Verbum Tip 5p: Bible Search – Charting part 1

MJ. Smith

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“is possible to do a quick search for every geographical location in a book of the Bible?”

For the New Testament this is straight forward.

• Open Louw, Johannes P., and Eugene Albert Nida. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains. New York: United Bible Societies, 1996.
• Find the codes for places (in proper names) “B Places (93.389–93.615)^[1]”
• Convert to datatype format <LN 93.389-93.615>

For the Old Testament, the issue is more complex.

People and Place names in Hebrew/Aramaic are Proper Nouns, which can be found in LHB & Reverse Interlinears using morphology search:

<LogosMorphHeb ~ NP????> OR <LogosMorphAram ~ NP???>

Bible Sense Lexicon (BSL) has senses for many non-named places: "Inductive - 5 W's & H: Where"

<Sense body of water> OR <Sense entrance> OR <Sense geological phenomenon> OR <Sense heavenly matter> OR <Sense land> OR <Sense location> OR <Sense mound> OR <Sense near> OR <Sense sky> OR <Sense soil> OR <Sense spatial (position)> OR <Sense supernatural region> OR <Sense vegetation (region)> OR <Sense vegetation collection>

Thread => Tip: Inductive - 5 W's & H visual filters  "Inductive - 5 W's & H: Who" uses morphology search so Who appears above proper names: Who is this ? Who lives here ?

FWIW: a work in progress is expanding "Inductive - Precept: Place" visual filter using Bible Browser list of Places. Wish BSL had sense hierarchy similar to Louw-Nida domain 93

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