BIBLE SENSE LEXICON Tool

My understanding this that it is somewhat related to semantic domain. For example, many of us have heard sermons on the various Greek words for "love." These words may be translated differently as love, affection, fondness, etc. My understanding is that the Bible Sense Lexicon helps search all these related words even though they are different Greek words and translated with different English glosses, but are all kind of related to each other.

Perhaps another example would be that there are some words that have multiple meanings depending upon context  (remember the Coptic fragment that made the news a month ago about Jesus' "wife" when there are ancient words that can mean wife or woman depending upon context) and there are other words that also overlap. In English we have woman, female, wife, feminine, person, etc. There are multiple Greek words for the same concepts and they are not always one for one correlation to English glosses. I understand that BSL would search the idea of "a female person" regardless of the specific Greek source or English translation.

I would welcome correction from those who are actually using the resource.

Sean Boisen said:

Adding to Bradley's comment: until it's added to the right-click (context) menu, you can access BSL from a reverse interlinear text

Nice. I think you mentioned this before but I didn't quite catch it then. This will work nicely until it comes into the context menu.

Sean Boisen said:

Mark Stevens said:

Could someone explain why it isn't available in the silver package but it is in the Gold. The tool looks great but if I upgrade then it will cost me $200 for this tool (That is all i would want). I am assuming it cannot be added as an individual item?

Fundamentally, it's a marketing decision. We've invested a huge amount of effort in building this new dataset (more details in this thread: http://community.logos.com/forums/p/58270/415124.aspx#415124). Given our long-term strategy to stay in business so we can continue to serve our customers, we need to recoup these costs (and we're nowhere near done yet).

You don't have to upgrade to (the new) Gold: based on Bob's comments at http://community.logos.com/forums/t/58259.aspx , i expect this dataset to be part of the Minimal Crossgrade.

Janice said:

If this is the case then I might as well drop my Diamond upgrade and go for the minimal crossgrade since you guys are promoting it like crazy.... How unfair to those who paid for this upgrade and the resources. 

Logos is always willing to give a refund within 30 days if you are willing to wait for the minimal crossgrade to become available. How is that "unfair"?

Jason Saling - www.NapavineBaptist.com said:

But then if I wait till the Minimal Crossgrade is released, Logos makes LESS money, and I potentially GAIN that one feature

This reality proves that Logos is NOT the greedy monster that some have accused. Bob realizes this loss of profit and that is why it will only become available after the demand on servers go down. e.g. those who are willing to pay a little more are in effect getting in the front of the line to access Logos servers and get the L5 engine.

With dynamic pricing, I would suggest that if you wait for the minimal cross grade THEN purchase the L5 Silver you will not pay as much for the L5 Silver because you will already have paid for many of the datasets before you purchase the new resources that are in L5 Silver.

Janice said:

Too bad they'll lose a big chunk from me but it only makes sense to do so

if the diamond contains resources that you won't use, I agree it makes sense. However, if you can afford the price of the upgrade to Diamond you may want to use the extra funds to support Logos by purchasing resources that would be useful to you that are not included in base packages. (e.g. commentaries like EBC or NIVAC or something that is relevant to your theological preferences).

We can all help Logos stay in business to continue developing affordable resources like the minimal crossgrade if we buy resources that we truly would use.

Mark Smith said:

Not the new Hebrew Reverse Interlinear.

Only a frequent forum user will see the humor in that statement. [:D] one doesn't have to follow the forums long before determining that George LOATHES interlinears.

MJ. Smith said:

Jeremy said:

Is the Bible Sense Lexicon Tool attempting to overcome James Barr's word-concept idea,

I don't know. But it is a multilingual application of a standard data set of Natural Language Processing - do a search on Word Net especially noting the materials out of Princeton and Colorado.

That might as well be Russian to be. And I don't know Russian [:)].