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Finding all waw conversives in a book?


Brett

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Hi, my understanding is that waw-conversive is simply a different name for waw-consecutive (ie the waw reverses the normal tense of the verb).

 

If this is correct then the search:

 

[RANGE {insert book name here}] <AND> [VERB waw-consecutive]

 

should find your pesky critters....

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Hi, my understanding is that waw-conversive is simply a different name for waw-consecutive (ie the waw reverses the normal tense of the verb).

 

If this is correct then the search:

 

[RANGE {insert book name here}] <AND> [VERB waw-consecutive]

 

should find your pesky critters....

 

Eek. Not quite following. Could you go a little more step by step on that? I'm thinking I need to define a new range.

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Hi Brett,

sure - here we go. There's no need to set up a range, though you can if you want. The quick way is to do it like this.

 

Open accordance and make sure you have a tagged Hebrew text open (I have HMT-W4 here (green box), you could also have BHS-T or the older BHS-W4) Make sure it is in "Word" mode (see the red arrow)

 

Then, as in the picture, select SEARCH menu => ENTER TAG => VERB

 

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Click on the Aspect drop down (green box) and select "Waw-consecutive" (red arrow)

 

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you will see that Accordance puts in the search term in the search entry box at the right hand end of the box.

 

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Then select SEARCH menu => ENTER COMMAND=> AND - or press CMD-SHIFT-A

 

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and accordance will put in the logical command AND for you, properly formatted.

 

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Then select SEARCH menu =>: ENTER COMMAND => RANGE - or press CMD-SHIFT-R

 

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Accordance will enter the properly formatted range command, and the cursor will be on the ? ready for you to enter a range (red arrow)

 

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I have added in Isaiah 1-24

 

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then press return, and you will see all of the waw-consecutives highlit red as hits (in this case there are 78 such verbs in 53 verses (see the green boxes)

 

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You can also see which verbs appear in this range in the waw-consecutive by doing an analysis - the small bar chart icon (red box)

 

then select Word Count Analysis => Analysis from the drop down

 

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and you will see a list of all the lemmas of the verbs in the range that are in the waw-consecutive with a count of how many times they appear.

 

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Hope that helps. Please ask if anything isn't clear.

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WAW! :rolleyes:

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No worries Brett. Very glad to help. I assume from the lack of another question that it is what you were after...

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