Search all occurences where God speaks "I am with you"

Great questions!

Famille Thevoz said:

1. Why is the phrase "I am with you" split and returned as 2 separate results in  E.g. Gen. 26:24, Gen. 28:15, with "I" being matched separately from "with you" ? I would expect 13 results in 13 verses to be returned by the search query, not 21 results in 13 verses.

You will actually different numbers of results - and ordering - in different translations.

It looks like you are using the NIV (or something structured the same way)

If you open the Interlinear ribbon you can see that the word translated am isn't in the underlying text. As such it won't be tagged - as tagging is done against the original languages - which is why you get the results you noted.

Famille Thevoz said:

Does <Person God> exclude Jesus ?

Yes - the <Person God> tag references God the Father

Famille Thevoz said:

3. Haggai 1:13 is missed from the query, but IMHO should be listed there too : 

¹³ Then Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, spoke to the people with the Lord’s message, “I am with you, declares the Lord.”

I guess this is a tagging mistake ?

You probably noted it is tagged as Haggai speaking - I remember quite a discussion about nested speakers in this type of situation but I'm afraid I don't remember the outcome so don't know if this would be seen as a tagging error or not

Famille Thevoz said:

What I find a bit inconsistent is that if I search only for the phrase "I am with you", the phrase is not split in parts and multiple hits per verse

Yes - in this case the software is simply searching the surface text in the translation. As this all appears together there is no split

Famille Thevoz said:

However when I add the reference to the Speaker, then the phrase is split in parts and multiple results per verse are returned. I guess this is due to the mechanics on how the search works underneath, with Speaker tagging being linked to original language terms rather than the translated surface text.

That is correct - because of the underlying tagging against the original language 

Looking at the interlinear ribbon for Gen 26:24 you can see that the word shown as am in the translation is not actually present in the original language text (represented by a dot)

With the Speaker tag being applied to the underlying Hebrew, there is no intersection with the word am.

So it is less that the phrase is being split but that the word am no longer matches the search criteria and so does not feature in the results.

Famille Thevoz said:

Do you know in this case how the search mechanics work to match a phrase such as "I am with you" with the underlying original texts ?

Effectively - to the best of my knowledge - the INTERSECTS operator causes the search to function at a "lower level" - trying to find cases where the Hebrew words that were translated as "I am with you" intersect with those Hebrew words that are tagged as spoken by God.

Then the results are propogated up and shown in the translation.

Famille Thevoz said:

Interestingly, the phrase does appear to be split. The search {Speaker <Person God>} INTERSECTS "I am with you" does return 13 verses, each having only one instance of "I am with you". However, search returns 21 results in 13 verses, and you can see from the seach output that this is due to the multiple splits of the phrase "I am with you" in 2 parts as you highlighted : "I" + "with you", with "am" being ignored as not part of the original text.

Sorry - you are correct.