Colossians
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Colossians 3

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2 Fix your thoughts on the things that are above, not on those that are on earth.

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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Colossians 3:2. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.

Panels 4
Word Entries 28
Editorial Notes 0
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Greek Textus Receptus Greek · Greek New Testament · Public Domain

Coverage: New Testament

Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.

Τὰ ἄνω φρονεῖτε, μὴ τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

8 word entries
Τὰ
Lemma
ta
Transliteration
ta
Morphology
Greek: article accusative plural neuter
Part of Speech
article
Strong's
G3588
Occurrences
853
ἄνω
Lemma
anw
Transliteration
anw
Morphology
Greek: adverb
Part of Speech
adverb
Strong's
G507
Occurrences
10
φρονεῖτε
Transliteration
froneite
Morphology
Greek: verb present active imperative plural
Part of Speech
verb
Strong's
G5426
Occurrences
3
μὴ
Lemma
mh
Transliteration
mh
Morphology
Greek: particle nominative
Part of Speech
particle
Strong's
G3361
Occurrences
1034
τὰ
Lemma
ta
Transliteration
ta
Morphology
Greek: article accusative plural neuter
Part of Speech
article
Strong's
G3588
Occurrences
853
ἐπὶ
Lemma
epi
Transliteration
epi
Morphology
Greek: preposition
Part of Speech
preposition
Strong's
G1909
Occurrences
673
τῆς
Lemma
thv
Transliteration
thv
Morphology
Greek: article genitive singular feminine
Part of Speech
article
Strong's
G3588
Occurrences
1339
γῆς
Lemma
ghv
Transliteration
ghv
Morphology
Greek: noun genitive singular feminine
Part of Speech
noun
Strong's
G1093
Occurrences
134
Tischendorf / Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament Greek · Greek New Testament · Public Domain

Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel

Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.

τὰ ἄνω φρονεῖτε, μὴ τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς·

8 word entries
τὰ
Lemma
Morphology
T-APN
Part of Speech
article
Definition
Greek definite article.
Strong's
G3588
Occurrences
19763
ἄνω
Lemma
ἄνω
Morphology
ADV
Part of Speech
ADV
Strong's
G0507
Occurrences
9
φρονεῖτε,
Morphology
V-PAM-2P
Part of Speech
V
Strong's
G5426
Occurrences
27
μὴ
Lemma
μή
Morphology
PRT-N
Part of Speech
PRT
Strong's
G3361
Occurrences
1033
τὰ
Lemma
Morphology
T-APN
Part of Speech
article
Definition
Greek definite article.
Strong's
G3588
Occurrences
19763
ἐπὶ
Lemma
ἐπί
Morphology
PREP
Part of Speech
PREP
Strong's
G1909
Occurrences
888
τῆς
Lemma
Morphology
T-GSF
Part of Speech
article
Definition
Greek definite article.
Strong's
G3588
Occurrences
19763
γῆς·
Lemma
γῆ
Morphology
N-GSF
Part of Speech
noun
Definition
Earth, ground, or land.
Strong's
G1093
Occurrences
249
Syriac Peshitta New Testament Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License

Coverage: New Testament

Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.

ܕܠܥܠ ܐܬܪܥܘ ܘܠܐ ܕܒܐܪܥܐ

4 word entries
ܕܠܥܠ
Confidence
low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note
Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Transliteration
dl'l
Morphology
Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
Occurrences
5
ܐܬܪܥܘ
Confidence
low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note
Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Transliteration
'tr'w
Morphology
Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
Occurrences
4
ܘܠܐ
Confidence
low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note
Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma
ܘܠܐ
Transliteration
wl'
Morphology
probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
Occurrences
732
ܕܒܐܪܥܐ
Confidence
low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note
Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Transliteration
db'r''
Morphology
probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
Occurrences
7
Latin Vulgate Clementine Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology

Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported

Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.

quæ sursum sunt sapite, non quæ super terram.

8 word entries
quae
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
qui
Transliteration
quae
Morphology
GreLa POS: pronoun
Occurrences
15011
sursum
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
sursum
Transliteration
sursum
Morphology
GreLa POS: adverb
Occurrences
28
sunt
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
sum
Transliteration
sunt
Morphology
GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences
20614
sapite
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
sapio
Transliteration
sapite
Morphology
GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences
37
non
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
non
Transliteration
non
Morphology
GreLa POS: adverb
Occurrences
7320
quae
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
qui
Transliteration
quae
Morphology
GreLa POS: pronoun
Occurrences
15011
supra
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
supra
Transliteration
supra
Morphology
GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
Occurrences
176
terram
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
terra
Transliteration
terram
Morphology
GreLa POS: noun
Gloss
earth
Part of Speech
noun
Definition
earth, land, ground
Etymology
Latin noun behind English terrestrial and terrain.
Occurrences
3087

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