Verbum 9 Tip 7t: Basic search terms part 6 (word information)

MJ. Smith

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Morphology references

Word information

The data within the red box expands from or contracts to the first line only. This data is the same as is shown in the Word Info section of the Information Tool.

The contents of the word information is defined in Verbum Help:[quote]

5.   Manuscript — This is the surface form of the text of the selected word in the text.

6.   Lemma — The dictionary form of the word (or words) from the original language. See lemma.

7.   Root — The basic or simple form of the selected word from a linguistical perspective. This may coincidentally be the same as the lemma, or may be a more primitive form. Compound words will list several roots, one for each part of the compound.

8.   Morph — Represents the morphological properties of the selected word, (noun, singular, passive, etc,) and a Morph Search can be run from this location.

9.   Greek/Hebrew Strong’s # — Lists the Strong’s number that identifies the original language word in the selection. Selecting this tab provides a link to open Strong’s Lexicon to the word (where available), in addition to other tools for looking the word up, such as Power Lookup.

10. Louw-Nida — Provides the selected word’s information from the Louw-Nida Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains. This resource organizes multiple words based on their word meanings, rather than listing all the possible meanings of a word.

11. Factbook Heading — Represents people, places, things, etc. that can be found in the Factbook. This section will provide commands based on whatever entity is tagged in the selected text. ^[1]

Note that the Factbook references are discussed in the next section.

Continuing to use “locusts” in Mark 1:6 as the example, starting the search from the NRSV context menu. The search is against three Bibles, an original Greek language text, an English translation with a reverse interlinear (NRSV), and an English translation without a reverse interlinear. The latter is nearly invisible in the searches.

English text term: This is a simple text term search using the English surface text and the gloss from the interlinear for the Greek text. Note all three Bibles return results. It is provided to serve as the starting point against which to compare the system data searches.

Manuscript: This is a simple text term search using the surface text or the text of the manuscript line of the reverse interlinear.

Lemma: The lemma is the headword used in a lexicon/dictionary. It depends upon the rules the authors chose to apply and, therefore, can vary between dictionaries. Note that the Old Testament entries are all from the Greek Old Testament. Here we have a datatype format that will be discussed in detail in the inflection section below. It has already been introduced through the Verbum Help excerpt above.

Root: In this case, the lemma and the root are the same and the Bible contains no other lemmas derived from the root. Again, the search argument is in a datatype format.

Morphology: For common inflected forms, a morphology search is rarely used on its own. It is normally constrained by lemma, root, author, pericope . . . In this case, the search is looking for noun part-of-speech, accusative case, feminine gender, and plural number.

Strong’s Greek or Hebrew number: Ignore this element unless you are already addicted to it. It was a great tool for KJV users prior to computers simplifying the identification of lemmas.

Louw-Nida semantic domain number: Louw-Nida numbers apply only to the Greek New Testament. The Masoretic and LXX texts still have no semantic domain tool that is so widely used. This a s standard datatype search argument. The meaning of the numbers is available in Louw, Johannes P., and Eugene Albert Nida. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains. New York: United Bible Societies, 1996. To understand the principles behind this semantic domain analysis, read Nida, Eugene A., and Johannes P. Louw. Lexical Semantics of the Greek New Testament. Edited by David E. Aune. Vol. 25. Society of Biblical Literature Resources for Biblical Study. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1992.

Sense: This entry is the link to the Bible Sense Lexicon network (see Thompson, Jeremy. Bible Sense Lexicon: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2015.) This uses a standard datatype format and is one datatype in which the selection of the operator significantly expands the usefulness of the search.

Factbook: In this test case, the Factbook datatype is “thing”. Again, this is a simple datatype entry.

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

Dave Hooton

MJ. Smith said:

[quote]11. Factbook Heading — Represents people, places, things, etc. that can be found in the Factbook. This section will provide commands based on whatever entity is tagged in the selected text. ^[1]

Note that the Factbook references are discussed in the next section.

Whilst 'Factbook references' may have been true in a limited sense before Logos 6, the Help is more accurate as they are entities that can be found in Factbook, but they are categories of data that come from Bibles and some other resources.