Amplifying To and From Tagged Texts
The Digging Deeper section of the Help explained how to Amplify your Bible studies. This feature is a powerful tool for personal Bible study. But there is much more to amplifying than quickly locating the desired additional information about a text.
When working with tagged original texts, you can also amplify
To select words or a reference and search for the selection in the text or tool of your choice. You can select the resource in the Library or Amplify menus. A triple-click is a shortcut which amplifies to the top tool of the relevant category. to obtain linguistic information about the original language of the text. In addition, some of the Graphs and Charts (accessed via Details) have options for analyzing grammatical information included with the text.
As explained elsewhere in this Help, amplifying means selecting a word or phrase in a pane (Text or Tool, and certain other tabs), and then automatically searching for it in any text, tool, or feature by selecting that item from the Library, Amplify To select words or a reference and search for the selection in the text or tool of your choice. You can select the resource in the Library or Amplify menus. A triple-click is a shortcut which amplifies to the top tool of the relevant category. menu, or toolbar.
The following principles govern the treatment of the selection when a grammatically tagged text is involved.
Selections in Tagged Text
- When you amplify to a tagged text:
- The lexical forms for word and phrase searches is used.
- To find an inflected word or phrase, press Alt+ while amplifying.
- To find a root A root is a unit of a language that cannot be further divided, from which words are derived by modification. The root does not necessarily survive as a word in itself. The Accordance roots may combine homographs and therefore a single root may include roots with different etymologies and meanings. In Hebrew, by convention, the lexical form (lemma) of a verb is the same as the root. word, press Shift+Alt+ while amplifying.
- If only one word is selected, the equal sign is added to a lexical or inflected form The word as it appears in the original text, which may be modified from its base dictionary form to make the search exact. In this instance, Hebrew prefixes and suffixes are considered part of the word, and the equal sign is added to the prefix and the word.
- When you amplify to a non-tagged text the inflected forms for word and phrase searches are used.
- Amplify to a tool or to Research:
- Uses the lemma The canonical (dictionary) form of a word (lexical) forms for all words, but breaks phrases up into a list of lemmas. (Breaking up the phrase is most useful for lexicons.)
- To find the inflected words, press and hold Alt+ while amplifying.
- To find a root word, press Shift+Alt+ while amplifying.
- You can automatically add an extra field with the verse reference of the selection via the Preferences dialog box (General area, Include reference when amplifying option). This highlights the verse reference within the article found by the primary search.
- Shortcut Keys
- Triple-click on a word to search for the lexical form The canonical (dictionary) form of a word in the top Greek or Hebrew lexicon (in Hebrew it removes any prefix or suffix).
- Press Shift+Triple-click to open the last opened lexicon; this does not override the Include reference when amplifying option.
Amplify to Tagged Text
- Amplify from a non-tagged text: Searches for the inflected forms (adds quotation marks) for word and phrase searches.
- Amplify from a Keyed Bible text while pressing Alt+: Searches for the lexical forms. A phrase is separated into a list of lemmas.
- Amplify from a tool:
- uses the lemma search for a single word (e.g. a lexicon entry),
- but uses the inflected search (adds quotation marks) for phrases (e.g. a citation in the lexicon).
- If a single word lemma search is not successful, Accordance attempts to search again by searching the same word as an inflected search (adds quotation marks).
- The equal sign is not added automatically to any of these searches.