Verbum 9 Tip 9au: Guide section: Visualizations: Lexham syntactic Greek

MJ. Smith

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Lexham syntactic Greek

The resources for Lexham syntactic Greek consists of a glossary, and two sets of Greek New Testament tools: a Bible, Bible notes, and clause visualization.

• Lukaszewski, Albert L., and Mark Dubis. The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament. Logos Bible Software, 2009.
• Lukaszewski, Albert L. The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament Glossary. Lexham Press, 2007.
• Lukaszewski, Albert L., Mark Dubis, and J. Ted Blakley. The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament, SBL Edition: Expansions and Annotations. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2011.
• Lukaszewski, Albert L., Mark Dubis, and Ted Blakley. The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament, SBL Edition: Sentence Analysis. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2011.
• Lukaszewski, Albert L., and Mark Dubis. The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament: Expansions and Annotations. Logos Bible Software, 2009.
• Lukaszewski, Albert L., Mark Dubis, and J. Ted Blakley. The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Lexham Press, 2011.
• Lukaszewski, Albert L., and Mark Dubis. The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament: Sentence Analysis. Logos Bible Software, 2009.

In the Visualizations guide, this is pared down to an uneven three resources. The absence of the fourth resource has been reported as a bug.

The glossary serves to tie the visualizations into three common grammars:

• Blass, F., A. Debrunner and R. Funk. A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature: A Translation and Revision of the ninth-tenth German edition incorporating supplementary notes of A. Debrunner, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961. [Note Logos carries the translation of the second edition so it is not linked.]
• Smyth, Herbert Weir. A Greek Grammar for Colleges. New York; Cincinnati; Chicago; Boston; Atlanta: American Book Company, 1920.
• Wallace, Daniel B. Greek Grammar beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996.

This linkage allows one to study these analyses in more depth than when one has only the brief glossary description.

Bible

As in the Lexham clausal outlines Bible, the Lexham syntactic Greek Bibles have a full context menu, gutter line popup, and an interlinear option.

Bible notes

The Bible notes provides the following information:

• Surface text word
• Root
• Louw-Nida number
• Morphology
• Gloss
• Word contained in
• Syntactic force
• Words modified by/ that modify
• Comments on any of the above

Clause visualization

The clause visualization is a tree diagram, it is simply set on it’s side. Even so, I am unable to capture on my laptop the image of the entire sentence which is Mark 1:2-4. This is a distinct disadvantage in grasping the overall structure and flow of the sentence. Note that as a tree diagram, it does not diagram down to the normal final node i.e., word. Rather, it stops at clause or phrase. The detailed elements that appear in the glossary appear in Notes  not the Clause Visualization.