Getting Duplicate Word Search Results

I searched and tried some things on my own to no avail. That said, I'm relatively new to the program and may be overlooking something obvious.

I'm doing a search on the word "love" in the ESV, all word forms. When I sort by noun usages of the exact word "love" under analysis, I get 633 results. However, a LOT of these are duplicates.

I can see what is happening. חֶסֶד is showing up twice since the ESV translates it using two different words, "steadfast" and "love." So, I get two hits for Genesis 24:12 and many, many others, even though the text only has the word "love" in it once.

How can I run the search so that "steadfast" doesn't get its own entry? Or is there some other work around to find the exact number of uses of "love" in the ESV?

Thanks.

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Stuart Paul

I have sort of found the issue. I had "Result" as well as "Part of Speech" in the blank space above the readout. When I removed "Result," it quit the duplicates. However, it also lumped some of the other uses (e.g. "loved") in with "love."

The workaround for now I'm doing is not matching all word forms and doing the other searches separately.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/585249#Comment_585249

The workaround for now I'm doing is not matching all word forms and doing the other searches separately.

You can restrict the search to nouns only e.g. a Bible Search for

(love ANDEQUALS <lbs-morph+el ~ N????>) OR (love ANDEQUALS <lbs-morph+he ~ N?????>)

Get the Greek (el) and Hebrew (he) terms by using Morph search with @N, then selecting Bible. There is an Aramaic (arc) term but it gave no results.

It is intriguing that leather and love have the same form in Hebrew (Song 3:10, Hos 11:4), so you might see the gloss leather in Analysis view.