Verbum Tip 4bg: (Non)Facet: Accent

MJ. Smith

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Facet: Accent

Dataset

• DB:SD-GNT-ACCENTS GNT-ACCENTS.lbssd

Documentation

• Brannan, Rick. Accents in the Greek New Testament Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2017.
• Smyth, Herbert Weir. A Greek Grammar for Colleges. New York; Cincinnati; Chicago; Boston; Atlanta: American Book Company, 1920.

Data

From documentation:

[quote]The data is represented by the label Accent. The following attributes are supported:

•  Name

•  None No accents occur on any syllable.

•  Oxytone An instance of an acute accent on the ultima.

•  Paroxytone An instance of an acute accent on the penult.

•  Proparoxytone An instance of an acute accent on the antepenult.

•  Perispomenon An instance of a circumflex accent on the ultima.

•  Properispomenon An instance of a circumflex accent on the penult.

•  Type Individual accent in the word

•  Acute ´

•  Grave ˋ

•  *Circumflex* ˆ

•  Position Integer noting position of the syllable in the active word

•  Ultima Last syllable of the word

•  Penult Next to last syllable of the word

•  Antepenult Third to last syllable of the word^[1]

 

• {Label Accent WHERE Name = name AND Type = name AND Position = name}

 New data provided by the label

• {Label Accent WHERE Name = name}
• {Label Accent WHERE Type = name}
• {Label Accent WHERE Position = name}

Filters

none

Vocabulary cards

none

Bible Browser

Not implemented

Faithlife Assistant

Not implemented

Interactive

Not implemented

Information Tool

The Information tool shows in accent label in the standard manner:

Context Menu

The Context Menu has the expected Copy reference and Search functions; it has no Look up. You may have noticed the pattern – when there are multiple values to look up, no link to the documentation of those values is given.

Concordance

The Concordance Guide provides an interesting problem in that it uses one’s preferred Bible which generally is not Greek and provides no setting to switch to an appropriate Bible. See Concordance Guide setting - add translation | Faithlife Feedback

Search

The search argument generated by the Context Menu is {Label Accent WHERE Name ~ "Proparoxytone" AND Position ~ "Antepenult" AND Type ~ "Acute"} which generates results such as:

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^[1] Rick Brannan, Accents in the Greek New Testament Documentation (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2017).