Non-English Word Study in Logos Mobile

Paul Gibson

I read the paragraph below, and tried to do a Word Study in Logos Mobile on berē’šîṯ, ṯôleḏôṯ and geneseōs, but I didn't get any information for any of them. I was thinking I had to use the prefix h: or g: for Hebrew and Greek transliterated words, but that didn't work either. Can this be done?

This is more of an exercise in learning how to use Mobile rather than a need to look these up. I could just go to Genesis and do a word study starting with the English words.

The Titles of Genesis. The Hebrew title of the book is the initial word berē’šîṯ, translated “in the beginning.” The English title “Genesis” was derived from the Greek translation of ṯôleḏôṯ, the key word of the book. In Genesis 2:4a, the Septuagint translation is, “This is the book of the geneseōs of heaven and earth.”

Ross, Allen P., “Genesis,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. by J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), i, 15

Frank Sauer

Following - as I've always used the English to get to the Bible Word Study on mobile

Frank Hodges

it seems to work for me by typing “G:kurios” in Bible Word Study, without the transliteration marks. Have you tried that?

James McAdams

I don't know Greek or Hebrew beyond, like, a toddler level, so this is me being a blind tour guide.

Searching the Bible word study tool for h:toledoth works just fine, but bereshit is made up of two lemmas (search for h:reshit) and geneseos is an inflected form of the lemma (search for g:genesis).

I don't even know if I used "lemma" or "inflected" correctly above, btw - I refer you to my earlier disclaimer. I'm an idiot and should let someone smarter talk to you.

The thing is, searching for stuff in another language is tricky when you don't speak it, as you don't know what you're doing wrong! Logos makes it easier to get that info from the English words, and I would recommend starting there.

Look up a verse like Gen 1:1 and you know from the pasted paragraph above that bereshit is translated as "in the beginning", so long press on "beginning" and choose "word info" from the pop-up menu and open a word study from there.

Lastly, the factbook does help to provide some search suggestions if you start typing a lemma which might be helpful in some cases - if you use those suggestions to search for a lemma there, you can open a word study from the "dig deeper" section of the factbook. It's a bit slower than going straight to the word study, but getting used to what the factbook can do (*a lot*) is really helpful.