reverse interlinear - number next to lemma

i am work on the word 'l or "ahl" in 2 Sam. 23:1 in the reverse interlinear there is a number "7" next to the lemma. when i look up all of the usages of the lemma there are 4 hits. could someone explain to me what the number next to the lemma refers to.

thanks,

howard silverman

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MJ. Smith

Which translation are you using? There are several reverse interlinears.

Howard Silverman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/205979#Comment_205979

good question! i am using an nas95 english bible and it is the interlinear that shows up when i click on interlinear and it shows up on the bottom of the panel. pleae advise me how i know which interlinear if i ahve not given you the right information.

thanks

howard

Kevin Becker

In Hebrew there are a number of words that are spelled the same way but mean different things. The number next to the lemma helps differentiate between the various homonyms in Hebrew. Notice that in the picture below I've stripped the 7 from the search and the word picker shows the various lemmas that are spelled על.

Howard Silverman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/206008#Comment_206008

very good. now i get it. two more questions if you don't mind:

1. is the order significant between 1 and 7?

2. is there a function called "word picker? i did the search in NAS myself but i manually deleted the parts of speech and received the same results..

thanks

howard

Howard Silverman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/206016#Comment_206016

one more question - when i cleick on number 7 i get 4 hits but one of them seems to be a different meaning - a meaning that is found in number 3. Should i just consider this a small error in the search?

again thank you very much!

Kevin Becker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/206016#Comment_206016

1. I think the order between 1 and 7 follow whatever lexicon they used to guide the process of differentiating the lemmas. I don't know which one that was so I can't say for sure if there is meaning or not, but I suspect that there isn't any significance behind the ordering.

2. The word picker is that dropdown menu that suggests words based on what you've already typed. For instance, if you were to type h:hsd you would get a dropdown of various Hebrew words that had those consonants. This is what i meant by word picker.

3. Like most things there are differences between linguists and translators in how to understand things. In the case of the hit that seems to follow #3 either the translators are disagreeing with the editors of the Hebrew tagging or there is an error in the tagging.