L/V 10 Tip of the Day #42 Search Bible verse, chapter, pericope/article

MJ. Smith

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10 Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: "SEARCH WITHIN" limits - Logos Forums

In building this tip, I discovered that I was incorrect on how a basic book search worked on a Bible for the last couple of decades. I had not distinguished between the Bibles with pericopes and Bibles without pericopes.

For this post I am deliberately avoiding proximity operators which add an additional level of complexity.  I am looking at a simple search argument such as person:Ruth AND person:Naomi or, if you prefer, lemma.h:=רֵאשִׁית AND lemma.h:=בִּכּוּרִים I don't care about the distance between the two elements of the relationship between them, only that they both appear in the scanned unit. In all cases, I am searching the book of Ruth in the NRSV, Bible text only.

Left column: To search for Ruth and Naomi within the same verse use a Bible search with verse as the chosen unit.

Middle column: To search for Ruth and Naomi within the same chapter use a Bible search with chapter as the chosen unit.

Right column: to search for Ruth and Naomi within the same pericope (pericope title used as heading) use a Book search, limited to Bible text only. The default "article" unit generally corresponds to the pericope unit for the NRSV, less so for the ESV. For the NCPB the "article" is a chapter. So note you must verify the pericopes: 

There is no guarantee that article boundaries will match pericope boundaries.. . .

You can use the Article option in the Locator bar to confirm the location of article boundaries.

xnman

I find using the template for "Two people Mentioned Together" works pretty well for this kind of search. In fact, I'm finding the templates have helped me tremendously in using Search.