Make ש searchable
Moshe Wise
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The Hebrew alphabet has 22 basic graphemes, but there is a long-standing convention of dividing the penultimate grapheme ש into two - שׁ and שׂ. In Israeli Hebrew, following many of the Jewish reading traditions, שׁ represents /ʃ/ and שׂ represents /s/. While the division of ש into two letters is an accepted convention today, in biblical times this division was never represented graphically, so it is correct to say that in classical Hebrew there are only 22 graphemes and not 23.
I review all this history to underscore my annoyance that of the Logos Hebrew Bibles, only the Samaritan Pentateuch includes the grapheme ש. All of the Logos Masoretic Bibles omit this letter, instead offering שׁ and שׂ in accordance with the Masorah. This would not bother me so much if not for the fact that on many Hebrew keyboard layouts, including the one I use, שׁ and/or שׂ is not available, making it very difficult to search for a Biblical text that contains a ש. The way to fix this is to encode every שׁ and שׂ as also being ש so that a ש search would work just as well as a שׁ or שׂ search. This solution is already employed on many other platforms so I know that this is possible.
I review all this history to underscore my annoyance that of the Logos Hebrew Bibles, only the Samaritan Pentateuch includes the grapheme ש. All of the Logos Masoretic Bibles omit this letter, instead offering שׁ and שׂ in accordance with the Masorah. This would not bother me so much if not for the fact that on many Hebrew keyboard layouts, including the one I use, שׁ and/or שׂ is not available, making it very difficult to search for a Biblical text that contains a ש. The way to fix this is to encode every שׁ and שׂ as also being ש so that a ש search would work just as well as a שׁ or שׂ search. This solution is already employed on many other platforms so I know that this is possible.
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