TIP of the day:Term modifiers - Search fields

MJ. Smith · March 2016

This topic was also recently discussed in TIP of the day: Special search fields - Amplified Bible

There is an odd disconnect in Logos terminology here. The HELP feature lists three types of term modifiers:

language
search fields
mark sensitivity

I will use the term "search field" while asking you to remember that they are "term modifiers" and not search terms.

1. There are two ways to determine what fields are available in a particular resource for searching. The drop down menu from Search fields in the Search panel provides a list of all the search fields available in the resources that the Search is to search ... in this example "all open resources" which is only the NRSV. The second way is the Search fields section of the Resource information panel (accessed by the circled i on the right side of the panel toolbar).

A (presumably) complete list of search field is maintained in the wiki at Search Fields List. Note that the list does not indicated which search fields are limited to a single or small group of resources.

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Search fields are the fields that can be searched by using a fieldname:searchitem syntax. For instance, heading:compassion will search for titles and headings that have the word “compassion” in them. Of course, not all fields are available on every resource, and most resources just support the surface and footnote fields. You can check which fields are supported for a particular resource by looking in the resource’s Information panel. Similarly, in the Search Panel, almost all search fields can be accessed on the drop-down menu that normally read ‘All text’ or ‘All Bible text’ under ‘Search Fields’.

Note that the name which appears in the Information panel and in the drop down in the Search panel oftentimes does not correspond to the name of the search field when manually typed. In the table below, both forms are available, with the table organized alphabetically according to the name in the Information panel.

Resource fields

Information Panel Name	Search field	Description
Abbreviated Form	abbreviated	Morphology specifies use of an abbreviated form (used only with various numerals).
Abbreviation Pop-up	abbrevpop	The text of the pop-up indicator for an abbreviation, and the text of the abbreviation pop-up itself.
Addition	add	Text denoted by a symbol indicating insertions.
Additional Meaning	addmean	Additional phases of meaning included in the original word, phrase, or clause of the original language.
Additional Text	addtext	Either: familiar passages not adequately supported by the original manuscripts or words not appearing in the original language added to connect meaning for English readers.
Aeolic Greek	aeolic	Morphology specifies use of the Aeolic dialect.
	ambiguous	Ambiguous morphological form of a word. Ambiguous form implies no preferred form for the current word.
Apocopated Form	apocopated	Morphology specifies use of an apocopated form.
Apparatus	apparatus	Entries from the textual apparatus and the segmentation apparatus.
Apparatus Indicator	appindic	The text of an apparatus indicator, and the apparatus note itself if that note is a pop-up.
	artauthor	The author of an article or review, rather than the author of a work under review.
Attached Particle Form	particle-attached	Morphology specifies use of a form with a particle attached (with relative pronoun).
Attic Greek	attic	Morpholgy specifies use of the Attic dialect.
Author	author	Authors cited or discussed.
	base	Stem Form.
BHS Form	bhsform	The text of the Hebrew Bible as written in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (when it differs from the text to be read).
Bible Text	bible	The actual text of the Bible verses, without introductions, headings, etc.
Body of Water
	bull	Text denoted by a symbol indicating orthographic (spelling) variants.
Calendar Date	date	A calendar date.
Church Fathers	chufat	Church Fathers.
	citation	Citation.
City	city	A city name.
	class	Libronix DLS Object Class.
Clarifying Words	clrfywrds	Justified clarifying words or comments not actually expressed in the immediate original text, as well as definitions of Hebrew and Greek names.
	code-example	Examples of program code, typically occurring in documentation resources.
Coinciding Day		Liturgical days that coincide on the same calendar date.
	collection	Collection Title.
	color	Liturgical color.
Comment	comment	Descriptions and comments concerning the translated manuscript or inscription.
Content Text	content	The text of the original content of this resource, without headings, translators’ notes, etc.
Contributor	contributor	A contributor to a song, such as the lyricist or composer.
Copyright	copyright	Copyright information for an image or media element.
Crasis	crasis	Morphological form when two words merge together to form a crasis or conjunction.
Credit	credit	Credit information for an image or media element.
Cross Reference	crossref	The text of the pop-up indicator for a cross-reference, and the text of the reference itself.
Cross References	xrefs	Cross References.
Description	description	The description of an object, usually an image or media element.
	dewey	Dewey Decimal Number.
Disputed Passage	disputed-passage	Text that is disputed, especially concerning its authenticity or its inclusionin a particular corpus.
Dynasty	dynasty	The dynasty in which the manuscript or inscription was composed.
Early Versions	earlyver	Early Versions.
Editions	editions	Editions.
	editor	Editor.
Emendation	emend	The word or words are a textual emendation.
Etymology	etymology	Descriptions of the linguistic history and development of a particular word or phrase.
	event	Libronix DLS Object Event.
Extended Definition	extdef	Extended definition of a given lemma.
fath	fath	Church Fathers.
Footnote Text	footnote	Text that appears in a footnote.
Formal Equivalent	formeq	A formal equivalent or gloss of a given lemma.
General Note	generalnote	The text of the pop-up indicator for a note, and the text of the note itself.
Gloss Text	gloss	In a dictionary of lexicon, a brief explanation or definition of a word or phrase.
Heading Text	heading	The text of book, chapter and pericope headings.
Heading Title	headtitle	The text of a book, chapter and pericope headings.
Id	id	The id of a song in a collection.
Inflected Form	inflected	Inflected Form.
	inv	In Volume.
Irregular Form	irregular	Morphology specifies use of an irregular form.
	isbn	ISBN Number.
ISSN Number	issn	ISSN Number.
Kethiv Text	ketiv	The text of the Hebrew Bible that is written when it differs from the text to be read.
	language	Language.
Large Text	largetext	Allows search of headings and such.
Later Textual Addition	later-addition	Text that is considered to be a later addition to earlier manuscripts.
Latin Manuscript	lmanu	Latin Manuscript.
Latin Text	latin	Latin Manuscript.
Lectionaries	lectionaries	Lectionaries.
Lectionary	lect	Lectionary Manuscript.
Lectionary Reading	reading	A Scripture reading in a lectionary.
/ Lectionary Year /	year	Lectionary Year.
Lemma text	lemma	Text that appears in its dictionary form.
Lexeme	lexeme	Lexical Form.
Lexical Value	lexval	Translation of a lexical form of a word.
Literal Translation	literal	Literal translation of an ancient language word or phrase.
Liturgical Day	day	The title of a day, such as a Sunday or feast day, in a liturgical calendar.
Liturgical Season	season	A liturgical season, such as Advent or Easter.
Liturgical Texts
	livre	Publication Title.
	livretype	Publication Type.
Location	location	The location of the manuscript or inscription.
Lyrics	lyrics	The lyrics of a song.
Main Text Line	mainline	The reading selected by the editors as the main line in places where variant readings exist.
Manuscript Form	form	Manuscript form of an interlinear word.
Masoretic Text	mt	Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Old Testament.
	method	Libronix DLS Object Method.
Middle Significance Form	middle-significance	Morphology specifies use of a form with middle significance.
Miniscule Text	mini	Miniscule Manuscript.
miniscules	miniscules	Miniscules.
	modernized	Modernized spellings of the original text.
Modern Language	modlang	Modern language translation of the Greek New Testament cited in Discourse Segmentation Apparatus.
Morph Code	morphcode	Morphological code derived from the SEDRA 3 database.
mscule	mscule	Miniscule Manuscript.
My Tag	mytag	Tags found in My Content (such as in Clippings).
Negative Apparatus Text	negapp	Apparatus entries with readings that vary from the text proper.
No Apparatus Marker	nothing	Text that is purely informational and does not contain an apparatus indicator as such.
Omission	omit	Text denoted by symbols indicating omissions, either single words or groups of words.
	original	John Knox’s original text, as spelled in 18th century Scottish.
OT Quotation	ot-quote	Text from the Old Testament Bible quoted in the New Testament.
Pages	pages	Pages.
Papyrus Text	papy	Papyrus Manuscript.
	paralleltitle	Parallel Title.
	param	Libronix DLS Object Parameter.
Part of Speech	part-of-speech	Grammatical part of speech designation for a dictionary of lexicon headword.
Periodical Title	periodical	Periodical Title.
	pernote	Text that appears in a Pericope Note.
Positive Apparatus Text	possapp	Apparatus entries that support the reading found in the text proper.
Primary Morph	pmt	The primary morphological tag for a given word.
Primary Reading	primary-reading	Tischendorf’s Primary Reading.
	pronunciation	Text which details the exact phonetic pronunciation of a particular word or phrase.
	property	Libronix DLS Object Property.
Prosody	prosody	Prosodial remarks.
Publication Date	dateofpub	Date Published.
Qere Text	qere	The text of the Hebrew Bible that is to be read when it differs from the text that was written.
	rauthor	The author of a review, rather than the author of the work under review.
Reconstruction	reconst	Theoretical reconstruction of the Hebrew source document for the Septuagint Greek Old Testament.
	reflex	Inflected form of a given word, associated with its lemma for lookup purposes.
Region	region	A country or tribal area or some other generic geographic region.
Replacement	ran	Text denoted by symbols indicating replacements, either single words or groups of words.
Review Title	review / rtitle	The title of the work under review.
Root Form	root	The root form.
Septuagint	lxx	Text of the Septuagint Greek Old Testament.
	standards	Text that should be interpreted as a standard to be followed, e.g. a markup standard or a visual standard.
	subtitle	Subtitle.
Supplementary Material	supp	The word or words are supplied for sake of clearness.
Surface Text	surface	Text that is visible using default view settings; in interlinears, the top line using default view settings.
Tag	tag	Tags for an image or media element.
Title	title	The title of an object, usually an image or media element.
Topic	topic	Topics.
	topiclevel	Topic level.
	totalpages	Total Number of Pages.
Transitive Form	transitive	Morphology specifies use of a transitive form.
Translation	translation	Listings of how an ancient language word is translated in other documents.
Translator’s Equivalent	transeq	Suggested translation equivalent of a Greek quotation.
Translator’s Note	transnote	The text of the pop-up indicator for a translator’s note, and the text of the note itself.
Transposed Text	trans	Text denoted by symbols indicating transpositions.
	tune	The tune of a song.
Texts	txt	The list of witnesses supporting the text of this edition. It always occurs as the last member of a group of readings or variation unit.
Uncial Greek	uncial	Uncial Manuscript.
uncials	uncials	Uncials.
Used As	used-as	Instances where a morphological form is being used for a different function than the actual form; eg., Nominative “used as” Vocative.
Variant Reading	variant	Variant morphological form of a word.
	varline	A variant reading.
Variation Unit	varunit	A unit that is treated as a variation unit within the apparatus.
Variant Punctuation	colon	Text indicating variant punctuation.
ver	ver	Early Versions.
Version	versions	Version.
Words of Christ	words-of-christ	Text considered to be the Words of Christ, traditionally the “red-letter” text.

2. Likewise, there are two ways of specifying the search fields that you wish to limit your search to. The first way, shown on the left is simply checking the desire box(s) in the drop down menu. The second is fieldname:value ... note that there is no space after the colon. The results are the same. In this case I have limited the text to the Bible text itself - no headings, no footnotes .... Also note that the name in the drop down menu is not identical to the field name which I find from the wiki page.

3. Here is a similar search limited to Footnote text. Note that while the footnote does not appear in the search results, it is available on hover.

4. Here is a similar search limited to the Headings.

5. Note that even if the resource being search (NRSV) is filtered to show Bible text only, the results of the search are the same as if all text were displayed.

6. Here is a similar search on the surface text - which includes more than just the Bible text e.g. heading text. Surface text is defined as "Text that is visible using default view settings" so it includes headings and introductory materials but not footnotes.

7. A similar search on Translator's Notes in this case matches a search on Footnotes. However, often Bibles make a distinction between different types of footnotes with "Footnote" being the superset term.

8.Finally here is a similar search on Words of Christ. Remember that this search is only available in Bibles that have Words of Christ as a Search field. If the Bible in question does not have the field but does have speaker labeling, one can get the same results using the "{Speaker <Person Jesus>} WITHIN 0 WORDS Mary" format. Note this format combines a search extension {Speaker}, a datatype (Person), two terms strings (Jesus, Mary) and a proximity operator (WITHIN 0 WORDS)

9. If you are curious as to where a search field might be used, you may always do a wildcard search on the search field ... this method is very time consuming but when you can't make a successful educated guess ...

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