I wish I could search for all Hebrew lemmas associated with a Greek lemma in the LXX.

For example, I am studying Matt 5:7 and see the word "merciful", which in Greek is from the lemma ἐλεήμων. I do a quick search of this lemma and find it only occurs twice in the NT. I then search the LXX interlinear for the same lemma, and find it occurs 29 times. I would really like to know all the Hebrew lemmas were behind the LXX translation of this word, so I can do then a word study on the Hebrew and perhaps learn more of the context and meaning associated with the word Jesus may have actually spoken. But I can't seem to figure out how to do this in Logos.

I have the parallel aligned LXX (Hebrew - Greek), but it only has the surface forms and not the lemmas, so i can't search for lemmas. It would be very nice if the parallel aligned LXX had lemma info attached to both the Hebrew and Greek!!!

Anyone have any advice?

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Mark Smith

A Bible Word Study on the Greek word in Matthew will produce a Word Ring of the Septuagint uses of that word and the underlying Hebrew words:

Click on one of the Hebrew words and the verses where that Hebrew word was translated by the original Greek word you are studying will appear below.

Example:

Wyn Laidig

That's WAY too easy!! I can't believe I never knew that!!!! Thanks so much Mark.

Todd Phillips

You can also do it manually using a Bible or Morph search on the Septuagint with Logos Morphology, then group the results by Hebrew lemma in Analysis view:

Mark Smith

You can also do it manually using a Bible search on the Septuagint with Logos Morphology, then group the results by Hebrew lemma in Analysis view:

Even better. Ran that search but didn't notice the Hebrew lemma column. Nice to know it's there.

Mark Barnes

I have the parallel aligned LXX (Hebrew - Greek), but it only has the surface forms and not the lemmas, so i can't search for lemmas. It would be very nice if the parallel aligned LXX had lemma info attached to both the Hebrew and Greek!!!

The Logos LXX with Morphology is an Greek/Hebrew reverse interlinear. You should use it instead of the parallel aligned LXX, which is an old resource.

Wyn Laidig

Thanks! This is all very helpful!