Could anyone help me in setting up a syntax search for any time a FUTURE TENSE Greek verb is associated with the Greek lemma ζωή zoe = life?
Begin by typing in lemma:zao. A drop down option appears with the verb. Select it, and then time the @ symbol. Another drop down menu appears. Choose "Verb" and then the parameters about the verb you want, which in this case happens to be "future." I've provided a screen shot of the final syntax and search results. Oh, make sure you do it in morph search.
Also, here are a couple of videos that might help with more complex morphological searching and clause searching:
Morph Search
Clause Search
If you were asking how to do this as an actual Syntax search, there are a number of ways to do it (just the word, word as head group, in a type of sentence structure, etc.) but here is something simple probably close to what you are looking for.
As an FYI, the post by Jacob is actually a Morph Search. That works well when you are focused on a type of word irrespective of the type of sentence/clause it exists in, as you seem to be here. The Syntax search is better when there are relationships between words, words within particular sentence/clause structures, etc. Those can be done with a Morph search but they are a bit of a "fudge" - people do it by guesssing how many words between importants words etc. to approximate it. Syntax Searches are not 100% accurate as well, ie you may find you get a false positive or negative, but you can identify the sentence/clause structure the word exists in very specifically.
Thanks, Don.
However, what I am searching for is not when zao is used in the future tense, but when zoe = life [especially eternal life] is mentioned as something in the future. For example,
8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. (Galatians 6:8, NKJV)
29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. (Matthew 19:29, NKJV)
It appears from the Scripture that when eternal life is mentioned in relation to the FUTURE, it is always speaking of eternal REWARD. But when it is used with the PRESENT TENSE it is speaking of the FREE GIFT of eternal life [like John 3:16].
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16, NKJV)
But I would like to check this out.
Bill
what I am searching for is not when zao is used in the future tense, but when zoe = life [especially eternal life] is mentioned as something in the future.
So, maybe a morph search like this:
@VF AND lemma:ζωή
what I am searching for is not when zao is used in the future tense, but when zoe = life [especially eternal life] is mentioned as something in the future. So, maybe a morph search like this: @VF AND lemma:ζωή
There isn't much to be gained from a Syntax search as it is a Verb-Object structure that relies on morphology.
Try lemma:ζωή NEAR @VF, V?AS ---> @VF, V?AS expresses alternative morphologies.
The active subjunctive V?AS gets Jn 3:16.
Bill,
I think this screenshot accomplishes what you are looking for.
The great thing about running a syntax search for this is that it will isolate your search results to only the times where this verb-object relationship is in the same clause and thus directly related to one another syntactically rather than just by proximity.
If you are interested in seeing all verbal functions, as opposed to only the future tense verbs, simply remove the morphology from the verbal function in the syntax search. I hope this helps.
This is not a morphological or grammatical matter anymore. A lot will depend on the context. 99% of the time we'll have results are that indisputable, e.g.ζωὴν αἰώνιον κληρονομήσει = he will inherit eternal life (life in the future). There will be the 1% where you could see more than one side to it, e.g. John 10:10 ἵνα ζωὴν ἔχωσιν = that they may have life.
Hm. Without knowing that much of Greek, e.g. Mt 25:46 looks like a legitimate hit that he morph search catches and the syntax search not.
Better to verify that a couple of hits among 35 verses are not what one is looking for, than reducing the results to 6 meager hits and missing of relevant aspects.
The great thing about running a syntax search for this is that it will isolate your search results to only the times where this verb-object relationship is in the same clause and thus directly related to one another syntactically rather than just by proximity. Hm. Without knowing that much of Greek, e.g. Mt 25:46 looks like a legitimate hit that he morph search catches and the syntax search not. Better to verify that a couple of hits among 35 verses are not what one is looking for, than reducing the results to 6 meager hits and missing of relevant aspects.
My usual work flow is to start general in the manner that you did and try to figure out what kinds of syntactic structures we are going to be dealing with to refine the list. Matthew 25:46 is an interesting result. Thanks for pointing it out! What we have there is an instance of a Verb Elided Clause. This is where a verbless clause exists that piggy-backs off the previous clause's verbal function in an implicit manner. If we wanted to find other instances of this, a better syntax query would be:
There are issues with only running a general morph search that the user may run into as part of this study. Matthew 25:46 may not be a good result (depending on what the OP is actually trying to prove) since the instance of "life" in that verse serves an adverbial function as opposed to an object function. This syntactic structure is still interesting because if we expand the search out beyond future tense verbs to all verbs, we will find verses like Mark 10:30 and Luke 18:30. Both use an aorist verb along with verb elided clauses. To find these instances using a morph search would be very cumbersome since you would have to sift through over 100 verses to find them, not to mention countless false positive verbal hits within those results.
Ok, that explanation was probably far too technical and lengthy. Long story, short...I still prefer running a syntax query at some point in the process of study to refine results. However, as many of us who use Logos know...there are many ways to skin a cat. ;-)
There isn't much to be gained from a Syntax search as it is a Verb-Object structure that relies on morphology. Try lemma:ζωή NEAR @VF, V?AS
Try lemma:ζωή NEAR @VF, V?AS
My 'dismissal' of syntax search was based on the experience that a text/Morph search quickly provides candidate results, and that this case provided results that were largely meaningful, because refining a syntax search for exceptions (Mt 25:46) would be vastly more time consuming.
