Possible Bug: Bible searches with Greek or Hebrew

Craig Downey

I didn't catch this during the beta process and just realized that Logos 4 is no longer returning all relevant forms of a word when you enter in a lexical form for a simple bible search in greek or hebrew. I entered in g:doulos in a simple Bible search and only got doulos in the nominative case instead of like Logos 3 where it returned any form of doulos whether it was in the genative or accusative or dative. I double checked and 'match all word forms' is checked in the option panel. Is this expected behavior or is this a bug?

Rich DeRuiter

CraigDowney said:

I didn't catch this during the beta process and just realized that Logos 4 is no longer returning all relevant forms of a word when you enter in a lexical form for a simple bible search in greek or hebrew. I entered in g:doulos in a simple Bible search and only got doulos in the nominative case instead of like Logos 3 where it returned any form of doulos whether it was in the genative or accusative or dative. I double checked and 'match all word forms' is checked in the option panel. Is this expected behavior or is this a bug?

No it's not a bug. Logos is doing what you told it to do. I'm not sure what the syntax is for searching for a lemma, but it is not the same as searching for a particular word form.

I do all my searching from the right-click menu from a resource. So find an instance of doulos, right click, choose "lemma" and the "Search this resource."

But someone here probably knows how to do it the way you want.

Jon

That is expected behaviour. When you do "Bible" search, by default it is
searching the surface text and you have entered the doulos in the
nominative case.

If you run a Morph search and type in g:doulos
and select the first option, it will yield lemma:δοῦλος. Now you will
get all the morphological variants, (or you can add an @ sign and then
specify what you want...)

To search for all forms of a lemma in a bible search, or entire library, there is a different syntax: <lemma = lbs/el/δοῦλος>, but that's a bit complicated so the way I did that was to type g:doulos in morph search -> lemma:δοῦλος, and then change to bible search and it changes the syntax automatically...

Craig Downey

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/26699#Comment_26699

Thanks guys, that helps.

I find the 'match all word forms' option in this case to be misleading. I would love to see the older v3 functionality restored. I found it superior in this case.