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Contents Getting Started ... 4 Viewing a Demo... 6 Using the Menus ... 7 Finding Book, Chapter, Verse ... 9 Reading the Bible ... 11 Searching For Words ... 13 Searching for Phrases ... 16 Expanding Searches ... 18 Expanding Search Words ... 20 Picking Search Words ...
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Introduction Congratulations! Your new Bible combines the modern language of the New International Version (NIV) with the latest technology from Franklin Electronic Publishers. Using this Bible, you can. . . • read any verse of the Old or New Testament, •...
Getting Started You must install the Bible digital book before you can use it. WARNING: Never install a digital book when the Digital Book System is on. 1. Turn the Digital Book System off. 2. Install the Bible in a slot on the back. 3.
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Once the Bible is installed, here is how to select and start using it. 1. Press CARD 2. Press Bible symbol. 3. Press ENTER This is the Request Line of the Bible. You can always go to the Request Line by pressing Resuming Where You Left Off When using the Bible, you can turn off the Digital Book System at any time.
Viewing a Demo Before using the Bible, you may want to view a demonstration of what it can do. 1. Press MENU 2. Press to highlight under O t h e r O t h e r O t h e r O t h e r O t h e r 3.
Using the Menus Using the Old and New menus, you can select and view any book or section of the Bible. Try this example. 1. If you’re not at the menus, press 2. Press to highlight The flashing arrows show which arrow keys you can press at any screen.
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6. Press ENTER 7. Press MENU A check marks the book that you last read. Tips for Using Menus • To go to the top or bottom of a menu, hold the gold key, For example, hold the Old menu to highlight •...
Finding Book, Chapter, Verse You can find any verse of the Bible by entering a book title, chapter number, and verse number at the Request Line. You should type a space or colon between the chapter and verse numbers. You don’t need to type capital letters.
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Finding Book, Chapter, Verse Tips for Finding Verses • Type only a book title to find the first verse in a book. Type a book and chapter number to find the first verse in a chapter. • Type abbreviations rather than full book titles (e.g., for Psalms or •...
Reading the Bible Once you’ve found a Bible verse, you can scan and view surrounding verses. The following example starts at Genesis 1:1. 1. Press CLEAR 2. Press ENTER 3. Press 4. Press Or press SPACE 5. Press the end or start of the chapter. 6.
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Where in the Bible Are You? Once at a verse, you can view its book, chapter, and verse number by pressing Viewing Word Counts Once at a verse, you can view the number of times a word occurs in the Bible. First, press Then press the arrow keys to highlight a word.
Searching For Words You can search for any word in the Bible, except the short, common words listed on p. 24. Simply enter up to four words at the Request Line. You’ll find every occurrence, or match, of the word(s). 1.
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4. Press MENU 5. Press the arrow keys to highlight a book under the Old or New menu. 6. Press ENTER with matches. 7. To clear the search, press Understanding Menus After a word search, the Old and New menus and section menus list only those books and sections containing matches of your search words.
Searching For Words If You Misspell a Word When you request a misspelled word, or a correctly spelled word that is not in the Bible, you see a correction list like this: Press then press ENTER your request. If No Matches Are Found When you request two or more words that have no exact matches, you see this menu: To search for similar words (i.e., inflections...
Searching for Phrases Using the Search menu, you can select an ordered search and then narrow the search width so that you can find phrases. An ordered search finds words in the order that you request them. You can make these selections before or after a word search.
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Searching for Phrases 6. Press to highlight Then press 7. Type a phrase. 8. Press ENTER Understanding Ordered Searches Remember, ordered searches find words only in the order in which you request them. For example, an ordered search for will not find spirit holy Understanding Search Widths The search width is how far apart your words can...
Expanding Searches To find more matches, you can expand a word search up to three times. Each expansion adds related words to your word search. Try this example. 1. At the Request Line, type 2. Press ENTER 3. Press MENU 4.
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Expanding Searches 7. Press the arrow keys to highlight a book under the Old or New menu. 8. Press ENTER matches. Unexpanding Searches To unexpand an expanded word search, first press MENU highlight the Unexpand Search item under the Search menu. Then press A Quick Way to Expand Searches Rather than using the Expand Search item under the Search menu, simply press...
Expanding Search Words When you search for more than one word, you can expand and then unexpand each word separately to fine-tune a word search. 1. At the Request Line, type 2. Press ENTER 3. Press MENU 4. Press the arrow keys to highlight E x p a n d E x p a n d E x p a n d a a a a a W o r d...
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Expanding Search Words The number of matches increases. 7. Press ENTER If you press that no more expansion is possible. 8. Press BACK 9. Press the arrow keys to highlight a book under the Old or New menu. 10. Press ENTER with matches.
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Expanding Search Words Understanding Expansion Levels When you expand a search word, you see a message showing the current expansion level. There are four expansion levels. Each level adds related words to your search. Expansion Level 1 is the unexpanded search word (e.g., belief) alone.
Picking Search Words You can also search for a word by highlighting, or picking, it from a Bible verse. You can pick and search for any word except the short, common words listed on p. 24. Try this example. 1. At the Request Line, type 2.
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Picking Search Words 6. Press 7. Press MENU matches under the Old and New menus. Words Too Common to Search You cannot search for these words because they are too common: a, an, and, are, as, be, but, by, for, from, he, her, him, his, I, in, is, it, me, my, not, O, of, our, out, shall, she, that, the, their, them, they, to, up, upon, us,...
Viewing Footnotes When you see a translation exists. To learn how to view footnotes, follow this example. 1. Type 2 k i n g s 7 3 . 2 k i n g s 7 3 . 2 k i n g s 7 3 . 2 k i n g s 7 3 .
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Viewing Footnotes When More Than One Note Appears When more than one appears on screen, press plus to view the footnote nearest the top. To view other footnotes on screen, first press to start the highlight. Then press the ENTER arrow keys to highlight another Next, press plus...
Using Bookmarks For quick reference, you can place up to 30 book- marks in the Bible. Then you can scan your book- mark list and view any marked verse or section title. Try this example. 1. Type m a t t h e w 5 3 m a t t h e w 5 3 m a t t h e w 5 3 m a t t h e w 5 3...
A Quick Way to Place Bookmarks Rather than pressing to place a bookmark , simply press Deleting Bookmarks To delete a bookmark from your bookmark list, follow these steps. 1. Press 2. Press 3. Press To delete all your bookmarks, press plus ON/OFF your bookmarks, the menus return to their...
Changing Settings Using the Other menu, you can change the type size and the shutoff time at any time. Here is how. 1. Press MENU 2. Press the arrow keys to highlight S e t S e t T y p e S e t T y p e T y p e...
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8. Press ENTER 9. Press 10. Press ENTER Understanding Times and Sizes • The shutoff time is how long the Bible stays on when you forget to turn it off. • The type size is how large the letters appear in verses, help messages, and the Request Line.
Sending Words The Bible can send and receive words to and from certain digital books such as dictionaries and encyclo- pedias. In this example, we’ll look up a word from the Bible in the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia (IC-114). 1. Type j o s h u a 1 0 5 j o s h u a 1 0 5 j o s h u a 1 0 5...
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8. Press to read the entry. Comparing Translations If you install the New International Version and another Bible such as the King James Version (IC-119) in your Digital Book System, you can easily compare translations. Here is how: 1. At a verse in either Bible, press CARD 2.
Digital Book System This section reviews key features of the Digital Book System. Resetting the Digital Book System If the keyboard fails to respond or the screen performs erratically, first press press . If nothing happens, hold ON/OFF and press ON/OFF the recessed reset button on the back of the Digital Book System using a paper clip.
Replacing the Batteries The Digital Book System uses CR2032 lithium batteries. CAUTION: Have new batteries ready before following these steps. 1. Turn the Digital Book System off. 2. Press and slide the battery cover off the back of the unit. Then remove all the batteries. 3.
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Digital Book System Protection and Storage • Don't touch the metal contacts on the back of your digital books or the rubber contacts in the book slots of the Digital Book System. CAUTION: Touching the contacts with statically charged objects, including your fingers, could erase informa- tion that you entered in your installed digital books.
Limited Warranty (USA only) FRANKLIN warrants to you that the DIGITAL BOOK will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your DIGITAL BOOK, FRANKLIN will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you made your purchase or Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., 122 Burrs Road, Mt.
Back up; erase; or stop highlight in verses. BACK Exit the Bible. CARD Clear a request. CLEAR Enter a request; select items; start highlight. ENTER View a help message. HELP View the bookmark list. LIST Move to and from menus. MENU Expand a word search.
? key 12 symbol 13 ¶ symbol 24 symbol 27 [Index to come][ symbol 25-26 Ambiguous requests 10 Arrows flashing symbols 7 keys 7, 11 Auto-resume 5 BACK key 6, 9, 23, 30 Batteries, replacing 34 Bookmarks deleting 28 placing 27-28 viewing 27 CARD key 5, 32 Check marks 8, 16...
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Installing digital books 4 Italics in menus 16 in verses 24 LIST key 27 MENU key 6, 7 Menus section 7 viewing 6 zooming up and down 8 MORE key 19 New menu 7 No Matches menu 15 Old menu 7 ON/OFF key 4 Ordered searches 16, 17 Other menu 6, 29...
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