New Testament Clause search for objects in the dative case

Harry Hahne

Although most Greek verbs take an accusative direct object, there are some that regularly take the dative case or even the genitive. 

I tried to do a clause search with Jesus as the object and the verb ἀκολουθέω, which regularly uses dative as the direct object. An example would be Matt 16:24: "...take up his cross and follow me" (ἀκολουθείτω μοι). However it does not find any results.

My Clause search on the SBL Greek New Testament is:

object:Jesus verb-lemma:ἀκολουθέω 

This returns no results. I can get Matt 16:24 if I change the search to this:

person:Jesus verb-lemma:ἀκολουθέω 

But this will have some false hits, where Jesus is the subject or speaker, rather than the object.

If I look at the tags on μοι in Matt 16:24, Lexham SGNT Syntactic Force classifies it as a Dative Object, which is correct. But the Cascadia Syntax Graphs classify this as an indirect object, which does not seem to be correct. 

Does the Clause search for object only work for accusative direct objects?

Dave Hooton

If I look at the tags on μοι in Matt 16:24, Lexham SGNT Syntactic Force classifies it as a Dative Object, which is correct. But the Cascadia Syntax Graphs classify this as an indirect object, which does not seem to be correct. 

You will find that a Morph Search for Dative Object:

   {Section <SGNTSyntacticForce = dat. obj.>} WITHIN 0 WORDS <Person Jesus> WITHIN 2 WORDS lemma:ἀκολουθέω

gives comparable results to a Clause Search for:

  indirect-object:Jesus verb-lemma:ἀκολουθέω

Does the Clause search for object only work for accusative direct objects?

It seems that way but difficult to establish.