L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #277 How to find derivatives of the same root

MJ. Smith

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: Find all forms of a Greek word at least its noun and verb - Logos Forums

You may notice I changed the language of the original post in my heading. "word" is a very slippery thing to define which is why natural language processing often speaks of tokens. Linguistics tends to treat "word" as a synonym for both "lemma" and "lexical unit". The OP in this case was using word to mean something like "shared root" and is looking for lemmas with the same root. (Yes, I am over-simplifying.)

Morgan said:

You can do this a number of ways. Using send (ἀποστέλλω) from Mark 1:2 as an example.

Right click on the word to bring up the context menu. Select the Greek Root with the square root symbol next to it, and then select "Bible" under the search options.

Alternatively, you can get the same results from a Bible Word Study Guide. After right clicking a word select the option with the wheel instead and the "Bible Word Study." There is a section called "Root" that will have the information you're looking for.

Clicking on 'στελλω' from the BWS will launch a search for that root in all of your Morph tagged texts. If you want to limit your search to only verbs, only nouns, or both it would like this:

root.g:στελλω INTERSECTS morph.g:V

root.g:στελλω INTERSECTS morph.g:N

root.g:στελλω INTERSECTS (morph.g:N OR morph.g:V)

To get more options, just type @ after INTERSECTS and you will get a list of options to pick from to limit your query.

 

Gregory Lawhorn said:

I like the Analytical Lexicon of New Testament Greek for this.