Logos 5: Syntax Search Finds Direct Object

Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris, who has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos seminars, provides many training materials.

We read in John 3:16 that “God so loved the world.” Grammatically, world is the direct object of the verb loved. So maybe we wonder, “Where else in the New Testament does world function as a direct object?”

One way to find out is with a simple syntax search:

• Click the Search icon to open the search panel.
• Select Syntax as the search type. (Note that Syntax search doesn’t appear in the Starter base package.) (A)
• Select All Passages from the range dropdown list (B).
• Select the CSGNT from the Bible dropdown list (C).
• Click Query (D).
• Select English Object (Cascadia) (E).

• Type world in the English Object box (F).
• Press the Enter key to generate the search.

We’ve just discovered all the places any Greek word translated world serves as a direct object in the New Testament! (G)

To locate a specific Greek word functioning as an object of a verb, try this:

• Select Object (Cascadia) from the dropdown query list (H).

• Type this in the Greek Object box: g:kosmos (I).
• Select the Greek word that appears in the dropdown list under the box (J).
• Press the Enter key to generate the search.

This time, we found every place the Greek lemma kosmos serves as an object of a verb! (K)

Notice some of the results:

• Gain the world
• Condemn the world
• Love the world
• Save the world
• Convict the world
• Judge the world
• Reconcile the world
• Overcome the world

This simple search launches a very interesting topical study regarding kosmos.