Search for multiple words over multiple verses

[Paul Meiklejohn]

I'm having a bit of mental block; can someone please remind me how to search for multiple words over multiple verses.

I'm trying to search for love, faith and hope when they appear within three verses of each other.  (All three words words have to be present).

Thank you.

[Paul Meiklejohn]

I may have answered it myself (partially); if I change range to scope and select paragraph,it at least gets me very close to what I'm after.

Edited March 10, 2016 by Paul Meiklejohn

[Ken Simpson]

Well done Paul. Para, chapter, book...all will allow you to do that.

[farcas]

Any way to search across books? E.g. the minor prophets = the book of the twelve. 

 

 

Thanks!

[Steve King]

If you are trying to search for a word within a specific set of books then you can set up a range for that or use the RANGE command.

 

The range can be defined to be used as an extra search criteria using the + to the right of the search area. Or you can just use the RANGE command in the search string itself - [RANGE Hosea-Malachi]

[Helen Brown]

You can set the Range to anything from a verse to the entire text, and you can set it in two ways: temporarily in the Range command, or as a "permanent" Range in the pop-up menu.

 

However the "scope" of the search is limited to verse up to book. You cannot define a search that finds the three words with an in a wider scope than a book. Of course you can use the search across the range but that does not guarantee that all the words are present in the range, it just finds those that are present.

 

Remember that you can have up to three pop-up menus active under the search entry box.

[mgvh]

Sorry to revive an old thread, but it doesn't appear that the original question was ever fully answered.

I'm looking for two words that are within (e.g.) 5 verses of each other.

Setting the Scope to Paragraph will miss the hits I'm looking for.

Setting the Scope to Chapter gives me too many irrelevant hits.

Is it possible to set a search for <within 5 verses>?

I tried using a construct search and used the WITHIN link set to 300 words, but it doesn't appear to search across verses.

The best solution I've found:

• Set Scope to Book
• =αἰτέω <AND> <WITHIN 100 Words> =δοξάζω

Now that I think about it, that probably works better than a verse range, since those verse breaks can be arbitrary.

So... nevermind... I figured it out, but maybe it will help someone else!