Morphology Search

Orpheus Heyward

Is there a way that I can find everywhere a specific word is used as an imperative?  For example, what if I wanted to know everywhere sing is an imperative, or everywhere believe is an imperative?  Thanks in advance

Mark Barnes

Yes, you can. But a morph search will work on Greek words, not English words. You can find out the Greek words using a reverse-interlinear, but bear in mind that if there's a few different Greek words for the one English word this method will only work for one Greek word at a time.

• Open any English translation that has a reverse interlinear.
• Find the word you want to look at, and right click on it.
• Make sure lemma is highlighted on the right hand side of the menu.
• Choose Morph search from the left hand side of the menu
• You'll get a morph search window, and the results will be for all forms of that word.
• Now go up to the search bar (it should say lemma:πιστεύω if you're searching on 'believe'), and type the @ sign immediately after πιστεύω
• You'll be presented with various options, just click on the ones you want. In this case, πιστεύω is a verb, so click that first, and then you'll see options for imperative etc.
• Click the little blue arrow at the bottom right when you're done.

PS - If you know the Greek word already, you can just bring up the morph search directly and type the word in.