README.md

metadata

license:
  - cc0-1.0
  - cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: >-
  Hebrew Lexical Reference Indices — BDB roots, Hebrew WordNet synsets, T'OMIM
  parallelism, LXX bridge
language:
  - hbo
  - grc
tags:
  - biblical-hebrew
  - biblical-greek
  - lexicography
  - reference-data
configs:
  - config_name: bdb_roots
    data_files: bdb_roots.tsv
  - config_name: hwn_synsets
    data_files: hwn_synsets.tsv
  - config_name: tomim_parallelism
    data_files: tomim_parallelism.tsv
  - config_name: lxx_bridge
    data_files: lxx_bridge.tsv

Hebrew Lexical Reference Indices

Four structured, Strong's-linked transcriptions of external Hebrew (and one Hebrew↔Greek) lexical reference sources. These are not our own synonymy judgments — each config faithfully represents what an established outside source, or an actual historical translation record, already asserts (an etymological dictionary's own root groupings, a WordNet's own synset membership, five named scholars' own verified structural analysis, the Septuagint's own attested rendering choices). We didn't decide these pairs are related; the cited sources did. That distinction matters: read each config's description below before treating a pair as "verified synonyms" — none of these four, on their own, make that specific claim.

bdb_roots — Brown-Driver-Briggs etymological root groups

Hebrew Strong's numbers grouped by the root Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, Public Domain) assigns them to, digitized from OpenScriptures/HebrewLexicon's LexicalIndex.xml (CC BY 4.0 digitization, pinned commit 21c9add1). 1,432 root-groups, 4,616 distinct Strong's. This is BDB's own etymological classification, transcribed — not a claim that every pair in a root-group is synonymous (etymological kinship and semantic proximity are related but different things).

column	meaning
root_id	BDB's internal root identifier
strong	Hebrew Strong's number (H####)
xlit / gloss / pos	transliteration, gloss, part of speech, from BDB

hwn_synsets — Hebrew WordNet synset membership

Hebrew Strong's numbers sharing a synset in Hebrew WordNet (Ordan & Wintner, University of Haifa, 2007 — permissively licensed, "permission to use, copy, modify and distribute... for any purpose and without fee or royalty"), bare-consonant-matched from HWN's modern-Hebrew lemmas to biblical Strong's numbers via lexeme-spine.db. HWN is modern Hebrew, not biblical — matches reflect vocabulary that survives into (or from) contemporary usage; biblical-only senses may not be covered.

column	meaning
strong_a / strong_b	Hebrew Strong's numbers sharing an HWN synset
hwn_synset_id	the Hebrew WordNet synset identifier

tomim_parallelism — expert-verified poetic-parallelism pairs (T'OMIM-confirmed tier only)

Words that five named Hebrew-poetry scholars (Berlin 2008, Fokkelman 2001, Kugel 1981, Watson 1994, Tsumura 2023), via the T'OMIM corpus (Smiley 2026, CC BY 4.0, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19135731), verified occupy matching slots across parallel half-verses in Biblical Hebrew poetry — a real, human-vetted structural correspondence. 1,676 pairs. This is the confirmed tier only — a separate, unpublished "detected" tier (our own BHSA-based extraction, not expert-verified) exists internally and is deliberately excluded here.

column	meaning
strong_a / strong_b	Hebrew Strong's numbers in matching parallel slots
relation	likely_synonym / likely_antonym / unclassified — our own downstream classification of the verified pairing; unclassified means the structural correspondence IS verified, only the synonym-vs-antonym call is unresolved
sample_ref	one verse reference where this pairing occurs

lxx_bridge — OT Hebrew → NT Greek correspondence via the Septuagint

Which Greek Strong's number the Septuagint (LXX) translators actually rendered each Hebrew Strong's number as, with attestation counts — a real historical translation record, not a similarity judgment. Computed from MACULA's own Hebrew/Greek Strong's tagging (CC BY 4.0) aligned against the ancient (Public Domain) LXX text. 3,301 rows, 1,862 distinct Hebrew Strong's, 1,571 distinct Greek Strong's, noise-filtered to count >= 3. Hebrew and Greek Strong's don't cross-link in raw MACULA at all — this is the only place that correspondence exists in structured form.

column	meaning
hebrew_strong / greek_strong	the Hebrew word and the Greek word the LXX rendered it as
count	how many times this specific Hebrew→Greek rendering is attested across the LXX

License

bdb_roots: CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures digitization of Public Domain BDB). hwn_synsets: permissive (Ordan & Wintner, U. Haifa — see above). tomim_parallelism: CC BY 4.0 (T'OMIM). lxx_bridge: CC BY 4.0 (MACULA Hebrew/Greek tagging; underlying LXX text itself is Public Domain). None of these four derive from or reproduce UBS MARBLE / Louw-Nida / SDBH.

Provenance

Built by shoresh/macula/build_bdb_roots.py, build_hwn_benchmark.py, build_parallelism_pairs.py, and build_prior_pack.py (the lxx_bridge source) in bcv-commons/bcv-query. See also bcv-commons/semantic-neighbors for the separate, actually-verified synonym-pairs dataset these sources feed into as internal signals (alongside others) — that dataset makes synonymy claims; this one does not.