I am sure this must be covered somewhere but I sure can't seem to hunt it down. How do I do this in Logos 4. I want to find all forms of "sin" in greek, with the article.
Thanks!
Dan,
‘sin’ with an article is as broad as it is long. I suggest that you pick a version you are familiar with and do a search of ‘sin’ then go from there….
I want to find all forms of "sin" in greek, with the article.
Here's what I came up with - I'm sure those who know the syntactical searches better than me will give better pointers, but I've found the OpenText databases easier to use. Also, I find an example of what I'm looking for, and try to recreate it's structure in my search.
thanks for the reply but this is not what I am looking for.
thanks gary! I will give it a try
Could you be a little more specific--?
HI Dan
Can I just explore a bit further what you are trying to do?
Do you want to find all the different Greek words "behind" the word "sin" in a particular English translation which then have an article associated with them?
If so, then a possible approach would be:
Find the word "sin" in your translation of choice. I expect you will already have one in mind, if not you can use the Logos search function to find one.
Right-click on the word "sin" and use the Bible Word Study function.
If you look at the "Greek Words" section of the resulting report you will see something like this:
This tells you the different words which are translated as sin and, if you click on any of them, you will run a search against that specific Greek word. Taking ἁμαρτία as an example you get results like this
If you click on the first reference you will open your translation to that point from which you can do a lemma search against that word
giving you something like this
If you then extend the search to specify the article I think you get what you want
You would then need to repeat this for each Greek word you were interested in.
More details on use of the search function are at http://wiki.logos.com/Detailed_Search_Help
Apologies if I have misunderstood what you are looking for!
Graham
I exported the results of a lemma search for sin (<Lemma = lbs/el/ἁμαρτία>) and exported it to Excel - then manually sent through and deleted those which were not articular. My final result (from a quick run through) was 90 -- so evidently my original search is missing some. I don't have time to look at this any closer right now--maybe I can later today.
I think the whole thread is confusing [by definition i gatherd it was a simple request for something not known how to do, i was unaware that he may have been a 'power' user-----my bad/my Apology]:
articular ar·tic·u·lar (är-tĭk'yə-lər) adj. Of or relating to a joint or joints.
thanks everyone. I think I have this working now. What I am doing is searching the NA27 text of Romans for every instance of any form of the phrase ὁ ἁμαρτία
Now that makes sense….glad to hear you got it working.
By the way where did you get the term ‘articular noun’?...thanks
By definition it would not matter if it does or does not..........
thanks room4more. In the context of greek grammar 'articular' means that the noun has with it the definite article. In my study I am trying to see if there is some grammatical marker in Romans or the other Pauline epistles that would indicate whether he is referring to sin as a principle or as an act.
What I am doing is searching the NA27 text of Romans for every instance of any form of the phrase ὁ ἁμαρτία
Just for kicks--how many have you found? My syntactical search above found 23 -- my spreadsheet showed 31.
I probably picked up the phrase "articular noun" in reference to a noun with the definate article when I learned koine greek at DTS
Hi Gary, I am searching the OpenAText.org test not NA (my bad) and get 23 hits too
Do not mean to be rude, but it may sound as such. read what I posted about articular[above]....it does or does not have to contain the article, it would be by contextual variance......
such as "if we confess our sin...."....is there an article?
Vines: OUR, OURS
I looked at my search and modified it a bit. It now returns 30 hits for Romans. The one it misses is where postpositive gar comes between the article and noun (7:11). Here's the updated search:
Actually simpler than my earlier one. Here's my list of hits from the spreadsheet:
I don't think you're rude. No problem. I am not following your argument with reference to the definite article in Greek. I think your reference says that in greek the noun either has the definite article (articular) or does not (anarthous). If it has the article then it indicates that a specific reference is in mind. For example The God instead of just god. It also has other nuances.
[bold,underlined] Correct. If it does not then it can possibly be an application, but it would still have to remain in the context of the verse(s) or passage, and the current audiance....such as Romans 4.7 and so on.....
ok b-fast is ready....going to go stuff myself............
Here's my list of hits from the spreadsheet:
And add 7:17 and 7:20 to that list.
That's what's always made me uncomfortable with my search results from the syntactical databases--I always wonder if I've accounted for some other form--in this case words coming between the search terms. As I understand its intent, you should be able to include and <Anything> tag, but I've not been able to get this to work. I have the most confidence in small searches like this to do a regular search for one term and export to Excel then manually delete the ones not matching what I'm looking for.
For any form, would also include prepositions for articular usage (English translation often includes "the" after preposition) along with searching for cognate words, which can be done using a Morph Search:
(lemma:διά, lemma:ὁ,lemma:περί,lemma:ὑπό) BEFORE 1-2 WORDS (lemma:ἁμαρτία,lemma:ἁμαρτάνω,lemma:ἁμάρτημα,lemma:ἁμαρτωλός,lemma:ἁμαρτωλός,lemma:προαμαρτάνω)
Initially opened Romans 8, then used right click to open "The Lexham Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament" to ἁμαρτία then did a Morph Search using a comma separated list of cognate words:
(lemma:ἁμαρτία,lemma:ἁμαρτάνω,lemma:ἁμάρτημα,lemma:ἁμαρτωλός,lemma:ἁμαρτωλός,lemma:προαμαρτάνω)
followed by looking at search results in Pauline Epistles for prepositions, then copying Morph Search and adding prepositions:
Syntax Search can also search for cognates. Started with template for Direct Objects, then changed part of speech to @D @P (added article) along with list of cognate lemmas (separated by a space):
ἁμαρτία ἁμαρτάνω ἁμάρτημα ἁμαρτωλός προαμαρτάνω
While comparing search results, noticed Morph Search included Romans 8:2 while Syntax Search did not so opened "The OpenText.org Syntactically Analyzed Greek New Testament: Clause Analysis; OpenText.org Clause Analysis." to Romans 8:2 that shows a modifier category of "Qualifier" so changed Syntax Search:
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I am sure this must be covered somewhere but I sure can't seem to hunt it down. How do I do this in Logos 4. I want to find all forms of "sin" in greek, with the article. Thanks!
"lemma:ὁ BEFORE 1 WORD lemma:ἁμαρτία" If I use "BEFORE 3 WORDS", I get results including prepositions intervening which is not what you want.
Hi folks.
Looks like everyone is into OpenText to solve this one, thought I'd show what (I think) you can do with Cascadia to approach it.
The below search has 33 hits in Romans in the NA27.
1. A "determiner" as a terminal node is an article. So we're looking for phrases that have an article.
2. Specifying the lemma in the "Phrase" object (rather than creating a structure down to the word itself) allows us to find where the "head" of a phrase is αμαρτια, and where the phrase itself has a determiner.
If you find this misses instances, please let me know. But it locates 7.17 and 7.20, which were mentioned in an earlier post as problematic/missing from other approaches.
