Brian W. Davidson Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 I was trying to find the phrase במדבר פנו דרך in the Hebrew Bible. I was searching for "במדבר פנו דרך" and having no luck. The system seemed to keep telling me that במדבר isn't in the Bible. when I finally searched for "פנו דרך" I had success and found the reference in in Isaiah 40:3, which does indeed read במדבר פנו דרך. Is this a bug? Why can't I type במדבר in the search and get results? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abram K-J Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 (edited) My silly iPad won't do the Hebrew very well at the moment, but I think this has to do with Accordance thinking you want a lexical form, unless you specify otherwise. It's the preposition that is giving you the results, I think. EDITED: pressed enter too soon! Edited October 24, 2015 by Abram K-J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Λύχνις Δαν Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Were you doing a Literal or a Grammatical search ? Literal will find it. The problem is cliticization of the ב to the front of מדבר Do a literal search of "במדבר פנו דרך" and you should be ok. Thx D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abram K-J Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Brian, you would not be the first to find inflected, exact inflected, lexical, and exact lexical distinctions in Hebrew searching in Accordance difficult to intuit! (In addition to literal vs. grammatical searches, which is something different, and is the issue in your case, as Daniel points out.) Joel and Helen can explain them all well... there's a help file here, but I've never found the "exact inflected" terminology easy to remember. (Does "exact" just mean "pointed," and if so, could it at some point maybe be renamed that in the program's parlance?) There's a nice explanation of Literal vs. Grammatical search (at play with prefixed words like the one you were searching) here, when it was introduced in 10.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbcvida Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) Remember in searching the ב is treated as a separate word - so I searched for ב and מדבר and came up with verses including the one you were seeking Edited October 25, 2015 by mbcvida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gedalya Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 In Accordance 11.0.8 If you do a literal search, you get the desired results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian W. Davidson Posted October 26, 2015 Author Share Posted October 26, 2015 Thanks, guys. That did it. I had tried literal search, but the problem was that I was trying to use quotation marks with the literal search, which made the system run the search as grammatical, I think. Didn't know I had to leave off the quotation marks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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