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Labels are considered datatypes in the Verbum ecosystem. They are basically elements that can be identified by label specific attributes.
Labels found in Bible Text
Name
Values
Example
Interactive
{Label *}
Accent
from Context menu or Accents in the Greek New Testament Documentation
{Label Accent
WHERE Name ~ "Oxytone"
AND Position ~ "Ultima"
AND Type ~ "Grave"}
Altar
from Context menu or All the Altars in the Bible
{Label Altar
WHERE Builder ~ <Person Noah (builder of ark)>
AND Event ~ <Event God makes a covenant with Noah>
AND Location ~ <Place Mountains of Ararat>
AND Material ~ <Thing Rock>
AND Purpose ~ <Topic Sacrifice>
AND Purpose ~ <Topic Safety>
AND Title ~ <Topic Stone Altar Built by Noah in the Mountains of Ararat>}
Battle
All the Battles in the Bible
Benediction
All the Benedictions in the Bible
Burial
All the Burials in the Bible
Cantillation
from Context menu or Lexham Hebrew Bible: Cantillation Analysis Documentation
{Label Cantillation
WHERE Name ~ "Tifha"
AND Rank ~ "King"
AND Type ~ "Disjunctive"}
Hebrew Cantillations
Command
from Context menu or Commands in the Bible Dataset Documentation
{Label Command
WHERE Type ~ "Command"
AND Verb Class ~ "Existence"}
Conversion
All the Conversions in the Bible
Covenant
All the Covenants in the Bible
Dream
All the Dreams in the Bible
Famine
All the Famines in the Bible
Fast
All the Fasts in the Bible
Figurative language
from Context menu or Lexham Figurative Language of the Bible Glossary
{Label Figurative Language
WHERE Category ~ <FigurativeLanguageCategory Metaphor, Structural>
AND Source ~ <FigurativeLanguageTerm To Fish for Men>
AND Target ~ <FigurativeLanguageTerm To Evangelize>
AND Type ~ <FigurativeLanguageType To Fish for Men as To Evangelize>}
Figure of speech
from Context menu or Figures of Speech Used in the Bible
{Label Figure of Speech
WHERE Description ~ "Judgment"
AND Name ~ "Epicrisis"}
Intertext: New Testament use of Old Testament
from Context menu or documentation within interactive
{Label Intertext
WHERE Corpus ~ "New Testament"
AND Relationship ~ "Allusion"
AND Source ~ <2 Ki 1:8>}
New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Intertext: Noncanonical Text’s Use of the Bible
from Context menu or Noncanonical Texts’ Use of the Bible: Dataset Documentation
WHERE Corpus ~ "Old Testament Pseudepigrapha"
AND Target ~ <Pseudepigrapha Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers 6.4>}
Judge
from Context menu or Prophets, Priests, Regents, and Judges Dataset Documentation
{Label Judge
WHERE Agent ~ <Person Ehud (son of Gera)>
AND Region ~ <Place Israel>}
Longacre genre
from Context menu or Longacre Genre Analysis of the Bible Dataset Documentation
{Label Longacre Genre
WHERE Primary ~ <LongacreGenre Narrative: Story>
AND Secondary ~ <LongacreGenre Expository: What things are or were like>}
Meal
from Context menu or All the Meals in the Bible
{Label Meal
WHERE Food ~ <Thing Sheep>
AND Food ~ <Thing Unleavened bread>
AND Guest ~ <Person Israelites (the Exodus)>
AND Location ~ <Place Egypt (nation)>
AND Occasion ~ "Passover"
AND Title ~ <Topic The First Passover>}
Measure
from Context menu or Measure Conversions: Dataset Documentation
{Label Measure
WHERE Conversion ~ "22-26m"
AND Conversion ~ "24-28yd"
AND Conversion ~ "8.33 reeds"
AND Number ~ 50
AND Unit ~ <Thing Cubit>}
Weights & Measures Converter
Messianic prophecy
from Context menu or Messianic Prophecy: Dataset Documentation
{Label Messianic Prophecy
WHERE Content ~ "Jesus was circumcised"
AND Fulfillment ~ "Implication"
AND Relationship ~ "Citation"
AND Target ~ <Lk 2:23>}
Miracle
from Context menu or All the Miracles in the Bible
{Label Miracle
WHERE Agent ~ <Person Jesus>
AND Audience ~ <Person Pharisees asking for a Sign>
AND Patient ~ <Person Man with Withered Hand>
AND Things Involved ~ <Thing Hand>
AND Title ~ "Jesus Heals a Man’s Withered Hand"
AND Type ~ "Healing"}
Miracles of the Bible
Mitzvoth
{Label Mitzvoth
WHERE Applicable Today ~ true
AND Classification ~ "The Sanctuary and Sacrifices"
AND Command ~ "Sanctifying the First-Born"
AND Number ~ "P79"
AND State ~ "Positive"}
Commandments of the Law
Names (no search)
Documentation within interactive
n/a
Names of God
Parable
from Context menu or Parables of the Bible: Dataset Documentation
{Label Parable
WHERE Audience ~ <Person Crowd hearing Parables>
AND Speaker ~ <Person Jesus>
AND Title ~ "The Sower and the Soils"
AND Type ~ "Instruction"}
Prayer
All the Prayers in the Bible
{Label Prayer
WHERE Addressee ~ <Person God>
AND Content ~ "Blessing"
AND Content ~ "Petition"
AND Context ~ "Communal"
AND Speaker ~ <Person Noah (builder of ark)>
AND Title ~ <Topic Noah Blesses His Sons>}
Prepositional phrase: Greek
from Context menu or Greek Grammatical Constructions Documentation
{Label Prepositional Phrase
WHERE Object Case ~ "Dative"
AND Object Lemma ~ <Lemma lbs/el/ἔρημος>
AND Preposition Lemma ~ <Lemma lbs/el/ἐν>}
Prepositional phrase: Hebrew
from Context menu or Hebrew Grammatical Constructions Documentation
WHERE Object Lemma ~ <Lemma lbs/he/קלל>
AND Preposition Lemma ~ <Lemma lbs/he/לְ:1>}
Priest
{Label Priest
WHERE Agent ~ <Person A Chief Priest>
AND Deity ~ <Person God>
AND Role ~ "Priest"}
Promise
from Context menu or Promises in the Bible Dataset Documentation
{Label Promise
WHERE Fulfillment ~ <Event God creates woman>
AND Theme ~ <PreachingTheme Marriage>
AND Verb Class ~ "Creation and Transformation"}
Prophet
{Label Prophet
WHERE Agent ~ <Person Jeremiah (prophet)>
AND Deity ~ <Person God>}
Proverb
from Context menu or Proverbs Explorer Dataset Documentation
{Label Proverb
WHERE Form ~ "Simile"
AND Type ~ "Saying"}
Proverbs Explorer
Psalm
{Label Psalm
WHERE Attribution ~ "Anonymous"
AND Genre ~ "Wisdom"
AND Structure ~ "Chiasm"}
Psalms Explorer
Question
from Context menu or Questions in the Bible Dataset Documentation
{Label Question
WHERE Rhetorical ~ false
AND Type ~ "Goal"}
Regent
{Label Regent
WHERE Agent ~ <Person Pharaoh (time of Abraham)>
AND Region ~ <Place Egypt (nation)>
AND Role ~ "King"}
Sacrifice
-
{Label Sacrifice
WHERE Content ~ "Animals"
AND Offerant ~ <Person Noah (builder of ark)>
AND Purpose ~ "Thanksgiving"
AND Type ~ "Burnt"
AND Type ~ "Whole"}
Israelite Feasts and Sacrifices
Song
All the Songs in the Bible
Source criticism
from Context menu or Source Criticism in the Bible Dataset Documentation
{Label Source Criticism
WHERE Critic ~ "Eissfeldt"
AND Source ~ "J"}
Speaking
{Label ????
WHERE Type ~ Dialogue
AND Addressee ~ <Person God>
AND Speaker ~ <Person Adam (first man)>
AND Context ~ Theophanic
AND Distance ~ Local
AND Mode ~ Conversation
AND Content ~ Response
AND Place ~ <Place Eden (garden)>
AND Theme ~ <PreachingTheme fear>
AND LiteraryTyping ~ <Literary Type saga >
Speaking to God
Speech (act)
from Context menu or Speech Acts Dataset Documentation
{Label Speech
WHERE Content ~ "Response"
AND Context ~ "Theophanic"
AND Distance ~ "Local"
AND Mode ~ "Conversation"
AND Type ~ "Dialogue"}
Supernatural being
from Context menu or Angels, Demons, and Deities Dataset Documentation
{Label Supernatural Being
WHERE Location ~ <Place Israel>
AND Name ~ <Person God>
AND Type ~ "Deity"}
Syllable
from Context menu or Syllables in the Greek New Testament Dataset Documentation
{Label Syllable
WHERE Count ~ 1
AND Grapheme ~ "και"
AND Position ~ 1}
Theophany
from Context menu or Theophanies in the Bible Documentation
{Label Theophany
WHERE Agent ~ <Person God>
AND Appearance ~ "Unknown"
AND Beholder ~ <Person Jesus>
AND Manifestation ~ "Audible"
AND Time ~ "Present"}
Vision
All the Visions in the Bible
Vow
All the Vows in the Bible
Unlike the datatypes, labels rarely offer links to definitions or interactives.
The Search panel for the Bible Search provides several templates. Note that labels are represented only by Intertext:
Some examples of the template input forms:
These are the fields that are found within Bibles. It has not been expanded to include the additional fields identified in resources the Context Menu links to.
Field
Abbreviation
Definition
Language
Example Bible
Abbreviated Form
abbreviated
Morphology specifies use of an abbreviated form (used only with various numerals).
Greek
Elzevir
Abbreviation Pop-up
abbrevpop
The text of the pop-up indicator for an abbreviation, and the text of the abbreviation pop-up itself
Y
Additional Meaning
addmean
Additional phrases of meaning included in the original word, phrase, or clause of the original language.
AMP
Additional Text
addtext
Either: familiar passages not adequatedly supported by the original manuscripts or words not appearing in the original language added to connect meaning for English readers.
Aeolic Greek
aeolic
Morphology specifies use of the Aeolic dialect.
Ambiguous Text
ambiguous
Ambiguous morphological form of a word. Ambiguous form implies no preferred form for the current word.
AGNT
Apocopated Form
apocopated
Morphology specifies use of an apocopated form.
Apparatus Indicator
appindic
The text of an apparatus indicator, the apparatus note itself if that note is a pop-up.
Hebrew
BHQ
Attached Particle Form
Morphology specifies use of a form with a particle attached (with relative pronoun).
Attic Greek
attic
Morphology specifies use of the Attic dialect.
Author
author
The author of an article or other section in a book or journal.
NJBCT
BHS Form
bhsform
The text of the Hebrew Bible as written in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (when it differs from the text to be read).
BHS SESB
Bible Text
bible
The actual text of the Bible verses, without introductions, headings, etc.
NRSV
Chapter Number
The numbers or letters used to denote the start of a new chapter.
Geneva
Clarifying Words
clrfywrds
Justified clarifying words or comments not actually expressed in the immediate original text, as well as definitions of Hebrew and Greek names.
AMPM
Content Text
content
The text of the original content of this resource, without headings, translators’ notes, etc.
SPBET
Copyright
copyright
Copyright information for an image or media element.
RVC
Crasis
crasis
Morphological form when two words merge together to forma crasis or conjunction.
Credit
credit
Credit information for an image or media element.
EOB: NT
Cross Reference
crossref
The text of the pop-up indicator for a cross-reference, and the text of the reference itself.
NET
Description
description
The description of an object, usually an image or media element.
ESV-CE
Disputed Passage
disputed-passage
Text that is disputer, especially concerning its authenticity or its inclusion in a particular corpus.
Emendation
emend
The word or words are a textual emendation.
CHASAOT
Footnote Text
footnote
Text that appears in a footnote
General Note
generalnote
The text of the pop-up indicator for a note, and the text of the note itself.
JPS
Gloss Text
gloss
In a dictionary or lexicon, a brief explanation or definition of a word of phrase.
AFAT
Heading Text
heading; headtitle
The text of book, chapter, and pericope headings
Irregular Form
irregular
Morphology specifies use of an irregular form.
Kethiv Text
ketiv
The text of the Hebrew Bible that is written when it differs from the text to be read.
Large Text
largetext
Large text.
Later Textual Addition
later-addition
Text that is considered to be a later addition to earlier manuscripts.
Lemma Text
lemma
Text that appears in its dictionary form.
DSSI
Lexical Value
lexval
Translation of a lexical form of a word
LGNTI:SBL
Literal Translation
literal
Literal translation of an ancient language word or phrase
USB4 Int.
Main Text Line
mainline
The reading selected by the editors as the main line in places where variant readings exist.
Aramaic
TgEsth1
Manuscript Form
Manuscript form of an interlinear word.
Masoretic Text
mt
Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Old Testament
LXX/MT Parallel
Middle Significance Form
middle-significance
Morphology specifies use of a form with middle significance.
Morph Code
morphcode
Morphological code derived from the SEDRA 3 database
Syriac
Peshitta
Negative Apparatus Text
negapp
Apparatus entries with readings that vary from the text proper.
SBLGNT
OT Quotation
ot-quote
Test from the Old Testament quoted in the New Testament
Paragraph Marks
The paragraph marks petuha and setuma as well as the inverted nun.
BHW
Part of Speech
part-of-speech
Grammatical part of speech designation for a dictionary or lexicon headword.
AV
Positive Apparatus Text
possapp
Apparatus entries that support the reading found in the text proper.
Primary Morph
pmt
The primary morphological tag for a given word.
Qere Text
qere
The text of the Hebrew Bible that is to be read when it differs from the text that was written.
Reconstruction
reconst
Theoretical reconstruction of the Hebrew source document for the Septuagint Greek Old Testament.
Root Form
root
The root form
Septuagint
lxx
Text of the Septuagint
Stem Form
LUT84
Supplementary Material
supp
The word or words are supplied for the sake of clearness
Surface Text
surface
Text that is visible using default view settings; in interlinears, the top line using default view settings
NJB
Tag
tag
Tags for an image or media element
Title
title
The title of an object, usually an image or media element
Transitive Form
transitive
Morphology specifies use of a transitive form.
Translator’s Note
transnote
The text of the pop-up indicator for a translator’s note, and the text of the note itself.
Uncial Greek
uncial
Uncial Manuscript
NA28 GBS
Used As
used-as
Instances where a morphological form is being used for a different function that the actual form; eg., Nominative “used as” Vocative
PATR
Variant Reading
variant
Variant morphological form of a word. A variant form implies that the primary or first-listed form for the current word is preferred to the variant.
Variant Text Line
varline
A variant reading
FrTgP
Variation Unit
varunit
A unit that is treated as a variation unit within the apparatus
Verse Number
The numbers or letters used to denote the start of a new verse.
Words of Christ
words-of-christ
Text considered to be the Words of Christ, traditionally the “red-letter” text.
Keep practicing using the various datatypes, labels, templates, and fields. They are the building blocks not just of the Search but also for most of the tools provided by Verbum. In the next post, the operators used in Search arguments will be reviewed.
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