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I was reading one of my favorite blogs from Logos Bible Software. It talks about a new feature in their latest version which is still in Beta. The blog talks about a feature in the exegetical guide, which allows you to enter your passage and it searches for all the exegetical information about that verse or passage. The information includes original language grammar and definitions. As part of the resulting search there is a little graph that shows how much that word is used in each book of the New Testatment.

This picture is of a recent search I did on a passage I am preaching from John 8:12. You can see that the list of words gives defentions of the Greek words from this passage. But the blown up art shows the graph on the right side. It has blue lines for the gospels. Green for Pauline writings. You get the idea. So as you can see the Greek word for “again” (HCSB) is palin. It is in Mark and John quite a bit. Later down the list you can see a word like autos, which is the word for “them” in Greek. It is used a lot through the NT. This could be helpeful, especially if a word is obscure an has few usages outside a text. Just a neat feature and shows why Logos is one of the best software packages out there. It is also one of the most expensive. But you get what you pay for.

Another great feature of the Exegetical Guide is that it lists the verse in the Greek New Testament, lists hits from Grammar Search and from Word Search. As you mouse over the word in the Greek text, it displays a little box with an X over the word in the word list. That way you can quickly find the word you are interested in. If you click a word in the Greek text at the top, it will remove it from the list. That way only the words you want to study are listed. Gets rid of the clutter.

Then in the word list it show s the Greek word followed by the translation and the versions of the Greek New Testament it is found in. That way you can click on the UBS4 and it will open to that verse. Below that it gives the parsing info. You can then click the word (like verb) and it will open a resource to explain it. Below that are the lexicons that word is found in. Click one and it shows the lexicon open to that word. Or just click the + sign and it opens the entry right there below the word. There will be an X inside a circle. Click it again to close it.

This all makes doing original language work much easier for both the beginner, intermediate user, and the advanced user.