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Example: English Construct with Key Numbers

Goal: You notice that in the NAS95S the expressions "surely die" and "greatly multiply" translate intensive forms where the Hebrew verb occurs twice; you want to look for other examples.

Setup: Open the Key Number text NAS95S.

1. Open a Search tabThe core tab used to search Bible texts, it consists of a search entry area and a search results area with the NAS95S as the search text. Set the search for Words.

2. Click the View History button () and verify that the search is set to an Exact search via the pop-up menu that appears.

   Choose Exact if it is not selected.

3. Click inside the Argument Entry box.

4. On the File menu, choose New Construct>Simple. A Simple Construct tab opens in a new zone.

   The Argument Entry box of the Search tab should now read:

   

5. In the Simple Construct tab, proceed as follows:
1. Drag the WORD item into the first column. The Select Words dialog box appears.
2. In the Select Words dialog box, choose greatly and surely and click OK.
3. Drag the KEY item into the second column. The Select Key Numbers dialog box appears.
4. In the Select Key Numbers dialog box, click OK and enter an asterisk (*) in the second column (under KEY). This stands for any key number.
5. Drag the AGREE item into the upper connection area. A dialog box appears with a few options.

6. In the dialog box, select Key Number and click OK.

   This specifies that the words must have the same key number.

7. Drag the WITHIN item above the Agree item. A dialog box appears with two empty boxes.

8. Enter the number 5 in the first box and click OK. This allows for up to four intervening words.

   The construct should look like this:

   

6. Doe one of the following:
7. in the Argument Entry box of the Search tab,
8. Click Search at the bottom of the Simple Construct tab. The hits are displayed in the Search tab.
9. The search results are phrases where the same key numbers tag is used for different English words.

10. An example of the results is shown below.

    

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