«Personal book» - personal hebrew lexicon

Hi,

I'm just wondering if it is possible to have a personal book —in my case a custom 246-word Hebrew-Norwegian lexicon — appear in the Bible Word Study window? Or having the entry in my personal book appear when the book is in the relevant Link Set, and so on. Just basically looking for ways to make the most of my my tiny lexicon. I love and appreciate having it in Logos in the first place. But being able to achieve some of the aforementioned would be fantastic.

Dan

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NB.Mick

Hi Dan,

yes, I think this is possible. You would need to use the appropriate milestones (see https://wiki.logos.com/Personal_Books#Milestones ) and compile the PB as type:lexicon in order to work. This process would be quite similar to what is explained in https://wiki.logos.com/Building_a_Dictionary_PB

hope this helps!

Dan Thomas Tveita

Thx! I have actually read those articles and about milestones — but Im still clueless as to how to make milestones in this particular case; hebrew lemmas.

Any pointers on how that syntax looks like would be much appreciated!

NB.Mick

how to make milestones in this particular case; hebrew lemmas.

looks like this:

[[@Headword+el:λόγος]] λόγος - word

just with +he for Hebrew instead of +el - Logos will then produce Greek and Hebrew headword indexes, as you can see when you compile my quick test PB attached below.

Note that the RTL of the Hebrew word messed up with the forum editor, so I pasted the Greek example syntax - both work, but I felt more confident starting out the example with Greek, since I don't do Hebrew, I took the one example lemma from a recent forum discussion.

8863.My greek lexicon.docx

Reuben Helmuth

compile the PB as type:lexicon

Unfortunately, this isn't available as far as I can see.

Dan Thomas Tveita

Thanks NB.Mick: It works — and it works so well! Except now I wonder if it is possible to make the definition/translation appear in the Bible Word Study window as well (see image below) — and if its possible to define which words to appear..?

If not possible, this still works great. Makes me appreciate Logos even more 🙌

NB.Mick

compile the PB as type:lexicon

Unfortunately, this isn't available as far as I can see.

It is for me (Logos 8.8 Beta 2, but I don't think there were any changes to the PB tool recently) - see screenshot.

Dave Hooton

You make Headwords and Hebrew is quite difficult to format. An entry would look like:

[[@Headword+he:אֱיָל]] אֱיָל ----> Heading 4

(ʾ^ěyāl): n.masc.; strength ---> Normal style

I used Times New Roman font. Your Hebrew will come from one Morphology, including homonyms**. If you get the lemma format in a Morph Search e.g. lemma:אֱיָל then copy :אֱיָל to paste into [[@Headword+he]]

Your PB will have language Norwegian, type Lexicon, and the +he specifies a Hebrew headword for the compiler.

I prioritized my Hebrew-English PB, and it worked as you would expect in the Context menu for lookups & Bible Word Study. You might have problems with Norwegian text.

** a homonym for strength in Logos Hebrew Morphology is formatted אֵל:4 in Morph Search, so I think this is the format for your lexicon.

Seeing NB Mick's example, you need to experiment to see which format works best.