SOURCE LANGUAGE TOOLS

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SOURCE LANGUAGE TOOLS Paratext 7.3

Source Language Text Window Source Language Search Tool Source Language Dictionary

A Source Language Text window can be opened in two ways: Using the File menu Using the toolbar; look for the icon with the golden aleph:

Then select your canon: HEB/GRK LXX/GRK Return to Menu

The default view shows the Hebrew/Greek texts only. The analytical data is visible in the status bar.

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When mouse cursor hovers over a word, the analytical info in the status bar is updated automatically.

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Use the View menu to have the text displayed in an interlinear format, with transliteration, lemmas, forms, and glosses. The status bar with its word information can be hidden.

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If the mouse cursor hovers over a morphological form (which is sometimes shortened), a tooltip appears with the entire form, including the interpretation of the encoding.

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If you click on any of the red superscripts, a popup window will appear with background information on the source text, depending on what is available, such as the critical apparatus, cross-references, etc.

Press Escape to close this window again.

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If you right click on a word, a context-sensitive popup menu will appear with options such as:

Include in an advanced search Look up in a dictionary List all occurrences Add to custom list of Biblical Terms Copy to clipboard Return to Menu

Note that if you do not use the interlinear view, an intermediate popup menu will appear first, prompting you to choose whether you want this action to apply to:

The word with its morphological form as it occurs in this verse The lemma, regardless of its morphological form in this verse Any word with this morphological form The gloss Return to Menu

If you hold down the Ctrl key while selecting one of the options that ask for a list of occurrences, the output will be displayed in context.

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If you hold down the Ctrl key while selecting a word, lemma, or form, you can select multiple items. A right click will produce a popup menu with only one option: Load the Source Language Search Tool and start an advanced search featuring all selected items.

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The Source Language Search Tool is often launched from the popup menu that appears when the user right clicks on a word in the Source Language Text Window.

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The Source Language Search Tool can be launched manually as well by selecting the Find option from the Edit menu. Make sure, however, that the Source Language Text window is active when you do that.

An alternative way to do this is by clicking the Find button on your toolbar or by using the shortcut Ctrl-F. Return to Menu

The Source Language Search Tool can be populated manually: Select a text (default is Hebrew Old Testament)

Select one or more lemmas from a list.

Select morphological form(s)

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The following (combinations of) texts can be searched:

The Hebrew Old Testament (HEB) The Aramaic parts of the Old Testament (ARM) The Greek New Testament (GRK) The Greek NT with the Deutero-Canonical Books (GRK+DC) The Deutero-Canonical Books only (DC) The Septuagint (LXX) The Septuagint and the Greek New Testament (LXX+GRK) Return to Menu

This is how you select one or more lemmas: All available words in the text(s) you have selected are listed on the left, and all selected words are displayed on the right. Use the arrow keys to move a word from one list to the other. You can also do this by double clicking on a word. Type the first characters of the word of your choice and the cursor will move to the first match in the list.

Click OK to finish your selection.

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This is how you select one or more forms: If you click the Form link, a window will appear listing all of the available morphological (sub)categories. The default is any form, which, when selected, lists all occurrences of a word, regardless of its form. Click on the pluses of the tree diagram to make your search as specific as you want by including additional subcategories. Click OK to finish your selection.

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Note that a query can contain multiple items, either or not in sequence:

Add an additional item to your query by clicking here:

Click here to select a range of books

Click here to remove one of the items from a query Return to Menu

The query below looks for all passages where the genitive forms of and occur in a direct sequence. Please pay attention to the information on the status bar. It says that the word is found 249 times whereas the combination is found 107 times.

Indicates which is the current row

The tick boxes indicate which rows are selected and hence included in the query.

Number of books selected

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The query below looks for all passages where the word is NOT followed directly by the word . According to the status bar, the genitive singular of the word is found 225 times. In 118 passages, however, it is found without following it.

Tick this box to negate the row, which means that you are looking for passages where this item is NOT found.

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The query below looks for all passages where the words and occur together in a single verse regardless of the sequence. According to the status bar, there are 139 verses that contain both words.

Tick this box to indicate that you are not interested in a specific sequence.

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The search results are displayed with a click on the button. Hold down the Ctrl key if you want to see the results in context.

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Some final notes regarding the Source Language Search Tool:

Delete this row Move a row up or down

Add the results of a query to your custom Biblical Terms list Return to Menu

The Source Language Dictionary window is often launched from the popup menu that appears when the user right clicks on a word in the Source Language Text Window.

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The Source Language Dictionary window can be launched manually as well by selecting the corresponding option from the File menu.

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When the Source Language Dictionary window is launched manually, a popup will appear prompting the user to select a database.

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Some of the databases have versions in different languages. Use the View menu to make a selection.

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Most scripture references are links. A click on a link will display the text. If you hold down the Ctrl key while clicking a new Source Language Text window will be opened.

Click to display a single reference

Click to display all nine references in the list window. Return to Menu

On the left side of the window you see a panel with two tabs. The one labeled Alphabetical contains a list of all entries in the database. The one labeled Filter contains the results of an advanced search. Type the first characters of the word of your choice and the cursor will move to A simple search is the first match in done by selecting the the list and the Find option from the corresponding Edit window (Ctrl-F). entry will be It simply moves the displayed. cursor to this text box:

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A more advanced search is done by selecting the Find Advanced option from the Edit window (Ctrl-G). With this tool you can look for entries containing a certain text string, either in one specific field or in the entire entry. Select the field that you want to search, e.g. Definition English.

Select a language. Type the string that you want the program to search for, e.g. apostle.

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According to the status bar there are nine entries with the string apostle in the English definition field. They are all listed in the Filter tab and the first entry is displayed immediately.

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Tip: It is easy to switch from one tab to another: Use Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down to navigate through the entries listed on the Alphabetic tab. Use Alt-Up and Alt-Down to navigate through the entries listed on the Filter tab.

You can also use the small blue/red arrow buttons at the top to navigate through the lists.

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The Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains has a few additional features.

If you click on a semantic (sub)domain, all (sub)entries belonging to this domain will be displayed in the Filter.

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The Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains has a few additional features.

If you click on a semantic (sub)domain, all (sub)entries belonging to this domain will be displayed in the Filter.

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The Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains has a few additional features.

If you do an advanced search (Ctrl-G), there are two additional fields where you can specify a semantic domain and/or subdomain. You can also select them from a list. Return to Menu

The Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains has a few additional features.

If you do an advanced search (Ctrl-G), there are two additional fields where you can specify a semantic domain and/or subdomain. You can also select them from a list. Return to Menu