Clause Search - Searching for actions by the Kings of Judah
In the clause search, implicit subjects and objects are made explicit, which opens up very interesting possibilities for searching.
For example, we know that David danced and wore a linen ephod - interesting as it may mean he was taking a priestly role. Are there any other instances of a King of Judah dressed in a linen ephod?
Before we couldn't do a search like this because most subjects of verbs are implicit. But now that they have been made explicit in the Clause Search function, a search like this should be simple.
All you would have to do is run together a list of the names of the kings of Judah (easily found copy and pasting from Wikipedia or other similar sources). For example, it might look something like this:
subject:David Solomon Rehoboam Abijah [names of the other kings of Judah] thing:linen
Or maybe it would look like this:
subject:David OR Solomon OR Rehoboam OR Abijah OR [names of the other kings of Judah] thing:linen
The great thing about this is that once you have made the "subject" search string for all the Kings of Judah, you can easily save it in a Logos Note and have it available for you for future use, or maybe even share it on Faithlife.
It seems, however, that there is not yet the possibility of doing an "OR" search in the Clause Search. Is this correct? If so, consider this a feature request!
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It seems that basic Boolean operators will be available in a future upgrade. See this thread:
http://community.logos.com/forums/p/58434/415956.aspx#415956
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I recently discovered the same type of thing. I am currently studying Isaiah 6:1-8 and wondered if anyone else had "seen the Lord" I was able to create a search of verb-lemma:roeh (I used the actual Hebrew but I'm typing on my iPad) object:God. I discovered two more instances that I don't think I would have found using other tools. I also was studying about Timothy. I did a search person:Timothy and it even included instances where he is included in a group "we" allowing me to see locations in Acts where he was present.
I like your idea of saving search strings in notes.
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Ruben Gomez said:
It seems that basic Boolean operators will be available in a future upgrade. See this thread:
http://community.logos.com/forums/p/58434/415956.aspx#415956
Thanks for pointing that out. Good news.
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Philana Crouch said:
I recently discovered the same type of thing. I am currently studying Isaiah 6:1-8 and wondered if anyone else had "seen the Lord" I was able to create a search of verb-lemma:roeh (I used the actual Hebrew but I'm typing on my iPad) object:God. I discovered two more instances that I don't think I would have found using other tools. I also was studying about Timothy. I did a search person:Timothy and it even included instances where he is included in a group "we" allowing me to see locations in Acts where he was present.
I like your idea of saving search strings in notes.
Having implicit subjects and objects made explicit is so powerful!! Thanks Logos team!
Does anyone know if there are plans to add these implicit references into the Syntax Search Databases? Or if they have already been integrated into some of them?
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