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!!!! The ANDEQUALS and NOTEQUALS Operators

ANDEQUALS and NOTEQUALS (its opposite) are especially useful in Interlinear resources. \\ Using the *ANDEQUALS* operator is easier to demonstrate than explain. Suppose you want to do a search for all the times the word γλῶσσα was translated as 'language'. You would perform a Bible Search for *<Lemma = lbs/el/γλῶσσα> ANDEQUALS language* (don't worry about the lemma syntax. That's explained below). On the other hand, perhaps you want to find all this instances where γλῶσσα was translated as someth (…)

(From *Logos 7.10* you can use EQUALS and NOT EQUALS).

ANDEQUALS and NOTEQUALS (its opposite) are especially useful in Interlinear resources. Suppose you want to do a search for all the times the word γλῶσσα was translated as 'language'. You would perform a Bible Search for *<Lemma = lbs/el/γλῶσσα> ANDEQUALS language* (don't worry about the lemma syntax. That's explained below). On the other hand, perhaps you want to find all this instances where γλῶσσα was translated as something other than 'language'. You would perform a Bible Search for *<Lemma = (…)

 

The *ANDEQUALS* operator is differentfrom the *AND* operator because the match has to be in precisely the same location — the same word in the case of an interlinear— not just somewhere in the same verse.

The *ANDEQUALS* operator is unlike the *AND* operator because the match has to be in precisely the same location — the same word in the case of an Interlinear— not just somewhere in the same verse.

 

*Please note:* ANDEQUALS and NOTEQUALS do not work in morphological searches if you use the @sign. If you are searching for lemmas you may not need to use ANDEQUALS, as you can use the lemma field instead e.g. *lemma:γλῶσσα@NGSF*. For other searches you can use one of three workarounds:

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!!!! The WITHIN and INTERSECTS Operators

*WITHIN* will find text/an item that is fully contained within another item, wherean /item/ could be Words of Christ, a highlight style, etc. For example *<Lemma = lbs/el/κύριος> WITHIN <Person Jesus>* will find where "Lord" refers to "Jesus". \\ It is useful in cases where ANDEQUALS may fail or be incomplete (in a reverse interlinear) e.g. *lemma:ἀγαπάω WITHIN love*.

*WITHIN* will find an item that is fully contained within another item, where /item/ could be text,Words of Christ, a highlight style, etc. For example *<Lemma = lbs/el/κύριος> WITHIN <Person Jesus>* will find where "Lord" refers to "Jesus". \\ It is useful in cases where ANDEQUALS may fail or be incomplete (in a reverse interlinear) e.g. *lemma:ἀγαπάω WITHIN love*.

 

*INTERSECTS* will find those parts ofatext/an item that overlap/intersect another item e.g. use *<Person Jesus> INTERSECTS <Place Nazareth>* to look for "Jesus of Nazareth". \\ *<Lemma = lbs/el/κύριος> INTERSECTS <Person Jesus>* may give more useful results than *WITHIN*.

*INTERSECTS* will find those parts of an item that /overlap/ another item e.g. use *<Person Jesus> INTERSECTS <Place Nazareth>* to look for "Jesus of Nazareth". \\ *<Lemma = lbs/el/κύριος> INTERSECTS <Person Jesus>* may give more useful results than *WITHIN*.

 

!!!! NOT modifier

*NOT* can be used in conjunction with proximity operators (except ANDEQUALS/NOTEQUALS). For example:

*NOT* can be used in conjunction with proximity operators (except NOTEQUALS). For example:

* *Jesus NOT WITHIN 20 CHARS love* - searches for the word 'Jesus' where the word 'love' is either not present or is more than 20 characters away.

* *<Lemma = lbs/el/κύριος> NOT INTERSECTS <Person Jesus>* - will find where "Lord" does not refer to "Jesus" i.e. where it refers to "God" or "master".

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!! Searching for Bible Verses and other References

In *basic search*, Logos supports searching for many different types of references. A reference is a link from one resource to another. So a commentary, for example, would link to Bible verses, but perhaps also to Josephus or TDNT. You can search for these references, and therefore find every resource that linked to John 3:16, or Volume 5 page 42 of TDNT, etc. /*Note:* Not all links are references. References are a special kind of link, usually to a commonly-used resource with a standard referencing system. They are normally not links to a specific resource, but could (in theory at least) open in a number of different resources depending on what resource you own, and have prioritised. A link to a Strong's number, for example, might open in one of several Greek lexicons. If a resource could open with a particular datatype, that datatype will be listed in the *Indexes* section of the resourcesinformation panel. (There is no official list of datatypes, but users have collected a partial [[list of datatypes]])./

In *basic search*, Logos supports searching for many different types of references. A reference is a link from one resource to another. So a commentary, for example, would link to Bible verses, but perhaps also to Josephus or TDNT. You can search for these references, and therefore find every resource that linked to John 3:16, or Volume 5 page 42 of TDNT, etc.\\ /*Note:* Not all links are references. References are a special kind of link, usually to a commonly-used resource with a standard referencing system. They are normally not links to a specific resource, but could (in theory at least) open in a number of different resources depending on what resource you own, and have prioritised. A link to a Strong's number, for example, might open in one of several Greek lexicons. If a resource could open with a particular datatype, that datatype will be listed in the *Indexes* section of the ResourceInformation panel (there is no official list of datatypes, but users have collected a partial [[list of datatypes]])./

 

The basic syntax is as follows (the example is for bible verses):

* *<datatype = value>* (e.g. *<bible = John 3:16>*)

* *<datatype = value>* e.g. *<bible = John 3:16>*

There are literally hundreds of datatypes, and the main ones are listed below:

* *Bible Verses:* <bible = John 3:16> /or/ <bible = John 3:1-20>