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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 Tischendorf’s 8th edition (1869–1872) with Maurice A. Robinson’s morphological analysis. 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.
Aramaic transliteration: An Aramaic word carried over into Greek letters (e.g. ἀββά).
Article: The Greek definite article (“the”), agreeing with its noun in case, number, and gender.
Conditional: A particle introducing a condition (“if”).
Conjunction: A joining word linking words or clauses.
Correlative pronoun: Pairs with another term (“such… as,” “as many… as”).
Correlative/interrogative pronoun: Functions as either a correlative or an interrogative pronoun.
Demonstrative pronoun: Points something out (“this,” “that”).
Hebrew transliteration: A Hebrew word carried over into Greek letters (e.g. ἀμήν, ἀλληλουϊά).
Indefinite pronoun: Refers to someone or something unspecified (“someone,” “anything”).
Interjection: An exclamatory word (“behold!”, “O!”).
Interrogative pronoun: Asks a question (“who?”, “what?”).
Noun: A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Particle: A short, often untranslatable function word adding nuance or connection.
Personal pronoun: Stands in for a person already named (“I,” “you,” “he”).
Possessive pronoun: Marks possession (“my,” “your,” “his”).
Preposition: A relational word governing a noun in a particular case.
Reciprocal pronoun: Expresses mutual action (“one another”).
Reflexive pronoun: Refers the action back to the subject (“himself”).
Relative pronoun: Introduces a relative clause (“who,” “which,” “that”).
Verb: An action or state-of-being word.

Present: Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Imperfect: Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Future: Action expected in future time.
Aorist: Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Perfect: A completed past action with continuing present results.
Pluperfect: A past action completed before another past point (“had written”).

Active: The subject performs the action.
Middle: The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Passive: The subject receives the action.
Middle or Passive: A form that may be middle or passive — resolved by context.
Middle deponent: Middle in form but active in meaning.
Passive deponent: Passive in form but active in meaning.
Middle or Passive deponent: Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.

Indicative: States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Subjunctive: Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Optative: Expresses a wish or a remote possibility.
Imperative: Expresses a command or request.
Infinitive: A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Participle: A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Imperative participle: A participle used with the force of a command.

Nominative: The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Genitive: The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Dative: The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Accusative: The case of the direct object and of extent.
Vocative: The case of direct address (“O Lord”).

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.
Neuter: Grammatically neuter.

Singular: One.
Plural: More than one.

Comparative: Expresses a greater degree (“greater,” “more”).
Interrogative: Marks an interrogative form.
Negative: Marks a negative form.
Superlative: Expresses the greatest degree (“greatest,” “most”).

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