Searching for "Knowledge of God"

Hello all!

I'm trying to find every instance where the phrase "knowledge of God" is used in the Bible. What's the most straightforward way to do this in Logos? I know that "knowledge of God" translates a variety of Greek and Hebrew words - is there a way I could search for those words within a certain proximity to words for God, or Lord?

Thanks!

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MJ. Smith

Something like <Sense knowledge> WITHIN 5 WORDS <Person God>?

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1180466#Comment_1180466

I am one that find the "search" in Logos to be elusive and evading, meaning that when I think I understand it and then actually try it....well... after a few tries... I do get a somewhat answer...

And when anyone asks a question about search... I try to work through it... to learn for myself.

For instance.... (I knowMJ said something like) but what MJ posted does not work for me. I got zero results. But when I put in "<knowledge> WITHIN 5 WORDS <Person God>" .... then that works.

Is search different for Windows, Apple and Android?

Gregory Lawhorn

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1180493#Comment_1180493

For instance.... (I knowMJ said something like) but what MJ posted does not work for me. I got zero results. But when I put in "<knowledge> WITHIN 5 WORDS <Person God>" .... then that works.

Just a question . . . when you typed "<sense knowledge" did you wait for Logos to populate the popup menu, and then click on "knowledge"? The reason I ask is, searching the ESV, Logos found over 4,600 results for "<Sense knowledge> WITHIN 5 WORDS <Person God>". Sometimes Logos is funny about search terms.

Martin Wetzel

I prefer:

"knowledge of" BEFORE 0-5 WORD <Person God> (44 Results)

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1180510#Comment_1180510

Just goes to show me...... One day I hope to understand Logos search.... lol

And I just learned that the phrase (without brackets) works also i.e "knowledge WITHIN 5 WORDS God"

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1180532#Comment_1180532

Just goes to show me...... One day I hope to understand Logos search.... lol

And I just learned that the phrase (without brackets) works also i.e "knowledge WITHIN 5 WORDS God"

But it looks for specific wording while <Sense knowledge> WITHIN 5 WORDS <Person God> looks for meaning independent of wording. Which do you actually want?

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1180495#Comment_1180495

when you typed "<sense knowledge" did you wait for Logos to populate the popup menu

Popup menu has seven choices for <Sense knowledge

(<Person God> OR <Person Jesus> OR <Person Holy Spirit>) WITHIN 4 WORDS (<Sense knowledge> OR <Sense to accept (knowledge)> OR <Sense discipline (knowledge)> OR <Sense to learn (knowledge)> OR <Sense structure (knowledge)> OR <Sense wisdom (knowledge)> OR <Sense knowledgeable person>)

Keep Smiling [:)]

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1181416#Comment_1181416

Popup menu has seven choices for <Sense knowledge>

Several of these are included in the search with the default operator.

[quote] Note in particular the use of “=” in the search syntax. Omitting the “=” returns results for the sense that we are searching plus the results for anything that comes below it in the Bible Sense Lexicon hierarchy. So, “<Sense temple>” would return results for “temple” and all other ways of referring to the temple in the Bible.

Jeremy Thompson, Bible Sense Lexicon: Dataset Documentation (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2015).

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1181420#Comment_1181420

Popup menu has seven choices for <Sense knowledge>

Several of these are included in the search with the default operator.

Noticed <Sense knowledge> is both a sibling and child of <Sense cognition> whose hierarchy includes <Sense discipline (knowledge)> , <Sense structure (knowledge)> & <Sense wisdom (knowledge)>

Learned <Sense to accept (knowledge)> is within hierarchy of <Sense to think (reason)> while <Sense to learn (knowledge)> is within hierarchy <Sense to act (mental)>

Simplified & expanded search is => (<Person God> OR <Person Jesus> OR <Person Holy Spirit>) WITHIN 4 WORDS (<Sense internal feature> OR <Sense to think (reason)> OR <Sense to act (mental)> OR <Sense knowledgeable person>)

Keep Smiling [:)]

Joshua H.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1181489#Comment_1181489

Very helpful, thanks everyone!

Joshua H.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1181489#Comment_1181489

Very helpful, thank you everyone!

Joshua H.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1180466#Comment_1180466

Something like <Sense knowledge> WITHIN 5 WORDS <Person God>?

Weird, running this search for me brought up a bunch of passages I would not associate with knowledge, like Genesis 1:10 and 2:7. Here is the search I ran: https://ref.ly/logos4/Search?kind=BibleSearch&q=%3cSense+knowledge%3e+WITHIN+5+WORDS+%3cPerson+God%3e&match=stem&in=raw%3aSingle%7cResourceId%3dLLS%3aNIV2011. What did I do wrong?

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1182957#Comment_1182957

Weird, running this search for me brought up a bunch of passages I would not associate with knowledge

If you open up the Bible Sense Lexicon tool and look through the branches of the "knowledge" entry, you will find that "sea" is one of the descendants.

https://ref.ly/logos4/Senses?KeyId=ws.knowledge.n.01

This occurs through the following chain of senses: knowledge > thought > concept > abstract idea > thing (abstraction) > body of water > sea

I've reported to our data curation team that "body of water" is incorrectly a child of "thing (abstraction)", and they've created a case to fix this problem.

You might want to consider using a narrower sense than "knowledge" for your search. Browsing through the Bible Sense Lexicon tree may help inform you as to what may fit your needs better.

Note that if you want to search for just a sense without its descendants, you can do something like this: <Sense = knowledge>