L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #275 Compare search results between different Bibles

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 that compares two different resources - Logos Forums

A solution to create a "precise" passage list:

I assume you mean where the Greek word christos appears.

If so I would do a separate search in each Bible

Then create a Passage List from each set of search results and Merge them. It's worth playing with different merge options to see which gives you the information you want.

There are some details on Passage Lists - including merging them - at https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016747311-Passage-List

A solution for results at an easy glance

If you do the search as Graham shows, but instead of searching on only one translation at a time you do a search that includes both translations, you can get a result that includes both translations. Having the search with both translations simultaneously gives you the option to show the results in grid view from which it is relatively easy to spot the places where they differ. Below is the search that I did with the same two sources. I made sure that they were the only Bibles open at the time so that I could select "All Open Bibles", which simplifies the source selection.

update:

Graham, kudos to you for suggesting the Merge feature. If only I had been more willing to see what you might have meant rather than making an assumption and moving on.

In the webinar the presenter pointed out the Merge feature with Passage Lists. What I had assumed when I read Graham's post was that a merge simply combined the two lists. What I saw in the webinar and what the screenshot below tries to illustrate is that Merge is much more sophisticated. Yes, you can get the union. (my assumption) But, you can also get the intersection as well as the differences (from either perspective depending on which of the two passage lists you start with) and the symmetric differences. That's quite powerful!