Verbum 9 Tip 9ae: Guide section: Important Words
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Important Words
This section is based on statistical data developed by Faithlife to reflect the frequency with which a word appears in commentaries in the context of a specific passage. Note this does not reflect your personal library but rather the Faithlife inventory. While this section simply identifies the words, the Lemma in Passage Guide section ties the word back to commentaries to which you have access.
From Verbum Help:[quote]
Important Words Section
The Important Words tool aggregates data from all commentary resources (not just those in the user’s Library) to expose words with a high frequency of references. This tool not only surfaces frequently referenced terms but also ranks them according to “importance.” This ranking system is based on the number of references collected from commentary resources. Frequently discussed terms will appear higher in the ranking system. References include both English and original language terms. For example, the term “word” is referenced by its English designation as well as the Greek term logos. The Important Words Tool counts references from both designations and ranks the term accordingly. By selecting an “important word,” users may discover a list of references in relevant resources so that they can continue their investigation.
Given a passage, the Important Words section returns a list of the significant words that passage contains. Results are displayed with the most frequently referenced (in commentaries, not in the biblical text) terms listed first. The section displays the original language lemma, transliteration, pronunciation button, and gloss. When a word is expanded, the section displays all the verses containing that lemma in the guide passage with links to the preferred Bible. Each word also displays a link to open the Lemma in Passage section for the selected lemma.
Hovering over the section header displays the Settings menu, which allows users to specify which Collection the section will search.[1]
Prerequisite reading: Brannan, Rick. Important Words: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018.
Resources included: Faithlife generated data built from type:Bible commentaries.
Section heading bar
The documentation is incorrect … there are no settings for this guide. The Section heading bar and it’s menu are the standard defaults.
Contents
Content of header line which appears in frequency sequence:
- Expand/contract triangle
- Lemma icon
- Lemma in original script
- Transliterated lemma
- Pronunciation icon
- Gloss
Content of detail line which appears in canonical sequence:
- Bible reference
- Text of Bible reference in highest priority Bible with occurrences of the lemma highlighted.
Interactions on data
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Visual cue |
Data element |
Action |
Response |
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Heading line |
Expand/contract triangle; Lemma icon; Transliteration; Gloss |
Click |
Toggles display section between expanded and contracted. |
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Blue text
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More |
Click |
Displays an additional block of data in the Guide |
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Lemma |
Mouse over |
Displays a standard preview info card. |
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Click |
Opens a Bible Word Study to the lemma. |
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Right click |
Opens Context Menu |
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Drag and drop |
Opens a Bible Word Study to the lemma in the location of the user’s choice. |
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Speech icon |
Megaphone icon |
Mouse over |
n/a |
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Click |
Pronounces the lemma. |
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Right click |
n/a |
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Drag and drop |
n/a |
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Blue text |
Bible reference |
Mouse over |
Opens a standard popup preview text of the Bible reference in the user’s preferred Bible. |
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Click |
Opens the user’s preferred Bible to the given Bible verse. |
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Right click |
Opens a Context Menu |
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Drag and drop |
Opens the user’s preferred Bible to the given Bible verse in a location of the user’s choice. |
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Orange text |
Occurrence of lemma in Bible text |
Mouse over |
Opens a preview of the Bible text beginning at the selected lemma. |
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Click |
Opens the Bible to the reference with the text beginning at the selected lemma. |
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Right click |
Open Context Menu |
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Drag and drop |
Opens the Bible to the reference with the text beginning at the selected lemma at a location of the user’s choice. |
Search
Data behind this section is not available to the end user.
Supplemental materials
Lemma in Passage guide section is the primary supplemental material.
[1] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).
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