search for verses that match both include and exclude criteria

[johnburnett]

Hi. I want to search for all (present-tense verbs) in Mark, except (participles, infinitives, imperatives, and subjunctives), that are also (not the verb ειμι).

So i constructed a search in the following form:

     [verb present -(participle, infinitive, imperative, subjunctive)] <NOT> ειμι

To my astonishment, Mk 1.7 was excluded from the results, even though it includes the verb ερχεται. Upon investigation, i realized that it was excluded because Mk 1.7 also includes ειμι.

So, how do i get a proper list of all the verses that do have what i'm looking for (present tense finite verbs)— or rather, how do i get a list of all present-tense finite verbs in Mark, listed by verse no.— even when the verse they occur in also contains what i want to exclude (ειμι)?

[Λύχνις Δαν]

Try  [verb present -(participle, infinitive, imperative, subjunctive)]@ -ειμι

 

Tx

D

[johnburnett]

doesn't work. It gives me all the instances of ειμι (present tense), but those are precisely what i *don't* want!

[Λύχνις Δαν]

Strange - it didn't for me. It only gave a couple of compounds of ειμι but not ειμι itself. Did you leave out the "-" before the ειμι by any chance ?

 

Thx

D

[rwrobinson88]

Just to clarify, it seems like you're looking for finite verbs, yet excluding Subjunctive and Imperative verbs. Why is that? I understand a finite verb to be a verb with person.