How do you use the Englishman's Concordance in Logos 4?
I should clarify myself. In Logos 3, you can right click a word and then left click Englishman's concordance, and it will give all the instances in which the original word is used through the bible. How do you do that in Logos 4.
The way to do that in Logos 4 is to right click on the word. When the panel opens up you should see a listing for the Strong's #. Click on that and then select "Search this Resource" on the left hand side. The results will not look like the version3 Englishman's concordance, but will give you every listing of that word in the Old or New Testament.
I wondered that, too.
If you have a text tagged with Strong's numbers right click on the word, in the right column click "Strongs #????" and then click "search this resource"
If the English text has Greek behind it (for the reverse interlinears) right click on the word, then click "lemma" in the right and "search this resource" on the left
Then in the search window click "aligned" to put all the translations of that original language term in a column like in Logos 3.
Run a Bible Word Study on the English word, then click the Greek or Hebrew word in the center of a ring-graph, and you'll see English search hits grouped by the underlying Greek or Hebrew word.
Or right-click on an English word in a Bible with a reverse interlinear (like the KJV or ESV) and then do the Bible Word Study on the Greek or Hebrew word. Clicking the center of the ring-graphs there will show results grouped by the underlying Greek or Hebrew word.
(Strong's Numbers are just proxies for Greek and Hebrew words, designed to make paper reference books easier for people who don't know Greek/Hebrew alphabet, alphabetical order, etc. With digital tools and reverse interlinears, students who don't know the languages can still work directly on the Greek or Hebrew lemma, making Strong's less necessary.)
you make George very happy.
I hope he's reading this so he can benefit from this excellent piece of information.
This is weird. I've got the ESV interlinear open and I tried a right click search using both strong's numbers and the lemma (working in 1 Peter, tried a couple of different verses and words) and I'm getting no hits. Tried it in a couple of different interlinears as well. No hits.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
John
(Strong's Numbers are just proxies for Greek and Hebrew words, designed to make paper reference books easier for people who don't know Greek/Hebrew alphabet, alphabetical order, etc. With digital tools and reverse interlinears, students who don't know the languages can still work directly on the Greek or Hebrew lemma, making Strong's less necessary.) you make George very happy.
Actually, that was George typing with Bob tied up to a chair at the Pritchett house.
With digital tools and reverse interlinears, students who don't know the languages can still work directly on the Greek or Hebrew lemma,
This is actually my worst fear about Bible software. Even before the software, I saw a great deal of pseudo-knowledge of original languages in radio shows, free literature, and homilies. In Graduate school we came up with the definition of knowing a language - don't claim to know it until you read it in the bathroom. (We were talking Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali et. al. but the principle holds.)
:-)
Here's an analogy that may be helpful. I don't need to know exactly what's happening under the hood to be able to drive my car. But i can also crash it into a tree, so i still need to be responsible in the way i use it. And i still need to understand some basic concepts (like acceleration, braking, and steering) to be able to use it responsibly.
Our tools will not make you a Greek or Hebrew scholar: that requires an enormous investment of time. We're just trying to make it possible for as many people as possible to get as much benefit as they can from the time they do have to invest.
All four of the Sunday homilies I heard on my recent holidays made a claim about the Greek or Hebrew 'real meaning' which was completely wrong.
Why do we not have James Barr's Semantics of Biblical Langauge in Logos. One professor at the PBI said that any student who had not read it by graduation should be denied graduation.
Logos does provide tools that really help in learning the languages - I appreciate that well enough that I embarked upon Greek and Hebrew this summer. I'm just a little shy of "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" stage. It's not Logos software that scares me - its the users.
I get 2 instances in Logos 4 using this method and 3 in Logos 3 Englishman's (Amos 1, shepherd)
Don't know why I never found this but what a great little instruction set - Thank you Bob, made the upgrade to 4 much mo' better!
