Morph Searching for Instances where a word is used with a particular meaning

Stephen Thee
Stephen Thee Member Posts: 15 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I was wondering if there is a way to do a morph search that narrowed the results by only including instances in which the word in question is used in a particular sense. For instance, I want to search the Hebrew word שׁוּב but I don't want to sift through all 1,062 instances where it is used in order to find the places where it indicates repentance or (re)turning to God. Is there a way to specify the search so that only instances in which the word is used in that sense appear in the results? 

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,098

    You can use the Bible Sense Lexicon (if available to you) for  repent and choose to repent <=> return which gives 89 instances of the word with that sense.

    If you have AFAT (Andersen Forbes Hebrew bible) you can search for its sense with <Lemma = af/he/שׁב:1> ANDEQUALS  <AndersenForbesGenre = Supplication to Divinity>, which has 53 results. I basically found the lemma from a passage given by BSL, right clicked, selected Supplication to Divinity, and then selected search this resource to get the search form. Combining it with the lemma using ANDEQUALS means I find places where the lemma and the Genre coincide.

    Dave
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  • Stephen Thee
    Stephen Thee Member Posts: 15 ✭✭