L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #313 Identifying the root of a word (for a search)

MJ. Smith
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edited November 21 in English Forum

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.

I would be helpful to me if you could share your method to arrive at using the root word.
  1. Bible Search for liberty in the Lexham English Bible (any Bible with Reverse Interlinear could be used)
  2. Clicked liberty in James 1:25 to open LEB
  3. Right Click on liberty
  4. Click root in context menu
  5. 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."

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