Pure Bible Search

Education

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Pure Bible Search finds words in the King James Bible the way a concordance does — by looking them up, not by reading through the text. Type a word and its every occurrence is already counted: 973 for "Jesus", 64,041 for "the", all 790,849 words of the 1769 text indexed and waiting. Because it is a concordance, the app can offer only the words that genuinely come next. Type "in the beg" and it will finish "beginning"; type a word no verse ever follows, and it tells you the phrase is finished. WHAT IT DOES • Instant search of every word and phrase in the King James (offline, no internet connection needed) • Occurrence, verse, chapter and book counts on every search • Filter on just red letters or verses that have a pilcrow • Word-completion drawn from the text itself, never from a dictionary • Wildcards — *eth finds 5,087 occurrences, and ? and [abc] work too • Several phrases at once, together in the same verse, chapter, book or testament • Exclusions: "Jesus" without "Jesus Christ" leaves 777 • Search Within any book, category or testament, colophons and superscriptions included • Results grouped by book, with the verse and occurrence count on every row • Copy verses, raw text or the reference list, headed by the criteria that found them • Search for words with ending punctuation! Jesus without trailing punctuation shows up 777 times. THE COUNTS ARE THE POINT For a great many readers the number is the discovery. Where a total is one of the numbers worth naming, the app prints the arithmetic beside it — 343 (7x7x7), 2,331 (777x3), 1,989 (153x13) — from a table written by hand, so nothing decorates a coincidence. Tap any word to see exactly where it falls: its ordinal in the verse, the chapter, the book, the testament and the whole Bible, with the letters, vowels and consonants counted. NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 Tap a word and Webster's 1828 Unabridged is underneath the counts — the edition that defines the English the King James is written in, from a man who held that education is "useless without the Bible". OVER 800 PUBLISHED SEARCHES, BUILT IN Brandon Peterson's search files for Sealed By The King and kjvcode.com ship with the app. Every one names what it finds, and every one runs here exactly as it runs on the desktop. WORKS WITH KING JAMES PURE BIBLE SEARCH Saved searches are .kjs files — the desktop's own format. Open one sent to you, share one you built, and the counts agree on both. NOTHING ELSE No account. No network. No advertising, no analytics, nothing collected. The whole Bible and its index are inside the app, so it works with the phone in airplane mode, and it is free. CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE Pure Bible Search is built on the data model of King James Pure Bible Search written by Donna Whisnant at purebiblesearch.com, and follows it deliberately, down to the counts and the copy formats. The built-in searches are Brandon Peterson's, published alongside Sealed By The King and the website kjvcode.com

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Share a folder of saved searches. Every folder in Saved now has Export in its menu, and the Saved line has Export all. Export hands the whole folder to the share sheet as plain text, so it can go by mail, message or notes, or simply be copied. There is no file to attach and nothing to lose in transit. Import someone else's. Copy the message they sent you, then choose Import from clipboard on the Saved line. The app says how many searches are coming and which folder they will go into before anything is added, and they arrive in a folder of their own, so another person's searches never mix into yours. Text still imports after a reply has quoted it, a notes app has re-wrapped it, or a greeting and a signature have been added around it. An exported search is small. A single search is 84 characters of text. Searches that use red letter, italics, the paragraph filter or the punctuation and apostrophe settings travel complete, which the desktop .kjs format cannot carry. Fixed: deleting a folder no longer leaves the same search twice. Its searches still move to Default, but one Default already holds is dropped rather than copied there beside itself. The confirmation says exactly what will move and what is already there. Fixed: the numbers on the details sheet line up on the left, where they used to read as centered.

The developer, Edmund Trujillo, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    Seller
    • Edmund Trujillo
    Size
    • 38.7 MB
    Category
    • Education
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPod touch
      Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Edmund Trujillo