As I was studying today, I was looking at 1 Timothy 3 and the qualification that an elder be a husband of one wife (note, this post has NOTHING to do with correct or incorrect interpretations of the phrase. Please don't hijack the thread). I was thinking about the possibilities of what the phrase means, and in thinking about divorce, I was curious about how Paul could have unambiguously stated that a person be "never-divorced."
The first part was easy enough. I opened Louw-Nida, found the appropriate section on marriage and divorce, and found four words listed for divorce. Three were verbs, and all the usages listed referred to actions.
I was curious whether the verbs were ever used as substantival or adjectival participles to describe someone, so I thought, "No problem, morphological search." Except this is where it became a problem. In an attempt to try to isolate substantival and adjectival participles, I thought I'd search for the article followed within a couple of words by the participle, both agreeing in gender, number, and case. If I was just interested in searching the NT, I could set up a syntax search and do this, but since there aren't syntax databases for the LXX (yet), the apostolic fathers (yet), Philo, and the Perseus collections, there is no way to do this. This was where the graphical query was really helpful in L3.
I don't care about getting the graphical query back per se, and while there are syntax databases coming for some other morphologically tagged databases, there should be a simple way to set agreement in morphological searches for any morphologically tagged text we have. Please make the morphological search as wonderful as it could and should be. Or, if I'm just missing something obvious here, let me know 