Common Mistakes When Entering Verses

Posted on February 28, 2010 User

There are a few common mistakes that we've noticed when people enter new memory verses:

Quotation Marks - please do not omit quotation marks. It is understandably tempting to omit the single sided quotation marks but they should be included as they are part of the text
'LORD' vs 'Lord' - I don't remember the exact difference but in Old Testament verses we frequently see 'LORD' entered as 'Lord'. These two terms are different and it's important to enter them correctly. Fortunately, everything is case-insensitive when you're memorizing so you won't be tested on the difference!
Periods and Full-stops - these are very frequently left out at the end of verses.

We are not being pedantic on this front. All the major translations' copyright restrictions require identical punctuation and spelling so we eventually correct every verse to match the given translation.

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21 responses to Common Mistakes When Entering Verses

Laurel says:
02/28/10 at 18:43:24

here's another page that explains more about the difference:

http://www.gotquestions.org/LORD-GOD-Lord-God.html

River La Belle says:
07/07/10 at 03:50:53

For those who have a restricted Internet (like me):

Lord is the English translation of the Hebrew word 'Adonai' or 'Adon.' It means "Ruler" or "Possessor." The name 'Adonai' testifies of God as the possessor of, and ruler over, all things, including man. It speaks of God's power over nature and creation. In, I think, all translations this name is printed as "Lord."

LORD is the English translation of the Hebrew word 'Yahweh' or 'Jehovah' and it means "I am that I am." This is the most personal and special name of God for it speaks of God as being unchangeable and eternally faithful. This true for all of creation, but this name especially points to God's remaining faithful to His people and unchangeable in His mercy toward them. God remains true to His covenant promises â€“â€“ He will deliver His people. He will save them from their sins. He is what He is, and will be what He is forever. "I am that I am." The name 'Yahweh' or 'Jehovah' is written as 'LORD' with all capital letters in most versions.

I adapted that from my Sunday School book (by James W. Beeke).

Laurel says:
09/19/10 at 08:04:56

Andy, having just re-read this, I will point out a missing "beginning" quotation mark in Deuteronomy 6:7 in the New King James Version. It is a "verified" verse, and I will click on that to do things properly, but it is such a "minor" error, and easily overlooked, you might wonder what is wrong with it! :)

Andy says:
09/21/10 at 15:23:09

Laurel, I don't see the beginning quotation mark in Deut 6:7. There is one in verse 6:6 but the next verse is part of the same paragraph as far as I can tell. Am I missing something. By the way, it is helpful to know about the minor errors because often people report verses with errors and it's difficult to know what they're referring to. I'm planning to add a 'Comments' section when people report errors but it will be a while before that's ready.

Laurel says:
09/22/10 at 20:37:30

My little NKJV (c1985 by Thomas Nelson, Inc) has a quotation mark there.

I just checked Bible Gateway, and it is not there; but my Online Bible it is there. It also shows up in the Blue Letter Bible on-line. Must just be a typo in Bible Gateway. I have sent them a typo report. I'll let you know if I hear anything, could be it's just a new edition or something.

Laurel says:
10/10/10 at 19:58:55

hi again. I only received a form letter from BibleGateway as they are in the process of updating their site. But, I figured out what has happened. My NKJV has double quotes at the beginning of every verse in a paragraph because the editors considered every verse a new paragraph; whereas Bible Gateway has used a different edition (I guess) where there are actual proper paragraphs which have been punctuated properly. Sorry for the confusion! :)

I am now using Bible Gateway to enter from to keep things consistant.

Matthew Minica says:
01/06/11 at 14:56:31

Help! I foolishly put the text of Psalm 120:1 in the KJV, as the NIV! I successfully deleted it from my verse list but it is still in the system! If the administrator of the website could delete the verse from the system, that would be just great. (I do not have e-mail accesss or I would send this message that way.) Thanks!

Alex Watt says:
01/06/11 at 15:50:17

@Matthew - Please try adding it back to your verse list as NIV. Then, you should be able to go to your verse list and click the link that says Edit or Editable. Then you can change how it is entered for the NIV 1984 edition, please. After that, you will have fixed the problem and you can delete it from your list and add it in KJV. Thanks.

Matthew Minica says:
01/06/11 at 18:36:13

Thanks Alex!
Alex Watt says:
01/07/11 at 10:11:58

Your welcome, Matthew. Glad I could help. :)

Chancellor Ghafouri says:
01/30/11 at 19:43:03

i'm in bible gateway to and i am getting ready for the bible bee with a book called balancing the sword, well anyways i keep forgetting how to tag a verse so i need some help

Alex Watt says:
01/31/11 at 06:09:54

Chancellor Ghafouri - Please go to the My Verses page: http://www.memverse.com/show_all_my_verses. From there, click on one of your verses. For example, if you have Genesis 1:1 click on "Gen 1:1". Then, it will take you to a page where you can add a tag.

I think we're going to have to make how-to articles easier to access. I understand that it is hard to find the blog posts explaining it sometimes. Hope this helps.

Chancellor Ghafouri says:
02/05/11 at 08:16:26

my brother showed me,

Nick says:
07/06/11 at 22:24:37

I haven't made any of those three mistakes yet,but it will help me later in time when I add another verse.

Andrea says:
07/25/11 at 15:37:26

Oops!
Lydia Young says:
08/20/11 at 05:28:02

Oops!

Chelse Brun says:
09/26/11 at 19:21:37

"Fortunately, everything is case insensitive when you're memorizing, so you won't be tested on the difference!"
I just took an accuracy test, and it discounted me on not capitalizing the first word of each sentance...

Bethany Pentimone says:
09/26/11 at 19:48:13

@Chelse Brun - It did not count it wrong because of you not capitalizing the first word...but because of a mistake you made in the verse/passage. Since you made a mistake, it just showed you where your capitalizing mistakes were...but it didn't count it wrong just because of that. Did that make sense?

Mommy's Helper says:
11/18/11 at 12:54:18

This is very helpful. But I do want to recommend two resources on the computer that we always use to enter verses. The first one that we usually use is E-sword, which is a program that you can download for free off the internet (I think). The next one is www.biblegateway.com. It is also very helpful. You can simply copy and paste them. They both don't have the mistakes you mentioned, but they do have the reference in them. I recommend using one of these helpful tools to enter a verse.

Thank you for thinking of Memverse! It is such a fun, creative, easy way to memorize verses!