Extended use of connections with Strong's numbers

[MartinEichner]

The feature which allows to get Greek or Hebrew translations by simply clicking on a word in one of the bible versions which connect to Strong's numbers is very neat. I frequently use it.

This feature could be extended in two ways:

1. In the view which allows to compare the same bible verse(s) of all installed bible versions on a single screen, it would be nice to be able to highlight a single word and simulaneously have all corresponding words on the screen highlighted which are connected to the same Strong's number, even if they belong to different bible versions which even may use different languages. It should be technically rather straight forward to scan the whole text for other occurrences with the selected unique Strong's number and highlight the connected words.
2. This feature could also be allowed in reading mode where only a single bible translation is displayed on the screen to find all words in the currently chosen biblical book which refer to the same Strong's number, even if the original Greek or Hebrew word has been translated differently.

[agrogers]

Something like what you have described has been attempted. You can see what it looks like here.

When searching for a Strongs number, it shows all the variants of how that word has been translated from the current translation. However, when I was using it I found that that approach was of limited value because very often an original word is tagged with additional words like "and" or "a" or "in his" and so tends to give a very long list. I eventually added a "key words only" option which was primitive but worked well to try and get down to the base English word. No one else has used it so I am not sure what others think or how it works in other languages.

I like the idea of getting translated words from other translations. My plan was to allow the search to be done across multiple translations. You can see what that might have looked like here. In my version it just showed the version name to the right of the result with the idea that eventually it would help identify which version the result was from. If that was implemented, the "BY WORD" tab would work automatically.

Your description of getting this information more directly is kind of how I implemented it... when looking at a dictionary entry for a Strongs word the 'Search' button in the Dictionary window would take you straight to the search results screen shown above. I think that gets close to what you described.

But this won't happen anytime soon. The experimental version used to work in v4 but doesnt in v5 and wont make it into the public version without a lot of fixing which is beyond me. If you want to encourage Tuomas to look at new features like these you can do that here. Thanks for the suggestions.