Using Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

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Using Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

• Provided by the CIU Library

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Start by going the librarys website
http//www.ciu.edu/library. Click on Library
Databases from the menu at the left.
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Click on TLG Digital Library
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Log in

• If using CIU networked computer, you will be
  automatically logged in to TLG
• If using a computer which is not part of the CIU
  network, you will be prompted to enter a user
  name and password. Contact the CIU Library
  Reference staff for assistance. Have your student
  ID information available.
• CIU extension 3102
• refdesk_at_ciu.edu

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At TLG, you may simply begin your search or you
may register and login. The advantage of
registering and logging in is that you
preferences will be saved from session to
session. To register, scroll to the bottom of the
page
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To register or login, click on link at bottom of
page.
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Create an account allows you to set up
preferences for your searching. Once registered,
enter username and password and click Login
button.
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Select Set or change your settings and select
Sgreek as your display option. At any time in
your search you may click on the Help link at the
top of the page.
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Select Set or change your settings and select
Sgreek as your display option. By now, you
should have installed SGreek on your computer, so
select SGreek now. At any time in your search you
may click on the Help link at the top of the page.
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TLG Help
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TLG Help
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TLG Help
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Searching TLG

• Simple word search.
• In Phil. 311, Paul says, "If somehow I might
  attain to the e)cana/stasij (resurrection) from
  the dead." This is the only occurrence of this
  particular term in the Greek New Testament and
  Bauer Danker3 and Kittel's TDNT give few
  extra-biblical references. Hawthorne says,
  Perhaps Paul coined it. How - and how much -
  was this term used in Ancient Greek? Is GFH
  right? TLG can help us find out.

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Select Author option in Search the Canon by
function.
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Back at the Author Search page, we will begin a
broad search. This means well search the whole
corpus (11,000 - 15,000 works by 3,000 - 3,500
authors, and not limited by author, work or
date). Click on Simple on the left sidebar.
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You will need to enter your Greek words in Beta
Code. To learn about this, click on the Display
Keyboard link.
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We recommend making Results per page? 10 (or
more if your Internet connection speed will allow
it) and Lines of context? 5. Type the root of
the noun (leave off endings same for verb) using
the beta code. Click Word Index
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After search is complete, scroll down. In this
case, note that the root plus the various endings
yielded 19 words which show up in 377 instances.
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Use the Ctrl key and the left mouse key to select
the words which fit your search. In this case,
were selecting the noun forms of
e)cana/stasij Click the Selected Words
button. Here, you could search all the words
without any selection by clicking All Words.
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Scroll down. Here you learn that your selected
words appear 138 times. Our settings caused 10 to
be displayed on each page. Kittel mentioned a use
in Strabo's Geography 3.2.6 meaning 'departure.'
Does TLG have this reference? Scroll down to find
out.
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If the instance you seek isnt on the page, click
the Next Results button at the bottom of the
page to see the next set.
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Notice that Strabos use is 68. That has meant
multiple instances of paging down, which is time
consuming and frustrating. So well look at 2
other ways to perform this search.
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At the top of the page Click on the Show Search
Preferences link and make sure Perseus Site is
selected at Link to Perseus. Hit Redisplay
and a Vocabulary and Parsing assistance in the
Perseus project now will be available for each
word.
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Note that each word is now hyperlinked.
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Clicking on e)cana/stasij caused a new window to
open with this information.
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Clicking on Frequency by Authors opened a new
window with lots of information regarding word
use. Note that Perseus does not have Strabos use
of e)cana/stasij.
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Finding the English translation of the Greek text
might be done through Perseus. Unfortunately, our
text is not there. Hence, we resort to the
old-fashioned method print. From the Loeb
Classical Library, we find Strabos Geography
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Book 2, chapter 3, section 6, line 12 are readily
found in the Greek. Next, find the translation
within the English section on the facing page. In
this case, e)cana/stasin is translated
migration. Note that the line number applies
only to the Greek and that word placement for
translation is likely to differ from the original.
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Searching TLG

• Narrowing the search
• Limiting by date.

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Click on the Author link on the left sidebar.
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Using Ctrl and the left mouse key, select the
centuries you wish to search. Since the Greek NT
was written in 1st C. A.D., a good range of
centuries for finding extra-biblical contemporary
background use would be 2nd C. B.C. through 2nd
C. A.D.
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You have the option of selecting only those
author you choose (by checking each box and then
clicking on the Search selections button) or
searching through all the documents returned by
the date search (by clicking on the Search all
button).
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Now you make the search as before, but it is
limited by the dates, authors and/or works you
just specified.
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Scroll down, select the words for which you want
to search.
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Use Ctrl with the left mouse key to select the
desired words.
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With this kind of narrowing, we reduced the
number of results to only 32 occurrences in these
centuries.
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Our Strabo citation is on the third page of our
list, much better than the first search.
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Searching TLG

• Narrowing the search
• Limiting by date
• Limiting by author

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From the Author search page, type in the authors
name or click on the letters that would represent
his name. We will search for Strabo again.
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Scroll down the list and put a check in the box
next to the name(s) you want to search. If you
choose to select multiple authors, save
selections made on one page before going to the
next. Click on Go to Simple Search button
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Enter your search term as before, including
results per page? and Lines of context? Click
on Word Index button.
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Select word(s) from list or click on Selected
Words.
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Searching TLG

• As you can see, there are multiple ways to find
  your Greek word. You can find virtually every
  time that your word has been used, in whichever
  form it was used. Or you can find that needle in
  the haystack how does one author use your word?
  How was it used in one century?
• Now you have the tools to do it yourself. But
  dont hesitate to contact us if you need help.
  Refdesk_at_ciu.edu or CIU extension 3102.