I must be brain dead, I can't figure this out. How do I search for a question in Syntax Search (any source), for example return a list of all the questions posed in "words of Jesus" in Mark? Or is morph search better for this?
One option is a Bible search in Words of Christ for:
if, how, however, what, where, when, who, whoever, whom, why
that includes bit more than all questions; could save results to a passage list, then remove verses lacking questions.
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I would choose Louw-Nida subdomains in relation to Question, Answer(33.180-188) and Markers for Responses to Questions (69.11-16)
The Bible Search would be over WOC:-
<LN 69.11-16>, <LN 33.180-188>
Remove non-questions from 209 results in ESV.
EDIT: 209 in Gospels.
There is also this resource available http://www.logos.com/product/1171/all-the-questions-in-the-bible
I think that doing a morphological search (within the Gospels) that looks like this will give you all of the questions.
@BI @RI @TI
You would then need to narrow the results to the words of Christ. I haven't figured out how to get that to work with a morphological search.
I haven't figured out how to get that to work with a morphological search.
The short answer is that it doesn't. The words of Christ tagging is on the English layer while the Morph search is a different layer. This can be overcome with a clever use of proximity and wildcard operators but is prohibitively slow.
As a work around some have made passage lists based off of the Words of Christ tagging that can be used to limit searches. http://community.logos.com/forums/p/16724/126565.aspx has a txt file which can be imported into a passage list for that use (there's other threads on this too).
Every so often people want to search for questions and it's just not the type of search Logos does well.
Apart from the usefulness of this resource - which somehow seems to escape me, given the author-acknowledged differences between various translations and the lack of further classification (like: who asked, who was asked, intention of the question ...) - I thought that his reduced-scientific approach should be "doable" in Logos as well: as per the biblia-powered resource preview he states "I’ve simply gathered all verses from the KJV ending with question marks. The total number of questions in the KJV is 3,297. In the Old Testament there are 2,273 questions, the largest number found in Job. Only Zephaniah has no questions. In the New Testament there are 1,024 questions, the largest number found in Matthew."
I thought, this should be easy for Logos, the whole book is just a Passage List from a Bible Search for ? in the KJV. Very well, but how does one search for ?, given the fact that it works as a search wildcard?
A search for ? alone gives all verses that contain one-character-words like "I" or "a". Putting the ? in qutation marks as "?" doesn't help. Neither does putting the tilde before it ~? like in the wiki-syntax. The wiki http://wiki.logos.com/Detailed_Search_Help#Wildcards has no information on turning off the wildcard-functionality.
Is this at all possible?
To the best of my knowledge Logos' index does not catalog punctuation, it is word based. Unfortunately the answer is no.
I would choose Louw-Nida subdomains in relation to Question, Answer(33.180-188) and Markers for Responses to Questions (69.11-16) The Bible Search would be over WOC:- <LN 69.11-16>, <LN 33.180-188> Remove non-questions from 209 results in ESV. EDIT: 209 in Gospels.
I tried this one too, in Mark. It missed these verses:
Mark 2.8, 2.9, 2.19, 2.25, 2.26,3.23, 4.13, 4.24, 4.30, 4.40, 5.30, 5.31, 5.39, 8.12, 8.17, 8.19, 8.20, 8.36, 8.37, 9.12, 9.50, 10.18, 10.36, 10.38, 11.3, 12.9, 12.15, 12.16, 12.35, 12.37, 14.6, 14.14, 15.34
Maybe there is an additional LN range to add to the query to grab these - like LN 92.14-16 for one. However, I tried adding this LN range and I got a lot more false positives.
There were some reported incorrectly especially not being able to track Words of Christ. However, it caught these that the other method missed:
Mark 6.3, 8.23, 10.24, 12.26.
Between these two approaches I may have them all!?!?!? Thanks again all!
Maybe there is an additional LN range to add to the query to grab these - like LN 92.14-16 for one.
That was the range I subsequently added to my query.
There were some reported incorrectly especially not being able to track Words of Christ. However, it caught these that the other method missed: Mark 6.3, 8.23, 10.24, 12.26.
Mk 6:3? Not WOC.
But it also picks up Mk 11:30
