Strange features of Word Lists - breaking out words by book

Graham Criddle
Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 32,758
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I was producing a Word List of the entire New Testament in SBLGNT and noted that some words had multiple entries. It appears that sometimes separate entries are created for different books.

Specifically, if chapter numbers are included when creating the word list then multiple entries are created but if chapter numbers are not included only single entries are created.

The first screenshot is with chapter numbers specified - and multiple entries are shown for kai etc

while in the second case, only book numbers were used. In this case only single entries for each word are shown

(I've just used Philippians - Colossians to make creating the word lists quicker)

Further testing showed that this behaviour occurred with SBLGNT, UBS5, NIV - but in the case of the ESV only single entries were returned whether or not chapters were specified

I don't see any value in splitting these results out by book - although if the books were shown in the Word List that could be helpful.

Is this by design or is something strange happening here?

Thanks, Graham

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