Study Tools
Tools for searching Scripture in its original languages.
Word & Phrase Finder
Find every passage that shares words, phrases, or clusters of words with a verse — matched on the Hebrew and Greek, shown in English.
Tap the words you're interested in, or type them below. Leave all unselected to match on every key word of the verse.
How matching and the score work
Every word is matched by its Hebrew or Greek root (Strong's number), not its English spelling. Your English words are turned into Hebrew or Greek through the verse you entered, using the Berean Standard Bible's word-by-word alignment. Old and New Testament words are linked by two kinds of evidence: the BSB translating them the same way, and how the Septuagint (the ancient Greek Old Testament the apostles often quoted) actually rendered each Hebrew word, learned from about 22,700 paired verses. "LXX" on a match means the Septuagint supports that link.
Matchness = coverage × closeness × exactness × order:
- Coverage — how much of your query was found; rare words count more than common ones.
- Closeness — how tightly the matched words sit together, compared with your verse.
- Exactness — the same root counts fully; a cross-Testament equivalent or related word counts less, and so does a word the BSB translated in a different sense (e.g. "west" rather than "sea").
- Order — a small bonus when the words come in the same order as your verse.
An exact repeat of your words scores 100%.
Hebrew New Testament (Cochin). You can search the New Testament in Hebrew instead of Greek, using the Cochin manuscript (Cambridge University Library MS Oo.1.32, copied 1730). Its words are matched directly to the same Hebrew roots in the Old Testament. The Cochin text is a translation of the New Testament into Hebrew, not an original, so matches show how its translator rendered the text. Books are added only after their text has been checked: so far Matthew, Mark, James and Jude. Matthew, Mark, Jude and James 1 were read afresh from the manuscript film (a careful machine-assisted reading, with an independent second reading of the hardest passages and of the whole of Mark, not yet checked by a specialist in Hebrew manuscripts); James 2–5 follow a published transcript of the manuscript. Uncertain readings are marked [?]. More books will be added as they are verified. Its English is translated from the manuscript's Hebrew.
Texts: Hebrew — Westminster Leningrad Codex, original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb, CC BY 4.0); Greek — Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Majority Text 2018 (public domain); English — Berean Standard Bible (public domain); Strong's dictionaries (public domain); Septuagint word links learned from H. B. Swete's The Old Testament in Greek(transcription, GPL-3.0).