Searching the Cantillation Marks (Ta’amim) of the Hebrew Bible

Historical note: This post was originally written in 2013 and describes BibleWorks as it existed at that time. BibleWorks ceased operation as a commercial Bible-software provider in 2018, although existing users may still maintain installations.

Modern software makes it possible to search individual accents/cantillation marks as well as specific combinations of them in the Hebrew Bible. BibleWorks included two different databases that could be used for accent searching: the WTM (Westminster Morphological Database) and the JDP (Dr. James D. Price accent database). The accent codes differ between the databases, and the JDP database also uses different codes for prose and poetic books. Let’s say you’d like to search for every occurrence of the Mereka accent in the WTM.
(1) Enable the Permit accent code searching in Hebrew morph. version(s) option. (2) Select the WTM database as your search version. (3) On the command line, type: .*@*Zy*

This yielded 286 hits in 283 verses.
For reference, here are the WTM accent codes:

1. Segolta (a)
2. Sinnorit (s)
3. Zarqa, Sinnor (b)
4. Pazer (t)
5. Pashta, Azla Legarmeh (c)
6. Pazer Mag or Qarne Parv (u)
7. Pashta (with previous left) (d)
8. Zaqep Magnum (v)
9. Telisha Parvum (e)
10. Mahpak or Mehuppak (w)
11. Paseq [separator] (f)
12. Mereka (y)
13. Yetib (g)
14. Mereka Kepulah (z)
15. Dehi or Tipha (h)
16. Tipha, Majela, or Tarha (0)
17. Mugrash (i)
18. Munah (1)
19. Telisha Magnum (j)
20. Silluq [meteg (left)] (9,2)
21. Ole or Mahpakatum (k)
22. Meteg (right) (3)
23. Geresh or Teres (l)
24. Tebir (4)
25. Gershajim (m)
26. Atnah (5)
27. Azla or Qadma (n)
28. Galgal or Jerah (6)
29. Illuj (o)
30. Darga (7)
31. Shalshelet (mag,parv) (p)
32. Telisha Qetannah (med) (A)
33. Zaqep Parvum (q)
34. Telish Magnum (med) (B)