Searching for dis legomena in NA28

[Derek Lewis Knox]

So, I am in the process of making vocabulary lists so I can learn rare words "in context." I don't want any proper nouns in the list, because I don't need to learn them.

I used this search:

[count 2]@[any -proper] 

It returned a list that I thought was correct: all words appearing in the text that are not proper nouns.  But after I was done, I realized that δειγματίζω was not on the list!  It appears exactly twice in NA28, at Matt. 1:19 and Col. 2:15.

Did I do something wrong?  Are there other words missing? Would my search for hapax legomena -- [count 1]@[any -proper] --also have problems?



 

 

[Helen Brown]

The Analysis shows that you found:

ADJECTIVE = 232

ADVERB = 59

NOUN = 572

so you are missing all the other parts of speech including Verbs. I see that [ANY -proper] only finds the parts of speech to which Proper applies. The right way to approach this is simply to move the negative thus:

 

[COUNT 2] @ -[ANY proper]

 

which gives you

ADJECTIVE = 232

ADVERB = 59

CONJUNCTION = 8

IMPROPERPREPOSITION = 6

INTERJECTION = 2

NOUN = 572

PARTICLE = 12

PREPOSITION = 2

PRONOUN = 2

VERB = 584

[Derek Lewis Knox]

Wow, thank you!! That is so helpful.  Now I have to go back and fix this.