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[4reel]

I see an asterisk between words and I do not know what that means any suggestions?

[MARCR]

4reel,

 

Asterisks are used in  many ways.  I could give a better answer if i saw them in context.

[Tim Butterfield]

In the NASB:
ASTERISKS are used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage.  The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been.  But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurrence.  However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses.
 

I imagine it is pretty much the same for other translations.

[BaptizedBeliever]

In the Modern Literal Version, the asterisks show plurality (you* as opposed to "you" which is singular), they can show cause (for*, as opposed to for whom something is being done), and a few other things as well.  All of those are explained in the dictionary/concordance file and I think it is also in the information section of the Bible file.