Franklin KJ-31 User manual

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Contents
Introduction ............................................................ 2
Getting Started ....................................................... 3
Using the Menus .................................................... 4
Finding Book, Chapter, and Verse ....................... 6
Reading the Bible................................................... 8
Viewing Notes ....................................................... 10
Searching for Words............................................. 12
Picking Search Words .......................................... 14
Expanding Searches............................................. 16
Changing Searches .............................................. 18
Using Bookmarks.................................................. 20
Changing Settings ................................................ 22
Troubleshooting.................................................... 24
Glossary................................................................. 25
Specifications........................................................ 26
Warranty ................................................................ 27
Key Guide .............................................................. 28
Index....................................................................... 29

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Introduction
Your new Franklin Electronic Bible combines the majesty
and poetry of the King James Bible with the latest search
and retrieval technology. Using this Bible, you can. . .
• find and read any verse of the Old and New
Testaments,
• quickly scan and read Bible passages,
• search for occurrences of words and phrases,
• pick search words from any passage,
• expand your searches to find more occurrences,
• narrow your searches by word order and proximity,
• place bookmarks for personalized reference, and
• read helpful usage footnotes.
✔ About Notes Like This One
Throughout this User’s Manual, you’ll see notes that
explain how to get the most from your Franklin
Electronic Bible. Look for them.

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CLEAR
1. Remove the battery
cover on the back.
2. Insert the batteries
with their plus signs
aligned as shown in
the compartment.
3. Replace the cover.
4. Press .
5. To adjust the
contrast, press or
repeatedly.
ON/OFF
Only at the request line, above,
can you adjust the contrast by
pressing or . You can
always go to the request line by
pressing .To learn
another way to adjust the
contrast, see pp. 22-23.
Getting Started
Before you use this Bible, you must install four AAA
batteries. You may also need to adjust its screen contrast.

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Using the Menus
While reading this Bible, you’ll often want to use its menus.
The Old and New menus list books of the Old and New
Testaments. To learn about the Search menu, see p. 18.
To learn about the Other menu, see p. 22.
1. Press .
2. Press or
to highlight a menu.
3. Press or
to highlight a
menu item.
4. Press
to view an item.
5. Press to
return to the menus.
MENU
ENTER
MENU

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HELP
✔ Follow the Arrows
The blinking arrows to the right of the display show
which arrow keys you can press to move around
menus and read text.
✔ Moving Up and Down Menus
To go to the top of bottom of a menu, hold the gold
key, , and press or . For example, hold
and press under OLD to highlight MALACHI.
✔ Help is Always at Hand
You can always view an appropriate help message
by pressing . To scroll up or down, press
or . To page down, press or . To
go to its start or end, hold and press or .
To exit a help message, press or .
✔ Resuming Where You Left Off
After your first session, when you turn on the Bible
you return to the last screen that you saw.
SPACE
NEXT
BACK HELP

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Finding Book, Chapter, and Verse
You can find any verse by entering its book, chapter, and
verse number at the request line. If you enter only a book
and chapter, you go to the first verse in the chapter. If you
enter only a book, you go to the first verse in the book.
You can type a colon or space
between the chapter and verse
numbers. To move the cursor,
press or .
1. Press .
2. At the request line,
type a book, chapter,
and verse number.
To type numbers,
hold and press
the numbered keys.
To erase characters,
press .
3. Press .
4. Press or .
5. Press
when done.
SPACE
CLEAR
CLEAR
ENTER
BACK

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ENTER
✔ Ambiguous Requests
Some book titles, such as Numbers and John, are
also valid search words. When you enter a request
with these ambiguous words, you see a menu like this:
To read the book, press . To search for the
word(s), press and then .
✔ Typing Book Titles
If a book has more than one volume, you can type an
Arabic or Roman numeral before its title (e.g., 1
SAMUEL or II KINGS). You can also type abbrevia-
tions rather than book titles (e.g., PS for Psalms or
EPH for Ephesians).
✔ Erasing and Editing Requests
You can erase letters and numbers at the request line
by pressing . To insert characters, press or
and then type them.
ENTER
BACK

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Once a Bible verse is in view, you can quickly scan and
read the surrounding verses. The following example starts
at Genesis 1:1. To view it, press and then .
1. At any verse, press
or to read
surrounding text.
2. Press
to page down.
To page down or up,
hold and
press or .
3. Hold and
press or to go
to the start or
end of a chapter.
4. Press or
to go to the next or
previous chapter.
Reading the Bible
SPACE
NEXT
CLEAR ENTER
NEXT
PREV
PREV

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SPEC
✔ Understanding Fonts and Markings
A typical Bible verse looks like this:
Verse numbers are boldface and to the left. The ¶
marks a new paragraph. Italics indicate words added
by the original translators of the King James Bible.
Horizontal lines, , mark the end of chapters,
notes, and help messages.
✔ SPECifying Where You Are
At any verse, you can view its book, chapter, and
verse number by pressing or .
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Viewing Notes
When you see a boxed N after a word, a footnote exists for
the word. To learn how to view and read footnotes, follow
thisexample
1. Press .
2. Type PS 16:7.
3. Press .
4. Press .
5. Press or
to read the note.
6. Press to
return to the verse.
This is a footnote about
reins .
Notice the boxed N after
reins .
CLEAR
ENTER
NOTE
BACK
SPACE

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✔ Understanding Footnotes
The footnotes in this Bible have been added by
Franklin Electronic Publishers to clarify the meaning
of archaic English words. These footnotes are not
part of the original King James Bible.
✔ When More Than One Note Is in View
When more than one boxed N appears on screen,
pressing displays the footnote of the boxed
N nearest the upper left of the screen.
To view another footnote, first press to start
the highlight. Next, press the arrow keys to highlight
the next boxed N.
Then press to view the note. Once at the
note, press to return to its verse.
NOTE
ENTER
ENTER
BACK

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Searching for Words
1. At the request line,
type one or more
words. To erase
letters, press .
2. Press to
view the first match.
3. Press
NEXT
to view
the next match. To
view the previous
match, press
PREV
.
4. Press . Then
press the arrow keys
to highlight a book
under OLD or NEW.
You can type up to five words or
50letters.
The diamonds mark the match.
MENU
BACK
ENTER
You can search for any word or phrase in the Bible, just like using
a concordance. Simply enter your search words at the request
line. You’ll find every occurrence, or match, of the word(s).

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5. Press to
view the first match
in it.
6. To clear the search,
press .
✔ If You Misspell a Word
When you misspell a word, or enter a word not in the
King James Bible, you see a spelling correction list.
Press or to highlight a correction. Then press
. Or, to change your request, press .
✔ If No Matches Are Found
When you enter two or more words that are not in
the Bible, you see this menu:
To expand your search to include inflections and
synonyms of search words, press . To
change your request, press and then .
ENTER
ENTER
ENTER
During word searches, the Old
and New menus list only books
with matches. Use the menus to
view matches in books that
interestyou.
ENTER
BACK
CLEAR

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Picking Search Words
You can also search for words by picking them from a verse.
In this way, you can search for any word except short, common
ones. We’ll search for a word from Genesis 15:6.
1. At any verse,
press .
2. Press the arrow keys
to highlight a word.
3. Press to
view the first match.
4. Press
NEXT
to view
the next match. To
view a previous one,
press
PREV
.
5. Press .
Notice the highlight. You can
turn it off by pressing .
ENTER
MENU
BACK
ENTER

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6. Press the arrow keys
to highlight a book.
7. Press to view
the first match in
the book.
8. When you’re done,
press .
✔ Unsearchable Words
These are the words that you cannot search for,
either by entering them at the request line or by
picking them from a verse:
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, shalt, she, that, the,
thee, their, them, they, thou, thy, to, unto,
up, upon, us, was, we, were, with, ye, you.
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Expanding Searches
You can expand your word searches to include inflections
and synonyms. Word searches can be expanded up to three
times, and they can be expanded at verses or menus. Try
thisexample.
1. At the request line,
type BELIEF.
2. Press .
3. Press
to expand the search.
4. Press twice
to further expand
the search.
ENTER
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MORE

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5. Press to
view all the books
with matches.
✔ Levels of Expansion
Each time that you expand a word search, words are
added to your search.
The first time that you press , inflections are
added (e.g., BELIEVE and BELIEVED to BELIEF).
The second time, compound and related words are
added (e.g., BELIEVER and UNBELIEF to BELIEF).
The third time, synonyms are added (e.g., UNDER-
STAND and OBEYED to BELIEF).
If an expansion adds no words to your search, the
search automatically expands to the next level. So,
for most words, searches can be expanded less
than three times.
MORE
MENU

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Changing Searches
You can select an ordered search, set the search width, or
change your request using the Search menu. An ordered
search finds words only in the order that you enter them.
Search width is how far apart your search words can be in
matches.
1. Press .
2. Press to highlight
SEARCH.
3. Press to highlight
an item. Then press
.
4. If you selected SET
SEARCH WIDTH,
press or to
highlight a width.
Then press .
If you select ORDERED
SEARCH, a check marks it. You
can press to deselect it.
You can return to the Search
menu without changing the width
by pressing .
ENTER
MENU
ENTER
BACK
ENTER

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✔ Understanding Search Widths
Here are how far apart your search words can be in
matches when you select the various search widths.
CLOSE TOGETHER: adjacent or nearly adjacent;
NOT AS CLOSE: a few words apart;
FAR APART: many words apart;
VERY FAR APART: up to a few verses apart.
✔ Finding Phrases
To search for a phrase (i.e., adjacent or nearly
adjacentwords):
1. Under SEARCH, select ORDERED SEARCH.
2. Under SEARCH, select SET SEARCH WIDTH.
3. Under PICK A SEARCH WIDTH, select
CLOSE TOGETHER.
4. Enter the phrase at the request line.

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For personalized reference, you can place up to 30 book-
marks in the Bible. Then you can scan your bookmark list
and view any marked verse.
1. At any verse,
press .
2. Press .
3. Press to
highlight a bookmark.
4. Press
to view the verse.
Using Bookmarks
The boxed M shows that a
bookmark has been placed.
MARK
ENTER
LIST
This is a sample bookmark list.