Okay - this is an area about which I know next to nothing. This is the precise request:
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Please allow searching on Hebrew vowel points, cantillation marks, and patterns/combinations of these using wildcards.
Just like "@ brings up the Morphology selection dialogue", I suggest that typing "#" or "^" would bring up a "Nikkud" grid where te'amim & vowels would occupy the "Part of Speech" field.
The vowels could be categorized according to length/family, while the te'amim would be divided by conjunctive and 4 levels of disjunctive force.
This dialogue should be available in either Basic, Bible, or Morph searching. Combining Morph and Nikkud searches would be an AWESOME capability!
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I believe if this were implemented it would also support search accents etc. in Greek, so this is not only for Hebrew fans, but for ALL who wish to work with the Original Languages!
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Please allow searching on Hebrew vowel points, cantillation marks, and patterns/combinations of these using wildcards.
Just like "@ brings up the Morphology selection dialogue", I suggest that typing "#" or "^" would bring up a "Nikkud" grid where te'amim & vowels would occupy the "Part of Speech" field.
The vowels could be categorized according to length/family, while the te'amim would be divided by conjunctive and 4 levels of disjunctive force.
This dialogue should be available in either Basic, Bible, or Morph searching. Combining Morph and Nikkud searches would be an AWESOME capability!
PLEASE COMMENT AND VOTE FOR THIS here.
Thanks for bringing this up and creating a UserVoice for it. I gave it 3 votes.
I have oftentimes run across cases where the te'amim make a significant difference in the understanding of a text. I think once one understands how they actually function it is pretty obvious that they are useful - they are sort of like an incredibly advanced system of commas and periods, showing you how to divide and understand the text (and at the same time used for chanting the text as well).
Asking whether the te'amim really make a difference is like asking whether a text with commas and periods would be any different from a text without commas and periods.
This is particularly interesting when you consider that the te'amim were added around the 10th century AD (although of course they reflect a very long tradition of interpretation, as evidenced by the Dead Sea Scrolls). They are not inspired, but they do have a great influence on modern English translations, which normally follow the te'amim when in doubt as to where to place commas and periods, or how to understand the logic of the text if multiple translations are possible (even if not reflected in commas and periods in English - oftentimes the case, as the te'amim are so much more detailed than our current system of commas and periods).
That being said, the use of this feature would be mainly to scholars and users with rather advanced Hebrew studies. Most users would never have any use for it (which doesn't mean I don't want the feature!).
Maybe useful for a slightly broader audience would be searching on the vowel point patterns - this is very helpful for searching for word patterns, in a very similar way to how a Morph search is. But sometimes you want to search for a certain Morph pattern within a certain type of Hebrew word (and thus within a certain type of vowel pattern), especially in the field of linguistics. Linguists often discuss vowel patterns when talking about the development of Semitic languages, e.g. when a certain vowel pattern was likely introduced, how it contrasts or compares with the vowel patterns in other Semitic languages, how certain words have multiple vowel patterns for the same morphological form, etc. Being able to search on the vowel patterns, especially when combined with morph patterns, allows you to study this much more easily.
If I understand correctly this could be done in Libronix via a Regular Expression sort. It seems as if this should be implemented for all appropriate languages. But people who actual can read those languages need to pressure their peers to add the votes and nag Faithlife ....
