Morph Search Definitions

Matt Leonard

Just wanted to open up the conversation again on Morph Search Definitions.

Is there a list of all the main words and their definitions.

For instance, 'article', 'nominative', singular', and 'masculine'.

This post has come from me trying to understand the word 'blessed' in Ephesians 1:3.

Have we already been blessed, are we being blessed now, is it one off or continues?

This are the sort of question I am asking of the text and I wondered if the Morph information can help.

What are you thoughts?

Many thanks,

Matt

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DMB

Matt, it's not clear what you're asking:

- Logos' definitions of morpho-terms (which is in the Glossary your other thread pointed to)

- The full-word of morpho-abbreviations (which is listed in the Logos Wiki)

- Specific discussion of a passage's morpho-significance (eg Eph 1:3)

- Generalized linguistic application in greek as Paul would have used

MJ. Smith

Just wanted to open up the conversation again on Morph Search Definitions.

Is there a list of all the main words and their definitions.

Yes, no, maybe, maybe not ... because what you are asking is much more than what the terms mean, you are asking about usage. Usage would give you an answer similar to this:

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In Koine Greek, the active aorist participle is a verbal adjective that expresses an action that has been completed in the past. It is formed from the aorist stem of the verb and the active participle endings. The active aorist participle can be used in a variety of ways, including:

To indicate the time of an action in relation to another action. For example, in the sentence "ὁ ἄνθρωπος βλέψας τὸν κύριον προσεκύνησεν αὐτὸν," (ho anthropos blepsas ton kyrion prosekynesen auton), "the man having looked at the lord worshiped him," the active aorist participle "blepsas" indicates that the action of looking happened before the action of worshiping.
To express the cause or reason for an action. For example, in the sentence "ἐφοβήθησαν οἱ μαθηταὶ ἰδόντες αὐτὸν περιπατοῦντα ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης," (ephobethēsan oi mathētai idontes auton peripatounta epi tēs thalassēs), "the disciples were afraid when they saw him walking on the sea," the active aorist participle "idontes" expresses the cause of the disciples' fear.
To express the manner or means of an action. For example, in the sentence "οἱ στρατιῶται ἁρπάσαντες τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἀπήγαγον αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ πραιτώριον," (oi stratiōtai harpasantes ton Iēsoun apēgagon auton eis to praitōrion), "the soldiers seizing Jesus led him away to the praetorium," the active aorist participle "harpasantes" expresses the manner in which the soldiers took Jesus.
To express a condition or concession. For example, in the sentence "καὶ ἐγὼ οὐκ ἠπιστεύμην εἰ μὴ ἴδω τὰς χεῖράς μου καὶ βάλω τὸν δάκτυλόν μου εἰς τὰς ὀπὰς τῶν χειρῶν αὐτοῦ," (kai egō ouk episteumēn ei mē idō tas cheiras mou kai balō ton daktylon mou eis tas opas tōn cheirōn autou), "and I did not believe unless I should see my hands and put my finger into the side of his hands," the active aorist participle "idō" expresses the condition of the speaker's belief.

The active aorist participle is a versatile and commonly used grammatical feature in Koine Greek. It can be used to express a variety of temporal, causal, and modal relationships between actions.

while definitions give you something more like this:

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active — The grammatical voice that signifies that the subject is performing the verbal action or is in the state described by the verb.

aorist — The aorist verb tense is used by the writer to present the action of a verb as a “snapshot” event. The verb’s action is portrayed simply and in summary fashion without respect to any process. In the indicative mood, the aorist usually denotes past time, while an aorist participle usually refers to antecedent time with respect to the main verb. Outside the indicative and the participle, the aorist does not indicate time. “First Aorist” refers to the inflected form. First Aorist verbs are marked by an augment (usually a prefixed ε, η or ω) and either -σα, -ξα, or -ψα as part of the suffix endings.

participle — A word that has characteristics of both a verb and an adjective — a “verbal adjective” (cf. the word “shining”). As such, Greek and Latin participles have gender, number and case (the adjectival side), as well as tense and voice (the verbal side). Participles do not have mood, but can function in an imperative sense. In general, a participle’s tense is similar to a finite verb’s tense. The aspect of a participle cannot be simply equated with that of verbs.

Michael S. Heiser and Vincent M. Setterholm, Glossary of Morpho-Syntactic Database Terminology (Lexham Press, 2013; 2013).

Or you can use Factbook to get to the appropriate sections of your grammar and syntax resources https://ref.ly/logos4/Factbook?ref=ggront.ParticipleActiveVoice

Dave Hooton

This post has come from me trying to understand the word 'blessed' in Ephesians 1:3.

Have we already been blessed, are we being blessed now, is it one off or continues?

This are the sort of question I am asking of the text and I wondered if the Morph information can help.

I would recommend use of commentaries for passages like this. And the Louw-Nida Lexicon helps with nuances.

Garrell Calton

@Matt Leonard, I completely understand what you are asking for in your thread. I asked a awhile back for when right-clicking a greek work for something like clicking def of Genitive or a syntax of the different Genitive drop down, so I did not have to go back and forth between Wallace and the text.