Searching Hebrew words by category

Irvin Wan

Hi all, 

I am hoping to search for all Hebrew words by category. For example, I would like to search for all references of a child / son / daughter / offspring in Isaiah 11. I was able to perform such a search for Greek words by category via Louw Nida. However, I can't seem to find an equivalent resource that serialises Hebrew words by category instead of alphabetically.

Furthermore, the 'sense' search in Logos does not seem to capture all relevant references. For example, a search for "sense:child" in Isa 11 returns the "shoot" in v1 and "the nursing child / the weaned child" in v8, but does not return "a little child" in v6, as shown in the screenshots.

Would anyone know of a way to perform this search?

Thanks very much!

Graham Criddle

Would anyone know of a way to perform this search?

person:"A Child" OR sense:child does pick up all the terms you are interested in. But the problem is you need to know that before being able to construct the search.

but does not return "a little child" in v6, as shown in the screenshots.

That is because this word is tagged with the sense boy and not child

However, I can't seem to find an equivalent resource that serialises Hebrew words by category instead of alphabetically.

I don't believe there is an equivalent resource.

Dave Hooton

I am hoping to search for all Hebrew words by category. For example, I would like to search for all references of a child / son / daughter / offspring in Isaiah 11.

Try (sense:boy OR sense:girl OR sense:son OR sense:daughter OR sense:"young child") OR (sense:"person age"  NOT INTERSECTS  sense:"old person")

Compare it with your Louw-Nida search in the NT.

DMB

However, I can't seem to find an equivalent resource that serialises Hebrew words by category instead of alphabetically.

This doesn't solve the verse search, but does do a sanity-check on sense inclusion (applying LN categories to hebrew words using DBL):

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1239813#Comment_1239813

This doesn't solve the verse search, but does do a sanity-check on sense inclusion (applying LN categories to hebrew words using DBL):

I se what you mean as sense:"offspring (human)"  needs to be included i.e.

term:(sense:boy OR sense:girl OR sense:son OR sense:daughter OR sense:"young child" OR sense:"offspring (human)"  OR sense:"person age")  NOT INTERSECTS  sense:"old person". 

term is needed because of overlap i.e. normalizing the count where different senses share the same dependent e.g. sense:=child. Note that the number of verses is the same.