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Search for same two words in a verse


Will K

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I would like to search through two different OT texts and identify every verse in each where at least two words are the same in the two texts. For example:

Amos 9:2 has the words "Sheol" and "Shamayim" as does Ps 139:8. How can I do this? It is like the Infer command except I don't care how many words come in between as long as the two words are in the same verse. Also, I only want to look for significant words, not particles, suffixes, etc. I'd appreciate any help you can give me.

 

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The INFER command has now been tweaked so that it ignores more of the common words. You can also tailor it using the advanced settings in dialog that comes up, but it is still intended to look for a phrase, and it is limited to a length of 15 words. It actually creates a list of every possible phrase in the first passage to compare with those in the other.

 

It is, of course, easy to find the words in one passage that are also used the other, using the HITS command. I think that what you are asking is beyond the scope of Accordance: to make a word list for each verse and compare it to the word list of each verse in another passage, and find where there are two (or more) matches.

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