Tag: Search Commands

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Power Searches (Lighting the Lamp Video Podcast #145)

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Accordance has an amazing number of ways to strengthen searches in Bibles and texts: Search Options, Search Conditions, and Search Commands. This podcast provides an overview of all of these and detailed information on the seven Connecting Commands, as well as the Style, Range, Field, and Count Commands. Become an Accordance Power User! See more […]

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Simple Searches Can Yield Deeper Insights

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On Monday, I wrote about a study of Psalm 91 I did with my family last week. We noted that the devil had quoted verses 11 and 12 in his temptation of Jesus, and we compared the context of the quotation with the context of the original. Then we read Psalm 91:13, which reads, “You […]

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Word Lists and Tags

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In yesterday’s post and in another recent post, I talked about how you can use a list of words separated by commas and enclosed in parentheses to search for any of the words in that list. For example, entering (faith, hope, love) will find every occurrence of any of those words. The results are the […]

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Got Some 'Splainin' To Do

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In yesterday’s post, I showed how to do a search all for images with the caption “Table of nations” or “Family of nations.” I constructed the search like this: (table, family) of nations. In response to that post, one user asked for an explanation of the list of words in parentheses. So it would seem […]

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Simply Powerful, Powerfully Simple

| David Lang

I once saw a Bible software discussion in which someone wanted to search for Hebrew verbs which did not have a pronominal suffix. I was absolutely dumbfounded by the eventual solution that was offered, because it required a string of programming language gobbledygook which I found impossible to decipher. Puzzled, I fired up Accordance to […]

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Use Commands to Narrow Your Search Results

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Suppose you’re looking for verses that talk about “mercy.” Do a word search for “mercy” in many English Bibles and you’ll find a great many references to the “mercy seat.” How do you weed out all the occurrences of “mercy seat” so that you can just concentrate on the references to mercy by itself? You […]

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