L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #313 Identifying the root of a word (for a search)
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: Wilmington Guide to the Bible - Logos Forums
Wordsearch preferred Strong's numbering of original language lemma's (dictionary words) in the Protestant Bible, which lacks root grouping. Logos Morphology analysis has original language lemma & root grouping of related lemma's, which is usable in Biblical & extra-Biblical resources.
Brian De Shields said:I would be helpful to me if you could share your method to arrive at using the root word.
- Bible Search for liberty in the Lexham English Bible (any Bible with Reverse Interlinear could be used)
- Clicked liberty in James 1:25 to open LEB
- Right Click on liberty
- Click root in context menu
- Click Bible that opened Bible Search for root.g:ελευθερος
FYI: my favorite Logos & Verbum feature is Visual Filter Highlighting so I can "see" verbal range of original language verbs in English.
Logos Wiki => Extended Tips for Highlighting and Visual Filters includes:
The Bible Software Users Companion Pack (2 vols.) has grammatical concept explanation with exegetical examples. English verbs have primary focus of time: past, present, OR future. Hebrew verbs have primary kind of action focus: happened/happening/will happen, imperative, volitional, incomplete, completed, ... (with no sense of time: contextual words provide time insight). Greek verbs primarily express kind of action with secondary aspect of time. Caveat: when translating Hebrew verbs into Greek OR English, any time aspect is a human belief interpretation (could reflect Hebrew contextual words).
FWIW: Revelation 4:8 phrase "the one who was and the one who is and the one who is coming!” translates God's most Holy Name יהוה
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."