Search for post-vocalic BETH with dagesh (בּ)

[bpkantor]

I am wondering if there is any way to search for a post-vocalic ב with a dagesh. In other words, every instance of geminated/doubled ב.

 

Conceivably, you could search *בּ* with every possible vowel before it, but that would require as many searches as there are vowels. Is there any way to search for all the vowels preceding ב at once, just like you can select a number of consonants to replace a "?" in a search?

[Timothy Jenney]

Fascinating question. I look forward to reading the responses.

[Λύχνις Δαν]

Me too I've tried it and I couldn't get any shortcut to work.

 

Thx

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[bpkantor]

I actually just figured it out:

 

 

"=*?(?ָ?ֳ?ַ?ֲ?ֵ?ֶ?ֱ?ִ?ֹ?ֻ)בּ*"

 

Note that the system switched it from R > L to L > R, so do everything I have above but go backwards.

 

The key is that just as you might do ?(אחעה) to find all the gutturals, you need to kind of do a double wild card to find all the vowels. The Accordance engine seems to only let you make the letters in parentheses correspond with a character, so you just have to enter wildcards with all the vowels WITHIN parentheses for what is already a wildcard character.

Edited January 3, 2018 by bpkantor

[Timothy Jenney]

Oooo..., I like how you used the question marks to represent any consonant. I tried just typing the vowels and separating them by commas, but Accordance didn't care for that approach.

 

Nicely done!

[Ken Simpson]

It gets very messy but you don’t need the ?’s within the brackets. And commas do mess everything up. Any list within brackets are taken as alternative letters for the preceding ? (Outside the bracket)

 

So my query looks like "=*?(ֱֲֳִֵֶַָֹֻ)בּ*"

 

I thought you used to be able to separate the vowels with spaces for readability but that didn’t work for me.

[Timothy Jenney]

Hah! That's what my original search looked like. It got so messy and hard to read, I didn't even actually run the search. It's interesting that the search would have worked had I done so.