QSM Hebrew lemmas with "west"

Brian Davidson

Anyone know why one has to add "west" into the lemma search syntax in the QSM resource? Is this an instance where the simplified search syntax hasn't been unified yet or something else?

I have a collection with Hebrew texts, and running a normal lemma search only finds hits in the Hebrew Bible because QSM requires "west" in the middle of the syntax.

You can see in the screenshot below what I mean. QSM is on the left and LHB on the right.

DMB

Hazarding a guess, while you're waiting, QSM is western aramaic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Aramaic_languages 

Brian Davidson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1232036#Comment_1232036

Those hits are on texts written in classical Hebrew like HB, though.

Graham Criddle

Anyone know why one has to add "west" into the lemma search syntax in the QSM resource? Is this an instance where the simplified search syntax hasn't been unified yet or something else?

I have a collection with Hebrew texts, and running a normal lemma search only finds hits in the Hebrew Bible because QSM requires "west" in the middle of the syntax.

I think this is because QSM uses the Westminster Hebrew Morphology and this needs to be specified for the software to handle the morphology correctly.

Edit: From the QSM product page:

”The QSM database also tags each word with a morphology code to allow users to search by grammatical feature, or to help the reader interpret the form of a given word. The morphology tags follow the same format as the Westminster Hebrew Morphology (see BHW 4.18 for the latest version)”

Brian Davidson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1232038#Comment_1232038

Interesting. Thanks so much.

Dave Hooton

Is this an instance where the simplified search syntax hasn't been unified yet or something else?

The morphology syntax is simplified as much as possible for Logos Greek/Hebrew Morphology, but has to be more specific for other morphologies. Logos 9 would just use  lemma:אֲדֹנִיָּה in Morph Search for a specific resource and then expand it to <Lemma = lls/he/אֲדֹנִיָּה> if you switch to Bible Search. Logos 10 Morph Search generates the 'full' syntax:  lemma.west.h:אֲדֹנִיָּה for use in any type of Search. But it allows you to use lemma:אֲדֹנִיָּה if you paste it into the box.