# Term Query is not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-is-not-working/158470>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 28, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-is-not-working/158470 "2018-11-28T06:12:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-is-not-working/158470/5 "2018-11-28T07:07:12Z")

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Please provide all the relevant information in a recreation script and describe exactly what is not working. Having access to sample data and mappings together with the query makes it a lot easier to help.

Also please do not open multiple threads for the same issue. It is a lot easier if all the information can be found in the same place. It looks to me like the following threads refer to the same issue, is that correct?

> [@Term Query issue](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-issue/158464):
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> Hi, all { "query": { "bool": { "must": [{ "nested": { "path": "identifiers", "query": { "bool": { "must": [{ "term": { "identifiers.value": "PERSONAS" } }] } } } } ] } } } I am not sure why this query is not working

> [@Match Query - Can you help me?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/match-query-can-you-help-me/158457):
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> Hi, I want to search this kind of thing. I have fields like this. identifiers:[{key: "list1", value:"My name is Giorgi"}, {key:"list2", value:"Giorgi"}, {key:"list3", value:"Giorgi Kharchenko"}] { "query" :{ "bool" :{ "must" : { "match\_phrase" :{ "identifiers.value" : "Giorgi" } } } } } } So I want to get records which contains identifiers that includes search value for value property. {key:"list2", value:"Giorgi"} I am not sure how I can build th…

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