Excluding footnotes from a word search

Hi friends,

I am doing a basic word search using Logos 8. The parameters that I have set are:

Search All Text in Romans-Philemon in The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition for <Sense wife>. The problem is that the search does both the surface text and the footnotes. Any idea on how I can limit the search to just the surface text?

Thanks!

Austin

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Fred Chapman

Welcome to the forums.

I am not sure why you are seeing footnotes if the parameters of the bible search are as described. I ran that search and could not locate any footnotes in the results. Are you doing a Bible search or a Basic search?

Austin Branson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1036253#Comment_1036253

Very helpful. I think my mistake is that I had it on Basic search and not Bible search and that is why the footnotes were included along with the surface text. I went ahead and did the search like your screen shot and it's providing what I need.

Any chance you could help me with another question? I'm not sure how to explain it but I'll give it a try and see if it makes sense. I'm wanting to do a similar word search for the use of γυνὴ with the sense wife in the Pauline epistles. But I'm wanting to include another parameter, specifically how often this word is used in it's various morphs with a possessive pronoun in front of it.

Maybe knowing the purpose of this search would be helpful. I'm doing research on 1 Tim 3:11 and Paul's use of the word γυναικὸς. Many commentators are saying that there has to be a possessive pronoun in order for this to mean wives. I'm not finding that to be case with how Paul uses the word in his letters but I hoping to actually get a clearly picture of how often he uses γυνὴ without a possessive pronoun and it obviously means wife.

Feel no pressure to respond but if you have any ideas that would be awesome!

Fred Chapman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1036261#Comment_1036261

Here is a search example of your parameters (if I understand them correctly):

Note that 1 Tim 3:11 is not included in the results. The reason is that the pronoun "their" in that verse does not appear in the original text. The three examples shown are those where a pronoun actually appears in the original text.

Austin Branson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1036267#Comment_1036267

That's incredibly helpful. Not sure I understand all the details of the search and how that ends up spitting out what I need but I'm very thankful that you know how to do it!

Fred Chapman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1036271#Comment_1036271

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Austin Branson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1036279#Comment_1036279

Excellent. Thank you for the links. I haven't gotten that far in my training. Looking forward to growing in my search capabilities.