Greek words that differ only in breathing cannot be separately searched for

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Lawrence

June 20, 2025 16:45

System: Win 11, Accordance 14.0.10

I tried to search for ἐκτός = outside, except (smooth breathing, different from ἕκτος = sixth) in UBS5.

When I entered εκτος into the search bar, both options are available in a dropdown menu. But regardless of which I pick, the same 22 hits appear, contianing hits for both.

How do I search for just one of them?

I have a screen-capture video of this, but can't find the option to upload video files.

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  Steven S

  June 20, 2025 17:15

  Hi Lawrence. You probably want to use an “exact lexical form” search. Simply precede the word with an equal sign. For the NA28, =ἕκτος yields 14 hits, while =ἐκτός yields 8. If you need a specific inflected form for the former (an adjective), use an “exact inflected form” search by surrounding the equal sign and the desired inflected form in double quotes. For example, "=ἕκτην".

  Please see the help system on this topic for more information.

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  Lawrence

  June 21, 2025 03:43

  Thanks Steven S, that works.

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