How do you search on the Lemma of a Greek word? I want to see all the occurrences of a word in a selected text (e.g., the book of Revelation) and not just those that agree with the inflected form of the selected word
- Several ways to do this: 1. *Selection menu:* In a resource such as the ESV select a word such as "wills" in Rev 11:6 and choose Search in the selection menu that pops up. That should open the search panel and run a search for lemma:θέλω, which shows 208 results. If you don't see the selection menu, make sure it's enabled in Program Settings. If it's searching for the form instead of the lemma, adjust the setting to prefer lemmas. 2. *Context menu*: Using the same example as above, instead of selecting "wills," right click on it. On the left side of the menu, select the lemma for θέλω (the one with the ring). On the right side of the menu, select θέλω, Inline, or Bible. 3. *Inline Search*: In a resource such as the ESV, type lemma:thelo, for example, into the search box and select the lemma from the autocompleter list. 4. *Bible Search*: You can do the same thing in the Search panel when you run a Bible search. 5. *Morph Search*: You can do the same thing in the Search panel when you run a Morph search. In all cases, if you want to limit to just Revelation you can change All Passages to Revelation. You can also add WITHIN {Milestone <Rev>} to your search and limit it that way, so lemma:θέλω WITHIN {Milestone <Rev>}. Click this link to run the search: https://ref.ly/logos4/Search?kind=MorphSearch&q=lemma%3a%CE%B8%CE%AD%CE%BB%CF%89+WITHIN+%7BMilestone+%3CRev%3E%7D&match=nostem&exactref=true&in=raw%3aSingle%7CResourceId%3dLLS%3a1.0.710&references=bible%2besv.87
- Phil Gons (Faithlife) could you describe the difference here between using "WITHIN {Milestone <Rev>}" and "INTERSECTS {Milestone <Rev>}"? Would it just add more verses than are contained in Revelation? Thank you!
- WITHIN finds where a data point occurs completely within some other data point (e.g., a large span of text). INTERSECTS finds where two data points touch either other, where they occupy the exact same "space" or overlap partially. In many cases, including this one, WITHIN and INTERSECTS have the exact same outcome. INTERSECTS is generally the better operator to use. I use WITHIN out of habit in some cases and because its name makes more sense conceptually for what I'm trying to do.