Searching for "Lord Jesus" but not "Lord Jesus Christ" in Paul
I'm just curious. When searching for "Lord Jesus" but not "Lord Jesus Christ" in the Pauline corpus, I tried:
"Lord Jesus" NOT THEN Christ
and
"Lord Jesus" THEN NOT Christ
Neither of those worked. However, the following worked:
"Lord Jesus" NOT BEFORE Christ (although this leaves out 2 Thes 1:12 which has a positive search result but also has Christ later in the verse)
"Lord Jesus" NOT WITHIN 1 WORD Christ (this gives the best results)
Question: Why can't I use NOT in conjunction with the THEN operator when I don't want a term to immediately follow another term but it can be somewhere else in the verse?
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"Lord Jesus" NOT WITHIN 1 WORD Christ (this gives the best results)
Question: Why can't I use NOT in conjunction with the THEN operator when I don't want a term to immediately follow another term but it can be somewhere else in the verse?
"Lord Jesus" NOT BEFORE 1 WORD Christ is technically best because "Christ, Lord Jesus", if it existed, would be excluded from results using WITHIN.
THEN is technically the same as BEFORE 1-1 WORDS but counts and highlights the results differently, so Faithlife may not see it as compatible with NOT.
Dave
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"Lord Jesus" NOT Christ list 34 results in the NKJV.
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"Lord Jesus" NOT Christ list 34 results in the NKJV.
That works in that instance, but this doesn't:
Lord NOT "Lord Jesus" --> with Match Case
because it excludes 1 Cor 11:23, 16:22 from results given by Lord NOT WITHIN 1 WORD Jesus.
Same problem exists with "Jesus Christ" NOT Lord
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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