Errors in Lexham SGNT notes?

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Rick Brannan (Faithlife) | Forum Activity | Replied: Fri, Jun 14 2019 9:10 AM

Hi Madison.

The root analysis of the Greek New Testament has similarities with (but is not a simple reproduction of) Trenchard's analysis (pp. 5–126 of The Student's Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament).

As the analysis is applied in Logos, we've basically gathered groups of related lemmas that are roughly linguistically related or derived. Each of these groups needs a label which ends up displayed as the "root". The “root” used as the label for the group is typically the most common word/lemma within the group. Where such an assignment does not make sense, the label has been reviewed and made more appropriate. Typically labels are verb, noun or adjective forms of the word representing the basic, underlying concept or formation.

I'll file a case to review the label γινομαι for the group of associated lemmas. Thanks for the feedback.

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Rick Brannan (Faithlife) | Forum Activity | Replied: Sat, Jun 15 2019 11:22 AM

Hi Madison.

I think there is confusion between the terms "root" and "lemma". In the notes, the "root" refers to an underlying form/concept behind cognate forms of the word, so the "root" here is representative of all noun/verb/etc. formations of the word. For example, the noun αγαπη and the verb αγαπαω  share the same root, in this analysis labeled as αγαπαω, which makes different sorts of searching possible.

The lemma (viewable from the LSGNT resource; alternately in the link via Louw-Nida) is the form one would look up in a lexicon, and the form you would find in the ESV reverse interlinear or other Greek New Testaments. There is no expectation that roots and lemmas should always match (sometimes they will).