Basic Syntactic search

Richard
Richard Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 2 ✭
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I want to do a simple syntactic search. Find all references to the Lord or God as subject of the verb appear, including the use of pronouns referencing God or the Lord. I can’t do this in Acc. Can it be done in Logos

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,306

    Do you have access to the Clause Search?

    If so, you should be able to do something like Subject:God verb-gloss:appear

    Please note these can only be done against specific original language Bibles - the Lexham Hebrew Bible and the the Greek New Testament: SBL version or the Swete LXX

  • Kristin
    Kristin Member Posts: 834 ✭✭✭

    Hi @Graham Criddle, thanks for clarifying this. Just out of curiosity, if I am understanding correctly, that command you listed would capture both "God" and "Lord" where God is involved, so given Richard's post above (the forum won't let me tag him), he would not need to do the thread twice once with God, and once with Lord. Is this correct?

    Also, if you don't mind clarifying this, where is this data fundamentally coming from? While I appreciate Logos is able to do this, I can't see personally ever using it since I would be pretty cautious before trusting a software (Accordance or Logos) to not make inaccurate assumptions. So I am curious who is deciding when "he" refers to God in such verses.

  • Richard
    Richard Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 2 ✭

    that’s a good point- I noticed some discrepancies between Accordance results vs. logos results that were due to verses where The Angel,of the Lord was not tagged as deity

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