Colwells Rule

[bereanboarder]

Has anyone created a search that would find instances of Colwell

[Joe Weaks]

Well, it makes for a pretty simple search, really.

I know Colwell's rule has do do with the presence of an article with a predicate noun regarding placement before or after the copulative verb and its bearing on the definite-ness of the noun. Not sure which construct you'd like to find, so here are searches that would explore various instances:

(Note: I don't have the most recent GNT-T module that has proper/common noun tags, so I'm guessing here.)

 

For nouns following the verb

Find articular predicate nouns following copulative verb eimi:

eimi [ARTICLE nominative] [NOUN nominative common]

 

Look for anarthrous predicate nouns following eimi:

eimi [NOUN nominative common]

 

 

For nouns preceding the verb

Find anarthrous Predicate Nouns:

([Noun Nominative Common] eimi)<NOT> <PRECEDED BY> <WITHIN 1 Words> [Article Nominative]

 

Find articular PN's:

[ARTICLE nominative] [NOUN nominative common] eimi

 

Do the same searches and change [Noun nominative common] to [Noun nominative proper]

 

Also, can change them to relative pronouns to look at those.

 

That should all get you started.

HTH,

Joe

[bereanboarder]

I purchased the latest update and now have this Greek text:

 

Novum Testamentum Graece (New Testament in Greek)

 

Nestle-Aland, 27th Edition, prepared by Institut f

[Helen Brown]

True, but you can search for [NOUN -proper] and should get the same result.