Can someone help. I am trying to search for Hebrew imperatives that have on 2 characters. I cant seem to get the right code.
Thanks for any help or guide to some additional data.
carl
I'm curious about this too. I know you can do this in Accordance in about 3 seconds (1 second per mouse click). No idea how to do it with Logos. Anyone else have an answer?
I am trying to search for Hebrew imperatives that have on 2 characters. I cant seem to get the right code.
Did you mean "only two Hebrew characters long"? If you did it may be possible in L3, but it'll take a lot longer than 3s.
Yes I mean like the word go LK in Gen 12:1 The normal verb is three characters but in several instances it drops to two when used as an imperative. The operators that are used in the search of the Hebrew are not clear to me. I do not know how to exclude words longer than two characters in length.
thanks for the reply
Here's a list I generated from Accordance. Sorry I can't help you with your Logos question though...
7701.2-letter Hebrew Imperatives.pdf
Thanks Mark. I wil go through the list. Could you explain Accordance. I do not know that term.
thanks again Carl.
http://www.accordancebible.com
I'd like to add that I wouldn't be giving out a competitor's information if someone from Logos would have answered what should be a very basic question. Frankly, I still would like to know the answer to this question.
Thanks Mark. I wil go through the list. Could you explain Accordance. I do not know that term. thanks again Carl.
Accordance is another Bible study application, sometimes referred to in these forums as "that other software". http://www.accordancebible.com/
You can't restrict a result word to a particular length in L4 nor L3.
Wow, are you sure about that? That's an extremely basic and important function for any kind of study in the original languages. I really think there has to be a way to perform a search in the Hebrew and limit the search based on word length.
I'd like to point out that this is a serious thing for the end users.
As has been pointed out before, Logos has lived with the bad rap of "ok for commentaries and things, but it's not a serious language tool" for a long time.
This, in my mind, is the last frontier for Logos. There are a few small things that have been asked for here on the forums, some have been addressed (yay! variation of the graphical query search!) and some are yet to be pointed out....
I'm not sure (because I don't understand) why a "letter count" search is important, but if it's one of those "every good exegetical software does this" sort of things...then might I suggest that Logos take a look?
Personally, I'd like to keep to one piece of bible software and not have to purchase a second because there are things that Logos cannot do that the competitors do....
That's an extremely basic and important function for any kind of study in the original languages.
My experience is with Indo-European roots not Hebrew roots so I have a question - why does a Hebrew scholar want to do searches based on word length?
I'm out of the office right now, so I'm going to have to test this specific search when I get back. But the short answer is: we didn't have time to get pattern matching into the Nov 2 release. It is, however, in the 4.0a Beta that is downloadable now. This supports 2 types of pattern matching: 1) DOS-like wildcards (which should be sufficient for the present example) and 2) Regular Expressions (very powerful pattern matching syntax). Libronix DLS 3 supported Regular Expressions, but it took rather a bit of skill to construct them for right-to-left languages. In Logos 4, we support transliterating the Hebrew (using basically the same keys as the Logos Hebrew Keyboard), so that the entire Regular Expression can be parsed from left to right, and so they are much easier to compose.
If you believe that Hebrew is the language that God spoke the universe into existance with then the element or the basic root of the 3 letter verb would be the two letter imperative. Then the three letter verb becomes a combination of two 2 letter elements. This is like the combination of elements to make molecules. I appreciate the question.
