TIP of the day: Putting a search together: Jesus called Lamb, Lamb of God, Paschal Lamb ,,,

MJ. Smith
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

1. The first approach is not to actually do a search but to use Factbook - the Referred to as section of the entry for Jesus. Note that I receive an entry from the book of Odes and that the entries are split between Lamb and Lamb of God.

2. The second approach is to run a search so that my results are merged, so I can limit to specific ranges of the scripture etc. I must use a search for <person Jesus> as a search on Jesus would only give be those instances where He is called Jesus. I add a WITHIN 0 WORDS to indicate that I want my next value to be exactly the same word that is tagged as <person Jesus>. Then I add Lamb as what I am looking for Jesus being referred to as. Full search argument <person Jesus> WITHIN 0 WORDS lamb.

Note that this picks up Lamb of God but if I want I can create a more complete search argument that will generate the same results.

3. For completeness, one can check that the Names of God interactive does not consider "Lamb of God" a name of Jesus Christ - something that leaves me wondering if the distinction between name and title is completely consistent between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

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