• The Greek tagged text must be the default text in the active The application, window, tab, or other screen element which is currently being used; sometimes called the "front" or "frontmost" screen element Search tab The core tab used to search Bible texts, it consists of a search entry area and a search results area.
• Greek text is entered in the Search Entry box in a manner similar to that of English text.
• Accordance automatically uses the Helena Greek font in the Search Entry box for all search criteria, except for special commands inside brackets.
• The search argument may consist of inflected, lexical, or root A root is a unit of a language that cannot be further divided, from which words are derived by modification. The root does not necessarily survive as a word in itself. The Accordance roots may combine homographs and therefore a single root may include roots with different etymologies and meanings. In Hebrew, by convention, the lexical form (lemma) of a verb is the same as the root. forms, wildcards, grammatical tags, a phrase consisting of these elements, and combinations of these expressions with the search commands.

• Words and phrases can be entered as either lexical or inflected forms.
• To enter a lexical or inflected form The word as it appears in the original text, which may be modified from its base dictionary form, do one of the following:
• Click Search>Enter Lexical Forms or Search>Enter Inflected Forms.
• Right-click in the Search Entry box, and choose Enter>Lexeme or Enter>Inflected.
  The Select Lexical Forms or Select Inflected Forms dialog box options appears.
• If a word is not enclosed in quotation marks, it is treated as a lexical form The canonical (dictionary) form of a word.
• To find an inflected form in a tagged text, enclose it in plain quotation marks.
• If a phrase includes inflected forms, either the entire phrase or each individual word must be enclosed in quotation marks.
  If quotation marks are not used, each word of the phrase is treated as a lexical form, and any phrases formed from these lexical forms are found when the search is performed.

• Words or phrases can be entered as a root form by doing one of the following:
• Opt+Click Search>Enter Root Forms.
• Right-click in the Search Entry box and choose Enter>Root.
  In either case, the Select Root Forms dialog box appears.
• The word must be preceded by a plus sign. The plus sign is entered automatically when working via the Select Root Forms dialog box.

A tag constraint can be used to further limit the search; by itself it is also a valid expression. For example, the search argument [ADJECTIVE masculine singular] is an expression that could stand alone or be part of larger search criteria.

• A word from a tagged text can be modified by tag constraints. The word and its tag constraints are a single expression and can be part of your larger search criteria.
• Example: αγαπαω@[VERB aorist participle] is a single expression. The @ symbol is required to make multiple expressions apply to a single word.

The accents, breathing marks, capital letters, and ending forms are ignored in the default Accordance search. Thus it makes no difference whether you search for Πέτρος or πετροσ (Peter).

When the equal sign (=) is added immediately before a word, Accordance searches for that exact lexical or inflected form. In Greek this includes the capitalization, ending forms, accents, and breathing marks.

Example: A search for the lexical form πατερ yields the following inflected forms (among others): Πάτερ, πάτερ, and πατήρ. However, a search for "=Πάτερ", finds only Πάτερ, and a search for "=πατήρ", finds only =πατήρ.

When searching tagged texts, you can use wild-cards in either lexical or inflected forms. A search for *ερχομ* finds all words derived from all lexical forms containing ερχομ, even though most of the words found do not include the letters ερχομ.

• To use a wild-card to match inflected forms, enclose the argument containing the wild-card in quotation marks. Thus a search for * finds all lemmas, whereas "*" finds all inflected forms.
• Wildcards are allowed with exact searches. In an exact search, the character wildcard (?) stands for any letter, accent, or breathing mark (the breathing mark-accent combination is treated as two characters).
  Example: To find all words from lemmas beginning with an accented α, search for =α?()?()* with a smooth and a rough breathing mark (press Opt+K and Shif+tOpt+K) inside the first parenthesis, and an acute and a grave accent (press / and \) inside the second parenthesis.
• You can also search for a repeated character in a word. The question mark is followed by parentheses containing an equal sign and a numeral referring to the number of a prior question mark in the same word.
  Example: The entry α??(=1)* requires the third letter to be the same as the second letter (the first character is the wildcard). The search would find and ̉̉̉, but not .