The find function works well -- too well. It finds all instances of the search string even when it is only part of the word. A switch to enable it to find only whole words is needed.
georgegfsomsel
יְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
Wouldn't quotation marks work for that?
No, quotation marks won't do it. You need to turn off the "Match all word forms" option on the search drop-down menu. (Click the magnifying glass icon with the little down arrow next to it at the upper right of the Search tab to see this menu.)
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Wouldn't "Find Exact Words" or something like that make more sense? Besides the help says that option "includes results for alternative forms of a word." so that seems to be the opposite of what is being requested by the original post.
Not saying it doesn't work as Rosie suggests. Just saying that if that is the case it is confusing and not explained well in help.
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Rosie Perera: No, quotation marks won't do it. You need to turn off the "Match all word forms" option on the search drop-down menu. (Click the magnifying glass icon with the little down arrow next to it at the upper right of the Search tab to see this menu.)
That doesn't speak to the problem. I was reading Gen 4 in BHS and noticed the phrase וַיָּקָם קַיִן אֶל־הֶבֶל and wondered whether there was a specific usage for the combination of אֶל with קום so I clicked on וַיָּקָם and did a <ctrl-f> in HALOT to attempt to find such a use. The find fundtion found every instance of אֶל -- I can testify to that. There is no such switch with <ctrl-f>.
Oops, I guess your question was way over my head!
Kevin A. Purcell: Wouldn't "Find Exact Words" or something like that make more sense? Besides the help says that option "includes results for alternative forms of a word." so that seems to be the opposite of what is being requested by the original post. Not saying it doesn't work as Rosie suggests. Just saying that if that is the case it is confusing and not explained well in help.
Yeah, but I said to turn off that option. It looks like I misunderstood the original question. I thought George was concerned that a search, for example, for help, was finding all instances where "help" was part of the word (which would include other forms of the word: helped, helper, helping, helps). Turning off that option would have solved the issue if that's all he meant. Perhaps "Find Exact Words" would be a better name for that option. It is explained well in Help, though.