Verbum 9 Tip 6e: Bible resource panel: text controlled tool part 2

MJ. Smith

Docx files for personal book: Verbum 9 part 1; Verbum 9 part 2; Verbum 9 part 3; Verbum 9 part 4; How to use the Verbum Lectionary and Missal; Verbum 8 tips 1-30; Verbum 8 tips 31-49

Reading lists: Catholic Bible Interpretation

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My apologies - I was two-thirds of the way done with adding the screen shots last night when my internet went down for several hours. This is "yesterday's" post.

Answer to question 1:

Using a Basic search, find all references to the Sermon on the Mount in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

If one doesn’t know the reference for the Sermon on the Mount, start with a basic search for “Sermon on the Mount”. You will find it is Matthew 5-7.

One needs an all text basic search of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for the reference <Mt 5-7>. The three versions of the CCC that I own give slightly different results.

Answer to question 2

Using a Basic search, find when in the liturgical year the Bread of Life Discourse is used as a Sunday reading in Catholic Daily Readings  (U.S. Lectionary). Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2016.

Using the same technique as before, find the reference for the Bread of Life Discourse … oops, if you look carefully it appears that even the Catholic Bible Dictionary is rather loose regarding its boundaries.

I’ll go with John 6:22-59 which is the pericope boundaries in the NABRE; John 6:32-58 excludes most of the context text and is, more strictly, the discourse.

To find the Bread of Life discourse in the lectionary is a simple {Label Lectionary Reading WHERE Title ~ Gospel AND References ~ <Jn 6:22-59>}. Given the way that calendar is coded e.g., <CatholicCalendar = Ord Time 18 Sun B>, there is no simple way to screen for Sunday. So simply scan your results to find the answer:

• Body and Blood of Christ, Year A
• 18^th- 20^th Sundays in Ordinary Time, Year B

Data in Information Tool

From Verbum Help:[quote]

Information

Hover over or click any word in a linked panel to display additional information about it here.

To access the Information tool:

1.   Click Tools > Lookup > Information. The Information panel will open on the right. Users can also right-click a word or reference and choose Show Information from the Context menu.

2.   In any open resource, hover over a word or data type reference link. An entry from a dictionary, lexicon, or encyclopedia may appear in Information, as well as the text of references and footnotes, speaker labels, and palette/style names of applied highlighting.

3.   Hovering over another word in the text will display information on the new word. To move the cursor without changing the content, hold the Cmd key (Mac) or Ctrl key (Win).

4.   Click a link in the Information panel to open the resource to the referenced location.

5.   Click Copy to copy the content of the panel to the Windows clipboard for pasting into a note or a document. Users can also click one entry to select it and copy that entry only.

To change the way information in retrieved, open the panel menu , and select the desired option under Update on:

•     hover: updates information automatically when the user hovers over a word for a few seconds (default)

•     click: updates information only when a word is clicked

Sections

The Information tool is divided into several sections. These sections can be expanded, collapsed, rearranged, or removed. The Add button in the top-right allows users to replace any removed sections.

The available Information sections are:

Definition

This section provides the definition for the selected word for Surface text or original language lemmas, in addition to the Strong’s Number, and Louw-Nida.

The Settings option, when mousing over the section header, allows users to choose between Brief or Entire definitions, as well as selecting the preferred Lexicon.

Translation

This section displays how the selected word is translated in other versions of the text. This will generally consist of prioritized Bibles and interlinear resources.

Word Info

The information in this section is similar to that on the right side of the Context menu, providing the manuscript word, lemmas, roots, etc. These are linked to open Bible Word Study or Morph Searches on the word (as applicable). If there are mulitple manuscript words, they can be expanded or collapsed to focus on the most relevant information.

The Settings option allows users to enable/disable what information is displayed. The options are:

•     Manuscript

•    Transliteration

•     Lemma

•    Transliteration

•    Gloss

•     Root

•    Transliteration

•    Gloss

•     Base

•    Transliteration

•    Gloss

•     Morphology

•     Ending

•     Extension

•     Construction

•     Base Element

•     Strong’s Number

•     Louw-Nida

•     Sense

Literary Typing

This displays the classification for the passage surrounding the selected word, as defined in the Lexham Glossary of Literary Types. For example, a psalm would have the literary type of Poetry; Psalm in addition to other types specific to the psalm.

Other References

This section provides links to other data associated with the selected word, such as Biblical People the word refers to, Themes or Labels associated with the word, etc. This data will generally link to the relevant page in the Factbook.

The Settings option allows users to toggle what information is displayed. The options are:

•     Addressees

•     Cultural Concepts

•     Dates

•     Discourse Features

•     Factbook Events

•     Grammatical Constructions

•     Labels

•     Referents

•     Speakers

•     Timeline Events

•     Topics

This section also displays supplemental data from the Psalms Explorer. This data includes Psalm attribution, genre, structure, and relevant tags.

Community Tags

This section reveals any tags on the selected word as shared by others within the Verbum community.

Preaching Themes

This section displays preaching themes connected to the selected word. Each theme is a hyperlink to the Sermon Starter Guide on that theme or topic.

Highlights

This section provides information on highlights to the selected word. It lists the highlighting palette and style, and each is linked to an inline search, which will display a filtered view of all text in the resource with that category of highlight applied.

For example, if the selected word has the Green Highlighter style applied, this section will display Highlighter Pens: Green Highlighter. Clicking Highlighter Pens will open an inline search to all of the text with any highlighter pen style. Clicking Green Highlighter will show all the passages specfically highlighted with green.

Footnotes

This section provides the text and hyperlinked passages from any footnotes related to the selected word.

The Settings option allows users to toggle Look up references on/off. With this disabled, users will only see hyperlinks or any standard text of the footnote. With it enabled, any references will still be linked and the text of the reference will also be displayed.

Print or export the Information panel content:

1.   Open the Information anel menu.

2.   Choose Print/Export; users can also press Cmd+P (Mac) or Ctrl+P (Windows).

3.   Click Print, Copy to clipboard, or save as Rich Text Format (Word, etc.), Text Document, Web Page (HTML), or XPS Document.^[1]

The information panel was looked at in some detail in the section on the Bible Browser with the emphasis on the format of the Search. Here, we are concerned with the resources and tools that the information panel links us to. Note through the Add option and drag and drop, the user controls the content and order of the sections of this tool.

Word Information

The Word Info section allows customization:

Using the word “prophet” of Mk 1:2 yields

Linkage:

Element	Hover	Click
Manuscript – transliteration	None	none
Lemma – transliteration, pronunciation, gloss	Information card	Bible Word Study Pronunciation
Root – transliteration, gloss	Preview of Search	Morphology search for root
Base – transliteration, gloss	Preview of Search	Morphology search for base
Morphology	Preview of Search	Morphology search for the morphology set
Ending	Preview of Search	Morphology search for ending
Extension	Preview of Search	Morphology search for extension
Construction	Preview of Search	Morphology search for construction
Base element	Preview of Search	Morphology search for base element
Strong’s Number	Preview of top resource indexed by Strong’s number	Opens top resource indexed by Strong’s number to specified article
Louw-Nida	Preview of top resource indexed by Louw-Nida number	Opens top resource indexed by Louw-Nida number to specified article
Sense	Information card	Bible Sense Lexicon

 

Definition

For each dictionary/language selected the user can choose from definitions that are:

• Brief
• Entire
• Gloss

One can also choose a dictionary other than the top preferred dictionary for that language/key. Set the preferred dictionary if not the normal default.

Continuing with the same example:

Links provide access to dictionaries.

Element	Hover on title	Click on title
Surface text	Pop-up of full-title	Open the resource (preferred resource for language/key) to the appropriate article.
Aramaic lemma	Pop-up of full-title	Open the resource (preferred resource for language/key) to the appropriate article.
Greek lemma	Pop-up of full-title	Open the resource (preferred resource for language/key) to the appropriate article.
Hebrew lemma	Pop-up of full-title	Open the resource (preferred resource for language/key) to the appropriate article.
Latin lemma	Pop-up of full-title	Open the resource (preferred resource for language/key) to the appropriate article.
Syriac lemma	Pop-up of full-title	Open the resource (preferred resource for language/key) to the appropriate article.
Strong’s number	Pop-up of full-title	Open the resource (preferred resource for language/key) to the appropriate article.
Louw-Nida	Pop-up of full-title	Open the resource (preferred resource for language/key) to the appropriate article.

 

Translation

This section has no settings. All Bible translations containing the passage and appropriate coding are used.

There is a link to the Text Comparison tool in addition to the links provided to the > 25 Bibles included in the results:

Element	Hover	Click
For each Bible	Preview of the verse containing the word in the specific version.	Open to the verse containing the word in the specific version.

 

Literary Typing

Literary typing has no user set parameters.

Linkage is to definitions and Bible passages.

Element	Hover	Click
Literary type	Mouse over gives preview definition from The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types.	Click opens The Lexham Glossary of Literary Types to the appropriate entry.
Bible reference	Mouse-over gives a preview of the referenced passage in your preferred Bible.	Click opens your preferred Bible to the referenced passage.

 

Other References

The contents of the section is set by the user:

The data actually shown depends upon the user settings, the coding of the resource, and the tagging of the specific word on which the Information tool is reporting. Therefore, the screen shot and table are simply representative, not exhaustive.

Representative links:

Element	Hover	Click
Figure of Speech	None	None
Discourse Grammar: Greek Net Testament	Full title (on title)	Opens The Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament: Glossary to appropriate entry.
Syllable	None	None
Prepositional phrase: lemmas	Information card	Bible Word Study
Longacre genre	Preview of definition	Opens Longacre Genre Analysis of the Bible Dataset Documentation to the appropriate entry.
Intertext	Preview of Source text	Opens the appropriate resource to the reference given for Source.
Accent	None	None
Cultural concept	Information card	Factbook entry for cultural concept
Semantic feature	Preview of definition	Opens The Lexham Propositional Outlines Glossary to the appropriate tenry
Refers to	Information card	Factbook entry for referent.
Biblical event	Information card	Factbook entry for the event

 

Footnotes

Footnotes has a single setting – one that requests that references be looked up in addition to the footnotes.

This section duplicates portions of the Power Look up.

There are no links specific to this section. If, however, the footnote or reference have active links, they will serve as links.

Preaching Themes

This section has no settings.

The links are:

Element	Hover	Click
Preaching theme	Tool tip describing action	Opens the Sermon Start Guide to the Preaching theme.

 

Highlights

This section has no settings. I have created an entry as I had none.

The links are:

Element	Hover	Click
Community tag	Tool tip describing action	Opens an inline search for the highlight.

 

Community Tags

This section has no settings.

The links are:

Element	Hover	Click
Community tag	An information card	Opens Factbook to the entry.

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^[1] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).