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Just when I thought I understood searching lemma vs. homonym...it appears I don't
So I'm studying Psalm 23:6, and I want to see all the occurrences of טוֹב. I right-click, and select "Search on homonym." It turns up 117 hits, of which the first is Genesis 2:9.
"Wait a minute," I say. "What about 1:31?" So I go there, and select search homonym on the exact same word...and this time it comes up with 373 hits. What? So then I try "Search on lemma"... and it comes up with 553 hits.
So then I go back to Psalm 23:6 and select "Search on lemma"...and get 553 hits.
Can someone please explain?
Dan Phillips
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The mystery of the lemma parsed as both noun and adjective
Hi Dan,
In Psalm 23:6 your word is parsed as noun ...
In Gen 1:31 your word is parsed as adjective ...
When you ask BW to do a homonym search in Psa 23:6 it constructs it as lemma@n*+*Ha* (Check your list of saved searches).
When you ask BW to do a homonym search in Gen 1:31 it constructs it as lemma@a*+*Ha*
If you do your own search as something like lemma@*+Ha* it will find 490 occurrences in 460 verses.
Whether this is a design feature of BW, or a bug, I leave to you to decide.
By the way, the Forms tab illustrates the distribution nicely.
--Jim
Addendum:
Since you were searching with vowels turned off, your lemma search covered 3 lemmas, only one of which has homonyms.
Last edited by Jim Wert; 02-14-2018 at 08:39 PM.
Reason: add addendum
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