Ambiguous Greek froms

MJ. Smith · October 2023

Logos tells us what the morphology of a word is but it doesn't tell us what other morphology coding would yield exactly the same word i.e. it hides all interpretative ambiguity. Occasionally we get a question in the forums when a user prefers another reading or considers the reading inconsistent. Does anyone know of a resource that lists all the ambiguous forms?

RHC · October 2023

I don’t think there’s any in Logos or in print, but there’s some online tools. You can install the browser extension from Alpheios.

http://alpheios.net/pages/tools/ Either 1) copy and paste the inflected Greek word into the Look Up or 2) double-click on a Greek word found on the internet. Then a box will pop up that displays the morphological information.

You could also copy and paste the inflected word into the Perseus tool
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?lang=greek

Some examples:
βλέπετε    verb 2nd pl pres imperat act
βλέπετε    verb 2nd pl pres ind act
βλέπετε    verb 2nd pl imperf ind act homeric ionic unaugmented

Matthew 5:25 ἴσθι
either εἰμί 2nd sg pres imperat act
or       οἶδα 2nd sg perf imperat act

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