Greek and Hebrew Syntax

The Syntax databases add a further dimension to the study of the original texts. These separate databases are specially prepared for Accordance, and are not automatically included with the text. Each database is based on a specifically tagged text and requires that text to be installed.

The Syntax databases provide an analysis of the sentence structure of the text which you can display in full. You can also search for any elements such as the subject or complement, or a specific type of clause.

Each of the syntax The analysis of the function of each word in a clause or phrase databases will allow you to:

• View a color-coded syntax tree in parallel with Greek or Hebrew Texts.
• Hover over Greek or Hebrew words to see their syntactical tags in Instant Details.
• Search Greek and Hebrew Texts using syntactical tags.
• Drag and drop syntactical tags within the Hebrew Construct window.

Greek Syntax

The Greek syntactical database has been developed by Dr. Marco V. Fabbri, professor of New Testament at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome. It contains complete syntactical information for the GNT.

Hebrew Syntax

• The Andersen-Forbes Database contains both morphological and syntactical data. The Andersen-Forbes database has semantic information for each Hebrew word, including specialized linguistic data. For example, nouns are distinguished as deities, humans, mountains, cities, rivers, furniture, buildings, food, colors, mental state, body parts, utensils, vegetation, etc. This allows for extremely specialized searches in the MT-AFD Text.
• The Holmstedt Hebrew syntactical database has been developed by Dr. Robert D. Holmstedt and his team at the University of Toronto. It includes all books in the Hebrew Bible except for Isaiah and the Jeremiah 46-52, which will be added at no further charge when complete.
• The ETCBC database of the Hebrew Bible (formerly known as WIVU database), contains the complete text of the Hebrew Bible with linguistic markup developed by the Werkgroep Informatica at the Free University (WIVU) of Amsterdam and edited by Eep Talstra of the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC).
• The Hebrew Inscriptions Syntax module Any Bible text, or other single tool that can be read in Accordance, including reference texts and articles; may also be referred to as content or resource was developed from the ground up for Accordance and works in parallel with the tagged Hebrew Inscriptions module (INSCRIP).

Documentation

Refer to the following documents for more information about working with the Syntax databases:

• Getting Started with Syntax: Guide to the Accordance Greek and Hebrew syntactical databases prepared by Dr. Robert Holmstedt (Hebrew) and Dr. Marco Fabri (Greek).
• Understanding and Using the New Syntax Searching Capabilities in Accordance 9: Paper by Robert D. Holmstedt at the User's Conference, September 2010, describing the Hebrew syntactical database developed by Dr. Holmstedt.
• User’s Guide for the Accordance Hebrew Syntax Database by Robert D. Holmstedt (with John A. Cook, Martin G. Abegg, and Roy B. Brown) (October 2016): Paper outlining the history of the development of the Holmstedt Hebrew Syntax Project. Includes a description of terms and concepts, and 28 prepared workspaces with sample syntax searches.
• ETCBC Glossary: A brief description of the morphological tags used by Accordance in the ETCBC database.