Searching for Compound Words in Hebrew

[timothylfox]

Could someone please explain to me how to search for compound words in Hebrew? I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get accordance to search this way, even when I am using quotation marks and/or equals signs.

 

For example, I want to search for every occurence of וְיָשַׁב in Samuel, but Accordance seems to only want me to search for "ו" and "יָשַׁב" separately. How do I tell Accordance that I want to search for these exactly as I have pasted them above?

 

Thank you,

Tim

[Rick Bennett]

Could someone please explain to me how to search for compound words in Hebrew? I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get accordance to search this way, even when I am using quotation marks and/or equals signs.

 

For example, I want to search for every occurence of וְיָשַׁב in Samuel, but Accordance seems to only want me to search for "ו" and "יָשַׁב" separately. How do I tell Accordance that I want to search for these exactly as I have pasted them above?

 

Thank you,

Tim

 

If you add a space between them the search will work. This is due to the morph tagging by the Groves Institute, and not something we control in the search syntax of Accordance.

[Helen Brown]

Accordance has to search for them separately but it will find them as a phrase. I suggest selecting the word in the text, and choosing how you want to search from the right-click menu: as lemmas, inflected, or root. You can then see how it sets up the search, and if it adds an = sign, you can remove it to broaden the search by ignoring vowels and other marks.