Is there a way to do a basic search such that the search term as found within scripture references is excluded?
If I underdstand your question correctly your are looking for a way to search your library for a term (e.g. grace) but do not want to get results where the term is used in a bible verse.
I have a collection of "all resources excluding bibles and commentaries". You can create something similar and then run your search on that collection.
If you have not already reviewed the wiki page on collections, it may help you.
http://wiki.logos.com/Collections
It sounds to me like you are trying to find results for "Ruth" without finding "Ruth 1:15." I'm not sure off hand how to do it and have to pack up my computer but maybe while I'm thinking it over someone else will be able to post the answer, If this is what you meant.
Yes this is correct. I do have several collections that do what you suggested but this will not work since there are bible verses in most books regardless of what collection is created. I'm thinking there may be some search query that could be used.
I played with a couple of different search strings and could not create one that does what your looking for. Perhaps one of the other users can chime in with a search rule that would work.
I'm thinking there may be some search query that could be used.
Basically you are asking if one can distinguish bible text from "All text" in non-bible resources, and the answer is "No"! You can do that in a Bible with something like grace ANDNOT bible:grace, ensuring the word is not found in bible text!
Is it possible to do a word search and EXCLUDE Citations?
ie: love ANDNOT <scripture reference>
Is it possible to do a word search and EXCLUDE Citations? ie: love ANDNOT <scripture reference>
Try it! For example
love ANDNOT <1 Cor 13>
You gave me an idea. I tried "love ANDNOT (<John>,<Proverbs>,<1 John>,<Genesis>,<Mat>)" and it took several seconds longer than usual but weeded out the passages above. Theoretically if I were to put in every book in the bible it might work but probably would take several minutes and possibly crash the program. Not sure it's worth it.
I think that would also probably weed out more than you want it to. If the word "love" were mentioned in an article and it so happened that the article also quoted a verse in John with the word "love" in it, all instances of "love" in that article would be excluded from your results when you'd probably want to find the first hit in it (but not the second).
I got it! love ANDNOT (<Gen - Rev>) this works to weed out any scripture references but takes almost 4 minutes.
Seems what is needed is a "bibleverse" search.
As in:
love ANDNOT bibleverse
That's the problem. The next approach is:-
love ANDNOT (love WITHIN 3 words <1 Cor 13>)
which probably includes more than you want, but you can tinker with the proximity.
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