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.
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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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 .
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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).
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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
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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.
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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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