{"id":1049,"date":"2010-01-15T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2010-01-15T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:14:06","slug":"finding-numerals-in-the-old-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/2010\/01\/15\/finding-numerals-in-the-old-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Numerals in the Old Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody who knows <a href=\"http:\/\/logos.com\">where i work<\/a> wrote to ask if there was a way to get a list of all the numerals used in the Old Testament (two, twice, etc.). The answer&#8217;s yes, and it&#8217;s not hard: but since my first response was overly complicated, i wanted to try again and put the results out for others.<\/p>\n<p>The background: i&#8217;m using <a title=\"Logos 4\" href=\"http:\/\/logos.com\/4\">Logos 4<\/a>, Syntax Search, with the Andersen-Forbes Phrase Marker Analysis (henceforth AF). If this is new territory for you, you&#8217;ll want to start by getting some background from Mike Heiser&#8217;s tutorial videos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logos.com\/videos\">here<\/a>: the syntax videos are currently down near the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>So here are the steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the Search panel, and select Syntax<\/li>\n<li>Set the search to All Passages in Hebrew Bible: Andersen-Forbes Phrase Marker Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Click on Query to create a New Syntax Search<\/li>\n<li>In the new panel, click on Add Search Terms here and select Segment. You&#8217;ll also want to check Show Details at the top of the panel.<\/li>\n<li>On the right side of the Panel, open up the Parts of Speech section, and in the Morph Specification type &#8220;@N?[NO]&#8221; (or select\u00a0 the corresponding items from the pop-up: part of speech = Noun, Noun Family = numeral and ordinal). You can then click on Search to run this (i got 7128 results), and click through the results<\/li>\n<li>You might want to refine this search in several ways:\n<ul>\n<li>Limiting the scope to a particular book<\/li>\n<li>If you have a deeper understanding of syntax, you may want to elaborate the search specification to only include particular contexts<\/li>\n<li>Adding Semantics=Quantity removes two results, which was a little surprising, but i didn&#8217;t take the time to figure out which ones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody who knows where i work wrote to ask if there was a way to get a list of all the numerals used in the Old Testament (two, twice, etc.). The answer&#8217;s yes, and it&#8217;s not hard: but since my first response was overly complicated, i wanted to try again and put the results out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/2010\/01\/15\/finding-numerals-in-the-old-testament\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finding Numerals in the Old Testament<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semanticbible.com\/blogos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}