Search Questions

Take a closer look at using parentheses in searches and proximity operators here: http://wiki.logos.com/Detailed_Search_Help#Proximity_Operators

I believe what you want to search for is (god, lord) NEAR love*

This is what I did to get the results I desired. I made a change to the wiki to explain this at the main search entry page:

4. (Proximity) BEFORE, AFTER, WITHIN, NEAR

eg. Jesus BEFORE Christ, Jesus NEAR Christ, Jesus WITHIN 4 Words Christ

Note: You can’t use logical statements as part of a search that uses a proximity operator.
You can use a comma list instead:

(god,lord) NEAR love*

Or you can use the logical elements (OR and AND) outside of a phrase:

(god NEAR love*) OR (lord NEAR love*)

Did I get this right?

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/201102#Comment_201102

Did I get this right?

I see what you were attempting and edited your change!

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/201093#Comment_201093

You can't use logical statements as terms in a NEAR phrase (or a WITHIN phrase).

You can use a comma list instead:

(god,lord) NEAR love*

Or you can use the logical elements (OR and AND) outside of the NEAR phrase:

(god NEAR love*) OR (lord NEAR love*)

Is there a way to use lists to get to something like this:

(birth ANDNOT "new birth") NEAR "second advent"

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/202301#Comment_202301

Is there a way to use lists to get to something like this:

Not in L4. You have to use (birth NEAR "second advent") ANDNOT ("new birth" NEAR "second advent")

Libronix used the tilde prefix. Thus (birth*, ~birthday) produces all words starting with "birth" but not "birthday".