Logos word lists - what is the source of the gloss and is it possible to change it?

Mark Giacobbe
Mark Giacobbe Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

Hi there, I'm using Logos 5 but perhaps this question pertains to other versions as well.

The question is the one in the post title: when creating Word Lists, what is the source of the "gloss" column and is it possible to change it? I am trying to use word lists to create flash cards, but find myself quite often needing to change the gloss provided, because it simply doesn't give the sense of the word as used in the NT. I could offer dozens of examples of this, but it's not important; I am curious about the source of the gloss and how I might change it.

Thanks for any insight into this.

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  • David Thomas
    David Thomas Member Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭

    Mark Giacobbe said:

    Hi there, I'm using Logos 5 but perhaps this question pertains to other versions as well.

    The question is the one in the post title: when creating Word Lists, what is the source of the "gloss" column and is it possible to change it? I am trying to use word lists to create flash cards, but find myself quite often needing to change the gloss provided, because it simply doesn't give the sense of the word as used in the NT. I could offer dozens of examples of this, but it's not important; I am curious about the source of the gloss and how I might change it.

    Thanks for any insight into this.

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    I believe (I may be wrong) that someone once posted that the gloss comes from your highest prioritize Lexicon.

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,188

    I believe the glosses come from an internal database so not something we can change

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,133

    Mark Giacobbe said:

    I am curious about the source of the gloss and how I might change it.

    They come from internal lemma datasets and you cannot change anything! Glosses for the Greek NT's  don't seem to vary, but the glosses for the Hebrew OT depend on the bible/morphology used e.g. "one" where there are homographs vs. "another; one; first" without homographs.

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  • Mark Giacobbe
    Mark Giacobbe Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/906942#Comment_906942

    Thank you all so much for the replies. If as it seems it's not possible to change the gloss source, that is indeed unfortunate. To use the feature as I need it then requires a lot of additional work. (Another weakness of the feature IMO is the lack of full lexical form on nouns and adjectives -- that too should be changed).

    @davidthomas thanks for your tip re. the Logos 7 engine - installed & working.

    Thanks again.

  • Mark Giacobbe
    Mark Giacobbe Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/906942#Comment_906942

    Thanks so much all for the replies. If it's true that the source of the gloss cannot be changed that is unfortunate, as this severely limits the usefulness of this feature for me. (Another limitation - more easily overcome, I would think - is that the Lemma and Card Front do not list the full lexical form for adjectives and nouns). Hopefully this feature could be improved in the future.

    @davidthomas thanks for the tip re. Logos 7 engine - downloaded & installed.

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