Why does the reveres interlinear leave Sense blank so many times? Even in LEB.

Jason Hopkins

I'm guessing this isn't a bug, so I'd like to understand what is happening.

Many places in the reveres interlinear Sense is left blank under some pretty common words. I understand if it is a non-tagged resource, but I'd think LEB should not have that problem. I really noticed it by doing a search on the English word "lord" in LEB. Of the 1288 occurrences there are 516 times where "—" is in the Sense column. In NRSVue it goes to 610 times for the same search.

Ones like NRSVue's Gen 4:10 make sense. There is no Hebrew word there, the translators added it for, presumably, stylist reasons. As such, I can understand why Sense is missing.

But I don't understand why it is missing from LEB's Matt 21:3, Luke 18:6, or Romans 14:8. From what I can see, it is missing in all reveres interlinears in these verses.

Can someone explain to me why the Sense is missing in these cases? Is it as simple as the RI is not completed yet?

DMB

'Sense' is associated with the Bible Sense Lexicon (in your library). In the documentation for the dataset (you might want to explore):

"Another limitation of the Bible Sense Lexicon is that it covers only content words as opposed to function words. The distinction between content words and function words can get blurry; however, content words include words like “create,” “God,” and “justice,” whereas function words include words like “and,” “the,” and “from.” Especially when looking at tools like the reverse interlinear line, this can make the Bible Sense Lexicon seem incomplete since function words make up the bulk of words in any given discourse. But, like the creators of WordNet, we considered these words as matters more for grammars than for lexica. In general, users are more likely to look up content words as opposed to function words within the software."

This is an incomplete answer … for example 'Lord' as a name is not included.