Finding all the forms of a Greek word in Accordance

[Ruben Gomez]

Hi,

 

In response to a previous video on how to find all the forms of a Greek word in the book of James using another Bible software package, I decided to show how easily this can be done in Accordance with the powerful, yet simple, root search. I leave you the link here in case you're interested: http://t.co/XqrqTBMh

 

Thanks!

[Paul Daunno]

Excellent job Ruben! Your video sure made it simple and easy to understand. Feel free to do more videos that we can learn from http://www.accordancebible.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif

[Fr. Rusty]

Excellent job Ruben! Your video sure made it simple and easy to understand. Feel free to do more videos that we can learn from http://www.accordancebible.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif

 

I watched both, Wow!

The Accordance Search was incredibly easier, faster and more relevant in results as far as productivity.

Great Video.

[Elijah]

Is it possible to list all forms of a word in accordance? I'm currently learning greek so often when I see a word it would be interesting to see all forms at a glance (regardless if all forms are actually in the gnt).

For example something like this:

Active

1. Sg. παιδεύ-ω

2. Sg. παιδεύ-εις

3. Sg. παιδεύ-ει

1. Pl. παιδεύ-ο-μεν

2. Pl. παιδεύ-ε-τε

3. Pl. παιδεύ-ουσιν

Med.

1. Sg. παιδεύ-ο-μαι

2. Sg. παιδεύ-ῃ [ε-σαι]

3. Sg. παιδεύ-ε-ται

1. Pl. παιδευ-ό-μεθα

2. Pl. παιδεύ-ε-σθε

3. Pl. παιδεύ-ο-νται

[Ruben Gomez]

This is actually very easy to do. Just search the GNT for the lemma (lexical form) and then open an Analysis window. Using the shortcut Command-T you can access the Set Analysis Display window and choose the items you want to display and the order you prefer (e.g., LEX, Part of Speech, Voice, Number, Person, INFLECT will give you a very similar list to the one you list as an example.

 

HTH

[JonathanHuber]

Note that this will only find the forms that do occur in the GNT (an analytical lexicon would give you the same information.) Mounce's Morphology of Biblical Greek will guide you to the correct patterns of declension or conjugation for a given word, but I don't know of any resource that will simply list all expected forms of a given word.