TIP of the day - oldies weekend: Clause Search - Searching for actions by the Kings of Judah

MJ. Smith

In the clause search, implicit subjects and objects are made explicit, which opens up very interesting possibilities for searching.

For example, we know that David danced and wore a linen ephod - interesting as it may mean he was taking a priestly role. Are there any other instances of a King of Judah dressed in a linen ephod?

Before we couldn't do a search like this because most subjects of verbs are implicit. But now that they have been made explicit in the Clause Search function, a search like this should be simple.

All you would have to do is run together a list of the names of the kings of Judah (easily found copy and pasting from Wikipedia or other similar sources). For example, it might look something like this:

subject:David, Solomon, Rehoboam, Abijah, [names of the other kings of Judah] thing:linen

Or maybe it would look like this:

subject:David OR Solomon OR Rehoboam OR Abijah OR [names of the other kings of Judah] thing:linen

The great thing about this is that once you have made the "subject" search string for all the Kings of Judah, you can easily save it in a Logos Note and have it available for you for future use, or maybe even share it on Faithlife.