Esarhaddon

Bootjack

What am I doing wrong in this? I type in Esarhaddon and I get one result found in 2kings 19:37, when in actuality, I should be seeing 3 results, for instance in 2kings 19:37, Ezra 4:2, and Isaiah 37:38.

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Aaron Hamilton

"-" is your problem.

Try "person:Esarhaddon" or "Esarhaddon OR Esar-haddon"

Aaron Hamilton

"-" is your problem.

Try "person:Esarhaddon" or "Esarhaddon OR Esar-haddon"

Bootjack

Got it. Thank you Aaron for steering me straight on this. Very helpful.

DMB

I'd of assumed (incorrectly) that the little clock would fix it (narrow search vs broadened … .removal of dashes etc). Vs substituting letters (as an earlier post issue).

Bootjack

It is unique though, that the Logos Search will not pick up both spellings of Esarhaddon and Esar-haddon and list them, for example, we can do a search for God and list the search as god and it will pick up both, Gen 1:1 and Ex 7:1. Is there a particular reason why this is so?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1363192#Comment_1363192

person:Esarhaddon should pick up all spellings as it is looking for a Logos supplied tag. This works even across languages.

Looking for Esar-haddon without the tag requires a computer parsing routine that only recognizes common forms that work for many words e.g. it would recognize Esar-haddon's as the possessive is standard (actually I'm not sure how it handles proper nouns but the principle is correct). But alternative spellings are outside normal parsing rules.

Bootjack

Thank you M.J. Smith for your explanation. You are light years ahead of me, so I'm happy you and others are about to clarify things.