Exclusion Phrase Example #1
Suppose you want to search the phrase “of the Lord”, as we previously illustrated
in the Search Within example. But, suppose you don't want to count the
occurrences of the phrase “the angel of the Lord”.
To do this search, start a New Search and create two Search Phrases. In one
Search Phrase, enter “of the Lord”. In the other Search Phrase, enter “the angel
of the Lord” and click the “Exclude” check box on the Search Phrase containing
“the angel of the Lord”:
In this example, the phrase “of the Lord” is found 1744 times in the Entire Bible,
which is the selected Search Within text. The phrase “the angel of the Lord” is
found 59 times in the Entire Bible.
Since the phrase “the angel of the Lord” completely contains the phrase “of the
Lord”, then any occurrence of “the angel of the Lord” that matches the
requirements of the Search Scope and Search Within specifications will be
removed from the Search Results for the phrase “of the Lord”.
The Number of Occurrences shown for “the angel of the Lord” is negative,
indicating that those occurrences have been removed. Also, the contributing
occurrence count for the Search Phrase “of the Lord” is 59 less, showing 1685
instead of 1744.
In order to be counted for removal, the Search Phrase marked as “Exclude” must
completely contain the phrase being removed. As you can tell, the Search Phrase
“the angel of the Lord” completely contains the phrase “of the Lord”. If you had
entered “the angel of the” instead, it would not have completely contained “of
the Lord”, and nothing would have been removed:
As you can see, nothing was removed by the “the angel of the” phrase, because it
doesn't completely contain a Search Phrase that would otherwise be included.
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