I'm trying to understand how Hebrew (and Aramaic) search works in Logos5. I have a couple of issues.
I want to find all the instances in the Lexham Hebrew Bible (or BHS...) of מלך . At this point, I don't care whether it's a noun or verb.
I tried Bible search in All Bible Text in All Passages in Lexham Hebrew Bible using hebrew:מלך
I get 1021 results in 807 verses, 906 of which are nouns and 115 verbs and 3 articles. (The three hits as articles are duplicates of ones found in nouns and appears to be a coding issue.)
BUT, that's not what I really want, since that is actually only finds instances of the triliteral by itself with no prefixes or suffixes of any kind.
So, I try a Morph Search using All Morph Text in All Passages in LHB with Logos Hebrew Morph and searching for מלך . Now I get 1029 results. Somehow I've picked up 8 more noun instances. BUT, this still isn't what I want since it's still just searching for the unaugmented triliteral.
So, using same parameters as the previous, I try searching for lemma:מלך This returns zero results, apparently because there is no such lemma.
When I start typing using the lemma, Logos actually wants me to choose between: a lemma meaning "Moloch," a lemma 1 which has two options of noun=king or verb=to be king, and a lemma 2 with two options of a verb=to debate or a noun=Melech.
So, I do want those two lemmas pertaining to "king."
So, apparently I need to conduct an OR search. Okay, a bit of a bother, but I suppose it does keep things straight. Using: lemma:מלך.1 OR lemma:מֶ֫לֶךְ.1
I get 2880 results in 2111 verses.
BUT, that doesn't include any hits in the Aramaic portions of the Bible. BUT, how do you do an Aramaic search? Under the Morph search, Logos suggests "aramaic:מלך" but that only returns 8 hits on that specific triliteral. I try typing <lemma = lbs/arc/מלך but that returns the Hebrew lemma choices, and if select any one of them, I get 0 results.
The only way I can figure is to look at one of the 8 Aramaic hits in the NRSV and doing a search on the Aramaic and then copy the search code that it generated.
SO... now I'm back to a Bible (not Morph) search, and the only way I can think of doing it is to: Search All Bible Text in All Passages in the NRSV (or any other reverse interlinear) looking for:
<lemma = lbs/he/מלך:1> OR <lemma = lbs/he/מֶ֫לֶךְ:1> OR <Lemma = lbs/arc/מֶ֫לֶךְ>
Now I get 3053 results in 2241 verses, and I think that's what I want.
That was too much work for what should be an easy matter.
What have I missed? Am I asking a complicated question that needs such a complicated solution? Is their a simpler way to search both Hebrew and Aramaic of the OT?
Thanks for any and all help!
