Verbum Tip 5z: Bible Search – Review: Labels, templates, Search fields

MJ. Smith

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Bible Search Review: Label datatypes

Labels are considered datatypes in the Verbum ecosystem. They are basically elements that can be identified by label specific attributes.

Labels found in Bible Text
Name	Values	Example	Interactive
{Label *}
Accent	from Context menu or Accents in the Greek New Testament Documentation	{Label Accent WHERE Name ~ "Oxytone" AND Position ~ "Ultima" AND Type ~ "Grave"}
Altar	from Context menu or All the Altars in the Bible	{Label Altar WHERE Builder ~ <Person Noah (builder of ark)> AND Event ~ <Event God makes a covenant with Noah> AND Location ~ <Place Mountains of Ararat> AND Material ~ <Thing Rock> AND Purpose ~ <Topic Sacrifice> AND Purpose ~ <Topic Safety> AND Title ~ <Topic Stone Altar Built by Noah in the Mountains of Ararat>}
Battle	All the Battles in the Bible
Benediction	All the Benedictions in the Bible
Burial	All the Burials in the Bible
Cantillation	from Context menu or Lexham Hebrew Bible: Cantillation Analysis Documentation	{Label Cantillation WHERE Name ~ "Tifha" AND Rank ~ "King" AND Type ~ "Disjunctive"}	Hebrew Cantillations
Command	from Context menu or Commands in the Bible Dataset Documentation	{Label Command WHERE Type ~ "Command" AND Verb Class ~ "Existence"}
Conversion	All the Conversions in the Bible
Covenant	All the Covenants in the Bible
Dream	All the Dreams in the Bible
Famine	All the Famines in the Bible
Fast	All the Fasts in the Bible
Figurative language	from Context menu or Lexham Figurative Language of the Bible Glossary	{Label Figurative Language WHERE Category ~ <FigurativeLanguageCategory Metaphor, Structural> AND Source ~ <FigurativeLanguageTerm To Fish for Men> AND Target ~ <FigurativeLanguageTerm To Evangelize> AND Type ~ <FigurativeLanguageType To Fish for Men as To Evangelize>}
Figure of speech	from Context menu or Figures of Speech Used in the Bible	{Label Figure of Speech WHERE Description ~ "Judgment" AND Name ~ "Epicrisis"}
Intertext: New Testament use of Old Testament	from Context menu or documentation within interactive	{Label Intertext WHERE Corpus ~ "New Testament" AND Relationship ~ "Allusion" AND Source ~ <2 Ki 1:8>}	New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Intertext: Noncanonical Text’s Use of the Bible	from Context menu or Noncanonical Texts’ Use of the Bible: Dataset Documentation	{Label Intertext WHERE Corpus ~ "Old Testament Pseudepigrapha" AND Relationship ~ "Allusion" AND Target ~ <Pseudepigrapha Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers 6.4>}
Judge	from Context menu or Prophets, Priests, Regents, and Judges Dataset Documentation	{Label Judge WHERE Agent ~ <Person Ehud (son of Gera)> AND Region ~ <Place Israel>}
Longacre genre	from Context menu or Longacre Genre Analysis of the Bible Dataset Documentation	{Label Longacre Genre WHERE Primary ~ <LongacreGenre Narrative: Story> AND Secondary ~ <LongacreGenre Expository: What things are or were like>}
Meal	from Context menu or All the Meals in the Bible	{Label Meal WHERE Food ~ <Thing Sheep> AND Food ~ <Thing Unleavened bread> AND Guest ~ <Person Israelites (the Exodus)> AND Location ~ <Place Egypt (nation)> AND Occasion ~ "Passover" AND Title ~ <Topic The First Passover>}
Measure	from Context menu or Measure Conversions: Dataset Documentation	{Label Measure WHERE Conversion ~ "22-26m" AND Conversion ~ "24-28yd" AND Conversion ~ "8.33 reeds" AND Number ~ 50 AND Unit ~ <Thing Cubit>}	Weights & Measures Converter
Messianic prophecy	from Context menu or Messianic Prophecy: Dataset Documentation	{Label Messianic Prophecy WHERE Content ~ "Jesus was circumcised" AND Fulfillment ~ "Implication" AND Relationship ~ "Citation" AND Target ~ <Lk 2:23>}
Miracle	from Context menu or All the Miracles in the Bible	{Label Miracle WHERE Agent ~ <Person Jesus> AND Audience ~ <Person Pharisees asking for a Sign> AND Patient ~ <Person Man with Withered Hand> AND Things Involved ~ <Thing Hand> AND Title ~ "Jesus Heals a Man’s Withered Hand" AND Type ~ "Healing"}	Miracles of the Bible
Mitzvoth	from Context menu or documentation within interactive	{Label Mitzvoth WHERE Applicable Today ~ true AND Classification ~ "The Sanctuary and Sacrifices" AND Command ~ "Sanctifying the First-Born" AND Number ~ "P79" AND State ~ "Positive"}	Commandments of the Law
Names (no search)	Documentation within interactive	n/a	Names of God
Parable	from Context menu or Parables of the Bible: Dataset Documentation	{Label Parable WHERE Audience ~ <Person Crowd hearing Parables> AND Speaker ~ <Person Jesus> AND Title ~ "The Sower and the Soils" AND Type ~ "Instruction"}
Prayer	All the Prayers in the Bible	{Label Prayer WHERE Addressee ~ <Person God> AND Content ~ "Blessing" AND Content ~ "Petition" AND Context ~ "Communal" AND Speaker ~ <Person Noah (builder of ark)> AND Title ~ <Topic Noah Blesses His Sons>}
Prepositional phrase: Greek	from Context menu or Greek Grammatical Constructions Documentation	{Label Prepositional Phrase WHERE Object Case ~ "Dative" AND Object Lemma ~ <Lemma lbs/el/ἔρημος> AND Preposition Lemma ~ <Lemma lbs/el/ἐν>}
Prepositional phrase: Hebrew	from Context menu or Hebrew Grammatical Constructions Documentation	{Label Prepositional Phrase WHERE Object Lemma ~ <Lemma lbs/he/קלל> AND Preposition Lemma ~ <Lemma lbs/he/לְ:1>}
Priest	from Context menu or Prophets, Priests, Regents, and Judges Dataset Documentation	{Label Priest WHERE Agent ~ <Person A Chief Priest> AND Deity ~ <Person God> AND Role ~ "Priest"}
Promise	from Context menu or Promises in the Bible Dataset Documentation	{Label Promise WHERE Fulfillment ~ <Event God creates woman> AND Theme ~ <PreachingTheme Marriage> AND Verb Class ~ "Creation and Transformation"}
Prophet	from Context menu or Prophets, Priests, Regents, and Judges Dataset Documentation	{Label Prophet WHERE Agent ~ <Person Jeremiah (prophet)> AND Deity ~ <Person God>}
Proverb	from Context menu or Proverbs Explorer Dataset Documentation	{Label Proverb WHERE Form ~ "Simile" AND Type ~ "Saying"}	Proverbs Explorer
Psalm	from Context menu or documentation within interactive	{Label Psalm WHERE Attribution ~ "Anonymous" AND Genre ~ "Wisdom" AND Structure ~ "Chiasm"}	Psalms Explorer
Question	from Context menu or Questions in the Bible Dataset Documentation	{Label Question WHERE Rhetorical ~ false AND Type ~ "Goal"}
Regent	from Context menu or Prophets, Priests, Regents, and Judges Dataset Documentation	{Label Regent WHERE Agent ~ <Person Pharaoh (time of Abraham)> AND Region ~ <Place Egypt (nation)> AND Role ~ "King"}
Sacrifice	-	{Label Sacrifice WHERE Content ~ "Animals" AND Offerant ~ <Person Noah (builder of ark)> AND Purpose ~ "Thanksgiving" AND Type ~ "Burnt" AND Type ~ "Whole"}	Israelite Feasts and Sacrifices
Song	All the Songs in the Bible
Source criticism	from Context menu or Source Criticism in the Bible Dataset Documentation	{Label Source Criticism WHERE Critic ~ "Eissfeldt" AND Source ~ "J"}
Speaking	Documentation within interactive	{Label ???? WHERE Type ~ Dialogue AND Addressee ~ <Person God> AND Speaker ~ <Person Adam (first man)> AND Context ~ Theophanic AND Distance ~ Local AND Mode ~ Conversation AND Content ~ Response AND Place ~ <Place Eden (garden)> AND Theme ~ <PreachingTheme fear> AND LiteraryTyping ~ <Literary Type saga >	Speaking to God
Speech (act)	from Context menu or Speech Acts Dataset Documentation	{Label Speech WHERE Content ~ "Response" AND Context ~ "Theophanic" AND Distance ~ "Local" AND Mode ~ "Conversation" AND Type ~ "Dialogue"}
Supernatural being	from Context menu or Angels, Demons, and Deities Dataset Documentation	{Label Supernatural Being WHERE Location ~ <Place Israel> AND Name ~ <Person God> AND Type ~ "Deity"}
Syllable	from Context menu or Syllables in the Greek New Testament Dataset Documentation	{Label Syllable WHERE Count ~ 1 AND Grapheme ~ "και" AND Position ~ 1}
Theophany	from Context menu or Theophanies in the Bible Documentation	{Label Theophany WHERE Agent ~ <Person God> AND Appearance ~ "Unknown" AND Beholder ~ <Person Jesus> AND Manifestation ~ "Audible" AND Time ~ "Present"}
Vision	All the Visions in the Bible
Vow	All the Vows in the Bible

 

Unlike the datatypes, labels rarely offer links to definitions or interactives.

Bible Search Review: Templates

The Search panel for the Bible Search provides several templates. Note that labels are represented only by Intertext:

Some examples of the template input forms:

 

 

Bible Search Review: Fields

These are the fields that are found within Bibles. It has not been expanded to include the additional fields identified in resources the Context Menu links to.

 

Field	Abbreviation	Definition	Language	Example Bible
Abbreviated Form	abbreviated	Morphology specifies use of an abbreviated form (used only with various numerals).	Greek	Elzevir
Abbreviation Pop-up	abbrevpop	The text of the pop-up indicator for an abbreviation, and the text of the abbreviation pop-up itself		Y
Additional Meaning	addmean	Additional phrases of meaning included in the original word, phrase, or clause of the original language.		AMP
Additional Text	addtext	Either: familiar passages not adequatedly supported by the original manuscripts or words not appearing in the original language added to connect meaning for English readers.		AMP
Aeolic Greek	aeolic	Morphology specifies use of the Aeolic dialect.	Greek	Elzevir
Ambiguous Text	ambiguous	Ambiguous morphological form of a word. Ambiguous form implies no preferred form for the current word.	Greek	AGNT
Apocopated Form	apocopated	Morphology specifies use of an apocopated form.	Greek	Elzevir
Apparatus Indicator	appindic	The text of an apparatus indicator, the apparatus note itself if that note is a pop-up.	Hebrew	BHQ
Attached Particle Form		Morphology specifies use of a form with a particle attached (with relative pronoun).	Greek	Elzevir
Attic Greek	attic	Morphology specifies use of the Attic dialect.	Greek	Elzevir
Author	author	The author of an article or other section in a book or journal.		NJBCT
BHS Form	bhsform	The text of the Hebrew Bible as written in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (when it differs from the text to be read).	Hebrew	BHS SESB
Bible Text	bible	The actual text of the Bible verses, without introductions, headings, etc.		NRSV
Chapter Number		The numbers or letters used to denote the start of a new chapter.		Geneva
Clarifying Words	clrfywrds	Justified clarifying words or comments not actually expressed in the immediate original text, as well as definitions of Hebrew and Greek names.		AMPM
Content Text	content	The text of the original content of this resource, without headings, translators’ notes, etc.		SPBET
Copyright	copyright	Copyright information for an image or media element.		RVC
Crasis	crasis	Morphological form when two words merge together to forma crasis or conjunction.	Greek	AGNT
Credit	credit	Credit information for an image or media element.		EOB: NT
Cross Reference	crossref	The text of the pop-up indicator for a cross-reference, and the text of the reference itself.		NET
Description	description	The description of an object, usually an image or media element.		ESV-CE
Disputed Passage	disputed-passage	Text that is disputer, especially concerning its authenticity or its inclusion in a particular corpus.	Greek	AGNT
Emendation	emend	The word or words are a textual emendation.		CHASAOT
Footnote Text	footnote	Text that appears in a footnote		NRSV
General Note	generalnote	The text of the pop-up indicator for a note, and the text of the note itself.		JPS
Gloss Text	gloss	In a dictionary or lexicon, a brief explanation or definition of a word of phrase.		AFAT
Heading Text	heading; headtitle	The text of book, chapter, and pericope headings		NRSV
Irregular Form	irregular	Morphology specifies use of an irregular form.	Greek	Elzevir
Kethiv Text	ketiv	The text of the Hebrew Bible that is written when it differs from the text to be read.	Hebrew	BHS SESB
Large Text	largetext	Large text.		NRSV
Later Textual Addition	later-addition	Text that is considered to be a later addition to earlier manuscripts.	Greek	AGNT
Lemma Text	lemma	Text that appears in its dictionary form.	Hebrew	DSSI
Lexical Value	lexval	Translation of a lexical form of a word	Greek	LGNTI:SBL
Literal Translation	literal	Literal translation of an ancient language word or phrase	Greek	USB4 Int.
Main Text Line	mainline	The reading selected by the editors as the main line in places where variant readings exist.	Aramaic	TgEsth1
Manuscript Form		Manuscript form of an interlinear word.	Hebrew	DSSI
Masoretic Text	mt	Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Old Testament	Hebrew	LXX/MT Parallel
Middle Significance Form	middle-significance	Morphology specifies use of a form with middle significance.	Greek	Elzevir
Morph Code	morphcode	Morphological code derived from the SEDRA 3 database	Syriac	Peshitta
Negative Apparatus Text	negapp	Apparatus entries with readings that vary from the text proper.	Greek	SBLGNT
OT Quotation	ot-quote	Test from the Old Testament quoted in the New Testament	Greek	AGNT
Paragraph Marks		The paragraph marks petuha and setuma as well as the inverted nun.	Hebrew	BHW
Part of Speech	part-of-speech	Grammatical part of speech designation for a dictionary or lexicon headword.		AV
Positive Apparatus Text	possapp	Apparatus entries that support the reading found in the text proper.	Greek	SBLGNT
Primary Morph	pmt	The primary morphological tag for a given word.	Greek	Elzevir
Qere Text	qere	The text of the Hebrew Bible that is to be read when it differs from the text that was written.	Hebrew	BHS SESB
Reconstruction	reconst	Theoretical reconstruction of the Hebrew source document for the Septuagint Greek Old Testament.	Hebrew	LXX/MT Parallel
Root Form	root	The root form	Syriac	Peshitta
Septuagint	lxx	Text of the Septuagint	Greek	LXX/MT Parallel
Stem Form		Stem Form		LUT84
Supplementary Material	supp	The word or words are supplied for the sake of clearness		CHASAOT
Surface Text	surface	Text that is visible using default view settings; in interlinears, the top line using default view settings		NJB
Tag	tag	Tags for an image or media element		NET
Title	title	The title of an object, usually an image or media element		NET
Transitive Form	transitive	Morphology specifies use of a transitive form.	Greek	Elzevir
Translator’s Note	transnote	The text of the pop-up indicator for a translator’s note, and the text of the note itself.		NRSV
Uncial Greek	uncial	Uncial Manuscript	Greek	NA28 GBS
Used As	used-as	Instances where a morphological form is being used for a different function that the actual form; eg., Nominative “used as” Vocative	Greek	PATR
Variant Reading	variant	Variant morphological form of a word. A variant form implies that the primary or first-listed form for the current word is preferred to the variant.	Greek	Elzevir
Variant Text Line	varline	A variant reading	Aramaic	FrTgP
Variation Unit	varunit	A unit that is treated as a variation unit within the apparatus	Greek	SBLGNT
Verse Number		The numbers or letters used to denote the start of a new verse.		JPS
Words of Christ	words-of-christ	Text considered to be the Words of Christ, traditionally the “red-letter” text.		NRSV

 

Keep practicing using the various datatypes, labels, templates, and fields. They are the building blocks not just of the Search but also for most of the tools provided by Verbum. In the next post, the operators used in Search arguments will be reviewed.