Search without accents

I agree this lack needs to be addressed by Logos, but in the meantime, if you know enough Greek to know what possible accented variations there might be, you could do a boolean search using OR for all of the possibilities, for example: *δικ*OR *δίκ*

However, there's a way that is much easier, faster (wildcards slow Logos down), more thorough (you won't miss any variations), and more accurate (you won't pick up words that aren't actually based on the same root; for example δίκτυα matches *δίκ* but its lemma is δίκτυον not δίκαιος):

Do a lemma search, which will find all forms of a particular root/lemma. You can do that either from Bible search with this syntax:

<Lemma = lbs/el/δίκαιος>

Or from Morph Search with this syntax:

lemma:δίκαιος

And if you're not sure what the lemma is to search for, right-click on any form of the word (e.g., in the Greek Bible or an English Bible that has reverse interlinear capabilities), select the Lemma tab on the right of the menu that pops up, and then select "Search this resource" on the left side.

There is a Lexicon that already accomplishes this (A New Testament Greek Morpheme Lexicon by J. Harold Greenlee).  This shows all the appropriate root forms and Greek words with those forms including prefixes, root words, suffixes, and terminations.  It list every Greek Word in the New Testament. I wish this book was in Libronix.  The publisher is Zondervan and the publishing date is 1983.  Here are 2 sections of the book that list your word.          

Can you put in a suggestion to the powers that be.  The homework is already done by Dr. J. Harold Greenlee.  He served in the past as an International Translation Consultant for the Wycliffe Bible Translators.  This work was based on BDAG.  Part 1 of the book gives prefixes, root words, suffixes and terminations for every word in BDAG.  Part 2 lists every word that contains each of the morphemes idenfified in part 1, so that a morpheme can be observed in all the words that use it at a single glance.    This work contains all suffex endings classified together with all Greek words that contain that suffex.  This would be Greek if this information is integrated into the search engine and the analysis view.    

This need seems to be met by the Lexham Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament.  The intro reads, "This present edition of The Lexham Analytical Lexicon of the New Testament includes glosses of all Greek words in all of the books of the New Testament, sorted by Louw-Nida domain information. It also includes a full listing of every form of every word in the UBS/NA Greek New Testament, fully parsed and declined, with links back to primary entries."

A sample entry is pictured below.

Joe:  The Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament give all the various forms of one Greek word and how it it used in the N.T. whereas A New Testament Greek Morpheme Lexicon groups together all Greek Words that uses a word root, suffixes, prefix, ect.    

Andrew McKenzie said:

Rosie Perera said:

I will email a suggestion in to suggest (at) logos (dot) com and reference this thread.

Done also and I sacrificed a vote on the flashcards in Logos (since it has over 360 votes) to add my vote to the stem/cognate search.

I've sacrificed a vote on something that would be cool but that I didn't think was as important as stem/cognate search (namely, visual bookshelf).

Hey, everyone else: Check your votes on the features that have already been marked Started and will be in 4.1 which should be shipping soon. No need to keep your votes tied up there anymore.

Printing Bible Text w/ Highlighting

Full Feature Print Functions

Smart Tags

Sentence Diagramming

This next major release is going to be loaded with new goodies! If you haven't been in for the ride already on the beta, you've got a pleasant surprise coming in a few short weeks.

Andy Anglea said:

Thanks for all your help! Unfortunately, I'm getting different results with my searches. It may have to do with the fact that I'm using the Mac version (I didn't put this in the mac forum, as I thought it was a general enough question) But the search lemma:*δικ* is still accent sensitive.

Yes, I didn't mean to imply that lemma: would make a search not be accent sensitive when combined with wildcards. That prefix is meant to be used with an actual lemma. I don't know how it behaves with wildcards, but I don't imagine it would work the way you expected it to. And I was wrong about Morph search doing what you want. Only Bible search will in this case, because Morph search on a lemma will only find that lemma, not various forms of it. What a dilemma! [;)]

I believe this is partially what you want, right? Notice it finds all forms of δίκαιος whether they've got the accent or not.

But it won't find prefixed forms, because it's a lemma search, not a stem/cognate search (the latter Logos doesn't do...yet).