Suggestion: New tool: "How is this word translated…?"

Today I'm doing a study on Hebrews 12, and was interested to know how different versions translated παιδεία

I ran a text comparison, but it would be brilliant if I could see at a glance how that word in that location was translated by each of the different English versions, like this:

	NIV	ESV	KJV	NIrV	NKJV	NASB	LEB
παιδεία (Heb 12:5)	discipline	discipline	chastening	training	chastening	discipline	discpline

It would also be great to then have a breakdown of how that word was translated throughout the whole NT in each of the different versions, in the form of a table (the data is fictional, it's too much hassle to get correct data as things stand):

παιδεία	NIV	ESV	NKJV	KJV
discipline	3	5	2	2
training	2	1	3	2
chastening	0	0	1	2

In this latter case it would be nice to restrict the table to particular books (like we can do with a Bible search).

It would be really easy for Logos to crunch this data, and is just the sort of thing that having lots of Reverse-Interlinears is useful for.

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Kevin Becker

I like this idea,

Analysis can be used to get a similar result though,

I'm normally reluctant to use Analysis on a Reverse Interlinear so some applications of this may not work well, but it seems to be fine for this example.

Dave Hooton

It would be really easy for Logos to crunch this data, and is just the sort of thing that having lots of Reverse-Interlinears is useful for.

Provided we can trust them. In 1 Peter 1:22 καθαρᾶς is not translated in three bibles as shown in the Analysis results below. But the NLT is missing as I'm expecting 9 results! An inspection reveals that καθαρᾶς is not included in its Greek base, presumably because [καθαρᾶς] is disputed in the Critical Text; yet only the NLT makes that clear distinction. This is not not done for all disputed words so the NLT is inconsistent.

For the breakdown that Mark is proposing I would expect a clear indication that a given word is not translated in all applicable bibles, especially in the case of non-results like this. It would be even better if a distinction could be made between RI's based on the Critical Text and those based on the TR (Scrivener) so that a given word would not be expected in that translation.

TCBlack

Mark,

I'd love to see this tool, but I'd like to see it in an extra section on the BWS. (Available in two places wouldn't hurt.)

Mark Smith

it would be brilliant if I could see at a glance how that word in that location was translated by each of the different English versions, like this: