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Find every word in the original text that matches a grammatical pattern — for example, every Niphal participle in Genesis, or every aorist passive indicative in Romans. Choose a corpus, then narrow by part of speech and grammatical attributes. The Septuagint carries no morphology data, so morphology search covers the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament.

נֶחְמָ֥ד Niphal participle · masculine singular A verb acting as a describing word — here, “pleasant.” Genesis 2:9
ἐγεννήθη Aorist passive indicative · 3rd person singular A completed past action received by the subject — here, “was born.” Matthew 1:16

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Grammar tags come from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb), based on the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Sources & licenses

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What these categories mean

Adjective: A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Adverb: A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Conjunction: A joining word (e.g. “and,” “but”) linking words or clauses.
Noun: A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Particle: A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Preposition: A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
Pronoun: A word standing in for a noun (“he,” “this,” “who”).
Verb: An action or state-of-being word.

Common: A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Proper: A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Gentilic: A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).

Qal: The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Niphal: Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Piel: An intensive or resultative active stem.
Pual: The passive counterpart of the Piel.
Hiphil: The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Hophal: The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
Hithpael: The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself).
Qal Passive: An archaic passive of the Qal, preserved in a few forms.
Polel: A stem of hollow/geminate roots functioning like the Piel — intensive active.
Polal: The passive counterpart of the Polel.
Hithpolel: The reflexive counterpart of the Polel.
Pilpel: A reduplicated intensive stem of two-letter or hollow roots.

Perfect: A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Imperfect: An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Sequential Perfect: A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
Sequential Imperfect: An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Imperative: A direct command (“write!”).
Participle: A verbal adjective — OSHB splits these into Active and Passive, and this option matches both.
Participle Active: A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
Participle Passive: A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
Infinitive: A verbal noun — OSHB splits these into Absolute and Construct, and this option matches both.
Infinitive Absolute: An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
Infinitive Construct: A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Cohortative: A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
Jussive: A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).

Absolute: The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Construct: A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Determined: A noun marked definite — in Aramaic, the emphatic state.

1st Person: The speaker (“I / we”).
2nd Person: The one addressed (“you”).
3rd Person: The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).

Masculine: Grammatically masculine.
Feminine: Grammatically feminine.
Common: Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Both: Attested as both masculine and feminine.

Singular: One.
Dual: Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
Plural: More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).

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