Logos 5: Collection Rule for Lexicons

Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris, who has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos seminars, provides many training materials.

One of the keys to effective Logos searching is creating collections, which allow us to search within targeted groups of books, not the entire library. Toward that end, a Logos user recently emailed me this question:

I’m trying to set up a collection for my Hebrew and Greek Lexicons. What’s the rule for such a collection?

Let’s walk through the steps for creating two collections, one for Hebrew lexicons and the other for Greek:

• Choose Tools | Collections.
• Assign a specific name to the collection, such as Hebrew Lexicons (A) or Greek Lexicons (B).
• Enter this text in the Rule box:
  • For Hebrew lexicons: type:lexicon AND title:(Hebrew,old) (C).
  • For Greek lexicons: type:lexicon AND title:(Greek,new) (D).
• Close the Collections panel.

• All Hebrew and Greek dictionaries are classified according to the type lexicon (E).
• So we begin the rule by instructing Logos to look in the Type field for the word lexicon (F).
• We then add the AND command (G), because we’re also going to instruct Logos to simultaneously look in another field—specifically, the Title field (H).
• In the Title field, we’re asking Logos to locate resources with the word:
  • Hebrew or Old (I)
  • Greek or New (J)

So, to summarize:

• For Hebrew lexicons, we’re finding resources with the type lexicon and, at the same time, the word Hebrew or Old in the title, such as A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament or Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament.
• For Greek lexicons, we’re finding resources with the type lexicon and, at the same time, the word Greek or New in the title, such as A Concise Greek–English Dictionary of the New Testament or The Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament. 

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