Diffrentiating Hebrew words with same root

[mortenjensen]

Hi,

I do not know if this is a bug or the way it is, but I noticed that while Accordance is able to distinguish between "woman" and "burnt offering" (אִשָּׁה and אִשֶּׁה) when doing searches, it is not when amplifying, which always brings up "ishah". 

 

In other words, it seems that there is coding in the tagging to amplify correctly. Not?

 

Morten

[Helen Brown]

When amplifying to a lexicon Accordance has always ignored pointing and accents and gone to the first matching entry. The other entries are found and you can use the Hits button to navigate to them. This lets you decide which one matches the context. More recently, in Dictionaries, Accordance finds all the entries but may go to the first short entry which we assume is the main one. For example, Egypt would jump to the article "Egypt" rather than "Descent to Egypt" which appears earlier. In any case you can easily view all the hits.

[mortenjensen]

Thanks

[Daniel R]

Technically, these words are not of the same root. אשה is the feminine form of איש. Since the middle yod is weak, it drops and the he on אשה marks its gender as feminine.

Edited April 14, 2016 by Daniel R

[Robert Holmstedt]

FWIW. Feminine אשה is not from the same root as masculine איש. The dagesh in אשה "woman" indicates that it from the root *אנש, which is also the root for mpl אנשים.

[Daniel R]

Yep. I was wrong about that.

[Helen Brown]

BTW, if the reference is cited in the lexicon, and your preference is to search the reference with the word, you are much more likely to land directly on the correct entry. This won't help with more common words since most of the references would not be included in the lexical entry.

[farcas]

Dictionary of Classical Hebrew is pretty good on including references.

 

Very nice feature to search for two points of data once. Love it!

 

 

Thanks!