Additions to the concordance

I have added id properties to the links in the Glossary page of the concordance. All the links now work with bookmarks, and will link to them wherever possible. 

I have also added the preceding root for each distinct line in the concordance pages under the heading 'Lag'. You can now search for a root and discover all the roots that precede it. This will give insight into word usage and also help identify unknown passages. If you know two roots in succession, you can limit the scope of your scan for a matching verse and it's all on the one page, so easy to search and study.

For instance, someone mentioned to me that there was a song that began midverse. He said that the English is something like "...Israel sang this song..." ending on the atnah. So the song actually might begin midverse on or after the midverse cadence. The root wir pronounced shir (song, sing, sang, sung, singer, etc) likely occurs twice in a row in this mystery verse. So one could search the concordance for wir: 

You could look for song in the Glossary and will find wir with a link. Here's how the link is structured: 

https://qonqordnxih-ltnk.blogspot.com/2021/01/wi.html#wir

Every post was posted 2021/01. I will not be changing this. It was deliberate and was odd for blogger to support this type of tool. 

The roots are all contained in the post the name of which is equal to the first two characters of the root in this case 'wi.html' (For tet, substitute an /f/ in the URL and id). The id is always the full root following the #.

How simple is this! You will find wir several times in the lag column.

The verses fall into three distinct groups: Those for Exodus 15:1 and Isaiah 26:1 look like good candidates for the answer to the question. Song 1:1 which you know is the first two words of the Song of songs, shows up too, but look further down the list where there is no entry in the lag column. This means that wir is the first word of a verse - so nothing precedes it. (Of course we know that anyway since the (1) in the reference column is the position of the word in the verse.) The third set of verses contain the construction male and female singers.

Here are all the entries - all available to you for any root-pair search you can imagine. I have truncated the full list below for illustrative purposes.

We are in the long list for wir (song), Note the column just before the reference. That shows us the root that occurs in the verse just prior to the root we are looking at (wir). So in these verses the word for song occurs twice in succession - as in the song of songs, or they sang this song, or note how frequently the paired male singers and female singers occurs.

		Word	Count	Pointed Text	Gloss	Lag	Ref
		bwirim	1	בַּ֝שִּׁרִ֗ים	sung	wir	Pro 25:20(9)
		hwir	5		.........
				הַשִּׁיר	song	wir	Isa 26:1(4)
					.........
		hwirim	1	הַשִּׁירִ֖ים	songs	wir	Song 1:1(2)
					.........
		vhwrot	1	וְ֠הַשָּׁרוֹת	and the female singers	wir	2Ch 35:25(8)
					.........
		umworrot	2	וּֽמְשֹׁרְר֖וֹת	and female singers	wir	Ezr 2:65(13)
				וּמְשֹׁ֣רֲר֔וֹת	and female singers	wir	Neh 7:67(13)
					.........
		vwir	1	וְשִׁיר	and the songs of	wir	Neh 12:46(8)
					.........
		vwrot	2	וְשָׁר֑וֹת	and singers female	wir	2Sa 19:36(24)
				וְשָׁר֗וֹת	and singers female	wir	Eccl 2:8(12)
					.........
		mworr	1	מְשׁוֹרֵ֔ר	singing	wir	2Ch 29:28(5)
		wir	52		.........
				שִׁ֥יר	the song of		Song 1:1(1)

Only two of these are likely candidates for a song that begins midverse. 

There are others of course that this guess won't find. One of these is in Isaiah 6. The Sanctus begins midverse, but not on the midverse rest, rather on a Munach. And the word for song is not used.

The Sanctus - qdw, qdw, qdw. Note how the revia is the pause before the song.

You can find my rather elaborate setting of this song on my YouTube channel as part of my Missa Brevis. The melodies and motifs in the setting are derived from the te’amim according to the deciphering key of Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura. 

So in this concordance sequenced by root, you can now search by gloss, by semantic domain, by root, by Hebrew word, and within root, by preceding root. 

Searching for a musical phrase, a sequence of te'amim, is also possible and the results of such searching are available in the ebook, The Progression of the Music. I cannot make the musical search easy at the moment. I would like to integrate multiple html doc types into a single document with links and tooltips and the shape of the music in xml, but this is a technical step too far at the moment. The Oracle database needs connecting directly to the internet and corresponding web-pages. All very possible since I have it on my desktop, but difficult to do for free.