How Do I Reference a Chart of Hebrew Words (from the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible)?

Sharon Hillam
Sharon Hillam Member Posts: 182 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

There is a chart of 51 Hebrew words that have no English equivalent in the front matter of the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible. The chart is not indexed or connected with the notes. Therefore, when I read a passage of Scripture and then read corresponding notes from this resource, unless I manually go look at this chart, I don't have anything to alert me that a Hebrew word in the text is in this chart.

The chart has columns for the Hebrew word (with DBL no.), NIV English word(s), and key Scriptures where the word is found. Explanatory notes follow each entry.

I have been playing around with the Cited By tool. (I put this resource in a separate Collection.) It's a bit unwieldy, as it also picks up a lot of references to other notes, but at least I can usually make a quick scan and find the entry in this chart if it exists, but only if the passage is included as one of the key Scriptures in the chart.

What would be better would be to find a way to reference or search this chart WHEN I do a Hebrew word study on any one of those 51 Hebrew words.

Any suggestions?

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭

    Well. If it was me, I'd copy the table to Word (personal use), tag the hebrew words, and then PB it as a lexicon. That way, it shows by word and ref (CitedBy).

     But, no offense intended, I actually wouldn't do that, since much of hebrew is iffy-translation ... scanning the Tanakh for 'unknown' (ergo a guess) quickly demonstrates the initial challenge, and then semantic matching by selected language as the next problem.

  • Sharon Hillam
    Sharon Hillam Member Posts: 182 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1178308#Comment_1178308

    DMB said:

    Well. If it was me, I'd copy the table to Word (personal use), tag the hebrew words, and then PB it as a lexicon. That way, it shows by word and ref (CitedBy).

    I was thinking that might be the best option. I've only done a couple of PB's, but hey...I'm game. And I know where to come for help. [;)]

    DMB said:

    But, no offense intended, I actually wouldn't do that...

    No offense taken. I appreciate your perspective. Thanks for your help.

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