BH search string help?

Don Parker
Don Parker Member Posts: 143 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

Any chance a logos search guru could provide the precise syntax to search for all occurrences of a very basic 3 term BH construction (all variations need not be included for an initial investigation; probably readily expanded from any provided search string): inarticular substantival adjectives or nouns in a verbal clause that sometimes might be considered ambiguous as to subject and object function, to see if word order alone might not generally favor one reading vs. the other (though maybe different tendency in different corpora and other discourse factors may override any such)?

J-SA [+] VaI3MS [+] J-SA

AND

NCMSA [+] VaI3MS [+] NCMSA

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,339

    Don Parker said:

    J-SA [+] VaI3MS [+] J-SA

    As a start:  morph.h:J-SA  BEFORE 2 WORDS  morph.h:VaI3MS BEFORE 2 WORDS  morph.h:J-SA

    --->  54 occurrences in LHB should not be difficult to examine, and you can reduce/increase the word spacing.

    Dave
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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,339

    Don Parker said:

    NCMSA [+] VaI3MS [+] NCMSA

    If you feed NCMSA  into a Search box for a Hebrew bible, you will get a drop-down with choices and you can feed that into the above Search string instead of the Adjective.

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Don Parker
    Don Parker Member Posts: 143 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1296932#Comment_1296932

    TY. Helpful!

    Any additional thoughts on easy "clean up" of search results, so that neither substantive is prefixed with an article or preposition?

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,339
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1296971#Comment_1296971

    Don Parker said:

    Any additional thoughts on easy "clean up" of search results, so that neither substantive is prefixed with an article or preposition?

    In text Search it is easier to specify their presence and Hebrew presents a challenge because words can comprise many segments and one can only separate segments using the CHARACTER (CHARS) spacing. So

    morph.h:J-SA BEFORE 2 WORDS morph.h:VaI3MS BEFORE 2 WORDS (morph.h:A  OR morph.h:P) BEFORE 1 CHARS morph.h:J-SA

    illustrates how to include articles and prepositions before the second adjective. A Conjunction may precede the Article but it does not affect the WORD and CHAR spacing.

    Dave
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    Windows 11 & Android 13

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