How to find all the Imperatives in OT?

Hello! Long time reader of the forums but I find I am now getting deeper into trying to use the morphology tools. Unfortunately my Hebrew is rusty from seminary!

How would I search for all the imperatives in the OT where: {Speaker <Person God>}

I recall that imperatives can be in the Qal or other verb tenses, but after searching through my Hebrew grammars I can't narrow down the morphology search to help me identify this.

Would you have a lead on how I would approach this? Many thanks for any help!

(Logos 7.4 on Mac)

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Justin Gatlin

I would not use a morph search for the Old Testament, but a propositional outline search. I went to Exodus 20 to see how they tagged commandments, then built this search. For the difference in a mandate and a command, I suggest random guessing.

({Section <PropositionalOutline = Command (Neg.)>}, {Section <PropositionalOutline = Mandate (Neg.)>}, {Section <PropositionalOutline = Mandate>}, {Section <PropositionalOutline = Command>}) WITHIN {Speaker <Person God>}

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/883983#Comment_883983

({Section <PropositionalOutline = Command (Neg.)>}, {Section <PropositionalOutline = Mandate (Neg.)>}, {Section <PropositionalOutline = Mandate>}, {Section <PropositionalOutline = Command>}) WITHIN {Speaker <Person God>}

Learned INTERSECTS also includes Joel 3:9 in results

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Chris Garrett

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/883983#Comment_883983

Great, thank you. I'll work with this and see what kind of results I get. Thank you!

Chris Garrett

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/883997#Comment_883997

Thanks again. Now I'm trying to create a visual filter using the ESV and the NIV. It seems that propositional outlines are only availablee in the ESV, NASB, and some others, correct? So when I tried to create the visual filter in the ESV, it worked well. But no luck with the NIV... the visual filter does not yield any results on the text.

So, am I correct in understanding that only the ESV has the propositional outlines, and thus this search, above, for commands will work only on the ESV, NASB, and other tagged resources?

Thank you both for your help!

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/884002#Comment_884002

So, am I correct in understanding that only the ESV has the propositional outlines, and thus this search, above, for commands will work only on the ESV, NASB, and other tagged resources?

It will work on Hebrew bibles, Greek bibles, some Septuagint bibles and translations with reverse interlinears (RI) such as ESV, NASB, KJV, NKJV, NLT, NRSV, LEB, HCSB, NIV 1984 and NIV 2011. NIV '84 & HCSB only have a NT reverse interlinear, but it all depends on the base packages/features and bibles that you have.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/884002#Comment_884002

So, am I correct in understanding that only the ESV has the propositional outlines, and thus this search, above, for commands will work only on the ESV, NASB, and other tagged resources?

Currently know of 28 Bibles that have propositional search results in the Old Testament and 36 Bibles with results in the New Testament:

Old Testament includes 2011 NIV while New Testament includes 1984 & 2011 NIV, which corresponds with the NIV reverse interlinears.

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Chris Garrett

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/884037#Comment_884037

Thanks Keep Smiling!

the difference between the NIV84 (which I use) not having the OT outlines and the 2011 having the outlines was tripping me up. I'll make a note of that. Thank you for bringng that to my attention!

Francis

all the imperatives in the OT where: {Speaker <Person God>}

In case what you are looking for is the commandments and you don't know this already, there is the Commandments of the Law interactive (which is, of course, not the whole OT but still a good start).