Search Multiple Words WITHIN

Rob Davis

I'm probably just missing it but I haven't been able to put together a search works. How do you search for multiple words that all occur within a certain number of words from one another. For example, search for "faith", "hope", and "love" where they all occur with 100 words of one another. I realize there is more than one way to interpret that search.

1. A 100 word window that contains all 3 words.

2. Two of the words (a, b) that are WITHIN 100 words of one another and the 3rd word (c) WITHIN 100 words of one of the other words (a) but up to 200 words away from the other word (b).

Understanding how to make either of those work would be great.

Second question, related to this. Is there a size limit to the number that can be used with WITHIN?

Thanks for any help.

Rob

Graham Criddle

For example, search for "faith", "hope", and "love" where they all occur with 100 words of one another.

faith WITHIN 100 WORDS hope WITHIN 100 WORDS love would find all occurrences where the word hope  is within 100 words of both of the other two.

And while there isn't technically any size limit (as far as I am aware), a Bible search only searches within single verse boundaries. So if you are interested in finding these patterns in Bibles, I suggest you do a Basic Search and select the Bible resource you are interested. In a Basic search, the boundary is an article - which in the case of a Bible is a chapter.