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 tabClosed The 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 Search Options pop-up menu (View History button in the Search Entry box) and verify that the search is set to an Exact search.
    Choose Exact if it is not selected.
  3. Click inside the Search Entry box.
  4. On the File menu, choose New Construct>Simple. A Simple Construct tab opens in a new zone.
    The Search 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; the first box has an initial value of "1" but can be changed; the other box is empty.
    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:

  1. Do one of the following:
    • Press Enter or Return in the Search Entry box of the Search tab,
    • Click Search at the bottom of the Simple Construct tab. The hits are displayed in the Search tab.
      • The search results are phrases where the same key numbers tag is used for different English words.
      • An example of the results is shown below.