http://www.accordancebible.com/common/rss2/?&channel=blog_comments&article_id=3354301 Syndicated BLOG Comments from Accordance Bible Software. en-us Copyright 2013 Accordance Bible Software Wed, 22 May 2013 20:10:29 -0400 support@accordancebible.com (Accordance Bible Software) https://www.accordancebible.com/3354301 David, this is great for one who has forgotten most of his Hebrew and usually resorts to the use of Strong’s numbers for studying OT passages.  When I read your January 6 post “Amplify to Search” I had been studying Malachi in Accordance, so I tried out a few of the searches as you suggested.  For example, I searched for the word “divorce” (2:16) from the NASB95S text and got 7 hits.  Pretty neat and easy, I thought.  Then I read your next post, Jan. 7, “Amplify to search for Hebrew.”  So I gave that a try in the same passage, same word.  I opened a new text pane with BHS-W4, and using Instant Details, I identified the Hebrew word translated by the word “divorce.”  I selected that Hebrew word, careful not to select the attached preposition and suffix, and amplified to Search with that and found 694 hits of [jlv] .  After using instant details at Mal. 2:16 again, I refined that seach by adding the tag  @ [verb piel] and found 233 hits, the first of which was Gen. 3:23, regarding the Lord sending Adam out of the garden, a verse that of course did not appear in the search for divorce in the NASB.  I guess you can do all that just using Strong’s numbers, but I doubt if it would be any easier.  And you would be using numbers and transliterations instead of Hebrew text and words.  Thanks.  Until your posts this week, I had never clicked on that little magnifying glass in the resource palette in  more that 2 years of using Accordance.

Rob Robinson

]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:15:08 -0500 https://www.accordancebible.com/3354301 Rob Robinson https://www.accordancebible.com/3354301 Great explanation, David!

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