Search function does not find all references

Roger Pitot

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I wanted to see if he included texts from Jewish sources, and certainly he does. I ran the concordance and found 71 references to the Mishnah, for example. 

But when I used the Search function and looked for Mishnah, there were only 24 results.

So now I realise, contrary to what I previously thought, that the search function does not seem to pick up any references that are abbreviated, which really limits its use.

Looked at the Jewish Encyclopedia - same thing, over 3,000 references that don't show up in a search.

Am I missing something?

MJ. Smith

Roger Pitot said:

So now I realise, contrary to what I previously thought, that the search function does not seem to pick up any references that are abbreviated, which really limits its use.

Are you using a reference format or a string format for the search argument? The former should pick up everything in a research edition, the latter will not.

Dave Hooton

Roger Pitot said:

I wanted to see if he included texts from Jewish sources, and certainly he does. I ran the concordance and found 71 references to the Mishnah, for example. 

But when I used the Search function and looked for Mishnah, there were only 24 results.

You have to know how to format different datatypes for Search, as Concordance does that for you.

See https://wiki.logos.com/Finding_the_right_datatype_name_and_reference