Creating a visual filter - what am I doing wrong here?

David Watson
David Watson Member Posts: 37 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I am trying to create a visual filter for a lemma in Romans.  I did it successfully 2 previous times, but can't get this one to work.  What am I doing wrong?

I'm trying to make a visual filter for "logizomai."

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  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick MVP Posts: 15,879

    I am trying to create a visual filter for a lemma in Romans.  I did it successfully 2 previous times, but can't get this one to work.  What am I doing wrong?

    I'm not sure which other syntax ( = ways to formulate the search) works, I did the easy way and went from the lemma in Rm 4:3 via the right-click-menu to have Logos create the search for me. EDIT: then I used the panel menu to save as VF. /EDIT In bible search, what you are using, it looks like this:
     ([field bible, content] <Lemma = lbs/el/λογίζομαι>) 

    Have joy in the Lord! Smile

  • David Watson
    David Watson Member Posts: 37 ✭✭

    Okay that got it.  Thank you!

    Does anyone know why it didn't work the same way as before?

    See my first visual filter on the list there - to put "gar" in pink.  I just copied and pasted the Greek lemma into the box.  Worked perfectly!

    Why didn't it work that way for "logizomai"?

  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 32,490

    See my first visual filter on the list there - to put "gar" in pink.  I just copied and pasted the Greek lemma into the box.  Worked perfectly!

    Why didn't it work that way for "logizomai"?

    You have the transliterated form of logizomai as opposed to the Greek letters - which is why it didn't work.

    That suggests you may have copied it differently when compared with gar

  • David Watson
    David Watson Member Posts: 37 ✭✭

    See my 3rd filter in the list - that's where (I thought) I had copied and pasted the Greek letters for logizomai.  That was the first way I tried it (with the purple background).  Seems like that should have worked because it was the same as I had done with "gar" before (which you helped me with as well - thanks!).

  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick MVP Posts: 15,879

    telling Logos you're looking for a lemma will have the FV work on any form of the word, which is especially relevant for verbs and nouns. "Gar", however, is afaik a word that has no forms i.e. doesn't change, thus I presume it works.  

    Have joy in the Lord! Smile

  • See my 3rd filter in the list - that's where (I thought) I had copied and pasted the Greek letters for logizomai.  That was the first way I tried it (with the purple background).  Seems like that should have worked because it was the same as I had done with "gar" before (which you helped me with as well - thanks!).

    Some Greek words have constant spelling: e.g. Search for γὰρ finds the same results as Search for <Lemma = lbs/el/γάρ> Caveat: most Greek words have spelling changes (noun & pronoun declinations, verb conjugations) showing grammatical usage along with attached pronoun.

    One way to check Visual Filter is using Search. Verb conjugation of λογίζομαι occurs in Romans 8:18 while Bible Search for <Lemma = lbs/el/λογίζομαι> finds many verb conjugations in Romans

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