Search of pericopes

Christian Alexander
Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

This type of search might not even be what I am looking for.

I am doing a study on passages that are about brokeness, or being spirtually broken. I want to search for pericopes that contain the truncated word "broke". Is there a way to do a search in Logos to do this to get a bird's eye view? I did an english word study for brokeness. I am now working through an Greek and Hebrew word study but I do not find any original language words that are equal to the term spiritual brokeness. This is the closest I have gotten to in my analysis. The word for break-in Greek is eklasen which clearly means to break or to be broken. The method of being spiritual broken is my key term and I do not get how to move forward in my analysis.

My community light study group is about to start a book study on The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life by Ann Voskamp. I want to do a analysis of being spiritually broken, its rammifications, the biblical theological story of brokeness before we begin the study of the book. I do not want to be biased in only reading one person. 

Dictionary: συντρίβω 

Principal Parts: συντρίψω, συνέτριψα, -, συντέτριμμαι, συνετρίβην

Matthew 12:20 A shattered (syntetrimmenon | συντετριμμένον | perf pass ptcp acc sg masc) reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, until he brings justice to victory.
Mark 5:4 For he had often been bound with shackles and chains, had been bound but the chains were torn apart by him the chains and the shackles broken (syntetriphthai | συντετρῖφθαι | perf pass inf ) in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.
Mark 14:3 And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he reclined at table, there came a woman with an alabaster flask of very costly anointment of pure nard; and breaking (syntripsasa | συντρίψασα | aor act ptcp nom sg fem) the flask, she poured it over his head.
Luke 9:39 and a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out; and it throws him into convulsions and causes him to foam at the mouth; and with difficulty it departs from him, bruising (syntribon | συντρῖβον | pres act ptcp nom sg neut) him as it leaves.
John 19:36 These things took place so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his body will be broken.” (syntribēsetai | συντριβήσεται | fut pass ind 3 sg)
Romans 16:20 The God of peace will soon crush (syntripsei | συντρίψει | fut act ind 3 sg) Satan under your feet. May the grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
Revelation 2:27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken to pieces (syntribetai | συντρίβεται | pres pass ind 3 sg),

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,775

    The method of being spiritual broken is my key term and I do not get how to move forward in my analysis.

    Look for broke in Bible Sense Lexicon and you will find phrases that indicate spiritual brokenness.

    Right-click relevant words in the passages you quote for "Sense" words. But "broken" in Rev 2:27 is not a spiritual state!

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,433

    passages that are about brokeness, or being spirtually broken. I want to search for pericopes that contain the truncated word "broke"

    Okay, step back and think more deeply about what you want.

    1. Do you really want a specific word or are you really looking for meaning?
    2. Are you looking for the specific word/meaning or are you looking also for figurative speech that conveys the meaning. [Note my example does not contain figurative speech tagging that would apply]
    3. What do you mean by "truncated word" - the word "broke" is not truncated - it is a form of break. If you are really looking for a specific word rather than a meaning what lemma are you looking for.
    4. You don't search for pericopes - you display the pericopes of the results or determine the pericope boundaries in which a result lies. You can only/always search for an instance of text that meets your criteria. However, see second part of the response below

    For each example you give:

    1. on the left, select the lemma, sense, or figurative speech/figure of speech tag that you want i.e. red box
    2. on the right, select the search you want i.e. green box

    We have no option to search with boundaries of "pericope". However, you may wish to search within a chapter rather than within a verse to avoid having verse breaks cause you to miss occurrences. Note that for a single search term this rarely matters. It is a genuine concern if you add criteria to limit your results to "spiritual".

    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."

  • Christian Alexander
    Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭

    MJ. Smith said:

    • Do you really want a specific word or are you really looking for meaning?

    Looking for meaning

    MJ. Smith said:

    • Are you looking for the specific word/meaning or are you looking also for figurative speech that conveys the meaning.

    Looking for both meaning, figurative speech and textual wordplay.

    MJ. Smith said:

    • What do you mean by "truncated word" - the word "broke" is not truncated - it is a form of break. If you are really looking for a specific word rather than a meaning what lemma are you looking for.

    I am looking for all conjugations of the word broke. 

    Thanks MJ. Your search really helped to guide me on this study. Blessings. 

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,433

    I am looking for all conjugations of the word broke. 

    the word/lemma is break not broke an important distinction in the long run.

    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."