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Help readers navigate Hebrew verb Stems in the lexicon.

Open DavidIB opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

Hebrew verbs have several "Stems" which means a single verb can have several meanings. It is rather like we add prefixes or prepositions to verbs to change their meaning, eg: "to build", "to rebuild", "to upbuild" or "to build up". These are separate meanings. Similarly "Shachar" means "to bow" (in the stem Qal), "to depress" (in the stem Hiphil - ie "to cause to bow"), "to worship" (in the stem Hithpael - ie "to bow yourself"). Mark C pointed out to me a simple way to help people who use the lexicon: highlight the relevant Stem, eg: image This would only work with morphologically tagged Bibles - but we should soon have more of them.

DavidIB avatar Dec 08 '20 16:12 DavidIB