L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #203 Every reference to a person

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,093
edited November 21 in English Forum

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:  L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #202 Person-events in Topic guide and Factbook - Logos Forums

Sometimes the various "names" by which a person is called tells us something about the person and their place in history. We have three ways of finding all the occurrences of a person (tagged by Faithlife). Using Sarai/Sarah as an example:

  1. Search person:Sarah
  2. Factbook > Sarah
  3. Passage Guide > Biblical People/Topic Guide > Biblical People (incomplete list of Bible references)

The Search highlights all the occurrences and shows them in canonical order.

The Factbook:

  • Shows entries twice - once under the original language and once under "translated as". References by pronoun or implied by verbs appear only under "translated as".
  • Original language entries show:
    • lemma icon
    • lemma with link to Factbook page (in order of frequency)
    • transliteration
    • pronunciation
    • gloss
    • number of references
    • expand to show Bible references with lemma occurrences highlighted
  • Translated as entries show
    • translation (in order of frequency)
    • number of references
    • expand to show Bible references with translated occurrences lightlighted
  • For both original language and translated as there are options to save as a Passage List or to filter you Bible by the references.

Another example of its useful (partial listing):

My least favorite way to get the primary passages referring to Sarah is the Passage Guide > Biblical People (also Topic Guide > Biblical People)

I personally find the Factbook easier to use than the Search.

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

Tagged:

Categories