Highlighting Imperatives and Locating All Forms of a Greek Lemma

Tip of the Month: Locating All Forms of a Greek Lemma

Keeping with the Greek theme this month, I also received an e-mail asking this question:

Can I search for multiple lemmas at the same time in Logos 4? For example, I would like to find all occurrences of the lemma dunamis AND dunamai in 1 Corinthians.

Here’s my suggestion:

  • Open the Search panel
  • Select Bible as the search type
  • From the first drop down list indicate a search range
  • From the second drop down list select a Bible like the ESV
  • Enter this in the Find box: g:dunam (typing g: lets Logos know you’re about to type a transliterated word so you can select a Greek word from the drop down list)
  • From the drop down list of Greek words, select δ?ναμις which places greek: δ?ναμις in the box



  • Remove the last two Greek letters in the box, replacing them with an asterisk (*) , which is a wildcard symbol representing any number of characters (including zero).
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This becomes a wildcard search to locate all the Greek words beginning with the Greek letters in the Find box.

Tip of the Month: Highlighting Imperatives

I received an email recently asking how to locate and highlight the imperatives in the New Testament using Logos 4. So here goes: 

 

  • Choose File | Visual Filter
  • Rename the filter from Untitled to something like Greek Imperatives
  • Click Morph as the filter type
  • From the first drop down list, select New Testament as the range
  • From the second drop down list, select a Bible like the ESV
  • From the third drop down list, select Logos Greek Morphology
  • Type the @ sign in the Find box, which alerts Logos that you’re going to specify a morphology to search
  • Select Verb from the drop down menu
  • Select Imperative in the Mood column, which places @V??M in the Find box
  • From the Formatting drop down list, select a desired highlight for imperative verbs

Open the ESV to a New Testament passage to see all the imperative verbs highlighted. Please remember even though English words are highlighted, Logos is filtering the actual Greek text “buried” beneath the English words.