I want to find all the occurrences of διά when it takes the accusative case. I do not want the occurrences with the genitive case. How do I do that?
David, you can do a Bible Word Study on the lemma "dia" and it will show the various prepositional uses by case and how many occurances in each.
Or I did it with a syntax search, if I understand your question to be accusative verb phrases containing διά. Could be other modifications needed to the search, if you have a couple of verses that match what you are looking for that can help refine the search. The best way to use Syntax search IMHO is to find a verse(s) that matches what you are looking for, and then construct a query that matches that case so it finds all other occurrences. This is usually not a problem because we have typically seen something in scripture that intrigues us and we want to find other occurrences of it!
Yes, I knew about the Word Study option. It is a matter of habit. I used to use Gramcord and could construct a search for any combination of grammatical structures. Gramcord doesn't work on Windows 7, however. Thanks.
Correct on Gramcord, not supported in Syntax search. There are other options though, albeit you have to come up to speed on their own unique grammatical structure/conventions...
Using Cascadia, one can search for a phrase with type=prepositional. The "head" of a prepositional phrase is its object, so if you specify the headword case to genitive, you're set. From here, point the 'terminal node' to a preposition, and this should get what you're looking for.
This query ends up w/240 results.
