Wilmington Guide to the Bible

In preparation for studying the book of Galatians i came across this comment from Wilmington's Guide to the Bible "

The key word is liberty, used eleven times in the letter. This is more than all his other epistles combined.

Harold Willmington, Willmington’s Guide to the Bible (Tyndale House Publishers, 1981), 397.

In all of my research I could not substantiate this conclusion. The actual word "liberty" is used 4 times in the letter. I could not find any other translations to substantiate this conclusion. Can anyone out there help?

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Justin Gatlin

Hi Brian, welcome to the forum! He is talking about the root word. It is translated lots of ways (free, freedom, liberty) so you will probably not find a translation that uses them all. I prefer using lemmas for word studies to root words, but I can see the emphasis he is making here.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

The actual word "liberty" is used 4 times in the letter. I could not find any other translations to substantiate this conclusion.

Bible Search for lemma.g:ἐλευθερία finds 4 words in Galatians while Bible Search for root.g:ελευθερος finds 11 words in Galatians.

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Brian De Shields

Thank you so much for your respond. I am new to Logos as i was a Wordsearch users for a number of years. I have not studied Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic. I would be helpful to me if you could share your method to arrive at using the root word. I knew it had to do with a translation of a word but did not know how to find the different translations. Hopefully, for future benefit it can be done without having studied the languages. Thank you in advance.

JT (alabama24)

I would be helpful to me if you could share your method to arrive at using the root word. I knew it had to do with a translation of a word but did not know how to find the different translations.

Is your question, "How do I find the root word in my Bible?" Here is "freedom" from Galatians 2:4. I have selected the word and pulled up the contextual menu. On the top of the LEFT hand side of the menu you will notice "selection" and "reference." Beneath those is the Lemma & Root words. The Lemma has a "translation ring" (circle) icon. The Root word has the square root icon.

When I select either the "lemma" or "root" choices, notice the RIGHT side of the menu change to reflect the change. If I click on the "search" button for the root word, it pulls up the list like you saw in the previous screenshot.

For the record: It shows NINE different verses, but two verses have the root word twice (so a total of 11 uses of the root word).

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

I am new to Logos as i was a Wordsearch users for a number of years.

Wordsearch preferred Strong's numbering of original language lemma's (dictionary words) in the Protestant Bible, which lacks root grouping. Logos Morphology analysis has original language lemma & root grouping of related lemma's, which is usable in Biblical & extra-Biblical resources.

I would be helpful to me if you could share your method to arrive at using the root word.

Bible Search for liberty in the Lexham English Bible (any Bible with Reverse Interlinear could be used)
Clicked liberty in James 1:25 to open LEB
Right Click on liberty
Click root in context menu
Click Bible that opened Bible Search for root.g:ελευθερος

FYI: my favorite Logos & Verbum feature is Visual Filter Highlighting so I can "see" verbal range of original language verbs in English.

Logos Wiki => Extended Tips for Highlighting and Visual Filters includes:

Examples of visual filters

The Bible Software Users Companion Pack (2 vols.) has grammatical concept explanation with exegetical examples. English verbs have primary focus of time: past, present, OR future. Hebrew verbs have primary kind of action focus: happened/happening/will happen, imperative, volitional, incomplete, completed, ... (with no sense of time: contextual words provide time insight). Greek verbs primarily express kind of action with secondary aspect of time. Caveat: when translating Hebrew verbs into Greek OR English, any time aspect is a human belief interpretation (could reflect Hebrew contextual words).

FWIW: Revelation 4:8 phrase "the one who was and the one who is and the one who is coming!” translates God's most Holy Name יהוה

Keep Smiling [:)]

Brian De Shields

Thank you so much. Have a Blessed day

EastTN

Wordsearch preferred Strong's numbering of original language lemma's (dictionary words) in the Protestant Bible, which lacks root grouping. Logos Morphology analysis has original language lemma & root grouping of related lemma's, which is usable in Biblical & extra-Biblical resources.

Keep Smiling gave a great explanation of all this. The one thing I would add is that there's nothing wrong with using Strong's numbers - they're a great tool for someone who isn't familiar with Greek or Hebrew. That's what I began with. But if you take the time to learn how to look up roots the way Keep Smiling describes, it will take you a lot farther.