Greek /Hebrew Quick Word look up?

Is there any way of looking up a quick very basic definition of a NT Greek word ( from an open Greek Bible) without either going through the Bible Word Study feature, which takes quite a while, or by using an interlinear without grappling with what appears to be extensive strings of words letters and syllables, which also takes a long time to fathom out? Have I missed something obvious ?

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Jonathan Pitts

Providing you are using a greek text that has morphology (e.g. UBS4), simply hover your cursor over the word and you should get a popup at the bottom of the pane that gives you both the morphology (without abbreviations), the lemma and a quick translation.

You can also use the information pane for this purpose, particularly if you use the settings menu there to choose which resources are displayed in this pane. I use EDNT as my greek lexicon in this context. Most entries have a simple definition in the first line, while providing me with a link to more detailed discussion when I want it. The translations I get in the information pane this way are closer to the basic intrinsic meaning of each word, whereas the tranlations/glosses attached to UBS4 are more the meaning of the word in that context.

EDIT: Just realised that this is on the iphone/ipad forum. What I have written refers to Logos 4 for PC (or I presume Mac). On the iphone/ipad I am ignorant.

Jerry M

You can use The Interlinear Literal Translation of the Greek New Testament to get a Strong's definition quickly. It uses the Textus Receptus. I don't know of a way, off hand, to get a Hebrew definition quickly. I would hope the reverse interlinears would be added at some point which are based on a newer Greek text.

Ebbe Andréasson

Is there any way of looking up a quick very basic definition of a NT Greek word ( from an open Greek Bible)

First tap and hold to select the word. From the popup menu tap Look Up and you will get a very basic definition of the word.

Michael Perry

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/243666#Comment_243666

thanks for the help.

The Interlinear Literal translation works well because the pages are formatted very clearly, very readable. with one verse to a paragraph and strong numbers keylinked to show their definitions in a pop window when touched. Of course this resource can kept open and keylinked by bible verse to an open English bible. Alternatively if I have a Greek bible open like NA 27 then firmly touching a Greek word will bring up the pop up window showing the quick definition and parsing etc ( this pop up window also provides the link to Bible Word study and search. In the first instance I missed how this feature looks up a quick definition because there is a brief delay of a second or two. Great thanks

Jonathan Andrist

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/243666#Comment_243666

Is there anyway I can get the push&Hold lookup to work in offline mode? Recently aquired an IPOD, and I'm looking to get access for quick reference if there's a greek word I've forgotten (instant 'readers greek' bible.)

Jerry M

For online applications. I have an iPad and don't have an iPod. On my iPad I guess what I would do is split the screen, and on the left I would have The Swanson New Testament Morphology, which would give me the USB 4th edition Greek text. On the left I would put the Lexham Greek-English Interlinear New Testament. The Lexham interlinear would give me a nearly instant popup of the Louw-Nida definition. I could jump to the reference if I wanted to see the full definition and then hold down the arrow at the top to get a history drop down so I could go back. If you can't split the screen on a iPod then I don't know if you can get an instant popup definition of any length without using Lexham. (Strongs comes up on the textus receptus using The Interlinear Literal Translation of the Greek New Testament by Newberry.)

For offline I don't think you can use the push and hold method. I just tried using the Lexham interlinear in airplane mode and it will still give you a Louw Nida popup definition.