Ron Bailey Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 I have been trying to isolate uses in the KJV of the proper name of 'Jehovah' and the possessive 's'. I was struck with this little phrase in Ex12:11 and wanted to compare it with the likes of the Lord's Table in 1 Corinthians. A straightforward search on "Lord's" accomplished this for "lord's" and "LORD'S" but then I became curious about just the 'Jehovah' plus 's' instances. How would I search for the exact term "LORD'S"? I have tried 'exact' searches and noticed that the 'exact' form of "LORD'S" doesn't appear in the drop-down of words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackcav Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 I have been trying to isolate uses in the KJV of the proper name of 'Jehovah' and the possessive 's'. I was struck with this little phrase in Ex12:11 and wanted to compare it with the likes of the Lord's Table in 1 Corinthians. A straightforward search on "Lord's" accomplished this for "lord's" and "LORD'S" but then I became curious about just the 'Jehovah' plus 's' instances. How would I search for the exact term "LORD'S"? I have tried 'exact' searches and noticed that the 'exact' form of "LORD'S" doesn't appear in the drop-down of words. That will be difficult. The underlying Hebrew is not possessive (It is Passover to YHWH). Perhaps we should suggest that Accordance be given the ability to search for possessives. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorinda H. M. Hoover Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Using the KJVS, Try this search: [KEY H3068] @LORD'S Lorinda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorinda H. M. Hoover Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 If you have other key number texts, you might find it interesting to compare the occurrence of LORD's in each of them. The NIV, for example, uses LORD's far more often than the KJV. The only other keyed text I have is the NRSV, and the Old Testament tagging is not complete, so I was not able to get an accurate count for that one. Note that the key number for the Tetragrammaton (YHWH, or 'Jehovah') in the NIV G/K is H03378. Lorinda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Jenney Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 By default, Accordance ignores capitalization and punctuation. To search for an an "inflected form" (an exact character string), use the equals sign (=). The search would then look like this: =LORD's Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorinda H. M. Hoover Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 By default, Accordance ignores capitalization and punctuation. To search for an an "inflected form" (an exact character string), use the equals sign (=). The search would then look like this: =LORD's Enjoy! That search works in the NRSV and the NIV-G/K, but it does not work in the KJVS. As philologos mentioned, attempting this search in the KJV results is a window that asks you to choose an inflected form, and LORD's is not one of the choices. Lorinda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 It does not work because the form is not found in that text: lord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorinda H. M. Hoover Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 It does not work because the form is not found in that text:lord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 The problem here is that the text uses the Small Caps style to identify the tetragrammaton, rahther than using all caps, so in these places the search for =Lord's should find them, because the text styles are ignored in a search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorinda H. M. Hoover Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Aha! That does work, although one of the hits (Dan 9:17) is not the Tetragrammaton. If one has a keyed text, though, the search I suggested above works. Lorinda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bailey Posted August 26, 2009 Author Share Posted August 26, 2009 Thanks folks! Lorinda's suggestion of [KEY H3068] @LORD'S on the KJVS seems to work OK. I was just surprised not to see "LORD'S" in the search word drop down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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