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I am looking to see if certain words in the tanach are used in proximity to other words. Other than looking a word up in my Even-Shoshan and reading through each instance and seeing if the other word is in the same pasuk, is there a way? When using Westlaw in the past, I know that there was a function that allowed searching "within" a distance so you could find all instances of "word 1" within x of "word 2". Is there such a resource for the tanach online?

If you have access to said technology, I am looking for instances of the word/root לחם within 3 words of any word with the root שבר. I know the words are in the same pasuk in 2 situations in Yechezkel (5:16 and 14:13) but I am looking for others.

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Not online and only a partial solution, but Soncino has several software packages including various combinations of texts (Tanakh, talmud, Rashi, midrash, zohar, etc), and the one I have has a "X within N of Y" search. But it doesn't do all variations of a root, just specific words. – Monica Cellio♦ Feb 3 at 0:51
Do you mean לחמ like bread or battle? and שבר like food or break? – Double AA♦ Feb 3 at 0:55
Vayikra 26:26 ? – Double AA♦ Feb 3 at 0:57
@DoubleAA The vayikra quote is great -- same construction as the yechezkel. I am actually trying to see if I can find some origin for a phrase "break bread" which might have at one point meant "sustenance or hope through bread". – Dan Feb 3 at 1:04
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The advanced options in the search of responsa.co.il lets you do a search like that. However, the website seems to be down right now. – b a Feb 3 at 2:52
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I have Davka's Judaic Classics Torah Treasures it showed 5 results: Vayikra 26,26; Yechezkel 4,16; Yechezkel 5,16; Yechezkel 14,13; and Tehilim 105,16.

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thank you very much -- it looks like all 5 are sh-v-r and mateh-lechem which fits my request but doesn't clear up my etymological question. I just wonder why the responsa site didn't pick up 3 of these... – Dan Feb 6 at 3:44
@Dan The best I found was Rashi on the Possuk in Vayikra who translates Mate as support, is that close to 'sustenance'? – Meir Zirkind Feb 6 at 3:50
mateh as support works as a complement to lechem but I was hoping to find a case where sh-v-r is the "sustenance" and is close to lechem. – Dan Feb 6 at 13:48

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