how to search 'faith' with and without a preceding article

Brian said:

I try this bible search in the NASB95: <Lemma = lbs/el/ὁ> BEFORE 1 WORD <Lemma = lbs/el/πίστις> , but that misses several occurrences.  

This is because RIs simply are not suited for searches where you are keen on the original ordering of Words in the Greek text. 

Brian said:

If I do the bible search in NA27 w/ Gramcord Interliner, instead of NASB95, I get zero results.

This may be because of the different morphology. Try the SBLGNT resource instead

Todd Phillips said:

BTW, I used the standard NA27 ("Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, 27th Edition") -- it has Logos morphology.  I've hidden the Gramcord one to keep from accidentally using it.

for those who only own the GRAMCORD version (and don't want to use the free SBLGNT), they only need to use lls/el/.... instead of lbs/el/.....

I also think that since some versions now we can simply use lemma:πίστις without specifying the morphology  

Brian said:

If I do the bible search in NA27 w/ Gramcord Interliner, instead of NASB95, I get zero results. I get the same with a morph search

Gramcord abbreviation is lls

@A BEFORE 1 WORD <Lemma = lls/el/πίστις>

Logos Greek Morphology lbs is useful for searching NA27 w/ McReynolds Interlinear

(<LogosMorphGr ~ D???> OR <LogosMorphGr ~ P>) BEFORE 2 WORDS <Lemma = lbs/el/πίστις>

<Root = lbs/el/πιστευω>

Syntax Searches to find Determiner and Prepositional usage

Brian said:Also -- for comparison, I'd like to search for all occurrences of pistis without a preceding article, but I have no idea at all how to form that search.

One way is saving search results as passage lists: all occurrences of πίστις and πίστις with a preceeding article then merge lists to create a passage list with differences (anarthous πίστις is often in a prepositional phrase) Romans 3:28 is an adverbial use of πίστις

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Fr Devin Roza said:

One verse that is good to test these searches against is Romans 1:12 - some types of searches will give that verse as a false positive, as the definite article is 3 words away from the noun.

Revised Syntax Search to find article in agreement, which includes Romans 1:12

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This is a perfect example of when you want to use Anything and also select "Matching skips levels."

The following search is equivalent to the search you built, but more flexible, as it would allow even more than 3 words between the definite article and it's corresponding noun. The "anything" allows multiple words, and the "matching skips levels" allows for different "columns":

The results are the same as what you got:

I haven't been able to construct a syntax search for anarthrous nouns. I'm not sure how to do it, as everything I construct returns 0 hits. I would think this should work, simply reversing the search for nouns with a definitive article, but it doesn't:

Maybe Rick Brannon or Dave or someone else would know how to do this in syntax search.

(nevertheless the Morph Query Builder query I posted above does seem to work properly for searching for anarthrous nouns, and doesn't include the false hit of Rom 5:12.)

MJ. Smith said:

syntax search question

This thread from 2009 contains a suggestion by Dave about how to build a syntax search for anarthrous nouns. Regardless of whether it worked properly in 2009, it is not working properly now. 

Dave Hooton said:

There are pitfalls in using Syntax Search and Morph Query for anarthrous queries e.g. it's easy to find an anarthrous phrase consisting of the word itself, whilst the higher level phrase has the determiner. But how many levels are relevant? In Morph Query you decide it is not relevant outside a window of 4 words or three? 

I agree there is currently no sure way of doing this search. It may be the type of thing that has to be manually tagged.

I chose 4 words as the boundary level simply by trial and error. If I increased it further than 4, or if I lowered it lower than 4, I started getting false positives or false negatives. 4 worked out to be the most accurate boundary level, even though there may be extreme cases where 4 won't work (I don't think there are any in the book of Romans, however).

Dave Hooton said:

Rom 1:12 is an example to consider, but why is it false positive?

People have actually been discussing two different searches on this thread - how to find pistis without the definite article, and how to find it with the article. In Romans 1:12, it has the definite article, but many of the proposed searches to find pistis without the definite article returned Romans 1:12, in which case it is a false positive. I think so far the only search proposal for finding pistis without the definite article that correctly does not include ROmans 1:12 is using the Morph Query builder... even with the limitations that you mention above.

Dave Hooton said:

The article is adjacent after re-ordering in the ESV interlinear ribbon, but why is that so?

The word "faith" in English translates both Greek words, so that is why they are adjacent in the interlinear, where English word order rules. The interlinear always works that way whenever a word in Greek has the definite article, but the article isn't translated in English (e.g. search for faith INTERSECTS <Lemma = lbs/el/ὁ> for more examples).

Fr Devin Roza said:

This is a perfect example of when you want to use Anything and also select "Matching skips levels."

The following search is equivalent to the search you built, but more flexible, as it would allow even more than 3 words between the definite article and it's corresponding noun. The "anything" allows multiple words, and the "matching skips levels" allows for different "columns":

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Fr Devin Roza said:

I haven't been able to construct a syntax search for anarthrous nouns. I'm not sure how to do it, as everything I construct returns 0 hits. I would think this should work, simply reversing the search for nouns with a definitive article, but it doesn't:

Romans has three anarthrous uses of πίστις that are also not in a prepositional phrase:

Dave Hooton's 2009 reply => https://community.logos.com/forums/p/6897/53773.aspx#53773

Dave Hooton said:

You basically specify that the article must not be present.

Learned Matching Skip Levels includes a false positive in Romans 3:30 plus did not find Romans 3:28, 12:3, nor 14:22

Believe Romans has 20 anarthrous uses of πίστις that includes prepositional phrases:

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Fr Devin Roza said:

The Morph Query Builder search includes Romans 3:25 and Romans 10:6, which the syntax search is still missing. 

Romans 3:25 has a definite article

Cascadia SBL is anarthrous in Romans 3:25

Logos 7.2 Beta 2 has Syntax Search bug for Cascadia SBL; cannot filter passages to Romans.

Romans 10:6 has a definite article in clause, which does not agree with πίστις so working on Syntax Search modification that finds Romans 10:6 while excluding Romans 1:12

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Shared both Syntax Searches with Faithlife Group Logos Syntax Searching => https://faithlife.com/logos-syntax-searching/documents

Could that search for πίστις be the most epic syntax search ever? [H][Y]

While for "pistis" it works just as well as the Morph Query document search, for ἀλήθεια your syntax search actually works better, precisely because it has the syntax information.

When I changed the Morph Query to ἀλήθεια, the Morph Query document returned 45 hits, compared to 46 for the Syntax Search. The Morph Query was missing one anarthrous noun, in 2 Cor 7:14, where the phrase ἡ ἐπὶ Τίτου ἀλήθεια confuses the Morph Query. Here the article is actually a pronomial article, acting as a relative pronoun in the phrase ἡ καύχησις ἡμῶν ἡ ἐπὶ Τίτου, and doesn't modify ἀλήθεια, which is anarthrous.

The Morph Query document could easily have the ability to successfully run this search. We can already filter by "pronoun type", "conjunction subtype", "adverb/particle type", etc. but there is no option for "article type", even though the data is available in the SBLGNT, where definite articles are classified as "attributive articles", while in 2 Cor 7:14 the article is classified as a "pronomial article." I'll post a petition in the Beta forum for that functionality.