Accordance Bible Software Blog Comments

Rick Yentzer

Rick Yentzer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:34:21 -0400

I love Paul's idea and this exercise. I too have no formal biblical training and use Accordance for personal Bible study. Great suggestion Paul!

Paul Daunno

Paul Daunno — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:06:06 -0400

David,

This was a helpful and practical tool for showing the step-by-step to accomplish something with Accordance. I use Accordance mainly for my own study of the Bible and have no formal Bible training per se. I would love to see more of these, maybe the "Accordance Exercise of the Week" or something along those lines.

Thanks!

-Paul

David Lang

David Lang — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:22:42 -0400

Great question, Don. Including anago in this search is a little tricky because it is translated by a combination of two English words ("bring up" or "brought again"). Searching for English words like "bring" or "again" are highly likely to find lots of words other than anago, so we really need another approach.

Happily, we can search by Key number as well as by English words. Doing so ensures that we won't miss any occurrences of a Greek word because we couldn't anticipate all the different ways it might be translated into English.

To do this, I duplicated your search and found the examples you noted. Then I hovered my cursor over the English word to see that the Key number for anago is G321. I then used the History to go back to my original search and added the Key number as follows:

((rose, Rais*, ris*) [KEY G321] ) (dead, death)

I've got several things to explain here, like the use of the Key command and why I used nested parentheses. I'll try to do that in a follow-up post. For now, you can use this search to get Details which include anago as well as anistemi and egeiro.

Hope this helps.

Don Adams

Don Adams — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:27:37 -0400

Thank you! This was and interesting and timely challenge. When I tried to do this myself I used this search entry: "(Jesus, Christ, he) from * dea*". This search also finds Romans 10:7 and Hebrews 13:20 which use anago. While brought again satisfies Professor Hoffman's question it is not a hit per se in my search because my search wasn't looking for any verbs and therefore cannot be displayed with the details button. The search you presented showed the verbs rise, raised, etc. as hits but did not provide these two references. Is there a way to find all of the possibilities and to have the results displayed by clicking the details button?