Near as Search Operator

Christian Alexander
Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

Am I doing something wrong when using NEAR as an operator in Logos' search features? It says unexpected operator See picture below.

 

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,414 ✭✭✭

    NEAR is a shorthand for WITHIN X WORDS where the engine is counting between two instances.  You'd put 'gospel of john' in quotes to create an instance.  Or add another operator like AND after gospel (depending on your search)..

    This would be a good example where Mark's simplifying would help ... as the parse procedes, the assumptions are fixed.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick Member, MVP Posts: 15,850 ✭✭✭

    Atonement NEAR "Gospel of John" works.

    Have joy in the Lord! Smile

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton Member, MVP Posts: 35,673 ✭✭✭

    Am I doing something wrong when using NEAR as an operator in Logos' search features

    Atonement NEAR Gospel of John requires an operator between the other terms.  Atonement Gospel of John is OK because it is parsed with AND as the operator between the terms.   Atonement NEAR "Gospel of John" is two terms with NEAR, and is probably what you meant.

    Dave
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  • Christian Alexander
    Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1274824#Comment_1274824

    Thanks everyone. Now another question. How can I find when the term "atonement" is used by a biblical reference i.e. John 1:1-18?

  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle Member, MVP Posts: 32,446 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1274902#Comment_1274902

    How can I find when the term "atonement" is used by a biblical reference i.e. John 1:1-18?

    I don't understand - the word atonement  does not appear in John 1:1-18.

    Please clarify what you are trying to do.

    Edit:

    If you mean you are trying to find where the word atonement appears in discussions on John 1:1-18 try the search string below in a Books search

    atonement IN milestone:bible:"John 1:1-18"

  • Christian Alexander
    Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1274910#Comment_1274910

    Thanks Graham. I want to find wherever the term atonement and similar theories are found in books discussing the Gospel of John. How can I do that?

  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle Member, MVP Posts: 32,446 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1275134#Comment_1275134

    How can I do that?

    As per my post above, if you do a milestone search you can find wherever a word is mentioned where a commentary is examing a particular passage

     

    of if you want to search all books that are looking at John's Gospel, you can use subject:john to filter your books to just those

    and then search for the word in that set of books

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