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More powerful use of proximity operators in Bible Search

Rosie Perera

I wish there were a way to do a Bible Search for two words or phrases that appear in proximity to each other but in different/adjacent verses. As far as I know you cannot. NEAR and WITHIN do work in Bible searches but they restrict the results to the same verse. There are plenty of times one would want to search for things across verse boundaries.

I would like to be able to do searches like this:

"prophets" NEAR "seven thousand" (would find Rom 11:3,4 for example)

"Jesus" WITHIN 2 verses "temple"

(verses would be a new option for the WITHIN operator)

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Mark Smith

"Jesus" WITHIN 2 verses "temple"

Didn't we have that at one time (Logos System X or Libronix)?? Maybe before that, or perhaps it was another Bible software search engine. I thought at one time we had to specify WORD or VERSES in the proximity search. I think it would be great to have.

George Somsel

"Jesus" WITHIN 2 verses "temple"

(verses would be a new option for the WITHIN operator)

So long as it isn't versus. [;)]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/421904#Comment_421904

"Jesus" WITHIN 2 verses "temple"

Didn't we have that at one time (Logos System X or Libronix)?? Maybe before that, or perhaps it was another Bible software search engine. I thought at one time we had to specify WORD or VERSES in the proximity search. I think it would be great to have.

I thought I had remembered that Libronix Bible Search had VERSES as an option for proximity search, but it didn't:

However it had the ability to specify whether you were searching within verses or chapters/sections, which helps accomplish something nearly like that:

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/421938#Comment_421938

I thought I had remembered that Libronix Bible Search had VERSES as an option for proximity search, but it didn't:

I'm pretty sure we had it at one time, but that's unimportant. Being limited to terms within a verse is limiting, and in this case the limitation is bad.

Kevin Becker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/421952#Comment_421952

I thought I had remembered that Libronix Bible Search had VERSES as an option for proximity search, but it didn't:

I'm pretty sure we had it at one time, but that's unimportant. Being limited to terms within a verse is limiting, and in this case the limitation is bad.

I'm not willing to reinstall Libronix to find it (never used Logos 2) but I'm think I remember it there... perhaps in the Graphical Search.