Searching for where God is called Shepherd

Hello Everyone,

I have been searching for every passage where God is called shepherd. I found several with looking at the factbook for God as Shepherd and searching the ESV for these passages with {Section <Culture God as shepherd>}. One that it missed though is Genesis 48:15 "And he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,"

Is there a better search query I could have used that would include more passages? I did try searching (<person God> OR <person Jesus>) INTERSECTS <person A Shepherd>. This only returned two verses in John where Jesus is calling himself the Good Shepherd.

Thanks.

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Schumitinu

Is there a better search query I could have used that would include more passages? I did try searching (<person God> OR <person Jesus>) INTERSECTS <person A Shepherd>. This only returned two verses in John where Jesus is calling himself the Good Shepherd.

I think you have been close. I tried this:

(<person God> OR <person Jesus>) INTERSECTS Shepherd

I got 13 verses, but it doesn't contain Ps 23. So I tried this:

(<person God> OR <person Jesus>) WITHIN 3 WORDS Shepherd

This gives 32 Verses, but with some false hits which you need to weed out.

Luke B. Wolford

I didn't know if there were any sorts of special searches for a reference to God where he is called something kind of like searching for a lemma with a specific gloss. Thanks for your help.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

I have been searching for every passage where God is called shepherd.

Cultural concept search finds many verses:

{Section <Culture God as shepherd>}

Genesis 48:15 is included in search:

(<person God> OR <person Jesus> OR {Addressee <Person God>}) INTERSECTS (<Sense = shepherd> OR shepherd)

Keep Smiling [:)]

Dave Hooton

Is there a better search query I could have used

We should rely on the Cultural Concept to be complete and accurate as <Person ..> searches will fall short e.g. I think <Person A shepherd> is not intended to be used along with referents to <Person God>, <Person Jesus> except in the restricted sense of the passages you found in John.

Luke B. Wolford

I wonder why something like Genesis 48:15 is not included in the cultural concepts search.

Anyway, thanks everyone for your replies.

MJ. Smith

wonder why something like Genesis 48:15 is not included in the cultural concepts search.

Probably a simple error in coding which should be reported as such.

Luke B. Wolford

Ok. I'll start a new thread and do that. Thanks

Sean Boisen

Is there a better search query I could have used

We should rely on the Cultural Concept to be complete and accurate as <Person ..> searches will fall short e.g. I think <Person A shepherd> is not intended to be used along with referents to <Person God>, <Person Jesus> except in the restricted sense of the passages you found in John.

Dave is correct: by "referent" we mean that, in this linguistic context, this phrase (or name or pronoun) specifically refers to a given person. Except for a few unusually cases, those references are exclusive: a phrase referring to a generic shepherd doesn't also refer to God.

The Figurative Language Dataset brings in a few other examples where Jesus uses the shepherd metaphor to describe himself (though we've only shipped annotations for the Gospels and a few other NT books at this point).

{Label Figurative Language WHERE Source ~ <FigurativeLanguageTerm Shepherd> AND Target ~ <FigurativeLanguageTerm Jesus>}

See http://community.logos.com/forums/t/134659.aspx for more comments about what is and isn't included in Cultural Concepts annotation.

Luke B. Wolford

Thanks Sean,

What I was hoping I could do was find every instance sort of like you can find every instance where God is called Lord with <person God> ANDEQUALS Lord. Where I went wrong is that Lord is used of God like a name where Shepherd is not. I have used Logos for years but still am learning how to do the complex searches. Thanks for your help.

Michael S.

I wish the search was simplified. I cannot ever remember the search formulas, and loathe having to find them. I wish when I clicked "Search" and chose Bible, the software was smart enough to offer these possible searches when it gave the initial result.

Example: Search> "God as shepherd" > Bible > =

Results: Pick one:

Exact Phrase
Similar Phrase
Inference of Phrase