Clause Search Question

David P. Moore

I wanted to find all instances of  "The Lord is good" (Nahum 1:7) and "He is good" (Ps 107:1) and other similar instances where God is either referenced directly or implied, and being described as "good"--but I am having no success. Is is because "good" is an adjective and adjectives are not indexed yet in the new Clause Search? Or maybe I just don't get this new tool.

Rosie Perera

I don't believe adjectives are tagged for Clause Search, but I could be wrong.

This wouldn't do exactly what you want, but it would come close: You could do a Bible Search for "good" then save the results as a Passage List. Then do a clause search, restricted to that Passage List for subject:God. It would find all verses where God is the subject of a verb and "good" appears in the verse which would pick up plenty of verses you don't want (such as "And God saw that it was good..."). And of course it wouldn't pick up verses that used a synonym for good.

Maybe a Syntax search would help you here, but I'm not the person who could help you with that.