Suggestion: Allow us to search the whole Bible using Clause search

Mark Barnes

It makes no sense to me that the Clause search won't search the whole Bible. I appreciate that lemma searching is language-specific, but the rest of the syntax isn't language specific, and therefore isn't OT/NT specific. Besides, the presence of Swete means even lemma searching can be carried out across the OT/NT.

Here's on example of a search that would be useful across the entire Bible (there are hundreds of other examples): subject:god verb-sense:to love (care) 

I suggest that the tool adds a few collections to the current choices of LHB/Swete/SBLGNT:

• Original languages (LHB, SBLGNT)
• Greek OT and NT (Swete, SBLGNT)
• All resources (LHB, Swete, SBLGNT)

If this was added, then the addition of the Grid view, would add even more functionality, including the ability to easily compare clause searches between the Hebrew Bible and LXX.

Rick Brannan (Logos)

Besides, the presence of Swete means even lemma searching can be carried out across the OT/NT.

I'm not privy on the searching across different dataset issues, but note that Clause search for Swete only searches the deuterocanonical and apocryphal books, not the entire LXX. So your second bullet should be "Greek Deuterocanon/Apocrypha and NT". Also, verb senses (BSL senses), to my knowledge, are not presently included in the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha material (that's a desireable for the future, but not a small project; the deuterocanon is about the size of the NT).