Bar Ilan Software Support - Alternative Forms
1.
In Bar Ilan Responsa to specify alternative forms, type a slash (not a backslash!) between the alternative forms, and enclose them in parentheses.
For example, to locate all passages where Moses, Aaron, David, or Solomon are mentioned, type:
(משה/אהרן/דוד/שלמה)
2. You can also specify alternative forms with prefixes, suffixes, etc. For example, to find all occurrences of שמר with grammatical prefixes and all occurrences of כתב with grammatical suffixes, type:
(#שמר/כתב#)
3. In the Bar Ilan Responsa Project if you’re searching for alternative forms with identical prefixes, suffixes, etc., you can type the symbols for these forms once, immediately before or after the parentheses, rather than typing them inside of the parentheses.
For example, to locate all passages mentioning eitherבית, לביתם, וביתר , or אפטרופוס, לאפטרופוסא, ואפטרופסא, etc., type:
#(בית/אפטרופ)*
4. You can specify a series of consecutive words, each of which has alternatives. To do so, type the first word and its alternatives, as explained above, a space, and then the second (third, etc.) word and its alternatives.
For example, to find biblical verses where either Moses or Aaron “spoke” (וידבר) or “said” (ויאמר) something, type:
(וידבר/ויאמר) (משה/אהרן)
5. In Bar Ilan CD to specify alternative forms if one of them consists of two or more words, type the alternative forms in double braces.
For example, to locate all passages mentioning צער בע"ח, צער בעלי חיים, or צעב"ח, type:
({{צער בעלי חיים}}/{צער בע"ח}}/{{צעב"ח}})
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