headword search doesn't give results from Oxford or Merriam dictionary

I was searching for Magi using a headword search. I expected to find results in "Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church" and "Merriam-Webster's" dictionary since I know there are entries for Magi in both of those. My search was "headword:Magi". I was searching "all resources". There were no results. However I can open up each dictionary and see the "Magi" entry. If I right-click on the word in each of the dictionaries I see that next to the word it indicates that it is a "headword". So I'm not sure why my headword search doesn't work. If anyone has any thoughts on this I would appreciate your comments. Thanks!

Greg Rose

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Andrew Batishko

headword:Magi is not a valid search. Or rather, it's technically a valid search, but doesn't search for the headword "Magi". Instead it's searching the text for the word "Magi" where that word is tagged with the field "headword", which I do not believe is a field that is ever used. See here for some fields that are used: https://wiki.logos.com/Search_Fields_List

There is a way to navigate to your highest priority resource that contains a given headword.Try entering the following in the command box at the top of the main window: look up magi

I can't think of a direct way to search for all places where a headword is used, but some people have had some luck doing a search using the "heading" or "largetext" fields. Something like: heading:Magi OR largetext:Magi

Dave Hooton

If I right-click on the word in each of the dictionaries I see that next to the word it indicates that it is a "headword".

If you then perform a Search you will see it is on "All Text". If you click "All Text" you won't find Headword, but try "Heading text"

I've typed type:dictionary to use my English dictionary resources (MW, Concise Oxford etc)