Construct a search ...

Larry

I am trying to do a search for articles or books (or anything in my library) on the topic of the servant in Isaiah. I tried a person search, but that doesn't seem to bring any help. I am not sure how to construct a search like this.

Any help? Thanks

Justin Gatlin

Let me try and walk you through a process. The best technique, which is very precise but will miss many valid points, is probably to start searching Factbook for "Servant of the Lord."

The Factbook entry gives the dictionary articles which will really get you started and recommends the search: (<Topic Servant of the Lord> OR "Servant of the Lord" OR "Righteous Sufferer" OR "Servant of Jehovah" OR "Servant of Yahweh" OR "Servant Songs" OR Servanthood OR "Suffering Servant") which gives over 22k results for me, and includes lots of things like Moses as the servant of the Lord, which is pretty far afield of what you want. 

A very brute force version, which will give many false positives, is "Servant WITHIN {Milestone <Bible Isaiah>}" which gives you the word servant within passages tagged as references to Isaiah (13 thousand results for me in my "not Bible" collection).

A more precise tool would be Servant WITHIN ({Milestone <Bible Isaiah 42:1-4>}, {Milestone <Bible Isaiah 49:3-6>}, {Milestone <Bible Isaiah 53:1-12>}) (which still has over 3 thousand results for me). I took the passages the Factbook recommended. This will miss excurses in commentaries which you will want to look up manually in the best ones, but obviously eliminates a lot of clutter.

I might even try to combine the search I developed with the salient points from the  (Servant WITHIN 5 WORDS (YHWH, Lord, Jehovah, Yahweh)) WITHIN ({Milestone <Bible Isaiah 42:1-4>}, {Milestone <Bible Isaiah 49:3-6>}, {Milestone <Bible Isaiah 53:1-12>}) which brings it down to 785 for me. 

You might do a search for "Servant" in heading and large text of resources with type:commentary and title:Isaiah. You could refine that with insights from your other reading and our other searches, depending on what you still want to do.

Lonnie Spencer

Try this search. It may not be as overwhelming in the results coming back.

largetext:servant NEAR isaiah

I had 50 results in 23 articles in 12 resources

Larry

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/781146#Comment_781146

Thanks for those two options. I haven't had time to try them today. Hopefully I will get to look at it tonight. Thanks so much.