The screen shot below shows in the left sidebar the resources that returned a hit. But what if I want to see what biblical resources say about the Trinity, and where in the Bible they see the various interrelating persons of the Trinity? The “Search All” bar at the top right of Accordane allows the user to search all of Accordance’s resources by word (or even by Scripture reference). The word “Trinity” does not appear in the Bible. Workspaces, by the way, are a great way to stay organized and working on multiple projects at the same time in Accordance. I just had to check “Confine amplify to the same workspace.” UPDATE: It’s an easy fix in the Preferences section. But it would have been nice to just have the Amplify search open the dictionary in my same Workspace.
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There may be a good explanation for this and an easy way to prevent it from happening that I just don’t know about (if I find one out, I’ll post an update here). As a result I lost my initial place and had to go back to the “Hebrew Bible” Workspace. I was using Accordance with two Workspaces open: Accordance’s “NT Study” and my own “Hebrew Bible.” When I tried to look up an English word from the Hebrew Bible Workspace in the Eerdmans Dictionary, it moved me over to the NT Study Workspace where Eerdmans was already open. I can think of one possible way for a future update to improve the Amplify function (I know, I know! this one just came out). And the triple-click option is neat, too–by triple-clicking on a selected word, you look it up in your default dictionary or lexicon. I can look up “wilderness” in English tools and find the definition in the Eerdmans dictionary. Then a whole range of options is available to me. In Mark 1 below, I double-clicked on “wilderness” to highlight it and then went to the Amplify icon in the customizable toolbar up top:
Using this feature has taken me a little bit of time to figure out, but now that I have I’m really enjoying it. This method of searching is much faster than opening a new module and manually typing in your search. You can also triple-click on any word to quickly amplify to your default dictionary or lexicon.
For example, if you are reading about the Ten Commandments in Exodus 34:28 you can amplify to a dictionary article on the topic by selecting the phrase “Ten Commandments” in the Bible text, clicking on the amplify icon in the toolbar, and then choosing the desired dictionary. This option is available only in the English versions–there is no Flex Search option for Hebrew or Greek texts, for example.Īccordance offers a highly efficient form of searching known as amplifying, which allows you to search for any word or phrase just by selecting it in the text you are reading and then clicking the Amplify icon in the toolbar. This is a good move for those of us who use Google frequently, where something like a Flex Search can happen somewhat intuitively. Order doesn’t matter here: “weep jesus” gives me the same results as “jesus weep.” You can even combine an Exact Search with a Flex Search by placing the term you want to search exactly in brackets. Just under the search bar is shown the statistic “18 flex hits.” Click on the image below or open in a new tab to view larger: You can see that in the results below, even though I searched with “weep,” Flex Search brought up results with any inflection of “to weep” (wept, weeping, weep). If I wonder, for example, whether “Jesus wept” might have some other verses similar to it, I type in “jesus weep” in the search bar, make sure it’s set to “Flex Search,” then enter. This mode also allows words to occur out of order or to have other words in between them. Specifically, Flex Search will find all inflected forms of verbs and all singular and plural forms of nouns. Here is how Accordance’s site describes Flex Search, new in Accordance 10:įlex Search is a new feature of Accordance 10 that finds variations of the words and phrases you search for. Add these three cool features to the four I highlighted earlier: analytics, the customizable toolbar, the magnify feature, and the one-volume IVP commentary and one-volume Eerdmans dictionary that come with the Starter Collection and higher. Here are three powerful and creative ways that Accordance 10 allows you to search through its texts and resources.
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