What's significant about Bible Sense Lexicon?
I haven't purchased Logos 5 yet. Still comparing packages/features. How does Bible Sense Lexicon differentiate from Exegetical Guide and Bible Word Study? It appears I find the same type of language info from the latter two, so wondering what is so beneficial about Bible Sense Lexicon. Thanks
Jason Saling
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Bible Sense Lexicon differentiate
The Bible Sense Lexicon is part of an ongoing project I hope as it currently only has nouns. http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ will give you a sense of its capabilities. What is especially interesting with the Logos version is that it deals with multiple languages. My quick description is that a word net is like studying a butterfly in nature; a lexicon/dictionary is like studying a butterfly pinned in a display box.
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You should check this page if you haven't already: http://www.logos.com/bible-sense-lexicon.
BWS focuses on word details: it makes it easy to get to existing lexicons, see where a word is found in the Biblical text, what its roots are, how it's translated, and grammatical usage.
EG is designed more for detailed source-language exegesis of a specific passage.
BSL is different from both. It combines a lexicon with annotation of the text, and is based on original analysis of the Biblical vocabulary. It's purposes are to:
- organize by meaning, rather than by word. For example, λόγος has more than 15 distinct meanings in our analysis. Its most common meaning, "message (communication): a communication that is most often spoken, but can come through other means", is expressed by 8 different words (the rest of them Hebrew).
- provide a "sense concordance" of all the places where this meaning is expressed. This is dramatically different from a word-based concordance: you'd have to know just which words to put together, and then cull out all the cases where the words were used in a different sense. I expect this feature to ship in a December update.
- explore the space of meanings in the biblical vocabulary, regardless of which language. Where appropriate (like "message (communication)", the same sense carries across Hebrew, Greek, and English.
BSL exists to make it possible to interact with the text at the level of meaning. My belief is that, for non-scholars (most of us), what we're really after with "word study" is not words at all, but their contextual meanings.
As MJ notes, it currently only covers nouns (but covers them comprehensively). We expect to complete verb coverage near the beginning of next year.
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Sean Boisen said:
You should check this page if you haven't already: http://www.logos.com/bible-sense-lexicon.
Sean, your link has a period in it. Here's a working link: http://www.logos.com/bible-sense-lexicon
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Is the Sense Lexicon going to be available separately? When I hold my mouse over it in the Package comparison chart it implies it is for about £12 but I cant find it by searching for it as a product...
Andy
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AndyTheGreek said:
Is the Sense Lexicon going to be available separately? When I hold my mouse over it in the Package comparison chart it implies it is for about £12 but I cant find it by searching for it as a product...
Actually, no. That is a mistake and will be corrected according to Kent Hendricks of Logos. (Sorry I can't find the thread where he stated that.) There will be a bundle or minimal crossgrade option.
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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Is there a way to access this information from a context menu? I right-click a word in my tagged text, check both the English word and Greek lemma and don't see a way to access BSL directly. I know I can go to Tools, etc, but it would be helpful to access it contextually to see how BSL classifies this word in this passage, etc.
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Sounds like it is basically Swanson and Louw-Nida on steroids integrated into the software.
Great idea! Really useful to have this tool bring Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic semantic domains together in one place.
Two questions:
1. Is the LXX included in this tool?
2. Do we still have Louw-Nida numbers in the L5 Interlinear info?
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Russ Quinn said:
Two questions:
1. Is the LXX included in this tool?
2. Do we still have Louw-Nida numbers in the L5 Interlinear info?
I haven't worked with Bible Sense, so maybe others need to chime in regarding #1 . However, on #2 I can confirm: Yes, sure!
Have joy in the Lord!
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Chris Roberts said:
Is there a way to access this information from a context menu? I right-click a word in my tagged text, check both the English word and Greek lemma and don't see a way to access BSL directly. I know I can go to Tools, etc, but it would be helpful to access it contextually to see how BSL classifies this word in this passage, etc.
Chris there is no way to do this right now. During the last phase of beta testing we were told that it was planned. So it should be available via the right click menu at some point.
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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Russ Quinn said:
1. Is the LXX included in this tool?
I don't believe it is. Currently Hebrew roots refer to the OT and Greek just to the NT. No Greek OT roots (LXX).
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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I still don't 100% understand, though I do understand more! I must not need it or likely use it. So I should be safe going from L4 Platinum to L5 Silver and just miss out on that one feature. Or am I likely to regret not having that one feature?
Jason Saling
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Mark Smith said:AndyTheGreek said:
Is the Sense Lexicon going to be available separately? When I hold my mouse over it in the Package comparison chart it implies it is for about £12 but I cant find it by searching for it as a product...
Actually, no. That is a mistake and will be corrected according to Kent Hendricks of Logos. (Sorry I can't find the thread where he stated that.) There will be a bundle or minimal crossgrade option.
http://community.logos.com/forums/p/58026/414094.aspx#414094
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Todd Phillips said:Sean Boisen said:
You should check this page if you haven't already: http://www.logos.com/bible-sense-lexicon.
Sean, your link has a period in it. Here's a working link: http://www.logos.com/bible-sense-lexicon
Darn that auto-link! :-) Thanks for the correction.
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Now that I have my Logos 5 upgrade to silver there is no bible sense lexicon. Worse my Louw-Nida has disappeared from the reverse interlinears. This upgrade is about increased functionality not reduced functionality.
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Peter said:
Now that I have my Logos 5 upgrade to silver there is no bible sense lexicon. Worse my Louw-Nida has disappeared from the reverse interlinears. This upgrade is about increased functionality not reduced functionality.
If you right click on the left side of the reverse interlinear panel you should be able to add Louw-Nida back. If for some reason this isn't working please let us know.
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Mark Smith said:Russ Quinn said:
1. Is the LXX included in this tool?
I don't believe it is. Currently Hebrew roots refer to the OT and Greek just to the NT. No Greek OT roots (LXX).
Mark is correct. The Bible Sense Lexicon itself covers the vocabulary of the Hebrew Bible (and Aramaic portions) and the Greek NT. Primarily that's individual lemmas (nouns so far), as well as a few hundred phrases with their own idiomatic senses (for example, λόγος (τοῦ) θεοῦ, literally 'word of God', which has a distinct meaning from the simple combination of 'word' and 'God').
We haven't made any decisions yet about the LXX, but we plan to complete the BSL coverage first.
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Peter said:
Now that I have my Logos 5 upgrade to silver there is no bible sense lexicon.
Bob has said that the Minimum Crossgrade would use dynamic pricing, so as long as the Bible Sense Lexicon is included in the Minimum Crossgrade (I'm guessing it will be, but I'm not in that loop - if there is a loop yet), there should eventually be a solution for adding this without necessarily upgrading to Gold or repurchasing any of the Logos 5 functionality you already have in Silver.
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