Exegetical Guide

Opening from the Guides menu

1. Click on Exegetical Guide
   or
2. Select a Custom Guide from Custom Guides

Opening from the right-click Context menu

1. Right click any part of the passage in your bible to open the Context menu:
   
   
   
   
2. Select Reference e.g. Mt 25:1
3. Scroll down and select Exegetical Guide, or
   select a custom guide.

Word by Word

 This is a powerful feature of the Exegetical Guide. It shows you the original language for your Bible verse as well as an English translation. Logos uses Reverse Interlinear bibles to do this. Virtually every word is a link which performs some function.
 Note that Logos limits the number of verses/words that it will show in the guide.

1. This item shows you which Reverse Interlinear you are using (usually your preferred Bible).
   • Click on this item to get a dropdown list from which you can select another reverse interlinear.
2. This is the text of the verse indicated above e.g. Ro 3:1. The original language text is shown first.
   The words in bold are what you have chosen to view via the Settings in the section header.
   • Hover over any word to see it highlighted on both sides
     i.e. the word and its translation.
   • Click on a bold word and you will be taken to the word box (below).
   • Click on a grey word and a word box will be created.
3. In the word box, this is the original language lemma corresponding to the word you clicked.
   • Click on the loudspeaker icon to hear it pronounced.
4. This is the morphological tagging for this word.
   • Hover over one of the morph words and a pop-up box will show its definition.
5. This is the sense definition of the word.
6. These are the lexicons that provide language definitions of the word.
   • Hover over one of these links and a pop-up box will appear showing you the definition.
   • Click on the more>> link to see additional lexicons.

• Click on +Add note to create a note for the verse in the Notes tool.

• Hover your mouse over the section header and click on Settings:
  
  
  
  • Show all words: all original language words for each verse will be shown.
  • Show only lemmas occurring XX times or fewer: this allows you to view only words which appear a maximum XX times in the original language text.
  • Show all parts of speech: shows all parts of speech.
  • Include only these parts of speech: check which parts of speech that you want to be shown.

• Hover or click over links/words that have not been described i.e. where the mouse pointer changes shape.
  A click will usually open a resource or a tool.

Apparatuses

 This section provides access to apparatuses which have entries in the vicinity of your Bible passage. If it finds one or more then this section will show you links to those apparatuses.
 For more information on apparatuses see this webpage and articles in the Logos Blog.

• Resources can be sorted according to:
  • Priority - your prioritization.
  • Series - series name
  • Author - author’s last name
• Hover over the resource to see the apparatus text in a popup
  or click on the small arrow to its left.

Grammatical Constructions

This section shows interesting grammatical features in the passage being studied.

• Hover over a construction e.g. Apodosis, to see what it means and click the “search for …” icon to find other occurrences of this particular construction in the biblical text.

Textual Variants

 This section provides access to text-critical information on the verse or passage you are studying. This includes links to textual commentaries, apparatus, and original language texts in your Library.

Visualizations

 This section shows resources in your Library that visually depict the structure of the biblical text e.g. sentences, clauses, phrases.

• Resources can be sorted according to:
  • Priority - your prioritization.
  • Series - series name
  • Author - author’s last name
• Click a resource to open it and hover over a node to show its definition (in a popup box). Its scope may also be shown.

Adding sections to the Exegetical Guide

Logos allows you to Add various sections to your Exegetical Guide and some can be added multiple times e.g. Grammars, Collections.
Some sections that can be added are shown below:

  
 

• Click on Add in the toolbar to see it for youself.
• See Logos Help for a description.
• The ones that are grayed out are already in the guide. It also indicates that the section can only be shown once in the guide.
• Sections which are black in color are available to be added to the guide.
• If already in the guide it means that the section can be added more than once. Usually these can be customized via Settings after the section is added.
• When selected the new section will appear at the bottom, but you can drag it to where you want it (or you can drag it from the menu).