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10.3. Morphological Coding Schemes

10.3.1. An Overview of Morphological Coding Schemes

BibleWorks 5.0 contains a number of morphological database versions for the Hebrew OT

and Greek NT and the LXX. These may be summarized as follows:

o WTM - This contains the Groves-Wheeler Westminster BHS Morphological Database.

o GNM - This contains the Friberg GNT Morphology Database

o BNM - This contains the BibleWorks GNT Morphology Database

o BLM - This contains the BibleWorks LXX Morphology Database

o BGM - This contains the BNM and BLM in a single version.

o SCM - This contains the Morphology for Scrivener's GNT

o BYM - This contains the Morphology for the Robinson-Pierpont GNT

o STM - This contains the Morphology for the Stephanos GNT

These morphological databases are just Bible versions in which each word has been replaced

by a construction that contains the root word and parsing information for the word. You

search these databases just like you search any other versions, but the words you look up are

constructs made up of a root word and some appended codes that specify the morphology

(parsing information). The form of the constructs is <root[zavinac]codes> for Greek and Hebrew

words and <root%codes> for Aramaic words. To use these databases you need to know how

to construct the codes. Both the Command Line and Advanced Search Engine have

"Assistant" programs that help you construct simple codes, but you will be able to do a lot

more with these databases if you study the coding schemes in detail. This section describes

the coding schemes used in the eight morphological databases described above.

BibleWorks 5 has four different morphological coding schemes:

o The Friberg Greek Scheme - This is used in the Friberg Analytical Greek New

Testament database (GNM). (Další podrobnosti zde).

o The BibleWorks Greek Scheme - This is used in the new BibleWorks Greek

New Testament (BNM) Morphology, the new BibleWorks LXX Morphology (BLM)

and in the combined GNT/LXX morphology version (BGM).

o The Modified BibleWorks Greek Scheme - This is used in the Robinson-

Pierpont Greek Morphology databases (BYM), as well as in the Stephanos Text

(STM) and Scrivener's Text (SCM) Morphology databases. It is almost identical to

the BibleWorks scheme, but has a few differences due to the differences in the way

these versions were tagged.

o The BibleWorks Hebrew Morphological Scheme - This is used in the

Groves-Wheeler Westminster Morphological Database.