About

This repository is inspired by James Tauber's vocabulary-tools but is for the Hebrew Bible. The API is virutally identical to vocabulary-tools with a few exceptions. The data is taken with thanks from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (See "Sources" below).

Available chunk types are:

• book
• chapter
• verse
• paragraph
• pericope

The verses are based on the placement of the sof pasuq. Paragraphs are based on the samekh and pe markers in the MT text. Books and Chapters are based on the references from the WLC xml files.

Available token types are:

• form
• lemma
• parse
• morph_lemma (a tuple of (parse, lemma))
• all (a tuple of (form, lemma, parse))

Parse codes

The parse codes can be fround here https://hb.openscriptures.org/parsing/HebrewMorphologyCodes.html

Pretty printing text

Because the sof pasuq, and maqqef are treated as individual tokens, the pprint_text function takes a list tokens and returns a string with appropriate spacing for the maqqef and sof pasuq.

Using the lexical data

Finally, HEBLEX is a class containing three data mappings encapuslated in three functions.

• lemma_to_gloss takes Hebrew lemma and returns a gloss.
• strongs_to_gloss takes a Strongs number and returns a gloss.
• strongs_to_lemma takes a Strongs number and returns a Hebrew lemma.

Thus all of the following statements would be true.

LEXDATA = HEBLEX()

assert LEXDATA.lemma_to_gloss('אָב') == 'father'

assert LEXDATA.strongs_to_gloss('1') == 'father'

assert LEXDATA.strongs_to_lemma('1') == 'אָב'

assert LEXDATA.lemma_to_gloss(LEXDATA.strongs_to_lemma('1')) == 'אָב'

Sources

WLC Source

The source xml files are taken from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project's Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB) and the WLC text that it is based upon is in the Public Domain per the OSHB repository.

Lexical data

The Lexical data is taken from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project's The OSHB Hebrew Lexicon which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. I have modified it to include entries for the Hebrew punctuation and paragraph makers. The text of Brown Driver, Briggs Hebrew Lexicon and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary are in the Public Domain per the OSHB Hebrew Lexicon repository.

License

This work is released unthe the same Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license as its Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible sources.