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Soft hyphens

One would normally expect a soft hyphen to be used within a word. It would therefore be highly unusual to find any that are outside a word.

Almost by accident I just did a search for soft hyphen but with whole words left ticked. Surprised by these 5 results:

\v 36 Tata wa bango Yakob alobi : « Bino bozali kobotolo ngai bana ba ngai : Yosefu azali lisusu te, Simeon azali lisusu te, mpe sikawa bolingi kokamata Benyamin ;­ botala makambo ma mpasi makweli ngai ! »
\v 1 Nsima ya liwa lya Yozue, ba-­ Isra­el batuni Yawe * : « O kati ya biso nani abanda kobundisa ba-­Kanana ? »
\v 1 Yawe asiliki lisusu na ba-­ Israel mpe asali ’te Davidi ato­mbokela bango, alobi na ye : « Ke­nde kotanga ba-Israel banso na mpe ba-Yuda *. »
\p \bd 13A\bd* Tala awa maloba ma monka- ­ nda mona : « Mokonzi monene Asuero atindeli bayangeli ba mikili monkama na ntuku ibale na nsambo, mpe bakonzi ba bikolo binso, banda India tee Etiópia, monkanda moye : \bd 13B\bd* Ngai nazali mokonzi monene wa bikolo ebele, mpe nazali na bokasi o nse mobimba. Naluki lokumu te la koyangela bato na lolendo, nalingi bobele koyangela na boboto mpe na bokebi. Nalingi bobele ’te bato ba ngai bafanda nye, mobulu te. Naluki se kobongisa ekolo ya ngai mpe kosalisa bato mpo ’te bakoka kotambola o bisika binso bya mokili, naluki mpe kotia boboto boye bato banso balingi. \bd 13C\bd*Natuni balaki ba ngai mpo ’te nayeba boniboni nakoki kokokisa mikano mina. Moto moko amilakisi moto wa bwanya bonene, amipesaki ntango inso na motema moko mpo ’te asalisa ngai, mpe akomi moto wa babale o bokonzi bwa ngai ; moto oyo nkombo ya ye Aman. \bd 13D\bd* Ayebisi biso ’te o kati ya bikolo binso bipalangani o nse, ekolo yoko ezali na mayele mabe, ekolo ezali na mibeko mi
\v 27 Yézu alobí na yě : « Tíká naíno bána bálía libosó mpé bátónda, zambí ebongí té ’te bákamata mámpa ma bána mpé bábwákela mángo bána ba mbwá ­*.­ »

GitHub hides the soft hyphen, so here are the same lines in a file.

merged.usfm.soft.hyphen.whole.word.search.txt