L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #231 Context Menu: Labels: Speech / Interactive: Speaking to God

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: L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #230 Context Menu: Labels: Supernatural beings a.k.a. angels, demons, and deities - Logos Forums

This is the first label in this series that began as an interactive. It does not have event names and therefore, has no factbook entries.

The available data is:

Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2022). said:

Speaking to God

The Speaking to God interactive classifies reported speech with God or another person of the Trinity as the addressee. Searchable attributes include:
• content:... — The content of the speech, classified as:

• Affirmation
• Blessing
• Complaint
• Confession
• Consecration
• Curse
• Imprecation
• Intercession
• Lament
• Oath
• Other
• Petition
• Praise
• Query
• Repentance
• Response
• Thanksgiving
• context:... — The biblical context in which the speech occurs, grouped by:
• Communal
• Incarnational
• Literary
• Other
• Prophetic
• Ritual
• Solitary
• Theophanic
• Visionary
• distance:... — Reports the proximity of the speaker to God in the following categories:
• Abstract
• Local
• Remote
• mode:... — The mode of speech
• Address
• Conversation
• Meditation
• Music
• Other
• Prayer
• type:... — The type of speech
• Dialogue
• Monologue
• Soliloquy

For example:

• speech:(mode:music AND distance:local)

Entries may be found by selecting facets either through the Bible Browser tool or the Speaking to God interactive.

Note that the documentation is embedded in the "About" option of the interactive.

Because the documentation is embedded in the interactive, the Help file is the only easy access to the definitions of the attribute values. Otherwise, the standard label layout is unremarkable.

Using the Context Menu to generate the search argument speech:(content:Affirmation AND context:Other AND distance:Remote AND mode:Address AND type:Monologue) on the Bible provides: