Specialized Preposition Search
I am currently engaged in an intensive study in my Greek New Testament involving identify all prepositional phrases that are then immediately followed by a noun in a genitive case.
Can someone please recommend an appropriate search formula for this project?
I am hoping to better understand how the New Testament writers employed either subjective genitives or objective genitives imm following a prepositional phrase.
Thanks in advance!
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This is best done either with a syntax search or searching using the grammatical construction label features ordered around prepositions.
Syntax search is probably the best option, though.
I've created a syntax search that uses the Cascadia form of the SBLGNT, you should be able to access it here: https://flshare.net/g52zb9
[Edit: I misread the original request; the below finds a prepositional phrase with a genitive object; I'll follow up this post soon with a separate search to accomplish what you're looking for, I think.]
Here's the search:
Here are some results:
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[Edit: I misread the original request; the below finds a prepositional phrase with a genitive object; I'll follow up this post soon with a separate search to accomplish what you're looking for, I think.]
After re-reading the request, MJ's approach has merit and it is probably the most simple approach.
The only issue I can see with it is that it locates both instances where the following genitive directly modifies the prepositional phrase as well as instances where a genitive just happens to be adjacent to a prepositional phrase.
I futzed about with a Syntax Search (here's a version you can grab: https://flshare.net/n36jc7 ) that isn't perfect, but isn't bad either.
Here's the search:
Here are some results:
Rick Brannan | Bluesky: rickbrannan.com
Welcome to the forums. Do you mean you're looking for prepositions that take a noun in the genitive OR do you mean you are looking for preposition phrases that occur immediately before a genitive noun? In a Bible search use prepositionalPhrase:objectCase:Genitive . I got the pattern for the search by using the Context Menu on a preposition in my primary Bible.
Note I tried prepositionalPhrase:* BEFORE 1 WORDS morph.g:NG for the second option but did not verify the results. I don't know enough Greek to really understand
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
Thank you for your reply!
I’m actually trying to find every prepositional phrase that takes an object of any case that is then immediately followed by a genitive noun.
I’m trying to gauge the frequency for how the authors use either the subjective or objective genitive in combination with a preceding prepositional phrase.
I think prepositionalPhrase:* BEFORE 1 WORDS morph.g:NG is what you want. The last term translates as morphology-Logos Greek-noun-genitive
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."