Construct search to find all words contaning a composite shewa under a gutteral letter

[Steven MacDonald]

I was wondering any of you more advanced users would know how to perform a construct search for any Hebrew word containing a composite shewa under a gutteral letter.

 

Any help or guidance would be appreciated 🙂

 

Steve

Edited September 25, 2023 by Steven MacDonald
forgot a word and spelling

[Brian K. Mitchell]

The database in Accordance do not tag guttural letters so you may have to use a wildcard or specify a guttural letter and which composite shewa you want. 

You can do on the search pane's entry box like this:

[Steven MacDonald]

Thank you for the information.

[Ken Simpson]

You can shortcut this a little by using the ? wildcard constrained to the gutturals. so FORWARDS - because cut and paste onto the forums doesn't work in reverse as far as I can make it work...

 

"=*?(ארהחע)ֲ*"

 

The composite sewa at the end will have to be changed for each search but at least there are only three of them!

 

So it should look something like this

 

Edited September 29, 2023 by Ken Simpson

[Accordance Enthusiast]

2 hours ago, Ken Simpson said:

You can shortcut this a little by using the ? wildcard constrained to the gutturals. so FORWARDS - because cut and paste onto the forums doesn't work in reverse as far as I can make it work...

 

"=*?(ארהחע)ֲ*"

 

The composite sewa at the end will have to be changed for each search but at least there are only three of them!

 

So it should look something like this

 

That's really great, thanks! I used to do it with a construct search which is more complex and difficult to build...

[Ken Simpson]

1 hour ago, Accordance Enthusiast said:

That's really great, thanks! I used to do it with a construct search which is more complex and difficult to build...

I love playing with the wildcard system in Accordance. It's not perfect, but it's fun!

[Brian K. Mitchell]

On 9/27/2023 at 8:58 AM, Steven MacDonald said:

Thank you for the information.

Thank you for asking the question that started this thread! I really like questions and threads like these!

[Steven MacDonald]

On 9/29/2023 at 2:41 AM, Accordance Enthusiast said:

That's really great, thanks! I used to do it with a construct search which is more complex and difficult to build...

A great example of the power of Accordance!

 

[Accordance Enthusiast]

On 9/29/2023 at 2:14 PM, Ken Simpson said:

You can shortcut this a little by using the ? wildcard constrained to the gutturals. so FORWARDS - because cut and paste onto the forums doesn't work in reverse as far as I can make it work...

 

"=*?(ארהחע)ֲ*"

 

The composite sewa at the end will have to be changed for each search but at least there are only three of them!

 

So it should look something like this

 

 

 

I've been trying to reproduce this search, and just in case it could help someone, the specified vowel should basically be added to the closing parenthesis, not to the "?", nor to the last letter in the parentheses. So I finally managed to make a similar search with the Chateph Segol as the desired vowel.

 

[Ken Simpson]

11 hours ago, Accordance Enthusiast said:

 

 

I've been trying to reproduce this search, and just in case it could help someone, the specified vowel should basically be added to the closing parenthesis, not to the "?", nor to the last letter in the parentheses. So I finally managed to make a similar search with the Chateph Segol as the desired vowel.

 

The parenthesis delimits the range of letters that can fill the ? Wildcard. And the composite sewe has to come immediately after it because the parenthesis is not a “letter” as such. So the whole ?(…) construction is equivalent to just a ? 
 

so you are absolutely right, but this is why. Since the vowel points are all on a preceding letter in Hebrew they are pushed under the letter so it looks like the vowel might be before the the parenthesis but it has to come afterwards.