Second thoughts on the BDAG for my purpose?

Jose,

I don't intend this to sound mean, but you really need to just learn the lexical forms - then keep BDAG. Knowin the language is about worthless without memorizing your roots. 

Ryan

Is there a particular reason you're doing this from the Search panel, instead of from the text, where you can just double-click on the word?

Lexham Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament would seem to be the resource that you need. It is in Scholars Silver and the Catholic collection, or it can be purchased for $29.95.

I have it prioritized just below my usual lexicons. It is particularly useful when searcing from a commentary, where the lemma is not embedded in the resource. The analytical lexicon will give you the lemma, and then you can search for that in BDAG and other lexicons.

Jose,

As others suggested an analytical lexicon will lead you from a declined form to the correct lemma. HOWEVER, everyone I've ever know who knows Greek well would tell you that such a practice will diminish how well you learn Greek. AND, when I was in Greek class the use of an analytical lexicon was classified as cheating so before you start using an analytical lexicon ask your professor/teacher if that is ok.

Also, did you know that there is a Table of Contents pane? You can activate it in the tile menu. It will help you to browse for a lexical form even if you're not entirely certain on the spelling.

Jose Martinez said:

Hi DMB, 

By this you mean to have another panel with another Lexicon and link the two panels when doing the search? What lexicon do use suggest?

Thanks a lot.

Jose

Don't bother with an analytical unless you get it free.  It's about as useful as certain proverbial parts of anatomy on a boar.  If you really need help in finding the lexical form (lemma), you can simply hold your mousepointer over the word and it will appear along with all of the information you would have gotten from an analytical.  I would advise using this sparingly—force yourself to learn to recognize the forms and be able to know the lemma.

Jose Martinez said:

Hi, 

I am beginning to have second thoughts if buying the BDAG digital form in Logos was a good idea for my intended use. I am using it for a Greek course and here is what's troubling me. I am basically using the Search tool to be able to find the words in its Lexical form thus find the meaning and the other case forms. However, I do not  always remember the Lexical form but have a declined one to search for. However, if I search a declined form I do not get the results with the lexical form rather other words that may refer in the definition to this form of the word I am searching for.

1. Searching at the Search tool for the Lexical form: Search: "Lemma Text" in "BDAG" for: g:"kurios" (transliterate for "lord" in its lexical form).

2. Searching at the Search tool for the Lexical form, Formal Equivalent in "BDAG" for: g:"kurion" (declined Accusative: NO RESULTS.

I am just wondering if there is any search possibilities for a declined word and that it shows the Lexical form in the result. I just don't want to be submerged browsing through the index looking of the BDAG  for the different options if I do not know the Lexical form of the word but have a declined option to look for. 

Thanks.

Jose Martinez

Until you learn the lemma (your term, "lexical form") you could do a search of Greek resources for the particular form.  In Logos these are morpholoically tagged so that when you hover over them you will see the morphological information in the lower left corner.  There is a program (non-Logos) which will take a form and present the information you need, but since I have never really used it, I don't remember the name.  At one time it was free, but I think they have both a free version and a paid version now.  Sorry I can't supply the name of the program. 

By all means, do learn the lemma of the various words.