Luke uses an ἐγενετο ἐν τῳ INFINITIVE construction 21 times in the Gospel. I like to demonstrate to my students that in doing so, Luke is echoing LXX wording (which in turn is reflecting the underlying Hebrew construction). It is not particularly eloquent Greek and is not used (as far as I can tell) in non-Jewish/Christian literature, so it's clear that Luke is intentional about its use. In the NT, the construction only shows up 2x in Mark and 1x more in Acts. It's used about 50x in the LXX.
I can run a Morph search to get these results using a collection I've made of "Greek LXX and NT LogosMorph." Here is my query search that works well:
"εγενετο" WITHIN 2 WORDS lemma:ἐν WITHIN 1 WORD lemma:ὁ WITHIN 4 WORDS <LogosMorphGr ~ V??N????>
I have noted in another thread that there is an issue getting a bar/column/pie graph to display all the results.
I have tried, but I cannot figure out how to conduct a syntax search for this construction. Can anyone show me how?
I realize that Cascadia syntax graphs are only available for the NT and the LXX deuterocanonical books, so I will not get full LXX results.
Besides figuring a Cascadia syntax search, is there another 'visual' way of conducting a search for this construction? (Both Accordance and BibleWorks have graphical search modules that are more user-friendly than using command line searches.)
Thanks for any help!