Search panel icon to see more options:
• Send searches here: the current search panel becomes the default destination for searches.
• Match case: runs a search that is case-sensitive.
• Match all word forms: includes results for alternative forms of a word.
• Save as Passage List: creates a Passage List document with passages added from the search results.
• Save as Word List: creates a Word List document with words added from the search results.
Change the search results view:
1. To change how the results are displayed, click on:
• Verses: displays book, chapter and verse number on the left and complete verse text on the right for
each resource searched, sorted alphabetically by resource.
• Aligned: aligns the search term within each verse result, sorted alphabetically by resource.
• Analysis: provides a spreadsheet-type view of all the data associated with the search results. Choose
the columns to display, and sort or group search hits by any available data type. Click on the Search
panel menu to Export the data to an Excel worksheet. For more details, see Search Analysis.
2. To graph the results, when all searched resources are Bibles, click on Graph results on the Search
toolbar.
Create a new Visual Filter document from a search:
• Click on the Make Filter button to open a new Untitled Visual Filter document containing the search
term.
See also Morph Search Panel, Graph Bible Search Results, and Graph Bible Search Results Options.
Morph Search Panel
Use Morph Search to search a Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic morphologically-tagged resource by the
grammatical features of the word.
1. Click on the magnifying glass icon at the top left side of the program to open the Search panel. Skip
steps 2 and 3 if the search type is already set to Morph at the top right of panel.
2. Click on Morph (this option will be remembered the next time you search).
3. Tab or click into the Find field.
4. Choose a morphologically-tagged Bible or non-Bible, or choose All Resources and a specific Morphology.
5. Choose and edit a Search Suggestion, type your own query, or copy and paste a query and choose the
exact form of the word from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
6. Type an @ sign after the word and choose a Part of Speech.
7. Specify grammatical inflection(s) based on the Part of Speech and the Morphology selected.
8. Click the Go button in the lower-right corner of the popup to close it, then press Enter to begin search.
Follow step 9 below to reuse a previous search.
9. Click the down arrow to the right of the Find box for a list of recent searches by date.
10.
Search results will be displayed in the Search panel.
11.
Click on a highlighted verse or word to open the resource to the corresponding location.
To narrow or expand a Morph search go to Morph Search Options.
See also Basic Search Panel, Bible Search Panel, Clause Search Panel, Syntax Search Panel, and Visual Filter Document.
Search Analysis
The Analysis view, available in Bible, Clause and Morph searches, displays the search results in a data grid
that can be manipulated in various ways to analyze the data.
• To choose the columns to be displayed, right-click on any of the column headings, and select/deselect a
heading.
• To change the order of the columns, drag a column heading and drop it in another location.
• To sort by a particular column, click the column heading. An ‘up’ triangle will appear to indicate that the
data is being sorted in ‘ascending’ order by that column. (The column width may need to be expanded
to see the ‘sort by’ triangle.) Click a second time to sort in ‘descending’ order (‘down’ triangle).
• To sort by multiple columns, click the first column to sort, then hold down SHIFT and click additional
columns to add secondary sorting.
• To group by a column, on Mac press the Option key and drag it to the “Option + Click a column header
and drag here to group by it”. On Windows, just drag it to the “Drag a column header here to group by
that column” area. For instance, if you drag the Lemma column to that area, the results will be grouped
by Lemma, in order of the number of occurrences.
• To group by multiple columns, drag columns in succession to the top area. Columns in this area can be
reordered using drag and drop.
• To remove a column from grouping, click on its column header and drag it out of the above area.
• To expand or collapse a section, click on its section bar. Right-click on the bar to see additional options,
including “Summary view” which displays the grouping hierarchy and hides the results.
See also Bible Search Options and Morph Search Options.
Search Suggestion
The Basic Search Panel, Bible Search Panel, Clause Search Panel, and Morph Search Panel all provide search
suggestions formatting for that particular search type.
1. Select your preferred search type in the upper right of the panel.
2. Click on a search suggestion below the query box.
3. Press enter to run the search as-is or first edit any or all of the search query parameters to customize
your search. Multiple search suggestions can be added to the query.
See also Basic Search Panel, Bible Search Panel, Clause Search Panel, and Morph Search Panel
Syntax Search Panel
Use Syntax Search to search Greek and Hebrew resources based on their grammatical structure.
1. Click on the Search icon on main toolbar.
2. Click on Syntax on the top right side of the panel.
3. Click on All Passages to choose a different range to search, if desired.
4. Click on the current ‘Search in’ resource to choose another Greek or Hebrew text, if desired.
5. Click on Query to display a list of pre-packaged templates and previously-used queries, or click on the
New Syntax Search link in the bottom left of the drop-down pane to create a new template.
6. If you choose a pre-packaged template, you will need to enter the part of speech requested in the
corresponding boxes and click Go.
7. If you choose a previously-used query, the search will run automatically.
8. If you click on New Syntax Search, an Untitled Syntax Search document will open in a floating window,
ready for you to add your search terms and specifics.
9. Choose Save as Passage List from the panel menu to create a Passage List document with passages
added from the search results.
10.
Choose Save as Word List from panel menu to create a Word List document with words added
from the search results.
See also Basic Search Panel, Bible Search Panel, Clause Search Panel and Morph Search Panel.
Ask the Author
Ask the Author provides a way for Logos users to pose questions to the author of their resources directly. It
functions similarly to Community Notes, but connects directly to participating authors’ Faithlife pages.
This requires an internet connection.
To ask a question of an author:
1. Click Tools | Ask the Author.
2. Open the resource you wish to speak to the author on.
3. If the author is participating in the Ask the Author service, the panel will load a box with their
information.
• The active reference for the question will be in the top left of the panel.
• The author’s name will be listed, hyperlinked to their official author page on Faithlife.
• The name of the resource will be listed, followed by the number of questions already asked.
4. Click the Ask Question link in the top right of the panel.
5. A text box will appear below the author box, where you can type your question.
• The message “Everyone can see this” is shown, as a reminder that all questions are published
publicly.
6. After typing your question, click the large blue Post button to submit, or click “Cancel” to discard your
question.
7. A notification will be sent to the author, and you will receive a notification when they reply.
To view questions for a particular resource:
1. In a resource, click the Visual Filters icon in the toolbar.
2. Ensure the box next to Resource is checked, and check the box next to Ask the Author.
3. Any questions asked in that resource will now have an icon next to the text range, which looks like a
speech bubble with a ? in it.
• You can right-click the Ask the Author visual filter in the dropdown and click “Show in all appropriate
resources” to always show the icon.
Atlas
The Atlas tool provides access to an interactive map database that is updated and maintained by Faithlife.
Maps can be searched via Everything Search, and provide links to important People and Places information
via Factbook.
This requires an internet connection.
The Atlas window consists of:
• A map. Maps selected from the left panel will replace the map in the rest of the window.
• Fit and Full Screen buttons and zoom control. Available zoom options will vary by map.
• A map style dropdown chooser (Flat, Terrain).
• A toggle-able side panel with a search box. When no search is active it lists every map available.
• Map scale overlay, which dynamically chooses the best scale.
• CTRL+drag with the mouse to measure distances.
The search bar has the standard Logos 6 entry helper with the addition of a section for hits on map titles.
Users can search a text string, BK Person, Place, Thing/Artifact, or Event, passages or map titles.
Searching (or clicking hotspots) changes the results in the side panel but does not navigate away from an
open map.
The left column shows:
1. A definition block for the entity if the search term is a Biblical entity (Person, Place, etc.).
2. A passage link to preferred Bible if the search term is a passage.
3. A list of matching maps, with the currently loaded map selected.
4. The Logos Media pane, which will list up to 3 relevant media results.
Hovering on a map hotspot shows a rich preview with information about that location. Clicking the hotspot
runs a search for that place in the left panel, which filters the map list.
Bible Sense Lexicon
The Bible Sense Lexicon lets you explore the meaning of words, and how those words are used in original
language contexts.
To view data for a word sense:
1. Click on Tools | Bible Sense Lexicon; it will open in a new window.
2. Enter a sense label in the navigation box and press Enter, or first choose from the suggested matches
displayed as you type.
3. Click on another sense label in the Relationships section to navigate the Bible Sense Lexicon to that
sense, or enter another sense label in the navigation box.
The sections of the Bible Sense Lexicon include:Left panel:
1. The sense label, part of speech, and a definition
2. A graph showing the frequency of the sense’s usage throughout the Bible, organized by book. The # of
occurrences is to the left of the graph.
3. The Lemmas section lists the original language words associated with your currently viewed sense,
ordered by frequency. Clicking a lemma will open a Bible Word Study for that lemma.
• Hovering over a verse reference will display the full verse in a tooltip.
4. The Relationships section categorizes how the current sense relates to other senses. The + icon indicates
that sense connects to more specific senses. Non-Biblical senses are italicized.
• Type of denotes the top-down hierarchical relationship for the current sense, e.g. “person” is a type
of “living thing”
• Derived/Derived from lists senses that are derived from similar senses, such as one sense causing
another, e.g. “to destroy (damage)” is derived from “to be destroyed”
• Similar to lists adjective senses that are semantically similar, e.g. “dark” is similar to “gloomy”
• Pertains to connects semantically similar senses regardless of part of speech, e.g. “sacrifice” pertains
to “sacrificial”
• Antonyms list senses that have the opposite meaning of the current sense, e.g. “heavy (weight)” is
an antonym of “light”
5. The See Also section contains links to related Bible Facts, Topic Guide, and Louw-Nida numbers. Clicking
the Louw-Nida link will open to that number (or range).
Right panel:
The Visualization pane illustrates the Type of hierarchy from the Relationships section.
• Click a “filled in” circle to expand or collapse the list of more specific senses.
• The word in bold is your currently viewed sense, which will be expanded by default.
• Click Actual Size next to the navigation box to zoom in (click and drag to pan the image around), or Fit to
scale the visualization to your panel size.
See also Senses in Bible Word Study and the Word-by-Word section of Exegetical Guide.
Bookmarks
Bookmark an article, passage, search result, document, guide or tool so you can come back to it later.
1. Click on Tools | Favorites.
2. In the lower third of the Favorites panel are a set of nine bookmark placeholders. (If you do not see #19, and the double arrows next to Bookmarks are pointing to the right, click to expand that section.)
3. Click on an available Bookmark to set the active resource at its current location. You can also drag the
resource tab down to an available bookmark number or press the corresponding shortcut keys to set it.
4. Click on an assigned bookmark to open the resource, document, etc. to the saved location. You can also
use the shortcut keys to open it.
5. To remove a bookmark, right-click on it and choose Clear, or click on the X next to it.
Cited By
Use the Cited By tool to find the places in your library where the current passage is referenced.
1. Click on Tools | Cited By.
2. Type a passage in the reference box and press Enter.
3. Click on a link to open a resource with the reference to your passage.
Panel menu options specific to Cited By:
1. Expanded view or Compact view: Expand or collapse sections.
2. Sort results by search rank or Sort results by book: Sort hits in order of relevance or alphabetically by
book name.
3. Show Collections: Choose to display all or some of the listed collections (drag to change order in
results):
• All Open Resources
• Pre-defined Series
• User-defined Collections
• Entire Library
Note: Using Cited By to find references to a specific Bible passage, such as John 3:16, is equivalent to
entering <bible = John 3:16> in the Basic Search panel or the Command Box.
Cluster Graph
Creates a graphical representation of the differences between multiple Bible versions, based on word
variance.
1. Click on Tools | Passage Analysis and click on Cluster Graph at the bottom of the window.
2. Click into the Resources box to choose the Bibles to compare. (Tip: You can also type version
abbreviations with a comma between each. For example: ESV, NIV, NASB95.)
3. Type a passage or pericope in the Reference box and press Enter, or first choose a pericope and passage
from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
4. Choose the 2D or 3D display. (Windows Only)
• With 2D, the chart shows only how close or far apart the selected Bible versions are to each other
based on word usage. Bibles that use similar wording will be clustered closely together; Bibles that
use different wording will be spaced farther apart.
• With 3D, the results are interactive. Click and drag the graph to change the orientation.
5. Clicking on a Bible label or dot in the graph will open Text Comparison with that Bible listed first.
6. To print or export the graph, click on the panel icon and choose Print/Export from the menu.
Note: The graph generated by this report is also displayed in the Compare Versions section of the Passage
Guide.
Collections
Use Collections to group resources of a similar subject or purpose.
Create a new collection:
1. Click on Tools | Collections.
2. The tool opens to a new Unnamed Collection. If an existing collection is open, click on New.
3. Type a unique name for the collection, replacing “Unnamed Collection.” (Note: If the name matches
another collection title, a “(2)” will be added to the end of the title.)
4. Check the Show in parallel resources box to make the collection available in Parallel resource sets.
5. Click into the Rule field and enter book title(s) or subject(s).
• Examples: kjv, esv, niv; or child, teen, parenting
• Tag resources in Library and use mytag:tagname to narrow the list of books by that tag.
• Other examples: type:dictionary, title:lexicon, subject:archaeology. (For more examples, see Library
Filter Fields.)
• Full query syntax is supported, such as: AND, OR, and ANDNOT. Example: type:dictionary ANDNOT
title:lexicon.
• As the rule is typed, results will appear in the lower part of the Collections panel under = Resulting
Collection. If the resulting collection is acceptable, the process is complete. If there are missing or
unwanted resources, follow steps 6 and 7.
• When new books are added to the Library, those matching the criteria of a particular collection will
be automatically added to that collection.
6. To remove an unwanted resource from the collection, click and drag it up to the - Minus these resources
section.
7. To add a missing resource, open Library and drag and drop the desired resource to the + Plus these
resources section.
Modify a collection:
1. Click on Open and choose a collection to modify.
• Add or remove items from the Rule field;
• More resources can be dragged from Library to the Plus section; or
• A resource in the Minus section can be removed, which will place it back in the Resulting Collection.
Print or export the Collections content:
1. Click on the Collections panel menu.
2. Choose Print/Export.
3. Click on Print, Copy to clipboard, or save as Rich Text Format (Word, etc.), Text Document, Web Page
(HTML), XPS Document (Windows), or PDF Document (Mac)..
Print or export the Collection citations to a bibliography:
1. Click on the Collections panel menu.
2. Choose Print/Export.
3. Check the “Bibliography only” box.
4. Choose a Citation style from the drop-down list, or leave the default style.
5. Click on Print, Copy to clipboard, or save as Rich Text Format (Word, etc.), Text Document, Web Page
(HTML), XPS Document (Windows), or PDF Document (Mac). Citations can also be saved in BibTeX,
Refer/BiblX, or RIS citation formats.
Delete a Collection:
1. Click on Open.
2. Right-click on the collection title.
3. Choose Delete from the context menu.
See also Basic Search Options and Bible Search Options.
Compare Pericopes
Graphically displays pericope boundaries for multiple Bible versions.
1. Click on Tools | Passage Analysis and click on Compare Pericopes at the bottom of the window.
2. Click on Pericope Sets at the top, next to Reference box to drop down a list of available pericope sets
based on the Bible versions in your library.
3. Select the sets you want to compare.
4. Type a passage or pericope in the Reference box and press Enter, or first choose a pericope and passage
from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
5. Hover over or click on the pericope title to see the passage in an appropriate Bible.
Each pericope set heading has a column of pericope titles below it, aligned with the verse numbers on the
left to show the extent of each pericope.
Copy Bible Verses
Use the Copy Bible Verses (CBV) tool to copy Bible text from any Bible version in your Logos library, in a
variety of styles, to paste in a word processing or other document.
1. Click on Tools | Copy Bible Verses.
2. Type a passage or pericope in the Reference box and press Enter, or first choose a pericope and passage
from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
3. Choose a style from the style drop-down list. (Fully Formatted is the default.)
4. Choose a Bible version from the version drop-down list.
5. Choose a word processing or other program from the program drop-down list.
6. Click the Copy and Paste button, if available, to copy the text and paste it automatically into the
document.
7. If Copy and Paste is grayed out, click on Copy to copy the text, then click into the open document in the
other program, and click on its Edit | Paste menu to paste the text.
• Mac Tips: Two system level Services menu items are available:
• Copy Bible Verses (Shift-Cmd-J): opens CBV in a floating window from applications that interact with
the Services menu (e.g., Pages, TextEdit, Chrome, etc.).
• Expand Bible Reference (Shift-Cmd-E): replaces a reference typed into one of these applications with
the text of the passage. Select the reference first, and then press Shift-Cmd-E or choose from Services
menu.
• To display the menu items on the Services menu and enable the keyboard shortcuts, click on any
application’s main menu and choose Services. Click on Services Preferences, click on Keyboard
Shortcuts at the top of the Keyboard dialog, select Services on the left, and select the two services
under the Text heading.
• Keyboard shortcut Opt-Cmd-B opens CBV in a floating window from the Logos main screen.
• Windows Tips: Press the Global shortcut key combination (Ctrl+Alt+B) to open Copy Bible Verses into a
floating window from any Windows application (if Logos is running). To change the keyboard shortcut,
click on the CBV icon in the upper-left corner of the panel to view the panel menu. Click on the dropdown list to the right of Global shortcut and choose one of the other keyboard shortcut options, or
choose None.
See also Copy Bible Verses Styles and Copy Bible Verses Syntax.
Copy Bible Verses Styles
Choose one of the built-in styles or create your own!
1. Open the Copy Bible Verses tool.
2. Click on the style drop-down arrow to open the gallery of styles.
3. Choose the built-in style that best fits how you want the verse to appear in your document.
• A preview of each style is displayed to help you with your choice.
• If you want a style that will bring over footnotes and citations with the text, choose Fully Formatted
with Footnotes.
• If none of the built-in styles works for you, you can create a new style.
Create a new style:
1. Choose the built-in style that is closest to the style you want.
2. Click on the panel icon and choose Edit Style: [style name]. This will open a copy of that style template.
The style name will have a “(2)” after it. You can keep that name or type a unique name for your style.
3. You can also click on Create a new style on the panel menu, or at the lower-left corner of the style
gallery.
4. Below the style name are the formatting codes, flags, and replacement tokens that represent the
different style components. To learn how to use these to create a new style, go to Copy Bible Verses
Syntax help.
Copy Bible Verses Syntax
Global Formatting Flags: (these flags will come first in your style template)
%NoCharFormatting
remove character formatting, i.e., bold, italic, etc.
%NoParFormatting
remove paragraph formatting, i.e., poetry line breaks
%NoRedLetter
words of Christ will be in black text
%NoFootnotes
footnotes will not be copied
%NoCitation
bibliographic citations will not be copied
%UseBibleParagraphs
paragraphs will be copied as they appear in the Bible
%CopyAllText
all text will be copied, inc. cross-reference footnotes, verse numbers, etc.
%HeaderStyle=MyWordStyle
header will use the specified Word style
%ForEachVerseStyle=MyWordStyle
verse(s) will use the specified Word style
%FooterStyle=MyWordStyle
footer will use the specified Word style
%FootnoteStyle=MyWordStyle
all footnotes, including citations, will use the specified Word style
%CitationStyle=MyWordStyle
citation footnotes, only, will use the specified Word style
Replacement tokens:
[FullPassageRef]
e.g., John 3:16-18
[ShortPassageRef]
e.g., Jn 3:16-18
[FullBookName]
e.g., John
[ShortBookName]
e.g., Jn
[ChapterNum]
e.g., 3
[VerseNum] **
e.g., 16
[VerseNumInContext] **
e.g., no number (first verse), 16, or 4:1 (if passage
spans chapters)
[FullVerseRef] **
e.g., John 3:16
[ShortVerseRef] **
e.g., Jn 3:16
[Version]
e.g., ESV
[VerseText] **
e.g., For God so loved ...
** Not supported in headers or footers
Formatting codes: (HTML tags)
<p>...</p>
paragraph
<tab>
tab
<b>...</b>
bold
<i>...</i>
italic
<u>...</u>
underline
<sub>...</sub>
subscript
<sup>...</sup>
superscript
See also Copy Bible Verses and Copy Bible Verses Styles.
Explorer
Explorer retrieves a variety of interesting data on the current Bible passage.
1. Click on Tools | Explorer.
2. Type a passage or pericope in the Reference box and press Enter, or first choose a pericope and passage
from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
3. Click on a People, Places & Things link to open Factbook.
4. Click on a Media link to open the items mentioned in step 3 above, or an image from 1000 Bible Images
or similar resource, or a map from the Logos Deluxe Map Set.
5. Click on a My Content link to open a document you previously created, or a custom guide.
6. Click on a Cross Reference link to open your preferred Bible to a related passage.
7. Click on a Commentaries link to open a commentary to the passage.
Factbook
The Factbook is a new tool that replaces the Logos 5 Bible Facts section. It incorporates data on:
• Biblical People (Jesus, Moses)
• Non-Biblical People (John Wesley, Martin Luther King Jr.)
• Places (Jerusalem, Bethlehem)
• Things (Solomon’s Temple, Ark)
• Events (Jesus feeds the 4000, Jesus dies on the cross)
• Cultural Concepts (Accounting)
• Themes (Jesus: Death, Jealousy)
• Topics (Marriage, Death)
• Books of the Bible (Book of Revelation, Book of Genesis)
Factbook result sections vary by the type of entry searched.
Favorites
Save a favorite article, passage, search result, person, place, or thing, document, etc. so you can find them
again easily.
1. Click on Tools | Favorites.
2. With a resource, guide, or other panel open to a favorite spot, click the Add button on the Favorites
toolbar. Or, drag the resource or other tab into the Favorites panel to add it.
3. To organize favorites by resource, subject, etc., click on the New Folder button, then drag and drop a
favorite onto the folder name to file it there.
4. External links, such as documents and program shortcuts can also be dragged to the Favorites panel.
See also Bookmarks.
For information on importing Favorites from Libronix DLS 3, see Importing Libronix DLS Documents.
Groups Tool
The Groups Tool provides access to all of your Faithlife groups, shared Documents, Community Notes, and
discussions from within Logos.
This requires an internet connection.
To view activity from your Faithlife groups:
1. Click Tools | Groups Tool
2. A side panel will load, and will automatically load one of your groups.
To switch between multiple groups:
1. Click the “Groups” dropdown in the top left of the panel.
2. You can open a web browser to the group page on the full Faithlife site via a hyperlink just below the
“Groups” dropdown.
To switch views between News, Community Notes, and shared Documents:
1. Click the dropdown below the Faithlife group hyperlink, which reads “News” by default.
2. Select “News” to view recent posts from other members of the group.
3. Select “Community Notes” to see comments group members have made to share within resources.
• Click the “By Book” dropdown to switch between sorting notes by Book, or by Recent.
4. Select “Documents” to view documents that have been shared by members of the group.
To add a post to a group’s page:
1. Click the pencil icon in the top right of the panel.
2. This switches your view to “News”, and opens a text box in which you can type your message. The name
of the group you will post to is in the bottom left below the text box.
3. Click the “Post” link to submit your post, or “Cancel” to discard.
Highlighting
Highlight text in a resource in the same way you might use a highlighter pen or colored pencil to mark up
printed material. You can also apply Labels to highlighting styles to tag your highlighted text ranges with
additional data, such as specifying that a Speaker of a particular section was Paul.
Note: To enable user tracking and organization of highlights, when highlighting is applied to text, a note
will be added to the Notes document that corresponds to the applied style’s palette (or other specified
Notes document).
I. Add Highlighting
• Click on Tools | Highlighting to view the list of available highlighting styles.
• Select text in a resource and click on a style in the Highlighting panel to apply it.
Tip: If a favorite highlighter has been selected previously, the Highlighting panel doesn’t have to be opened
every time. You can use Cmd-K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows) to apply the highlight to selected text.
II. Create and Modify Highlighting Palettes and Styles
1. Click on Tools | Highlighting and click on New palette at the top left of the panel.
2. Type a name for the new palette in the text box, replacing ‘Untitled’, and press Enter.
3. To duplicate an existing system or custom palette, click the button next to the palette (or right-click)
and choose Duplicate from the menu.
4. To change the default Notes document in which highlighting notes are saved for a specific palette, click
button to open menu, and then click on the current ‘Save in’ option (default is “Palette specific note
file”), and choose one of the other note file options.
5. To add a style to the custom palette, click the button next to it and choose Add a new style.
6. Type a name for the new style in the text box at the top of the style editor, replacing ‘Untitled’, and
press Tab to go to style options.
7. Click on a highlighting type (e.g., ‘Font Styling’) to expand it and make selections.
• A preview of the style will appear at the top of the panel as you add or remove options.
• There may be additional options or text to enter for a particular type.
• For the Borders & Lines type, after selecting a line style from the ‘No border’ drop-down list, click on
the gray lines around and in the text example to set which lines to display.
• For the Image type, click to choose an available image or choose an image file on the computer.
8. Click Save at the top right side of the panel to save the new style; or click Back to return to the palette
list without applying changes.
9. To modify a custom style, click the button next to it and choose Edit.
10.
To duplicate a custom style, click the button next to it and choose Duplicate.
11.
To rename or delete a custom style or palette, click the button next to it and choose the
appropriate option.
12.
To add a shortcut key to a system or custom style, click the button next it, click on the Shortcut
key: drop-down arrow, and choose from the available letters.
13.
To change the highlighting style for all text where it is currently applied to another style, click the
button next to that style and choose Restyle annotations from the menu. A list of available styles will
appear from which to choose, in addition to ‘No highlight’. The number of current annotations for the
style will be displayed at the top of this pop-up window. (Note: The corresponding notes will not be
moved or changed, even if ‘No highlight’ is selected.)
II. Add or Edit Labels
Labels can be used to supply additional data for highlighting. As an example, setting a highlight to
designate quotations as having been spoken from a particular speaker, such as Paul.
1. Click on Tools | Highlighting
2. Add a new palette via “New palette” or edit an existing one
3. Right-click the palette and select “Add a new style” or right-click a style and select “Edit”
4. In the Edit menu, at the bottom, expand the selection titled “Labeling”
5. Check the box “This style implies a label”, and enter a name for your label, such as “Dialogue”
6. To add relevant attributes at the time of highlighting, check the box “Prompt to enter attributes”
7. To have pre-set attributes, leave the above box unchecked, and click the “Add attributes” link at the
bottom.
8. Enter a name for your attribute, such as “Speaker”
9. Select a type for the attribute value from the list, such as “Biblical Person”.
10.
Enter a value for the attribute. Type “Paul” into the box, and an autocomplete dropdown will
appear listing entries matching your input. Click “Paul”.
11.
After applying the highlight to a text range, you can hover or right-click on it, and the context
menu will list your applied label and the information you set in the Label Entry section.
IV. Remove Highlighting
1. Click on Tools | Highlighting.
2. Select highlighted text in a resource and click on Erase at the top right side of the Highlighting panel. If
all of the highlighted text range associated with a note is selected and erased, the associated note will
also be removed if there is no content entered. Note items with content will be set to ‘No highlight’. If
only a portion of the text range is erased, the note will remain and the note reference range and the
title will be revised accordingly.
• For example: if highlighting is applied to the text of John 1:1-13, a note is added with the reference
range “John 1:1-13” and the title “1 In...but of God.” If the highlighting for verses 6-8 is later erased,
a second note will be added with the reference range “John 1:8-13” and the title “...but of God.” The
original note will be changed to “John 1:1-5” with the title “In...not comprehend it.” Content that
was entered in the original note will remain in that note.
3. To remove both the highlighting and the note associated with it, right-click in the selected text in the
resource panel and choose Remove annotations. This will remove all the annotations made to the
selected text range.
Tip: Use Shift-Cmd-K (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+K (Win) to erase the highlight from selected text.
For information on importing Highlighting (Visual Markups) from Libronix DLS 3, see Importing Libronix DLS
Documents.
History
Go to History to see and revisit the places you’ve been in the software.
1. Click on Tools | History.
2. Click on an entry in the history list to open an article, passage, search results, document, guide or tool
you’ve had open recently.
3. Right-click on an entry and choose Open to open in a docked panel, or choose Open in a floating
window.
4. Click Clear to empty the contents and begin a fresh history.
Information
Use the Information tool to display extra information about any word you hover your mouse over.
1. Click on Tools | Information. The Information panel will open on the right.
2. In any open resource, hover over a word or data type reference link. An entry from a dictionary, lexicon
or encyclopedia may come up in Information, as well as text of references and footnotes, speaker labels,
and palette/style names of applied highlighting.
3. You can also bring up the Information panel by right-clicking on a word or reference and choosing Show
Information from the context menu.
4. Moving the mouse cursor over another word in the text will bring up information on the new word. To
move the cursor without changing the content, hold the Cmd key down (Mac) or Ctrl key down (Win).
5. Click a link in the Information panel to open the resource to the referenced location.
6. Click on Copy to copy the content of the panel to the Windows clipboard for pasting into a note or a
document. You can also click on one entry to select it and copy that entry only.
Information Settings
• Update information on:
• hover: updates information automatically when mouse hovers over a word for a few seconds
(default);
• click: updates information only when word is clicked.
• Change settings for
• Definition
• Footnotes
• Supplemental Data
• Gloss
• Lemma (Greek)
• Lemma (Hebrew)
• Lemma (Aramaic)
• Lemma (Latin)
• Morphology
• Strong’s Numbers
• Other References
• Highlighting
• Translations
Print or export the Information panel content:
1. Click on the Information panel menu.
2. Choose Print/Export.
3. Click on Print, Copy to clipboard, or save as Rich Text Format (Word, etc.), Text Document, Web Page
(HTML), or XPS Document.
Morph River
Creates a graphical representation of the grammatical attributes in a Greek or Hebrew morphologicallytagged text.
1. Click on Tools | Passage Analysis and click on Morph River at the bottom of the window.
2. Type a passage or pericope in the Reference box and press Enter, or first choose a pericope and passage
from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
3. Click on the Version drop-down list to pick the Bible version that will be used to prepare the report. This
list includes all Bibles with morphological information.
4. Click on the part of speech drop-down to make a selection.
5. Click on the attribute drop-down to select one or more attributes.
6. Hover the mouse cursor over a vertical bar to display the text of the verse.
7. Click on a vertical bar to open the selected resource to that verse.
8. Right-click on the graph for Copy, Save as, Send to PowerPoint, or Print options, or click on Print/Export
on the panel menu.
The “river” running from left to right, divided by passage units, displays the selected grammatical
attributes by color and in a size that reflects the number of times they are used in the passage. The color
key is displayed below the graph along with the percentage each attribute is used in the passage.
Passage Analysis
Use the Passage Analysis tool to display a variety of graphical analyses of one or more Bible versions.
1. Click on Tools | Passage Analysis; it will open into a new window.
2. Enter a passage.
3. Choose one of the analysis tools at the bottom of the panel.
For help on each of the analysis tools, go to Passage Analysis Options.
Passage Analysis Options
Compare Pericopes
Word Tree
Morph River
Cluster Graph
Version River
Personal Books
Compile personal or public domain works into Logos resources.
Creating a personal book in Logos is a two-step process. The first step is to compose the document in Word
and save it as a .docx file. The second step is to build the resource from that file using the Personal Books
tool in Logos.
IMPORTANT: The docx source files need to be preserved in order to make any future revisions, following
the same two-step process.
I. Compose the source document.
1. Create the Word document(s) that you will use to build your Logos resource. (See Personal Books Syntax
if you want to add hyperlinks, milestones, headwords, etc. to your book.)
2. Save the document(s) to your hard drive in Office Open XML Format (.docx).
II. Add the .docx file(s) and build the Personal Book.
1. In Logos, click on the Tools menu and choose Personal Books.
2. Click on Add book on the panel toolbar. An Edit dialog will open to enter the Library Information (or
metadata) for the book and to add the files that will make up the body of the book.
3. Type a name for the book in the Title box in section “1. Fill in Library Information” (required).
4. Tab to or click in the Author box and type the author’s name (optional).
5. Tab to or click in the Copyright box and type copyright information (optional).
6. Click on “Monograph” to change the Type associated with the book.
7. Click on “English” to change the Language.
8. Click on “Add field” to add the following metadata for the book (optional):
• Abbreviated Title (more than one can be added)
• Publisher and Publication Date
• Subject Heading (more than one can be added)
• Alternate Title (more than one can be added)
• Series Title
9. Type the appropriate information for each added field.
10.
To delete an added field, hover over a field heading, such as ‘Series Title’, and click on the red
Delete (X) icon which will appear on the right.
11.
Click on “Change...” below the book cover image to add a book cover (optional).
1. In the “Open” dialog browse to and select an image file (.jpg or .png) and click Open.
12.
Click in the Description box and type a brief description of the book (optional).
13.
Click on the “Add file...” button in section “2. Add Body Files” to add the Word document(s).
1. In the “Open” dialog browse to and select the .docx file(s) which will make up the book, and click
Open. Each of the added files will be listed in this section.
2. Files can be reordered by dragging and dropping one file above or below another file. This will
change the location of the file’s contents in the book.
3. To delete a file, right-click on it and choose “Delete.”
14.
Click on the “Build book” button in section “3. Create Logos Resource File” to compile the
documents into a Logos resource.
1. The Edit dialog will close and a progress bar will appear showing the steps in the process (which may
go by too quickly to see): Starting to build book, Converting, Compiling, and Discovering. To stop this
process, click on the “Stop” button.
2. The source document(s) can remain open during the build process.
3. When complete, if there were no errors during compilation, it will indicate “Build successful” and the
personal book will open. If there were errors, the book will not open, and it may indicate that the
“Build failed. Error compiling resource.”
15.
Click the “Finished” button in the Personal Books panel.
TIP: Books are listed alphabetically in the Personal Books tool panel. To filter the list for a particular book,
press Cmd+F in Mac or Ctrl+F in Windows to open the Find box and begin typing the first few letters of the
title.
III. Recompile a Personal Book.
• If the location of the source document has not changed since the book was first compiled, after revising
the document, saving it, and/or changing any of the Library information, click on “Build book” to
recompile the book.
• If the source document has been moved to a different location on the hard drive, the existing body file
must be deleted and added again from the new location prior to recompiling.
IV. Delete a Personal Book.
1. To remove a book from the Personal Book list and from the Library, right-click on a book that is
collapsed, or in non-edit mode, in the Personal Book tool.
1. To close a book that is in Edit mode, click on the “X” in the top right corner of the “1. Fill in Library
Information” section.
2. Choose Delete from the context menu.
See also Personal Books Syntax.
Personal Books Syntax
Logos Supported Syntax
The following syntax options can be inserted into the source document to perform the described functions
in the compiled personal book.
HEADINGS – create headings to organize content and to populate the Table of Contents pane in the book
Word Heading Styles (i.e., Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.)
Heading 1 would become a main article in the book; Heading 2 would become a subsection of that
article, and so on. The TOC in the personal book will look similar to the Outline view of the source
document.
HYPERLINKS – create hyperlinks to jump to other locations in the personal book or other resources or
panels
Word hyperlinks
Select text to be hyperlinked and press [Cmd+K] in Word for Mac or [Ctrl+K] in Word for Windows to
insert hyperlink.
[[scheme:reference]]
Example: [[http://www.logos.com/support]] or [[GreekStrongs:g3056]]
[[surface text >> scheme:reference]]
Example: [[Logos Bible Software >> http://www.logos.com]]
[[surface text >> position]]
Example: [[Quotations >> logosres:mwdictquo;ref=Page.p_349;off=167]]
BIBLE HYPERLINKS – create hyperlinks to jump to passages in preferred Bible
Bible reference
Example: John 1:1
[[reference]]
Example: [[John 1:1]]
[[surface text >> reference]]
Example: [[Gospel of John >> John 1-21]]
MILESTONES – mark page numbers, days of the year, etc. (milestones are not visible in the body of the
book)
[[@scheme:text]]
Example: [[@Page:p 1]], [[@GreekStrongs:g3056]], or [[@dayofyear.12.25]]
BIBLE MILESTONES – mark Bible references
[[@Bible:reference]]
Example: [[@Bible:John 3:16]]
[[@reference]]
Example: [[@John 3:16]]
HEADWORDS – milestones to mark a key word at the beginning of a paragraph, such as an entry in a
dictionary
[[@Headword:headword]]
Example: [[@Headword:Grace]]
[[@Headword+Language:headword]]
Example: [[@Headword+Spanish:Gracia]] – If the language isn’t specified (as in the first example above)
or included language does not parse, use the language of the word as set in the docx as the headword
language.
[[@Headword+lang abbrev:headword]]
Example: [[@Headword+es:Gracia]] – The ‘lang abbrev’, such as ‘es’ for Spanish, must be a valid ISO 639
language code.
FIELDS – insert fields to mark footnote text, etc. for filtering searches (Note: search fields will appear in
resource info panel after indexing is complete.)
{{field-on:fieldname}} … {{field-off:fieldname}}
Example: {{field-on:reading}} This is a lectionary reading. {{field-off:reading}}
Word style
with “field:fieldname” as the name of the style
BIBLE TEXT – insert fields to mark Bible text
{{field-on:Bible}} … {{field-off:Bible}}
Example: {{field-on:Bible}} In the beginning was the Word {{field-off:Bible}}
{{bible-on}} … {{bible-off}}
Example: {{bible-on}} and the Word was God {{bible-off}
Word style
with “field:Bible” as the name of the style
RED-LETTER – insert fields to mark the Words of Christ
{{field-on:RedLetter}} … {{field-off:RedLetter}}
Example: {{field-on:RedLetter}} For God so loved the world {{field-off:RedLetter}}
{{red-on}} … {{red-off}}
Example: {{red-on}} that He gave His only begotten Son {{red-off}}
ESCAPE syntax – ignore references (use to prevent auto-detection of hyperlinks, or to make syntax visible
for documentation)
Reference
Example: {{~ John 1 }} – be sure to add a space before and after the reference
TEXT INPUT BOX – insert a text input box for use within the compiled book
{{input id=IDENTIFIER | type=text | lines=number | width=number | prompt=“text”}}
identifier
‘input id = IDENTIFIER’ is mandatory. The identifier value of the id attribute must be uppercase, start
with a letter, and may consist of letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens, and periods. It must be unique
within the resource.
lines
‘lines=number’ is optional. This controls the vertical size of the text box, in whole number line-heights.
Default is 1.
width
‘width=number’ is optional. This controls the horizontal size of the text box, in whole number characterwidths. Note: you can only specify either lines or width. If both are given then the compiler will use lines
and ignore width.
prompt
‘prompt=“text”’ is optional. This may be used to specify text that will be displayed in the text box until
the user inputs something.
SERMON AND ILLUSTRATION METADATA – automatically generates indices at the end of the book by date,
passage, tag, topic, speaker, and venue
Sermon File Type
Sermon
Passages
Gen 1:1; John 3:16
Topics
Creation; Love
Tags
Examples; Testing
Date
September 28, 2000
Speakers
John; Mary
Venues
Bellingham; Washington
• Fields are added via a table format, where the top-left cell contains ‘Sermon File Type’.
• The metadata should be added after the title of the relevant sermon or illustration, which should
employ a ‘heading’ style.
• Passages, topics, tags, dates, speakers, and venues specified in the metadata are preserved in the
compiled document and restyled. Any other information will not be preserved.
• For sample documents, go to our online user community forum: see this thread or this thread.
Sermon File Type
‘Sermon’ or ‘Illustration’ (Note: the compiler will only recognize one type, the type in the first table, per
book.)
Passages
Standard Bible reference formats. Accepts multiple values separated by a semicolon.
Topics
Accepts multiple values separated by a semicolon. (Topics for sermons should show up in the ‘Topics’
section of the Passage Guide. Topics for Illustrations should show up in the ‘Illustrations’ section of the
Passage Guide.)
Tags
Accepts multiple values separated by a semicolon.
Date
Accepts multiple values separated by a semicolon. (The compiler will attempt to parse the date.)
Speakers
Accepts multiple values separated by a semicolon.
Venues
Accepts multiple values separated by a semicolon.
See also Personal Books and Search Fields.
Power Lookup
The Power Lookup tool finds a data type reference in the current article or selection and displays the text
associated with each reference.
1. With a resource open, click on Tools | Power Lookup. The text contained in each of the references is
displayed. For example, the text of Bible references and footnotes will appear in the Power Lookup
panel.
• As you scroll through the resource, Power Lookup will follow along by default.
• To change the scroll behavior, click on the panel icon and choose None from the menu. To change it
back, choose Follow from the panel icon menu.
2. Click on the Copy button on the panel toolbar to copy the current Power Lookup contents so it can be
pasted into a word processing or other document.
3. Click on a link to open your preferred Bible or other resource to the location specified.
Pronunciation
See a list of Greek lemmas and hear them pronounced.
1. Click on Tools | Pronunciation.
2. Scroll through the list to find a particular word, or enter a word in the Find box to locate it.
3. Click on a Greek lemma to hear it pronounced.
4. To change the pronunciation from Erasmian to Modern, click on the Greek Lemmas drop-down.
• You can also hear a Greek Lemma pronounced by clicking on the speaker icon in the Word by Word
section of an Exegetical Guide, the Definition section of a Bible Word Study, or in a Word List Document.
Reading Lists
Find resources that cover a particular topic, or create a course reading list for your class.
• The Reading Lists tool uses a web service to search http://topics.logos.com for reading lists that match.
• To check out the available topics follow the steps below:
1. Click on Tools | Reading Lists to view a list of recently added topics. Click more >> to expand the list.
2. Click on a topic to generate a list of corresponding articles.
3. Click on an article link to open the resource to that article.
4. Alternate method: Click on a topic link under Recent Reading Lists in the Home Page sidebar to open
the Reading List panel and generate results for that topic.
• To learn how to create or edit a reading list, go to http://topics.logos.com/Reading_Lists.
• Add a reading list to any topic page there, and it will be available immediately.
Search Fields
abbreviated
Morphology specifies use of an abbreviated form
(used only with various numerals).
abbrevpop
The text of the pop-up indicator for an
abbreviation, and the text of the abbreviation
pop-up itself.
add
Text denoted by a symbol indicating insertions.
addmean
Additional phases of meaning included in the
original word, phrase, or clause of the original
language.
addtext
Either: familiar passages not adequately
supported by the original manuscripts or words
not appearing in the original language added to
connect meaning for English readers.
aeolic
Morphology specifies use of the Aeolic dialect.
ambiguous
Ambiguous morphological form of a word.
Ambiguous form implies no preferred form for the
current word.
apocopated
Morphology specifies use of an apocopated form.
apparatus
Entries from the textual apparatus and the
segmentation apparatus.
appindic
The text of an apparatus indicator, and the
apparatus note itself if that note is a pop-up.
artauthor
The author of an article or review, rather than the
author of a work under review.
attic
Morpholgy specifies use of the Attic dialect.
author
Authors cited or discussed.
base
Stem Form.
bhsform
The text of the Hebrew Bible as written in the
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (when it differs
from the text to be read).
bible
The actual text of the Bible verses, without
introductions, headings, etc.
bull
Text denoted by a symbol indicating orthographic
(spelling) variants.
chufat
Church Fathers.
citation
Citation.
city
A city name.
clrfywrds
Justified clarifying words or comments not
actually expressed in the immediate original text,
as well as definitions of Hebrew and Greek names.
code-example
Examples of program code, typically occurring in
documentation resources.
collection
Collection Title.
colon
Text indicating variant punctuation.
color
Liturgical color.
comment
Descriptions and comments concerning the
translated manuscript or inscription.
content
The text of the original content of this resource,
without headings, translators’ notes, etc.
contributor
A contributor to a song, such as the lyricist or
composer.
copyright
Copyright information for an image or media
element.
crasis
Morphological form when two words merge
together to form a crasis or conjunction.
credit
Credit information for an image or media
element.
crossref
The text of the pop-up indicator for a crossreference, and the text of the reference itself.
date
A calendar date.
dateofpub
Date Published.
day
The title of a day, such as a Sunday or feast day, in
a liturgical calendar.
description
The description of an object, usually an image or
media element.
dewey
Dewey Decimal Number.
disputed-passage
Text that is disputed, especially concerning its
authenticity or its inclusionin a particular corpus.
dynasty
The dynasty in which the manuscript or inscription
was composed.
earlyver
Early Versions.
editions
Editions.
editor
Editor.
emend
The word or words are a textual emendation.
etymology
Descriptions of the linguistic history and
development of a particular word or phrase.
extdef
Extended definition of a given lemma.
fath
Church Fathers.
footnote
Text that appears in a footnote.
form
Manuscript form of an interlinear word.
formeq
A formal equivalent or gloss of a given lemma.
generalnote
The text of the pop-up indicator for a note, and
the text of the note itself.
gloss
In a dictionary of lexicon, a brief explanation or
definition of a word or phrase.
heading
The text of book, chapter and pericope headings.
headtitle
The text of a book, chapter and pericope
headings.
id
The id of a song in a collection.
inflected
Inflected Form.
inv
In Volume.
irregular
Morphology specifies use of an irregular form.
isbn
ISBN Number.
issn
ISSN Number.
ketiv
The text of the Hebrew Bible that is written when
it differs from the text to be read.
language
Language.
largetext
Allows search of headings and such.
later-addition
Text that is considered to be a later addition to
earlier manuscripts.
latin
Latin Manuscript.
lect
Lectionary Manuscript.
lectionaries
Lectionaries.
lemma
Text that appears in its dictionary form.
lexeme
Lexical Form.
lexval
Translation of a lexical form of a word.
literal
Literal translation of an ancient language word or
phrase.
livre
Publication Title.
livretype
Publication Type.
lmanu
Latin Manuscript.
location
The location of the manuscript or inscription.
lxx
Text of the Septuagint Greek Old Testament.
lyrics
The lyrics of a song.
mainline
The reading selected by the editors as the main
line in places where variant readings exist.
middle-significance
Morphology specifies use of a form with middle
significance.
mini
Miniscule Manuscript.
miniscules
Miniscules.
modernized
Modernized spellings of the original text.
modlang
Modern language translation of the Greek New
Testament cited in Discourse Segmentation
Apparatus.
morphcode
Morphological code derived from the SEDRA 3
database.
mscule
Miniscule Manuscript.
mt
Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Old Testament.
negapp
Apparatus entries with readings that vary from
the text proper.
nothing
Text that is purely informational and does not
contain an apparatus indicator as such.
omit
Text denoted by symbols indicating omissions,
either single words or groups of words.
original
John Knox’s original text, as spelled in 18th
century Scottish.
ot-quote
Text from the Old Testament Bible quoted in the
New Testament.
pages
Pages.
papy
Papyrus Manuscript.
paralleltitle
Parallel Title.
part-of-speech
Grammatical part of speech designation for a
dictionary of lexicon headword.
particle-attached
Morphology specifies use of a form with a particle
attached (with relative pronoun).
periodical
Periodical Title.
pernote
Text that appears in a Pericope Note.
pmt
The primary morphological tag for a given word.
possapp
Apparatus entries that support the reading found
in the text proper.
primary-reading
Tischendorf’s Primary Reading.
pronunciation
Text which details the exact phonetic
pronunciation of a particular word or phrase.
prosody
Prosodial remarks.
qere
The text of the Hebrew Bible that is to be read
when it differs from the text that was written.
ran
Text denoted by symbols indicating replacements,
either single words or groups of words.
rauthor
The author of a review, rather than the author of
the work under review.
reading
A Scripture reading in a lectionary.
reconst
Theoretical reconstruction of the Hebrew source
document for the Septuagint Greek Old
Testament.
reflex
Inflected form of a given word, associated with its
lemma for lookup purposes.
region
A country or tribal area or some other generic
geographic region.
review
The title of the work under review.
root
The root form.
rtitle
The title of the work under review.
season
A liturgical season, such as Advent or Easter.
standards
Text that should be interpreted as a standard to
be followed, e.g. a markup standard or a visual
standard.
subtitle
Subtitle.
supp
The word or words are supplied for sake of
clearness.
surface
Text that is visible using default view settings; in
interlinears, the top line using default view
settings.
tag
Tags for an image or media element.
title
The title of an object, usually an image or media
element.
topic
Topics.
topiclevel
Topic level.
totalpages
Total Number of Pages.
trans
Text denoted by symbols indicating
transpositions.
transeq
Suggested translation equivalent of a Greek
quotation.
transitive
Morphology specifies use of a transitive form.
translation
Listings of how an ancient language word is
translated in other documents.
transnote
The text of the pop-up indicator for a translator’s
note, and the text of the note itself.
tune
The tune of a song.
txt
The list of witnesses supporting the text of this
edition. It always occurs as the last member of a
group of readings or variation unit.
uncial
Uncial Manuscript.
uncials
Uncials.
used-as
Instances where a morphological form is being
used for a different function than the actual form;
eg., Nominative “used as” Vocative.
variant
Variant morphological form of a word.
varline
A variant reading.
varunit
A unit that is treated as a variation unit within the
apparatus.
ver
Early Versions.
versions
Version.
words-of-christ
Text considered to be the Words of Christ,
traditionally the “red-letter” text.
xrefs
Cross References.
year
Lectionary Year.
Language fields
aramaic
chinese
coptic
czech
dutch
english
french
german
greek
hebrew
italian
latin
portuguese
translit
spanish
syriac
See also Personal Books and Personal Books Syntax.
Self Tests
Go to Self Tests to view and open exams and quizzes you’ve started.
1. Click on Tools | Self Tests.
2. Click on an Exam or Self-Check Quiz to open it for completion or review.
Note: Self Tests are included in resources purchased as part of Bible school courseware.
Settings
Make changes in program settings to customize the appearance and accessibility of your Logos Bible
Software.
• Click on Tools | Program Settings.
• Click on Reset Defaults on the Program Settings tab to restore all of the settings to their original state.
General:
1. At Startup Open to: Choose what opens when you start the program. Options are:
• Home
• Blank layout
• Most recent layout – any
• Most recent layout – local
• A list of your saved layouts will appear below these options
2. Citation Style: Click on the drop-down list to choose the citation style required for your bibliography.
See the Bibliography Document for a list of styles.
3. Copy Citations:
• Yes: Bibliographic citations will be included with text you copy.
• No: Citations will not be included.
4. Copy Footnotes:
• Yes: Includes footnotes with text you copy.
• No: Footnotes will not be included.
5. Language: Choose the available user interface from the drop-down list. Current options are:
• Afrikaans
• Brazilian
• Dutch
• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Swedish
6. Play Sounds:
• Yes: Turns on the startup music.
• No: Turns it off.
7. Show Alerts:
• Yes: Turns on the alerts that pop up when you open the program.
• No: Turns them off.
8. Show Auto and Favorite Bookmarks:
• Yes: Turns on the Auto and Favorites bookmark lines that appear on a resource scrollbar. These
display places recently visited and location of Favorites.
• No: Turn them off.
9. Show Search Bookmarks:
• Yes: Turns on the Search bookmark lines that appear on a resource scroll bar These display search
result locations from current search.
• No: Turns them off.
10.
Show the Notification Bar:
• Yes: The Notification Bar will appear to show status of indexing, resource, and program updates.
• No: The Notification Bar will not appear.
11.
Show Visual Cues:
• Yes: Turns on the visual cues that are displayed when navigating to a new position in a resource.
• No: Turns them off.
Accessibility:
1. Program Scaling: (Windows only) Changing the percentage will enlarge or reduce the display.
• Note: Increasing the percentage may make it necessary to scroll down to see more text, resources, or
options in a panel or menu.
2. Resource Panel Background: Change the background from White to one of five other choices, including
the Windows Default.
Internet:
1. Use Internet:
• Yes: Allows Internet access for synchronization, auto update, resource update, Reading Lists, and
Report Typo. Restart Logos for changes to take effect.
• No: Prevents all internet access, similar to the “work offline” mode.
2. Automatically Download Updates:
• Yes: Allows automatic downloads (recommended default).
• No: Turns off automatic downloads (if user control is needed due to download size or speed
limitations).
• With this setting enabled, a download scheduler is also enabled to allow scheduling of downloads
between certain hours of the day.
3. Show Community Ratings:
• Yes: Community ratings will be shown in the Library for unrated books.
• No: Community ratings will not be shown.
4. Show Community Tags:
• Yes: Community tags will be shown in the Library.
• No: Community tags will not be shown.
5. Send Feedback:
• All: Information will be gathered and sent to Logos.
• Anonymous: Only non-identifying information will be sent to Logos.
• None: Logos will not gather any information.
• We can build a better product when we know how it is used. We use your statistics to improve
quality, provide support, and increase ease of use. We do not share personally identifiable statistics
data with anyone. For more information see the Logos Privacy Statement.
Text Display:
1. Default Font: To choose a font other than the default, click the drop-down arrow.
• This change will affect text in every book in your library.
2. Default Text Size: Increase or decrease the default resource font size percentage.
• This change will affect text in every book in your library.
• To change the text size in an individual book in your library, open the book, click on the resource
panel icon and drag the text size bar to the right (increase) or left (decrease).
3. Default Notes Font: There are a wide variety of fonts that can be used for Notes, some more readable
than others. To choose a font other than the default, click the drop-down arrow.
4. Greek Font: Choose the Greek font you prefer to see in Greek texts; the default is Arial Unicode MS.
5. Hebrew Font: Choose the Hebrew font you prefer to see in Hebrew texts; the default is SBL Hebrew.
6. Justify Resource Text:
• Yes: Enables justification and hyphenation in resources (default).
• No: Disables justification.
7. Line Spacing: Adjust the spacing between lines in resources.
8. Smart Selection:
• Yes: Smart Selection will be enabled, allowing faster selection based on word, phrase, sentence,
verse, and paragraph chunks.
• No: Smart Selection will be disabled, utilizing only character-based selection.
• Alt/Option can be held during selection to toggle Smart Selection on/off for that selection. (e.g. with
SS off, Alt will enable it and vice versa)
• Some features will require resources rebuilt specifically for Smart Selection.
9. Syriac Font: Choose the Syriac font you prefer to see in Syriac texts; the default is Serto Jerusalem.
10.
Show Red Letter in Bibles:
• Yes: Turns on red lettering for Jesus’ words.
• No: Turns it off.
Transliteration Format:
1. Greek Transliteration Format: Select your preferred Greek Transliteration format. The default is SBL
Greek.
2. Hebrew Transliteration Format: Select your preferred Hebrew Transliteration format. The default is
Scientific.
3. Syriac Transliteration Format: Select your preferred Syriac Transliteration format. The default is Hugoye.
Hidden Resources
1. Click the Hidden Resources heading to expand that section.
2. Drag resources you want to hide from the Library panel to this section. (Tip: Open Library in panel next
to Program Settings panel.)
• To hide more than one resource at a time see the instructions in Library Options.
3. Restart the program for changes to take effect. Indexing will run for a short time. (Note: The hidden
resource’s book file will be deleted, so if you are low on hard drive space, you can just hide a resource
without having to locate its book file to delete it manually.)
4. To unhide a resource, hover over the resource in the Hidden Resources list to highlight the title, and
then click on the delete (X) button. Restart the program for the change to take effect. After restarting,
the resource will be downloaded automatically and reindexed.
Text Comparison
Use the Text Comparison tool to display the current passage in multiple Bible versions.
1. Click on Tools | Text Comparison.
2. Click into the Reference text box and type a passage.
• A verse map can be specified with a Bible reference to use when parsing (e.g., enter ‘BHS Psalm 3:1’
to compare the Psalm title that comes before verse 1 in most English Bibles).
3. Click into the Resources box and choose the Bibles you want to compare. You can type a list of Bible
abbreviations with commas between each (i.e., NASB95, NIV, ESV, KJV).
4. If you own a collection that includes the Compare Parallel Bible Versions feature, you will have two
additional buttons on the toolbar:
• To display the differences between the versions, click on the A next to the passage box.
• With Show differences enabled, you can also Show base text with the other texts by clicking the A to
the right.
5. Click on the panel icon to choose Layout and Ignore options from the menu:
• Automatic layout
• Horizontal layout (columns)
• Vertical layout
• Ignore case
• Ignore marks
• Ignore punctuation
Tip: To see a quick comparison of a passage from an open Bible or commentary, press F7 in Windows and
in Mac.
Print or export the Text Comparison panel content:
1. Click on the Text Comparison panel menu.
2. Choose Print/Export.
3. Click on Print, Copy to clipboard, or save as Rich Text Format (Word, etc.), Text Document, or Web Page
(HTML), PDF Document (Mac) or XPS Document (Windows).
Timeline
The Timeline tool displays a unified graphical timeline of historical events.
1. Click on Tools | Timeline; it will open in a new window.
2. Enter a date range into the navigation box and hit enter to view that time range, or view the default
time range.
Timeline Options
1. Navigate by moving your mouse scroll button up or down, or by clicking and dragging the timeline.
2. Click the [-] button to the right of the navigation box to zoom in and the [+] button to expand out.
3. Select an era to view by selecting the era from the Fit drop-down menu.
4. Change the style used for the timeline by selecting from eight possible designs. Thin is the default. The
others are Minimal, Vibrant, Classic, Informal, Cartoon, Comic, and Graffiti.
5. Type into the Filter box to repopulate the entire timeline with only events that match the search.
6. Click on the Subject dropdown menu to see a list of different subject areas. Check or uncheck the boxes
next to each area to remove matching events from the timeline.
7. Cliock on the “Type” dropdown menu to see the different types of events listed. Some areas can be
expanded to list sub-categories by clicking the arrow next to their checkbox. Checking or unchecking the
boxes will add or remove that type of event from the timeline.
8. Click on an event to view details on that event. Some events have sub-events, which can be expanded
by clicking the arrow next to the event.
• Events with a lock icon are from resources you do not own. Clicking the name of this resource will
open a panel in which you can see the resource cover image, a description, price, and links to Add to
cart or Quick Buy.
9. Right-click for Copy, Save as, Send to Powerpoint, or Print options, or click on Print/Export on the panel
menu.
Version River
Creates a graphical display of the differences between Bible versions on a verse-by-verse basis, using one
version as the base to which the others are compared.
1. Click on Tools | Passage Analysis and click on Version River at the bottom of the window.
2. Click into the Resources box to choose one Bible version to be used as the ‘baseline’ and additional
Bibles to be compared to the base version. (Tip: You can also type version abbreviations with a comma
between each. For example: ESV, NIV, NASB95.)
3. Type a passage or pericope in the Reference box and press Enter, or first choose a pericope and passage
from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
4. Hover the mouse cursor over a vertical bar to display a text comparison for that verse.
5. Right-click on the graph for Copy, Save as, Send to PowerPoint, or Print options, or click on Print/Export
on the panel menu.
The variance is computed based on differences in word usage between the versions. The “river” running
from left to right represents one or more verses (depending on the length of the passage). Each version is
displayed in a different color, which is displayed in the key below the graph.
Note: The graph generated by this report is also displayed in the Compare Versions section of the Passage
Guide.
Visual Copy
Visual Copy is a tool to view and create image media, export it to Powerpoint or Proclaim Church
Presentation Software, and save copies of created smart media or our Verse of the Day images or Logos
Media.
Many features of Visual Copy require an internet connection.
With Visual Copy, you can:
View Verse of the Day art:
1. Click Tools | Visual Copy
2. In the search box in the top left, enter a Bible book or reference.
3. The left panel will populate with images matching the entered filter.
4. Scroll or navigate with the keyboard to select the image that you want.
5. In the top right of the image section, you can toggle between 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios.
6. Click “Actual Size” or “Fit” in the toolbar to change the size of the viewed image.
Save an image:
1. Click “Save as” in the toolbar, which will open an OS window allowing you to pick a file type, location,
and name for the image.
Send an image to presentation software:
1. To send the image to Proclaim or Powerpoint, click “Sent to” in the toolbar and click either “Proclaim
Church Presentation Software” or “Powerpoint”.
Copy an image for other use:
1. To copy the image to your clipboard to paste into another application or document, click “Copy” in the
toolbar.
Print an image:
1. To print, click “Print” on the toolbar when viewing your desired image. This will open the Print dialog,
where you can select the desired print options and confirm the print job.
Share an image:
1. When viewing an image, click any of the share buttons in the top right of the Visual Copy window. This
will open the chosen option in your web browser with a generated link to the selected media. Options
include:
• Faithlife
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Email
Wikipedia Tool
The Wikipedia tool provides access to the full breadth of articles available on Wikipedia, from within
Logos. This requires an internet connection.
The Wikipedia tool is capable of running a search for any term available from Wikipedia.
To run a search:
1. Click Tools | Wikipedia
2. The panel will automatically load the last viewed page, or “Jesus” if this is your first time opening the
tool.
3. Click any of the links on the existing page, or enter a new search in the navigation box at the top.
4. Wikipedia pages are constantly being revised. When a page is loaded, it determines if there is a more
recent revision available and notifies you at the top of the page.
• Click the “current revision” hyperlink to load the most recently edited version.
The Wikipedia tool supports Notes and Highlighting.
To add a note:
1. Navigate to the desired page in Wikipedia using the above steps.
2. Select a text range you wish to add the note or highlight to.
3. Right-click your selection, and click “Add note to Note document” in the bottom left of the context
menu or
4. Use your shortcut key or click Tools | Highlighting and click your desired highlighting style.
5. Notes attached to prior revisions will be listed in the resource information page, and can be accessed via
the i icon in the top right of the panel.
Word Tree
Creates a tree structure that displays the context of a word or phrase in which it appears.
1. Click on Tools | Passage Analysis and click on Word Tree at the bottom of the window.
2. Type a passage or pericope in the Reference box and press Enter, or first choose a pericope and passage
from the suggested matches displayed as you type.
3. Type a word or phrase in the Word or phrase box next to the passage and press Enter.
4. Right-click on the graph for Copy, Save as, Send to PowerPoint, or Print options, or click on Print/Export
on the panel menu.
After entering a word or phrase, the tool will find all of the occurrences of that term, along with the
phrases that appear after it.
By default, the tree branches are ordered from top to bottom by order of Occurrence in the text. For
instance, if the phrase “In the beginning was the Word” occurs before “and the Word was God,” then the
“In the beginning” branch will be above the “was God” branch in the word tree for “Word.”
Choosing one of the other two modes, Alphabetical or Frequency, may change the order of the branches.
Click on a word in the diagram to switch to that word. Shift+click on a word to zoom to that particular
branch. (Hovering over the word brings up a tooltip to remind you of these steps.)
Layouts
Permanently save a current or previous snapshot of the Logos workspace to access at a later time:
1. Click on Layouts on the right side of the Toolbar.
2. Locate the snapshot thumbnail you want to save on the right side of the drop-down window. The most
recent ones will be listed at the top by day and time. (Older snapshots will eventually drop off the list.)
3. Click on Save as named layout and type a name for the layout. Duplicate names are fine; the list on the
left will take you to the last-saved version of that name, or you can use the Find box next to Recent at
the top right to find all the earlier versions of that name in your history.
4. Named layouts are added to the left side of the drop-down window.
• After opening a named layout and making changes, click ‘Update Active’ to save the changes to your
named layout.
• The layout open upon closing the application will automatically be named ‘Application Closed’ and
synced to the server for access at a later time or on another machine. Only ten items will be saved at
once. ‘Application Closed’ layouts, like other snapshots, must be renamed to be saved in the left
column.
5. Right click on a named layout to Load, Rename, Update to current snapshot, or Delete the layout.
Load a Named Layout:
1. Click on Layouts on the right side of the main toolbar.
2. Click on a Named Layout on the left side of the drop-down window. This will cause any current panels or
floating windows to close as your layout is loaded.
3. If you make changes to the layout, re-save it by going back to Layouts, right-click on the named layout
on the left or right side of the Layouts pane, and choose Update to current snapshot.
Tip: You can drag a Named Layout to the shortcut bar for easier access. The most recent layout by that
name will be opened by the shortcut.
Arrange panels using pre-built layouts:
1. Click on Layouts on the right side of the main toolbar.
2. Choose one of the six layouts displayed in the lower-left corner of the drop-down window.
Note: Panels can still be moved by clicking on the panel tab and dragging it to another location. They can
also be resized. When one panel is moved or resized, the other panels will adjust accordingly.
Importing Libronix DLS Documents
Logos allows certain types of your Libronix DLS 3 documents to be imported. Logos 4 documents will
automatically be synchronized in Logos 6.
The currently supported Libronix DLS 3 documents are:
• Favorites
• Highlighting (was called Visual Markup)
• Notes document
• Passage List document (was called Verse Lists)
• Prayer List document
• Sentence Diagram document
• Syntax Search document
• Word List document (imports Word Lists and Vocabulary Lists)
To import all supported Libronix DLS 3 documents into Logos 5, enter Import All into the Command Box.
An Importing status message will appear in the upper-right corner of the main window (Windows only).
You can cancel the import by right-clicking this message and selecting Cancel.
Important Information
It is highly recommended that you prepare your LDLS3 notes for importing first; instructions for doing this
are available online.
Imported content “remembers” that it was imported. You can run Import All again (to bring in new
documents) without creating duplicates of the items you’ve already imported.
Any changes to imported content in Logos 5 will clear the link between Logos 5 and LDLS3. Once an item is
edited, running Import All again will re-import the original LDLS3 document; you will see the original item
from LDLS3 duplicated with the edited item in Logos 5.
To remove imported items, enter Import delete All into the command box. This will remove the imported
documents from Logos 5 only; it will not change LDLS3.
You can import one type of document at a time by specifying its name in the command box, e.g., Import
Favorites or Import Notes.
Supported Commands
The following commands are supported for importing Libronix DLS 3 documents and deleting the imported
documents from Logos 5.
Import All
imports all supported LDLS3 documents into Logos 5
Import Favorites
imports only favorites from LDLS3
Import Highlighting
imports only highlighting (visual markup) from LDLS3
Import Notes
imports only notes from LDLS3
Import Passage Lists
imports only passage lists (verse lists) from LDLS 3
Import Prayer Lists
imports only prayers lists from LDLS3
Import Sentence Diagrams
imports only sentence diagrams from LDLS 3
Import Syntax Searches
imports only syntax searches from LDLS 3
Import Word Lists
imports only word lists and vocabulary lists from LDLS 3
Import delete All
deletes all imported content (without modifying the original files in LDLS3)
Import delete Favorites
deletes all imported favorites
Import delete Highlighting
deletes all imported highlighting
Import delete Notes
deletes all imported notes (Note: This command does not delete imported highlighting that has been
converted to note items.)
Import delete Passage Lists
deletes all imported passage lists
Import delete Prayer Lists
deletes all imported prayer lists
Import delete Sentence Diagrams
deletes all imported sentence diagrams
Import delete Syntax Searches
deletes all imported syntax searches
Import delete Word Lists
deletes all imported word lists and vocabulary lists
COM API
Logos for Windows exposes a limited COM API to support third-party programs that need to interact with
the desktop software.
Details about the Logos COM API (Application Programming Interface) can be found on the public wiki:
http://wiki.logos.com/Logos_4_COM_API.
You can find more information about APIs on the web, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Api.
Note: The COM API is not applicable to Logos for Mac.
Ancient Inscriptions Interactive
An interactive geographical map with points of interest defined by the sites of ancient inscriptions. Artist’s
renderings of the inscriptions are already available in the Faithlife Study Bible. This interactive puts them in
geographical context. Useful for navigating some of the physical archaeological evidences and
confirmations of the biblical text.
Before and After: Ancient and Modern Biblical Archaeology Sites Interactive
Displays images of modern archaeological sites with overlays of artist reconstructions.
Bible Outline Browser Interactive
Given a Bible passage, returns all of the outlines marked throughout the user’s library for that passage.
Each outline is shown in a collapsible tree view, and also with the Bible text copied in underneath each
outline point – as if the headings in the outline were also the headings in your Bible. Useful for evaluating
and comparing various ways of documenting the structure of a Bible passage, interpretation, and sermon
preparation.
Biblical Event Navigator Interactive
A zoomable “map” of events in the Bible. Useful for seeing events in the Bible in sequential context, and to
navigate by narrative event hierarchy; not by the book/chapter/verse hierarchy.
Canon Comparison Interactive
An interactive comparison chart that shows the similarities and differences between traditional scriptural
canons and historical canon and scripture comment lists. Useful for getting a complete picture of how
communities, traditions, and church leaders have answered the question “Which books are the defining
texts for us?”
Counting the Ten Commandments Interactive
Days of Creation Interactive
Narrowly focused infographic showing the seven days of creation graphic that ships with Faithlife Study
Bible, but in a usable day-by-day presentation. Useful for viewing that infographic, which illustrates the
order of creation.
Greek Alphabet Tutor Interactive
Interactive audio/visual flashcard deck of each letter in the Greek alphabet. Useful for learning the Greek
alphabet. Includes audio in various pronunciation schemes, and “Read it” and “Write it” views for learning
typographical forms versus handwritten forms. Requires Greek pronunciation resources for audio.
Hebrew Alphabet Tutor Interactive
Interactive audio/visual flashcard deck of each letter in the Greek alphabet. Useful for learning the
Hebrew/Aramaic square script alphabet. Includes audio in various pronunciation schemes, and “Read it”
and “Write it” views for learning typographical forms versus handwritten forms. Requires Hebrew
pronunciation resources for audio.
Hebrew Cantillations Interactive
Given a short passage of the Hebrew Bible from a cantillated text (LHB), reformats that passage into a
hierarchical flow diagram using the cantillation marks as a clue to the structure. Useful for comparing the
prosodic structure of cantillation marks (which is otherwise very difficult to visualize) with the
grammatical/syntactic structure it overlays. Requires LHB.
Interactive Infographics from the Faithlife Study Bible
Zoomable infographics from the Faithlife Study Bible. Useful for engaging presentation of infographic
content. Includes:
• Armor of God
• Ancient Hebrew Conception of the Universe
• Priestly Garments
• Tabernacle Furniture
• Solomon’s Temple Furniture
• Temple Size Comparison
• Ancient Altars
• New Testament Coins
Interlinear Explorer Interactive
Educational slide deck that shows how a reverse interlinear links backwards from a translation to the
original words that generated that translation.
Israelite Feasts and Sacrifices Interactive
A calendar of the Hebrew year superimposed on the modern calendar with biblical feasts and prescribed
sacrifices noted. Also, a faceted browser for finding sacrifice passages based on which animal, what kind of
sacrifice, or the occasion for the sacrifice. Requires at least one Bible.
Lives of Bible Characters Interactive
Morphology Charts Interactive
Interactive “paradigm” charts which enumerate the extant forms of a given lemma in the biblical text.
Given a lemma, plots the forms of that lemma into a grammatical grid with frequency numbers. Useful for
learning about the forms of a word, and how commonly they’re used. Requires a morph Bible and its
lemma list.
Narrative Character Maps Interactive
Shows which characters in an event are together at one time, and where they are. Useful for tracking the
flow of people throughout the scenes of a complex narrative.
Numeric Converter Interactive
Conversion utility that takes a number in standard, Roman numeral, Greek numeral, or Hebrew numeral
form and converts it to its equivalent numbers in the other systems. Also assigns numeric values to Greek
or Hebrew words. Also shows other lemmas with the same numeric value. Useful for demonstrating and
confirming ideas such as “Greek words have numeric values” or “Hebrew letters can be used as numbers”.
Useful for demonstrating (in broad strokes) the materials of numerology.
Parallel Gospel Reader Interactive
Displays a parallel view of the synoptic gospels (plus sometimes John), based on the synopses and parallels
already shipped as resources (eg, Aland’s Synopsis). Allows user to select their preferred translation to
read the text in, allows gospel columns to be hidden or shown at will, and allows the entire synopsis to be
reordered by one of the gospels at will (eg, “I want to see only Matthew and Mark, in Markan order”).
Proverbs Explorer Interactive
Provides a view to look into Proverbs, and allows viewing of particular verses by category such as Type,
Form, People, and Theme.
Psalms Form and Structure Interactive
Interactive faceted browser for selecting Psalms based on their properties and themes. Structural diagrams
of each Psalm. Useful for digging in to the phenomenology of the Psalms. Requires a reverse interlinear
Bible, plus LHB to see the Hebrew column.
Text Converter Interactive
Conversion utility that takes Greek or Hebrew input and converts it to transliteration in all of our internal
schemes. Useful for quickly getting text into a publishable or communicable form, especially for students
and researchers who must write papers where original language text is not desired