Search syntax/capabilities questions - most frequent words by part of speech?

biblemanstan

Greetings again, everyone. I know there is a faithlife search group, but I was wondering if this might be an equally useful (better?) forum to ask some questions about what Logos can/can't do.

As I was studying today, I wondered whether it is possible in Logos to generate frequency lists by parts of speech. In other words, if I wanted to determine what are the ten most common participles used in the Hebrew Old Testament, is that a query that can be constructed short of searching for all participles and then doing some additional manual sorting/counting?

Just thought I'd ask in case there was some obvious/easy feature staring me in the face.

Thanks in advance, as always!

Mike Binks

biblemanstan said:

ten most common participles used in the Hebrew Old Testament,

Interesting question, about which I have no knowledge but wondered which documents you were going to apply your search to. and how you were going to deal with situations where one document differs from another.

Graham Criddle

biblemanstan said:

As I was studying today, I wondered whether it is possible in Logos to generate frequency lists by parts of speech. In other words, if I wanted to determine what are the ten most common participles used in the Hebrew Old Testament, is that a query that can be constructed short of searching for all participles and then doing some additional manual sorting/counting?

The morph search string morph.h:V?R finds all Hebrew participles in a search range.

Below I have searched the LHB with this string (the string works in a Bible search as well as a morph search) and then switched to the analysis view and grouped the results by Hebrew lemma. Finally I have selected the Summary view. Does this give you what you want?

And if you don't know how to do any of the steps I outlined above, please ask