New Search HELP

Precise Search

Unlike a Google or AI search which will interpret your input, a Precise Search attempts to match your input to the text of your books e.g. if you input kings of judah Search will attempt to find those words in your books. It will not attempt to find a list of the Kings of Judah, but it is possible to further direct your search to find articles that may have a list of the kings e.g. heading:”kings of judah” will look for articles with those words in its heading.
This search not only works with the text of your books but also with a large amount of data categories that come from Faithlife. e.g. searching for persons when not directly named, preaching themes, biblical events and questions in the bible. These categories are usually called datatypes and the process of assigning them to text is called tagging. So, it becomes very important that you learn how to present your query (the “syntax”) so that it will be understood by Search.
The important thing to note is that you cannot search for punctuation and symbols! You can only search for words (incl. hyphenated words), possessive nouns (God’s) and numbers.
Note that you can paste Logos 9 queries into the Search box and they will be converted to the new syntax.

Smart Search

Smart Search does not use the Options, Syntax and Operators of the conventional Precise Search and is more akin to a Google Search.
See Books Search and All Search for more information.

1. References

The text of a book can include references, of which bible references are the most familiar. And they can occur in a variety of formats like vv. 25-26, 1 Cor. 2:6 . If you hover over the first it might tell you it is Matthew 11:25-26 whilst the second is self-evident. The bible datatype manages these and enables you to search for them.
You can get the format of a reference after right-clicking it to get a Context menu and selecting Search in Copy reference: e.g. bible:”Matthew 11:25–26”. Then you can use it to find that reference in other books. If you want the exact reference use bible:=”Matthew 11:25–26” otherwise bible:”Matthew 11:25–26” will return Mt 11:25, Mt 11:26 or a range of verses that include them e.g. Mt 11:25-30.
Note that Mt is equivalent to Matthew and you will find short forms for all the books of the bible.

There are many other datatypes and you can find how to search for them in the same way. But there is a general format that applies to all datatypes and their values i.e. datatype:[Op]value where Op can be:

• = —> exact match e.g. bible:=”Jn 3:16” will only find Jn 3:16
• << —> result wholly included in value, or value with any dependents e.g. Jn 3:16 with Jn 3:16b
• >> —> result includes the whole value, or value with any ancestors e.g. Jn 3:16 with Jn 2:23-3:31, 3:16-17
• ~ —> broad intersection, or value with all its dependents and ancestors i.e. << with >>
• —> narrow intersection when no Op is specified e.g. Jn 3:16 with Jn 3:16b, 3:16-17
  • it finds any bible reference within a range of verses in the same chapter.
  • same as << with other datatypes.

Note that value requires quotes if it contains spaces.

Datatypes can have a number of formats:

• bible:”John 3:16” —> is recognised as John 3:16
• bible:”Jn 3:16” —> is also recognised as John 3:16, and
• bible:Jn3.16 —> is also recognised as John 3:16
• strongs:g3056 —> is recognised as GreekStrongs 3056
• strongs:h769-771 —> is recognised as HebrewStrongs 769-771
• greekGK:=”Greek GK #3365” —> is recognised as Greek GK 3365
• greekGK:=3365 —> is also recognised as Greek GK 3365
• louwNida:57.125-57.127 —> is recognised as Louw-Nida subdomains 57.125-57.127
• louwNida:57.125-127 —> is also recognised as Louw-Nida 57.125-57.127
• twot:1768-1768b —> is recognised as TWOT numbers 1768-1768b
• tdnt:7.445-446 —> is recognised as TDNT Volume 7 Pages 445-446

2. (Logical) OR, AND, NOT

The Logical or Boolean operators.

Comma is no longer accepted for OR and there is limited acceptance of space for AND.

For example:

• Jesus OR Lord —> either “Jesus” or “Lord”, or both
• Jesus AND Lord —> both “Jesus” and “Lord”
• Jesus Lord —> is equivalent to Jesus AND Lord, but
• (Jesus Lord) —> is not accepted. Terms in parentheses require an explicit operator
• Jesus, Lord —> is treated as Jesus AND Lord because the comma is ignored
• Jesus NOT Lord —> find “Jesus” but “Lord” cannot be present.
  With [Match case] in a Bible Search, it means you want “Jesus” but NOT “Lord” (a referent for “Jesus” and “God”), whilst “lord” will be included.
• Jesus NOT “Lord Jesus” —> is less restrictive, as it allows “Lord” outside the phrase “Lord Jesus”.

Note: you cannot use space for AND in combination with other operators.

3. Proximity

Results from a Search can be limited to verses, chapters or articles but you can further restrict results by specifying their proximity to each other (and their order).

4. Intersection

You can find where the text results of different search terms overlap or whether the text of one lies within the other.
The operators are used with terms like Person, Event, Culture together with words or phrases.

5. Term

The term keyword is used to merge different terms so that their results count is normalised and they will have the same highlight colour.
It is usually used for a list of words with OR.

• term:(a AND|OR b AND|OR c ...) —> only OR and AND are allowed.

For example:

• term:(who OR whoever OR whom OR whose) —> will produce results with the same highlight.
• term:(“famine in” AND land) —> will work with a phrase.
• term:(“he ass” OR ass) —> “ass” is only counted once when it occurs in “he ass”.

6. Wildcards

Wildcard symbols are used to represent zero or more characters in a word.

• * will match any sequence of zero or more characters
• ? will match 1 character in a word, and also matches zero characters at the end of a word.

For example:

• lord* —> matches “lord”, “lords”, “lorded” and “lord’s”.
• lord? —> matches “lord”, “lords”, but not “lorded” nor “lord’s”.
• lo?d —> matches “lord”, “load” but not “lod”.

A wildcard will not match punctuation, spaces, or anything else that separates words i.e. Jesus?Christ and Jesus*Christ will not match “Jesus Christ”.

7. Phrases

Use quotes to search for a phrase in the text e.g. "people of Israel". This ensures the order and close proximity of the individual words, without stemming
i.e. words in a phrase do not respond to [Match all forms] but they do respond to [Match case].
An alternative is to hyphenate the words e.g. people-of-Israel, but this will respond to [Match all forms].

If a phrase could be interpreted as a datatype then use the text keyword.

For example:

• "Lord Jesus Christ" —> use [Match case] to get “Lord”.
• "Lord Jesus" THEN Christ —> is functionally the same as the above.
• people-of-Israel —> is different to “people of Israel” if [Match all forms] is used.
• “people-of-Israel” —> is treated the same as "people of Israel"
• "Lord ??? Christ" —> will match phrases with a word of three letters between “Lord” and “Christ”.
• text:"John 3:15-16" —> will prevent the interpretation of bible:"John 3:15-16".

8. Fields

A field is a specially tagged portion of text in a book e.g. Surface Text, Bible Text, Words of Christ (WOC), Heading Text, Large Text.
You can use the “All... Text” drop down menu to select an available field or you can use field names to affect individual terms of your query.

The query syntax is:

• field.fieldName:expression —> use abbreviated fieldNames like bible, WOC, heading, largetext.
  • fieldName1/fieldName2/...fieldName9:expression —> searches multiple fields

Note that the field. modifier is only needed to prevent ambiguity.

For example:

• woc:"blessed are" —> also WordsofChrist:"blessed are"
• field.bible:Joshua —> prevents ambiguity with the bible datatype
• bible/content:Joshua —> also prevents ambiguity with the bible datatype
• surface:baptism —> look for “baptism” in the visible text (or manuscript) i.e. it avoids footnotes
• heading:baptism —> look for “baptism” in headings
• heading:(baptism OR salvation) —> look for multiple values in headings
  • heading:term:(baptism OR salvation) —> uses a term list
• heading/largeText:baptism —> look for “baptism” in multiple fields
• heading:baptism NEAR bible:"Acts 2:38" —> the bible term is not restricted to a heading.
• heading:(baptism NEAR bible:"Acts 2:38") —> restricts both terms to a heading.
• crossRef:1Kings7 —> will find 1 Kings 7 as a cross-reference in a bible.

See Search Fields for available fields.

9. Language Match Commands

Match commands are used to refine matches for words in different languages.
The affected term will ignore equivalent Match options in the toolbar, which will still apply to any other terms.

The query syntax is:

• match.langMark:word

For example:

• match.case:god —> matches lower case “god” but it will be affected by [Match all forms] in the toolbar.
• match.form:god —> matches that form i.e. “gods” is not matched, but it will be affected by [Match case].
• match.form:match.case:God —> only “God” is allowed. It overrides [Match all forms] and [Match case].
• match.case:God NEAR lord —> only “lord” will be affected by [Match case] in the toolbar.
• match.exact:She —> will not match transliterated Shē, Shēʹ.
  • a word in double quotes "She" also requires an exact match.
• match.marks:ἀγάπῃ
• match.accents:hebrew:מֶֽלֶךְ
• match.dagesh:match.accents:hebrew:מֶֽלֶךְ —> will be sensitive to vowels and accents.

Grouping

Precise mode

You can search bibles if you select “Bible Text” instead of All text.
You can filter your search with a reference range if you see the heading All Passages
e.g. select NPNF 1.2 and you can enter/paste a reference like Augustine City of God 20.1 into the Reference Range box.

lang:word is a manuscript search, where lang can be greek, hebrew, aramaic, syriac or a non-biblical language e.g.

• greek:λόγος
• hebrew:מלך
• aramaic:מלך

Smart mode

It is important to note that this AI mode does not respond to query syntax like “what”, “where”, “when”. So enter the subject
of your query, select a range of books as you would for Precise mode and you can Summarize the results.

Keyword Searching

Start with a Reverse Interlinear bible and right-click a word. The Context menu will show which keywords are present, and the other side will provide a Search by opening the Search tool with a properly formatted query e.g. propositionalOutline:Jesus-Action.
Alternatively, type a word in a Search Find box and let autocomplete suggest and format the query for you e.g. type marriage in Books Search and you will see suggestions for Preaching Theme, Culture and Sense. Select one and run the search.
If you want to restrict the suggestions then start typing e.g. culture:marriage, event:moses and make your selection.
If you want to see available datatypes then press the + icon in the Find box and select one. Some values will be suggested or you can start to type a possible value and then make your selection.

Person, Place, Thing Searches

You can search for these fundamental entities:

• person:name —> biblical persons e.g. Jesus, Peter
• place:name —> biblical places (towns, rivers, regions) e.g. Jordan, Jerusalem
• thing:name —> biblical things e.g. Aaron’s Rod, Dog
• biography:name —> non-biblical notable persons e.g. Martin Luther

For example:

• person:Jesus
• place:”Jericho (New Testament)”
• thing:”Aaron’s Rod”
• biography:”Martin Luther”

A Search will also find referents for Person, Place and Thing i.e. pronouns, verbs and some adjectives.
Note that a referent can cover several words e.g. “Lord God”, “king of the Jews”.

Speaker, Addressee

Speaker finds all the text spoken by a biblical Person (and sometimes by a Thing).
Addressee allows you to find where a Person, Place, or Thing is spoken to in the bible (it returns the text of the speaker).

• speaker:name —> the name datatype is assumed (Person, Thing)
• addressee:name —> the name datatype is assumed (Person, Place, or Thing)

For example:

• speaker:Jesus —> finds text where Jesus is the speaker
• addressee:”A Crowd” —> finds the text spoken to a crowd
• addressee:”A Crowd” IN speaker:Jesus —> finds occasions where Jesus is speaking to a crowd
• addressee:Disciples IN speaker:Jesus —> finds occasions where Jesus is speaking to the disciples
• addressee:Jerusalem IN speaker:Jesus —> finds occasions where Jesus is addressing Jerusalem
• addressee:Bird IN speaker:”An Angel” —> finds occasions where an angel is speaking to birds.

There can be multiple addressees in a speech, hence the use of IN. But INTERSECTS would be safer.

Sense

This datatype is encapsulated by the Bible Sense Lexicon tool and its dataset.
A Search will find words corresponding to a sense in your bibles.

• Sense:=~word —> encompasses the meaning of various words used in the bible

For example:

• sense:=knowledge —> finds words with exactly the sense of ‘knowledge’
• sense:<<knowledge —> finds words for “knowledge” and all of its descendants
• sense:>>knowledge —> finds words for “knowledge” and its ancestors i.e. senses for which “knowledge” is a descendant
• sense:knowledge —> finds words for “knowledge” and all of its descendants
• sense:~knowledge —> finds words for “knowledge” and all of its ancestors and descendants
• sense:<knowledge —> finds words for the descendants of “knowledge”, but not “knowledge” itself
• sense:>knowledge —> finds words for the ancestors of “knowledge”, but not “knowledge” itself

Section Searches

These searches return the text that is identified by a textual datatype from information stored in a dataset.
They correspond to {Section…} searches in Logos 9.

• section:datatype:=~value —> this is equivalent to {Section <datatype value>} in Logos 9
• reference:datatype:=~value —> this is equivalent to <datatype value> in Logos 9
• datatype:=~value —> this is equivalent to section:datatype OR reference:datatype
  • this format is used for most practical purposes, but use the section keyword to avoid references outside bibles.

For example:

• topic:Flood
  • no documentation – but topic is used extensively in Factbook.
  • will include references in Bibles using Default reference matching.
  • enter a topic name and select a suggested topic.
• event:”The flood”
  • see Biblical Events Dataset Documentation
• literaryTyping:Healing —> literaryType in Logos 9
  • see Lexham Glossary of Literary Types
• culture:Light
  • see Lexham Cultural Ontology Glossary
• preachingTheme:Marriage
  • see Preaching Themes List
• propositionalOutline:Jesus-Action
  • see Propositional Outlines Glossary (also displayed as a Visual filter).
• longacreGenre:”Narrative: Story”
  • see Longacre Genre Analysis
• grammaticalConstructions:GSharp
  • see Greek Grammatical Constructions and Hebrew Grammatical Constructions

Consult the appropriate Glossary (type:glossary) or Manual (type:manual) for other search terms, or use the Context menu.
Beware that documentation may use the Logos 9 Search syntax.

Label Searches

A Label can have multiple properties associated with the resource text, much in the way you attach a label to your luggage with information that identifies it as yours.
Labels allow different operators together with wildcards e.g. logical AND/OR/NOT, the wildcard *, implicit all and explicit any.

Syntax (formal):-

• label:(labelName AND|NOT property1:value1 AND|NOT property2:value2 ...)
• label:(labelName AND|NOT (property1:value1 OR property2:value2 ...))
  • OR can be combined with AND | NOT but use parentheses to get the desired result.
• label:(labelName NOT property:*) —> finds occurrences that don’t have that property name e.g. label:(miracle NOT patient:*)
• label:property:value —> finds all labels with that property value e.g. label:agent:John
  where “John” will match the name of any Person that contains “John”.
• label:labelName —> finds all occurrences of that label e.g. label:miracle

Unlike Logos 9, a datatype does not have to be stated with a property value e.g. agent:John above.
If you need to be more precise the syntax is property:datatype:value e.g. agent:person:”John the Baptist” or agent:person:”John (son of Zebedee)”.

Simple Syntax :-

• labelName:(property1:value1 AND|NOT property2:value2 ...) e.g. miracle:(Patient:Paul AND Agent:Jesus)
• labelName:(property1:value1 OR property2:value2 ...) e.g. miracle:(type:Affliction OR type:Healing)
  • OR can be combined with AND | NOT but use parentheses to get the desired result.
• labelName:property:value —> finds labels with that property value e.g. miracle:audience:”John the Baptist”
• labelName:any:value —> finds labels with that value in any property e.g. miracle:any:Peter
• labelName:property:* —> finds labels that have that property name e.g. miracle:audience:*
• labelName:* —> finds all occurrences of that label e.g. miracle:*

Note: that a modifier label. will be needed for labels whose name conflicts with a datatype e.g. label.longacreGenre.

See Searchable Labels for examples of Faithlife labels.

Milestone

Milestones are datatype markers in books that are indexed (or organized) by that datatype e.g. the book/chapter/verse numbers in a bible,
the Strong’s numbers in Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon.
Milestone will return the text associated with a datatype value in such books.
Bible milestones are especially useful because you can get the commentary on a passage when you search Bible Commentaries, Study Bibles, or Bible Notes.

• milestone:datatype:value —> returns the text of any datatype value except Headword

For example:

• milestone:bible:”Jn 3:16” —> returns the text of Jn 3:16 in a Bible or Commentary
• milestone:Jn3.16 —> is equivalent. It has no spaces and period can be used in place of the colon
• love IN milestone:Jn3:16 —> finds “love” within the text of Jn 3:16 in a Bible or Commentary
• “an account” IN milestone:(bible:Ro OR bible:heb) —> finds the phrase in the text of Romans or Hebrews.
• milestone:topic:Flood —> returns similar results to a Topic Guide.
• milestone:Strongs:G3056 —> returns the text of Greek Strong’s #3056 in relevant lexicons.

Passage List

This will search books for occurrences of bible references in a Passage List.
But it can also provide cross references and highlight milestones.

• passageList:name —> get the exact name via copy and paste

For example:

• passageList:”OT Quotes from Jesus” —> finds references from OT Quotes from Jesus
• crossref:passageList:”OT Quotes from Jesus” —> uses the passage list as cross references.
• milestone:passageList:”OT Quotes from Jesus” —> uses the passage list as milestones.

Headword

Headwords are used to highlight articles in a dictionary resource.
A headword is usually visible at the top of an article, but it may use a non-visible headword, or alias.
They are found in resource types like lexicon, dictionary, encyclopedia, or concordance.

• headword:value —> returns the text of an article, so it is also possible to search for words in the article.
  • value has to be an exact word or phrase as wildcards are not allowed.

For example:

• headword:Salvation —> returns the text of the article named “Salvation”
• headword:”Salvation, nature of” —> Dictionary of Bible Themes has this headword
• sinner IN headword:salvation —> finds “sinner” in the article on Salvation.

A Topic Guide for Salvation will return more results.

Highlighting

The highlight keyword will find text you have highlighted in your books.

• highlight:”styleName” —> finds highlights with that style name, irrespective of Palette
• highlight:”paletteName/styleName” —> useful if multiple palettes have a style with the same name
• highlight:”paletteName/*” —> finds all highlights from that palette
• highlight:* —> finds all your highlights (very effective with Inline Search).

Note avoid creating styles with a slash in their name.

For example:

• highlight:Box —> finds all highlights with that style
• highlight:”Double Underline” —> finds all highlights with the Double Underline style
• highlight:”Emphasis Markup/Double Underline” —> finds highlights with the Double Underline style from the Emphasis Markup palette
• highlight:”Emphasis Markup/*” —> finds all highlights with styles from the Emphasis Markup palette

Bible Outline

Properties:

• Reference – a Bible reference of the passage being outlined

For example:

• label:(bibleOutline AND reference:Zech14)
• bibleOutline:reference:Zech14

Journal Article

Properties:

• Title – the title of the article
• References – the primary Bible reference(s) for the article
• Author – the author(s) of the article
• Topics – the primary Topic reference(s) the article is about
• Date – the Date when the journal was published

For example:

• label:(journalArticle AND title:”Contextual Analysis”)
• journalArticle:(author:Heiser AND title:”I dare you not to bore me”) —> articles by Michael S. Heiser
• journalArticle:topics:”Gospel of Luke”
• journalArticle:date:”Jul 2015” —> published July 2015

Lectionary Reading

Properties:

• Title – the title of the reading
• References – Bible references included in the reading

For example:

• label:(lectionaryReading AND references:Zech14.4)
• label.lectionaryReading:references:Zech14.4 —> the modifier is needed because the keyword is also a Search field.

Sermon

Sermons that can be found in books of sermons and the Church Fathers.

Properties:

• Title – title of the sermon
• Subtitle – optional
• Creator – name of the creator e.g. “John Piper”
• Series – the sermon series name
• References – Bible references for the sermon e.g. “Psalm 141”
• Themes – Preaching Themes e.g. Creation, “Blessing and Cursing”
• Date – Date the sermon was first delivered
• Liturgical Date – Liturgical Date for when the sermon was first delivered

For example:

• label:(sermon AND title:”Pray for God”) —> match sermons with a partial Title
• sermon:title:”Pray for God”
• sermon:series:Prayer —> Prayer series
• sermon:date:”Jul 9, 2015” —> exact date
• sermon:date:”Jul 2015” —> any date in July
• sermon:references:”Ps 141:1-4” —> sermons on Ps 141:1-4
• sermon:references:Ps —> sermons on any Psalm
• sermon:(creator:”George Whitefield” AND references:Mt) —> finds Whitefield sermons on Matthew

Figurative Language

Figurative language includes metaphor, simile and other types of non-literal expressions. This label is based on a dataset of important figurative expressions in the New Testament which are documented in Figurative Language Glossary.

Properties:

• Category – e.g. Metaphor, Metonymy, Simile, Euphemism, Idiom, Hyperbole
• Source – e.g. Above
• Target – e.g. God
• Type – e.g. Above as God —> combines Source and Target

For example:

• Label:(figurativeLanguage AND Category:Metaphor) —> finds all types of Metaphor
  • {Label Figurative Language WHERE Category ~ <FigurativeLanguageCategory Metaphor>} in Logos 9
• figurativeLanguage:category:Metaphor —> simple syntax for Metaphor
• mountain IN figurativeLanguage:category:Metaphor —> finds where “mountain” is used in a metaphor.
• figurativeLanguage:(target:God AND category:Metaphor) —> finds words that conceptualize “God”.

Figure of Speech

The associated data is based on Bullinger’s Figures of Speech where each article has a title and several references to the Bible.
You can find any figure of speech by its Name or Description.

Properties:

• Name
• Description – where available, this is a description of the Name.

For example:

• label:(figureofSpeech AND name:Aposiopesis)
• figureofSpeech:name:Aposiopesis
• figureofSpeech:(name:Aposiopesis AND description:Sudden-Silence) —> same result as Name only.
• label:(figureofSpeech NOT name:Aposiopesis) —> this cannot be done with Simple syntax

Intertext

Intertext (Intertextuality) labels expose the data behind the interactive resource “New Testament Use of the Old Testament”.

Properties:

• Source – Bible Reference
• Target – Bible Reference
• Relationship – Citation | Quotation | Allusion | Echo
• Corpus – “New Testament” | “Old Testament Pseudepigrapha” |
  “Works of Josephus” | “Works of Philo” | “Apostolic Fathers” | “Nag Hammadi Codices”

For example:

• label:(intertext AND source:Gen-Mal) —> finds passages in the NT whose Source is the Hebrew OT
• intertext:source:Gen-Mal —> Simple syntax
• intertext:source:bible.nrsv:Baruch —> finds passages in the NT whose Source is Baruch in Apocrypha (still needs a bible with NT)
• intertext:target:Mt-Rev —> finds passages in the OT that are used in the NT (needs a bible with OT)
• intertext:(source:Gen-Dt AND relationship:Quotation) —> finds quotations in the NT that come from Gen-Dt
• label:(intertext NOT corpus:”New Testament”) —> finds passages for any corpus but “New Testament”
• speaker:Jesus INTERSECTS intertext:source:Gen-Mal —> finds passages from the OT that were used by Jesus
• speaker:Moses INTERSECTS intertext:target:Mt-Jn —> finds OT passages spoken by Moses that were used in the Gospels

Miracle

This label provides a search of miracle stories in the Old and New Testament.

Properties:

• Type – Healing, Affliction, Exorcism, Judgment, Nature, Resurrection, Communication, or Provision
• Agent – the Person that instigates the miracle e.g. God, Jesus, Peter
• Patient – the Person or Thing that the miracle directly affects e.g. Sarah when Isaac was born
• Beneficiary – any Person that benefits from the miracle e.g. Abraham when Isaac was born
• Audience – any Person witnessing the miracle
• ThingInvolved – any Thing mentioned/involved in the miracle e.g. snake, animal, flood, rain
• Instrument – any Thing directly used to instigate the miracle

For example:

• miracle:(agent:Jesus AND type:Healing) —> finds passages where Jesus performs a Healing
• miracle:(agent:Jesus AND (type:Healing OR type:Affliction)) —> also finds where Jesus cures an Affliction
• miracle:(agent:Moses AND thinginvolved:snake AND type:healing) —> healings that involve a snake
• miracle:any:person:Peter —> miracles where Peter is involved in any capacity
• miracle:any:John —> miracles involving any Person named “John” e.g. John the Baptist.

Question

This label provides a search of all the questions in the bible broken down by Type and whether they are rhetorical.

Properties:

• Type – see Questions in the Bible
• Rhetorical – true | false

For example:

• question:rhetorical:false —> finds passages where the question is not rhetorical
• question:(rhetorical:false AND type:Wh-) —> finds questions of type “Who?”, “What?”, “When?”, or “Where?”
• question:rhetorical:false INTERSECTS addressee:Jesus —> finds questions addressed to Jesus.

Promise

This label provides a search of promises in the bible broken down by categories.

Properties:

• fulfillment — The way in which the promise was fulfilled e.g. an Event
• theme — a Preaching Theme associated with the promise.
• verbClass — VerbNet categories characterizing the promise
  • see the Appendix of the dataset documentation for a list of verbClass options.

For example:

• promise:fulfillment:Event:”The Assyrians withdraw from Jerusalem”
• promise:theme:”God’s Love” —> finds promises related to God’s love
• promise:verbClass:”Sending and Carrying” —> promises that involve “sending” or “gathering/bringing back”.

Psalms Explorer

Every psalm within the book of Psalms has been tagged and placed within the Psalms Explorer dataset. These tags enable you to search the psalms
according to properties and values listed in the Psalms Explorer Interactive.

Properties:

• Genre
• Attribution
• Structure – Acrostic | Chiasm | Strophe
• Tag – e.g. Messianic| Selah| Maskil

For example:

• label:(psalm AND genre:Praise)
• blessed IN psalm:genre:Praise
• psalm:attribution:David
• psalm:(genre:Praise AND attribution:David)

Proverbs Explorer

Every proverb within the book of Proverbs has been tagged according to Type and Form and placed within the Proverbs Explorer dataset.
See the Proverbs Explorer Interactive for values to search.

Properties:

• Type
• Form

For example:

• label:(proverb AND type:Advice)
• proverb:type:Advice
• person:God IN proverb:type:advice —> advice concerning the Lord
• proverb:(type:Saying AND form:”Synthetic Parallel”) —> a saying in which the second half builds upon the first.