Searching for Any Speaker rather than a specific speaker

Bob Bolender

The other day a church member asked me if any Gentiles ever used the name of YHWH. It got me to thinking how I might do a Logos search for a comprehensive answer.

Starting with Rahab in Joshua 2 I began to poke around with various searches. I wound up using the search template for A Person Speaks about Something and used this: {Speaker <Person Rahab (prostitute)>} INTERSECTS "<Lemma ~ lbs/he/יהוה>" to come up with 4 results in 4 verses.

What I want to do now is replace Rahab with a wildcard. Is this possible? Speaker Any Gentile is probably not possible but Speaker Anybody would at least create a list I could read through and extract Gentiles from it.

David Thomas

Bob Bolender said:

Speaker Anybody would at least create a list I could read through and extract Gentiles from it.

Finding that "reported speech" is the discourse marker for 2 of the 4 Rahab uses, I tried this

Bob Bolender

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1181750#Comment_1181750

Thanks! I added a tweak: <Lemma = lbs/he/יהוה> INTERSECTS <LDHB = Reported Speech> NOT INTERSECTS {Speaker <Person God>} NOT INTERSECTS {Speaker <Person Angel of the Lord>}

Got the results down to 1,414 results in 1,168 verses. A little more manageable [:)]