TIP OF THE DAY 52: Kinship includes new .DOCX file

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QUESTION: What are the Hebrew kinship terms? How are they translated?

SOFTWARE: An AI assisted all search on “Hebrew kinship terms” provided reasonable answers.

ANSWER: the synopsis of the smart search:

Hebrew kinship terms reflect a complex system of relationships within ancient Israelite society. The term 'āḥ, often translated as "brother," can denote various degrees of kinship, from close blood relatives to more distant tribal connections. The basic unit of kinship was the bayit or "house," often referred to as beit 'av ("father's house") or occasionally beit 'em ("mother's house"). Larger kinship units included the mishpaḥah ("clan") and sheivet/matteh ("tribe"). Other important terms include ben/bat (son/daughter), ḥatan (father-in-law or son-in-law), and kallah (daughter-in-law). The Hebrew kinship system during the patriarchal period was patrilineal, patrilocal, and clan-endogamous, with a preference for parallel-cousin marriages. Kinship language was closely linked to covenant language in Israelite society, reflecting the importance of family relationships in shaping social, legal, political, and religious institutions. Recent scholarship has emphasized the need to reevaluate traditional understandings of biblical kinship, recognizing the ideological and socially constructed nature of biblical genealogies and the important roles of women in various spheres of ancient Israelite life.[1]

 

 

QUESTION: Where do I find kinship relationships in Logos/Verbum?

Skill: Biblical People Diagrams and Factbook

ANSWER: Method 1: diagrams often in media sections

1. Open Biblical People Diagrams. Note this is often done by clicking on a diagram in a Media section.
2. If needed, read the documentation Parks, Jessica. Biblical People Diagrams Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2021.

Method 2: Factbook

1. Factbook > Person > All OR Biblical > People, Places, and Things > People lens
2. Relative which provides:
1. Standard icon – being type, gender, number
2. Name (Logos label) as link to their Factbook page
3. Relationship (English)

QUESTION: How do I identify all occurrences of a particular relationship using Louw-Nida?

Skill: Luow-Nida kinship terms

SOFTWARE: Louw-Nida identifies New Testament Greek terms in Domain 10 Kinship terms which has the following subdomains:

A            Groups and Members of Groups of Persons Regarded as Related by Blood but without Special Reference to Successive Generations (10.1–10.13)

B            Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations (10.14–10.48)

C            Kinship Relations of the Same Generation (10.49–10.52)

D            Kinship Relations Based upon Marriage (10.53–10.61)^[2]

ANSWER: For a nonimmediate female descendant:

1. Open Bible for which you own a reverse interlinear.
2. Select Bible search
3. Limit the passage to be searched, if you wish.
4. Enter the search argument louwNida:10.31
5. Run search
6. Open Bible for which you own a reverse interlinear.
7. Select Bible search
8. Limit the passage to be searched, if you wish.
9. Enter the search argument louwNida:10.53-10.61
10. Run search

FOLLOWUP QUESTION: How do I change the search to find all kinship relations based upon marriage?

 

QUESTION: How do I identify all occurrences of a particular relationship using the Bible Sense Lexicon?

Skill: Bible sense lexicon kinship terms

SOFTWARE: Yes, I know there is an error in the alignment of Louw-Nida to the Bible Sense Lexicon in this example. Logos has acknowledged the error.

ANSWER:  for an immediate female descendent:

1. Open Bible for which you own a reverse interlinear.
2. Select Bible search
3. Limit the passage to be searched, if you wish.
4. Enter the search argument sense:="descendant ⇔ daughter"
5. Run search

FOLLOWUP QUESTION: How do I identify all descendents?

Note to expand your search one selects a sense higher up in the Biblical Sense Lexicon; to narrow one’s search one a sense lower in the hierarchy.

1. Open Bible for which you own a reverse interlinear.
2. Select Bible search
3. Limit the passage to be searched, if you wish.
4. Enter the search argument sense:descendant
5. Run search

 

 

QUESTION: How were the 12 tribes of Israel organized internally?

SOFTWARE: An AI assisted all search on “clan within 12 tribes of Israel” provided reasonable answers.

ANSWER: the synopsis of the smart search:

Within the 12 tribes of Israel, a clan was a significant social unit. The tribe was divided into four hierarchical units: the tribe as a whole, the clan (headed by a chieftain), the family, and the household. In Hebrew, the term for clan was "shêbeṭ" or "shᵉbaṭ", while in Greek it was "phulē". The clan structure was an important part of the tribal organization, with chieftains leading these sub-units (Numbers 34:17-29). This clan system was integral to the social and organizational structure of the Israelites, both during their nomadic period and as they transitioned to a settled existence in the Promised Land.[3]

 

QUESTION: List the 12 tribes of Israel and the clans within each.

ANSWER: One list primarily from Numbers 26:

1. Reuben

• Hanochites
• Palluites
• Hezronites
• Carmites
• Nemuelites
• Jaminites
• Jachinites
• Zerahites
• Shaulites
• Gershonites
• Kohathites
• Merarites
• Shelanites
• Perezites
• Zerahites
• Tolaites
• Punites
• Jashubites
• Shimronites
• Seredites
• Elonites
• Jahleelites
• Zephonites
• Haggites
• Shunites
• Oznites
• Erites
• Arodites
• Arelites
• Imnites
• Ishvites
• Beriites
• Heberites
• Malkielites
• Shuhamites
• Jahzeelites
• Gunites
• Jezerites
• Shillemites
• Shuthelahites
• Becherites
• Tahanites
• Machirites
• Gileadites

1. Simeon

1. Levi

1. Judah

1. Issachar

1. Zebulun

1. Gad

1. Asher

1. Dan

1. Naphtali

1. Ephraim (son of Joseph)

1. Manasseh (son of Joseph)

 

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[1] G. A. Lee, “Kin; Kins(wo)man; Kinsfolk,” in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised, ed. Geoffrey W Bromiley (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979–1988), 18. and Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Tikva Frymer-Kensky, The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth, First edition, JPS Tanakh Commentary (Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 2011), xxvii. and Stephen A. Grunlan and Marvin K. Mayers, Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective, Second Edition (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988), 175. and Scott W. Hahn, Kinship by Covenant: A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God’s Saving Promises (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2009), 37. and Cynthia R. Chapman, The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry, ed. John J. Collins, Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2016), 11.

^[2] Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 110.

[3] Menashe Har-El, What God Created: Landscape, Nature and Man in the Bible, Second Edition (Jerusalem: Carta, Jerusalem, 2022), 239. and Menashe Har-El, Understanding the Twelve Tribes: Boundaries & Surrounding Nations, Understanding the Bible (Carta Jerusalem, 2019), 7. and James Strong, New Strong’s Guide to Bible Words, electronic ed. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1997).