How can I search on a word and it's cognate?
Does the "root" search give you what you are looking for?
(Root is also available as a section in BWS)
A few ways of doing this.
One would be through doing a Bible Word Study on αγαπη, and checking the root section. This is probably the easiest if you're not in an NT already, looking at the instance.
Another would be through searching a Greek New Testament or an NT with reverse interlinear (such as the LEB) for the root. I did this from a right-click on 'love' in the LEB at Mt 24.12.
This tip is very simple, but I find myself using it all the time now, so I thought I would share it.
Create a new Bible Word Study and add only the "Root" tool. I named it "BWS - Root".
Now, when you right click on a word and select Lemma, you can very quickly do a "Root" study, with no need to scroll down to the Root tool. This is extremely useful to get a feel for the semantic range of a word.
Here is an example of how this looks (although in this example I am right clicking on a Hebrew word, it works right clicking on a word in the Reverse Interlinear English Bibles as well):
Now the "BWS - Root" Bible Word Study opens right to the Root tool, with no need to scroll to compare all the roots and get a better feel for the semantic range of the word, learn new vocabulary, etc.
Nice tip! I see you have BWS - Senses and BWS - Translation too.
Same idea, the Translation tool is so useful, oftentimes it's all you want to get a feel for the different meanings of a single word (as opposed to the semantic field in the Roots tool). And the Senses tool can give you an idea of related words that are not of the same root.
How do I find the Kings of Judah dressed in a linen ephod?
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:Saul (king) OR subject:David OR subject:Solomon OR subject:Rehoboam OR subject:Abijah (son of Rehoboam) OR subject:Asa (king of Judah) OR subject:Jehoshaphat (king)) AND thing:linen
limited to to bug reported elsewhere
How do I find all that have seen God?
I am currently studying Isaiah 6:1-8 and wondered if anyone else had "seen the Lord" I was able to create a search of verb-lemma:roeh (I used the actual Hebrew but I'm typing on my iPad) object:God.
How do I find all the references to Timothy in Acts?
I did a search person:Timothy and it even included instances where he is included in a group "we" allowing me to see locations in Acts where he was present.
I like your idea of saving search strings in notes.
Why are there articles in my results?
When I perform a Bible search, <Root = lbs/el/βαπτω>, I get, among other things, 14 references to G3588, an article.
You get the articles because the underlying Greek text includes them and the English text you use doesn't. In such cases, the English equivalent to the Greek noun or participle has been tagged with both. See, e.g., Matt 3:7 --ESV has "baptism," but the Greek text reads "the baptism."
In Analysis view of a reverse interlinear bible you will get all words from the interlinear cell of the result word, which include articles as already explained. However, you should note that these do not impact the search count i.e. 118 occurrences in ESV and a Greek Bible, LGNTI:SBL.
How do I know what English verb to specify in a clause search?
I was trying to find the passage where Jesus speaks about bringing a sword to earth as opposed to peace (Matt 10:34) and wondering how I would go about this using a clause search
The structure is shown below
and if I structure the clause search using the string "subject:Jesus verb-lemma:ἔρχομαι" then it works fine
However, If I want to use the English verb instead of the Greek lemma I am presented with a choice:
Any guidance as to how to choose which is the correct verb?
We're working to improve this.
still waiting but one can take advantage of the sense tagging.
Why isn't Hebrews 12:6 included in a search for subject:God, subject:God the Father, and subject:Lord all run with verb:to love.?
I typed in subject:God verb:to love as in the example. I got two for the NT, only two.
It leaves out Hebrews 12:6, whom the Lord loves He chastens. In running the search in the OT I get 0 results for subject:God, subject:God the Father, and subject:Lord all run with verb:to love.
In this case, as you note in the first post in this thread, it does return a hit for this verse if "God" is the subject.
Right-clicking on Lord in that verse shows that the word is tagged as "Yahweh" which probably explains why it returns a hit with God as the subject as opposed to Lord.
How do I search for how a particular word in a particular verse is translated in various translations?
(Search is not the right tool but ...)
I haven't seen any mention here of a great little feature of L5 that allows you to find out how a specific word is translated in different versions of the Bible. By 'specific' I mean a specific word in a specific verse.
The following screen shot shows how πεφανέρωται is translated in Romans 3:21:
To see this data, just fire up the information panel and click on a word in a resource that supports sympathetic highlighting.
How do I find all the ways a person is referred to?
(Search is not the right tool but ...)
Here's another one, in Factbook when you look at (e.g.) a person you can see all the ways that person is referred to in the bible (ie it shows you the data that's driving the clause search)
What is the range of a clause search?
There are a good number of clauses that do span verses, and we handle that case.
Can a clause search use a Louw-Nida range?
No but individual LN numbers can be used.
How do I search for Biblical entities (person, place, thing, event) from the right click menu?
