Help to Build a Syntax Search in the NT

Dear fellow Logos Bible Software users,

I'm having the hardest time trying to build a syntax search to find the occurrences of the following structure in the Pastoral Letters:

eis + article + infinitve verb

May anyone help me with this?

Thanks in advance.

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Fr Devin Roza

You may want to try a Morph search for this one.

You could choose the lemma eis, then use BEFORE 1 WORD, all in caps, then the article, then BEFORE 1 WORD, then @ to pick a verb and specify the infinitive. Something like this:

lemma:εἰς BEFORE 1 WORD @D BEFORE 1 WORD @V??N

Clacir Virmes Junior

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/844075#Comment_844075

Thanks, Fr. Devin! It helped a lot. Where do I find these other commands, like the 'BEFORE 1 WORD" you just mentioned?

Fr Devin Roza

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/844078#Comment_844078

Thanks, Fr. Devin! It helped a lot. Where do I find these other commands, like the 'BEFORE 1 WORD" you just mentioned?

The wiki is a good reference: https://wiki.logos.com/Search_HELP

And, the Advanced Search Training videos are coming very soon, which are entirely dedicated to advanced searches like this one. https://www.logos.com/product/51655/verbum-advanced-search-training

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/844075#Comment_844075

lemma:εἰς BEFORE 1 WORD @D BEFORE 1 WORD @V??N

Morph Search is helpful for finding verses to model for Syntax Search: e.g. Matthew 20:19

First Syntax Search results included Acts 7:19 that was not found by Morph Search:

Morph Search found Romans 1:20 so modified Syntax Search:

Morph Search found Romans 3:26 and 1 Th 3:2 so modified Syntax Search more, which included highlighting terms in results

Some prepositional phrases have more than one infinitive: e.g. Matthew 20:19 has three infinitives.

lemma:εἰς BEFORE 1 WORD @D BEFORE 1 WORD @V??N

Learned negated infinitives can be found with a modified Morph Search:

lemma:εἰς BEFORE 1 WORD <LogosMorphGr ~ D???> BEFORE 1 WORD <LogosMorphGr ~ BN> BEFORE 1 WORD <LogosMorphGr ~ V??N????>

Keep Smiling [:)]

Rick Brannan (Logos)

Dear fellow Logos Bible Software users,

I'm having the hardest time trying to build a syntax search to find the occurrences of the following structure in the Pastoral Letters:

eis + article + infinitve verb

May anyone help me with this?

Thanks in advance.

If you're looking for a prepositional phrase using syntax search, the easiest thing to do is to use the "Prepositional Object (Cascadia)" template. Open a new syntax search (Documents -> Syntax Search). Look at the right side column. These are templates that can be filled in with what you need. Find "Prepositional Object (Cascadia)" and click it.

The document should prepopulate. You can add options to the query. First is to make the Preposition (the "Terminal Node") εις, after that change the morphology of the "word" to be "V??N" (use '@', then the morph picker window will display and let you choose what you want). Like this:

This gets you most of the way there — the only thing left is to adjust to specify an article. But in this case, it might actually be easier to scan the result list and see if there are any anarthrous hits in the results. I didn't see any anarthrous results in my quick visual scan of the 54 hits this returned, but I may have missed something. (EDIT: I saw you asked specifically about the Pastoral Letters. I changed the range, and found no occurrences in that search range.)

Hope it helps. I have published this query to the "Logos Syntax Searching" group on Faithlife: https://faithlife.com/logos-syntax-searching/activity