find occurances of a preposition governing a particular case
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?
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David Mills said:
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.
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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!
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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.
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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...
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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.
Rick Brannan | Bluesky: rickbrannan.com
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