ot-quote:light SEARCH

Bill Fiess
Bill Fiess Member Posts: 807 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I noted a search item under BIBLE SEARCH which seems to yield no results. It is under FIELD:OT QUOTATION and the search operator is ot-quote:light [for the word "light"]. Does anyone have any insight into why it is not working?

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  • Milford Charles Murray
    Milford Charles Murray Member Posts: 5,004 ✭✭✭

    Peace, Bill!            *smile*                                Very strange indeed!    ????     I do the same search and get lots of results ...

                  I will ponder on it for a while ... 

    Do you have a screen shot???                Here's mine:      (There is a Forum Software problem with .png files; however, it should work....)

    Philippians 4:  4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,123

    If you are using the Search field OT Quotation, just enter light.  ot-quote:light is needed only if you select "All Bible Text" instead of the search field.

    HCSB has some results, as does LGNTI, NA27 & UBS4.

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Bill Fiess
    Bill Fiess Member Posts: 807 ✭✭

    That's interesting, Dave. You're right. But why don't other translations yield results? For example, the NKJV has "light" in some of the same hits.

  • Bill Fiess
    Bill Fiess Member Posts: 807 ✭✭

    Maybe I should clarify my last statement; that is, when I choose the NKJV it get no hits even though "light" appears in various O.T. quotes.

  • Lynden O. Williams
    Lynden O. Williams MVP Posts: 9,012

    Ran the search in all Bibles, and the only returns that I got were in my Greek resources.

    Mission: To serve God as He desires.

  • Milford Charles Murray
    Milford Charles Murray Member Posts: 5,004 ✭✭✭

    Peace, Lynden!         *smile*                   Did you look at my screen shot in my post?              Is that the search you made?

               In case I'm the only one that can read that .png file, I'm attaching it to this post as a .jpg file ...                   

    Philippians 4:  4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,123

    Maybe I should clarify my last statement; that is, when I choose the NKJV it get no hits even though "light" appears in various O.T. quotes.

    HCSB is the only English bible (that I have) with the search field OT Quotation. NKJV does not tag the text of OT quotes but you will find footnotes with references to the OT for those found in HCSB i.e. Matt 4:15-16, Acts 13:47. But then the search becomes more difficult

    • has to be a Basic Search
    • cannot restrict the range to NT as in Bible Search
    • cannot restrict to bible text as with "light"

    The ESV is (as usual) quite helpful as you can search for "cited from" in Footnotes OR footnote:"cited from". You can be clever but proximity only works with NEAR and BEFORE  e.g. footnote:"cited from"  NEAR  light, or footnote:"cited from"  BEFORE  light.

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Bill Fiess
    Bill Fiess Member Posts: 807 ✭✭