Searching

Type a word or a few words in Search, in Hebrew or English, and press Enter. On a computer, / jumps to the search box from anywhere.

Each video with its best moments, and the label that says how each line matched.

• All · עברית · English limits it to videos in one language.
• With a few words, it first looks for half-minute stretches that have ALL of them. If nothing does, it shows what has any of them.
• Little words like "the", "and", של and את are left out.

Narrowing it down

When I already know roughly where it was said, the row under the search box narrows it:

• Channel: only one source. Clicking a channel's name on any result does the same.
• Title: only videos with these words in the title, anywhere and in any order.
• From and To: only videos uploaded between these dates.
• Sort: Best match first (the default), Newest, Oldest, or Most moments, the videos that say it the most times.
• Clear takes the filters off and keeps the search.

They're all in the page's address, so the back button and a saved link keep them.

רקיע in one channel, from 10 October, newest first.

The results

Each result is one video: its picture, title, channel, date, where its text came from, and its language. The videos with the best matches come first.

• The bar under the title has a tick for every moment in the video that matched, so you can see where it talks about it most.
• The moments are its best three, in order, each with its time. +N under them means there are more, and it opens the video with all of them.
• The time opens the video right there. See Watching.

The same search in English: "firmament" in three videos.

How Hebrew words match

Hebrew writes the same word in more than one way, so Tamlil looks for all of them and says which kind each match is:

Label	What it means	Searching שמים finds
Exact	the word itself	שמים
Form	the word with a prefix: ו ה ב כ ל מ ש, up to three of them	השמים, ושמים, בשמים, שהשמים
Spelling	the same word with an extra or a missing ו or י	שמיים, השמיים

On top of that:

• Niqqud and cantillation marks are ignored, so שָׁמַיִם is the same as שמים.
• Final letters (ם and מ) don't matter, and neither do quote marks and geresh, so רש"י finds רשי.
• אלוקים and אלקים count as אלוהים.
• Prefixes come off the words in the transcripts, never off what you type. So searching שמים never finds המים.

Each line shows its label with the form it found, like ה+שמים.

English is simpler: capitals don't matter, and a word matches the same word.