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[marcato15]

I'm trying to recreate Kubo's Special Vocabulary list, which lists all the words used less 50 times in the whole Bible but more than 5 times in the book. I tried 2 word searches in every verse, the first was [COUNT 5-50] <AND> [RANGE matt] with the range set to New Testament in one window (5347 words), and the second was [count 5-50] with range set to Matthew in the second window (2948 words). Then in the the third window I did *@[HITS GNT-T] <AND> *@[HITS GNT-T 2] , but this resulted in 11181 words.

I thought AND would mean only words that occur in both lists, but it seems to be doing something else. What am I missing and is there any easier way to accomplish this task?

[David Lang]

Try [HITS GNT-T]@[HITS GNT-T 2].

[marcato15]

Yes! That worked perfectly.

Edited by marcato15, 04 August 2012 - 08:48 PM.

[Ken Simpson]

Hi David, thanks for the suggestion.

Could you explain the logic of why the <AND> command didn't work, and why the @ tag did?

Ta!

[Joel Brown]

Its the fundamental difference between <AND> and @. <AND> requires that the two elements are both present within the current search context, that often defaults to 'Verse'. @ requires that the two elements are both present within the hit word. So, marcato's first search was finding verses that had both words from tab 1 and words from tab 2 in them, rather than finding all words that matched both tabs.

[Ken Simpson]

I knew a trombonist would have the answer!
Good times in SF Joel.

[Sean R.]

Is there a reason search details aren't available for a search that utilizes the Hits command? For the search being discussed here, search analysis is necessary for the search to be easily usable (i.e., seeing a list of the words that match the search criteria).

[Helen Brown]

I did the search more simply, with this in the second tab:
[COUNT 5-50] @ [HITS GNT-T]
I found 21533 hits.

You must set the Range in the pop-up menu to get an accurate count.
The details work just fine, as they do in most searches except those comparing CONTENTS of two tabs.

[marcato15]

Thanks Helen. That is more simple. Joel did a good job in help explaining the difference between @ and <AND>. Is there any resource explaining this stuff? I tried looking, but couldn't find anything.

[Helen Brown]

Our award winning Help files! You can search them or go to the sections Biblical Research and Analyses > Search Criteria, and Biblical Research and Analyses > Work with Grammatically Tagged Text.