Technical Notes on Grids in html and CSS

It seems that there are some limitations in grids that I missed. I am still not sure how to code around them.

The padding for the top level grid in the Concordance page seems to fail for Chrome and Iphone, but has no problem in the WS3 test area. There is occasional horizontal truncation of the letters within a grid break. Fortunately this is not a show stopper since it is relatively easy to hover and click the truncated link to see what you've missed.

The columns of a grid appear to have a maximum length. I ran into it in the Person subdomain of the Names domain. All the entries past the maximum were overprinted on the Chrome page. I had to update it manually since I produce the grid from a single SQL statement and it is inconvenient at the moment to encode this into a function, but I may if I have to process updates many times. It is curious that I have only 3 words in my domain of named signs! There must be more words related to signs hidden somewhere, probably under Covenant.

I have seven high-level domains:  Grammar 24.82 of all words%, Culture 20.28%, Creation 15.61%, Names 12.57%, Engagement 11.19%, Promise 10.13%, Trouble 5.39%. I have deliberately kept the subdomain names unique, so the domains are a simple set of handles without any functional requirement.

Grids in general seem to process faster than tables, but I could not avoid the blank line at the beginning of a multi-column nested set of grids. Maybe it's less complicated than I think and I could simplify my thought processes. It turns out that I can put a table into a multi column grid - much simpler for this post at least. And also for the glossary page itself. After some false starts, yes.

These are the subdomain name and count of distinct lemma forms (reduced glosses) by domain and subdomain (as measured 2020.12.26) ordered by count descending. It is easy to see that the Person category count is almost twice as high as as the preposition gloss count and location count. I might have solved this problem by subdividing the subdomain. At the beginning I was considering subdividing the Person Names by role, Father, Mother, Son, Daughter etc but I soon gave that up because it is multi-valued and I didn't want to have another table. I realized how quickly this project could be derailed if I failed to focus on the language in the text itself.

Names-Person	1688
Grammar-Prep	876
Names-Location	856
Culture-Measure	424
Grammar-Pronoun-Sa	397
Culture-Work	326
Culture-Covenant	274
Creation-Bodypart	263
Grammar-Modifier	261
Names-People	247
Promise-Protect	236
Creation-Time	221
Engagement-Walk	209
Culture-Eat	192
Trouble-Destroy	187
Culture-Rule	187
Promise-Joy	181
Grammar-Conj	177
Culture-Character	173
Promise-Flourish	172
Culture-City	171
Grammar-Particle	167
Trouble-Vexation	166
Creation-Animal	154
Creation-Planting	153
Creation-Water	144
Grammar-Exists	140
Trouble-Violence	133
Promise-Teaching	128
Culture-Defense	124
Grammar-Negative	124
Culture-Clothe	123
Engagement-Stand	118
Creation-Number	118
Trouble-Sin	114
Engagement-Appeal	113
Culture-Family	113
Promise-Judgment	109
Engagement-Speak	108
Promise-Harvest	101
Promise-Holy	99
Creation-Light	99
Engagement-Send	97
Trouble-Bound	94
Grammar-Question	91
Promise-Whole	88
Creation-Wild	86
Engagement-Look	83
Culture-Tool	79
Creation-Birth	77
Engagement-Meet	75
Culture-Office	75
Promise-Trust	73
Engagement-Approach	73
Culture-Plan	73
Engagement-Hurry	69
Promise-Strength	69
Culture-Economy	68
Promise-Rest	66
Creation-Wings	65
Creation-Human	63
Promise-Offer	63
Creation-Fire	60
Culture-Place	59
Culture-Music	58
Trouble-Grief	58
Promise-Praise	56
Engagement-Seek	55
Trouble-Fear	55
Trouble-Injury	53
Trouble-Wrath	52
Creation-Life	50
Creation-Distant	50
Trouble-Death	49
Promise-Pardon	49
Trouble-Hide	49
Culture-Quiet	49
Promise-Love	46
Promise-Cut	43
Trouble-Illness	43
Engagement-Receive	41
Culture-Container	41
Creation-Mineral	40
Names-God	39
Culture-Poor	35
Trouble-Rebel	33
Trouble-Enemy	33
Engagement-Way	32
Creation-Heaven	30
Trouble-Hate	30
Trouble-Trap	29
Culture-Group	29
Trouble-Empty	29
Trouble-Exile	29
Creation-Valley	27
Trouble-Decay	25
Trouble-Shame	22
Creation-Form	22
Names-River	16
Names-Month	11
Names-Mountain	9
Trouble-Foolish	9
Names-Feast	4
Engagement-Chance	4
Names-Sign	3
Names-Star	3
Names-Stick	2

Status

My Twitter and Facebook friends are missing out on the day to day drama of this reading project. So here's a summary.

As of July 1, we will have passed the transient milestone, 811 done 118 to go. A similar palindrome occurs every 99 chapters in a sequential romp through 929 chapters.

I do not know how many errors there are in what I have done, but I know this. I have made changes to over 792 chapters so far this month when considered a word at a time. These may be a change in gloss or a change in stem, usually simplifying the resulting glossary, or a change in the semantic domain to which I have assigned this word.  A semantic domain is a bit like a chart of accounts in the sense that it characterizes a word. Some words are content and some are container.

Container:
Grammar is the container of a language. In this case grammatical words constitute over 25% of the puzzle pieces. That is just over 75,800 words in the Hebrew canon. Names constitute another 12% about 36,800 words. I don't fully know the answer until I finish. But it's probably close given that we are about 85% complete.

Content:
Besides these two, Grammar and Names, I have divided the rest into (totally subjective) broad categories: Promise, Trouble, Creation, Culture, and Engagement, 5 broad categories for the content of the Bible.

It is not time for a complete report on my findings. I am still pondering how I will do that. I have experimented with the glossary lists at my other blog. It is incomplete and incoherent at present. My problem is reducing a dynamic interactive coherent environment that I work in using a database to a series of flat files with hyperlinks. And make it interesting!

Subdivisions:
These categories are subdivided - so Grammar includes:

• Particles (13K), 
• Prepositions (25K), 
• Pronouns - stand-alone (14K) excluding the enclitic (since the enclitic is part of another word - and these counts are for words - the smallest division of the puzzle that one can pick up at one time. I have kept the prepositional enclitics, ך ב ל as stems to allow for the times when all components of the word are the sticky bits and there is effectively no stem.)
• Questions (1,675 - excluding enclitic ה),
• Exists (977 - excluding enclitic שׁ),
• Modifiers (5,951), and
• Negatives (6,352).

Names I have subdivided into Persons (15K), People (1,718), Mountains (32), Months (26), Locations (8,777), God (10K), Feasts (70), Sticks (4), and Rivers (309). And I thought I was keeping it simple! (I was going to do male, female, monarchs, prophets, etc but I abandoned such detail quickly as requiring too much maintenance and yielding too little benefit.)

The broad benefit is to isolate anomalous glosses that seem out of place, to raise questions of derivation, related senses, and so on.

The five content categories are discretely divided - all without named overlap. A given stem can fall into several categories but only one at a time. I will spare you the details but their subdivisions are between 15 and 22 each. This gives me a division of the puzzle into 111 classes of word (at present), each class on its own quite amenable to analysis. For a puzzle with over 300,000 pieces, any one of which can have multiple possible sides to it, this extra imposition on the whole gives me a lever to find anomalous readings from my work over the past 5 years.

Another analogue (besides puzzle) for the effort is the marathon. Something has moved me to stick with this until it is done, whatever that means. It may be my own character or it may be the character of my upbringing both distant and near in time, or it may be the character of the information in the text that has been loved, hated, used and abused over the centuries, by church and state alike (as we have recently seen). My running of this marathon is in its last laps and I appear to have had a kick available to me the past 6 months.

Chapters of the Bible posted 4 Q 2014 to 2 Q 2018

You can see the kick in this graph, but - I do note that there are obstacles in these final laps. At times one has to go back and repeat a lap. Sometimes I look at a guess the computer offers to me, and I say, Good grief. Where did I get that from? I have several tools that allow me to see individual words and words in their context so I can find the spot and check my rationale and do some corrections if needed.

Anyone who wants can help. Put suggestions for individual words and phrases in a comment if you like.

Leviticus 23

I think I have settled the classes of sacrifices (for now). They are almost all mentioned in this chapter. (The word for endowments,  מתן, is a bit of a surprise. As 'gift', I have seen it only as a bribe. I would have expected מנחה here. מתן is also glossed as waist or loins.)

אשׁ an offering by fire, or more commonly 87% of the time, it's just fire.
זבח is the regular word for altar, offer, and sacrifice.
כליל a whole offering .
כפר a cover-offering, or cover-price, or cover. Possible puns include crock, lion cub, frost, and henna. It is also the root for mercy seat. Atonement is the traditional English rendering in the context of offering.
מנחה a gift.
נדב a freewill offering. The same letters are the root for prince, and the word may be simply willing.
נוף a wave offering, also brandish, elevate, sprinkle, wave.
נסך a libation offering, also molten metal, molten image, spill out.
עלה a burnt offering, also ascend, bring, come or go, each with the idea of coming up, bringing up, going up, also leaf and trim, as in trimming lamps.
קרב an oblation, also simply approach, bring near, come near, draw near, close combat, near, nearby, within.

oops, forgot the peace offerings (שׁלם), and the sin offerings (חטא) ... In both these cases the gloss offering is added to the regular gloss (sin / peace) based on the context. [also must deal with the offering I have simply called a contribution, from רום]

Words indicating different classes of offerings.

This list is now 'together' in my set of domains. [It is short enough that I could probably include other ritual actions like the actions of daubing (נתן) and dashing (זרק) of blood and incense (ק+ר).] It is also incomplete. Undoubtedly some words not yet translated are attached to the wrong stem and therefore also to the wrong domains, but they will turn up eventually.

I spent some time on this in the past few days. It is an idea for additional control over concordance and over getting a handle on language, particularly the words in the canon. These words within my subdomain of OFFER occur with the frequency shown in the doughnut graph. I could spend a whole lifetime on this study, obviously. I haven't put much functionality into the domain-subdomain concept yet since my glossary is still emerging and will be in flux for some time to come. I will do a number of posts if I can on my methods and software. I am sure other people have comparable tools. I keep asking the question, Does language really work this way? Can I subject it to such mechanics?

There are many other things summarized in this chapter: feasts, Sabbaths, conclaves, convocations, appointed times and so on. 

Sorry for the arcane morrow but I had to distinguish this usage of אהר from בקר morning. And there aren't many synonyms for morning in English.

Leviticus 23		Fn		Min	Max	Syll
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר	1		And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,	3e	3g	10
דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם מוֹעֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־תִּקְרְא֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם מִקְרָאֵ֣י קֹ֑דֶשׁ אֵ֥לֶּה הֵ֖ם מוֹעֲדָֽי	2		Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, The appointed times of Yahweh, you will proclaim them holy convocations. These are my appointed times.	3e	4C	32 6
שֵׁ֣שֶׁת יָמִים֮ תֵּעָשֶׂ֣ה מְלָאכָה֒ וּבַיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י שַׁבַּ֤ת שַׁבָּתוֹן֙ מִקְרָא־קֹ֔דֶשׁ כָּל־מְלָאכָ֖ה לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֑וּ שַׁבָּ֥ת הִוא֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה בְּכֹ֖ל מֽוֹשְׁבֹתֵיכֶֽם	3	B	Six days you will do trade, and on the seventh day is the Sabbath of Sabbaths, a holy convocation. Any line of work, you will not do. The Sabbath it is, of Yahweh, in all your settlements.	3e	4C	33 11
אֵ֚לֶּה מוֹעֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה מִקְרָאֵ֖י קֹ֑דֶשׁ אֲשֶׁר־תִּקְרְא֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם בְּמוֹעֲדָֽם	4	C	These are the appointed times of Yahweh, convocations of holiness. You will proclaim them in their appointed times.	3e	4C	12 11
בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן בְּאַרְבָּעָ֥ה עָשָׂ֛ר לַחֹ֖דֶשׁ בֵּ֣ין הָעַרְבָּ֑יִם פֶּ֖סַח לַיהוָֽה	5		In the first new moon on the fourteenth of the month between the evenings, the Passover of Yahweh.	3d	4B	20 4
וּבַחֲמִשָּׁ֨ה עָשָׂ֥ר יוֹם֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֔ה חַ֥ג הַמַּצּ֖וֹת לַיהוָ֑ה שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִ֖ים מַצּ֥וֹת תֹּאכֵֽלוּ	6		And on the fifteenth day of this month, the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days unleavened bread you will eat.	3e	4B	19 9
בַּיּוֹם֙ הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן מִקְרָא־קֹ֖דֶשׁ יִהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֑ם כָּל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֥א תַעֲשֽׂוּ	7		On the first day, a holy convocation it will be for you. All the lines of work for service you will not do.	3e	4B	13 11
וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֥ם אִשֶּׁ֛ה לַיהוָ֖ה שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים בַּיּ֤וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי֙ מִקְרָא־קֹ֔דֶשׁ כָּל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֥א תַעֲשֽׂוּ	8		And you will bring near an offering by fire to Yahweh seven days. On the seventh day, a holy convocation. All the lines of work for service you will not do.	3d	4C	12 20
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר	9		And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,	3e	3g	10
דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם כִּֽי־תָבֹ֣אוּ אֶל־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲנִי֙ נֹתֵ֣ן לָכֶ֔ם וּקְצַרְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־קְצִירָ֑הּ וַהֲבֵאתֶ֥ם אֶת־עֹ֛מֶר רֵאשִׁ֥ית קְצִירְכֶ֖ם אֶל־הַכֹּהֵֽן	10		Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come to the land that I am giving to you, and you reap her harvest, then you will bring a bale of the first of your harvest to the priest.	3d	4C	36 16
וְהֵנִ֧יף אֶת־הָעֹ֛מֶר לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה לִֽרְצֹנְכֶ֑ם מִֽמָּחֳרַת֙ הַשַּׁבָּ֔ת יְנִיפֶ֖נּוּ הַכֹּהֵֽן	11		And he will elevate the bale in the presence of Yahweh to be accepted for you. The morrow after the Sabbath the priest will elevate it.	3c	4A	14 14
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֕ם בְּי֥וֹם הֲנִֽיפְכֶ֖ם אֶת־הָעֹ֑מֶר כֶּ֣בֶשׂ תָּמִ֧ים בֶּן־שְׁנָת֛וֹ לְעֹלָ֖ה לַיהוָֽה	12		And you will do, on the day that you elevate the bale, a young yearling he-lamb, complete, for a burnt offering to Yahweh.	3c	4B	13 13
וּמִנְחָתוֹ֩ שְׁנֵ֨י עֶשְׂרֹנִ֜ים סֹ֣לֶת בְּלוּלָ֥ה בַשֶּׁ֛מֶן אִשֶּׁ֥ה לַיהוָ֖ה רֵ֣יחַ נִיחֹ֑חַ וְנִסְכֹּ֥ה יַ֖יִן רְבִיעִ֥ת הַהִֽין	13		And its gift will be two tenths of fine flour, mingled with oil, an offering by fire to Yahweh, a restful fragrance, and a libation of wine, the fourth of a hin.	3d	4B	26 9
וְלֶחֶם֩ וְקָלִ֨י וְכַרְמֶ֜ל לֹ֣א תֹֽאכְל֗וּ עַד־עֶ֙צֶם֙ הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֔ה עַ֚ד הֲבִ֣יאֲכֶ֔ם אֶת־קָרְבַּ֖ן אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם חֻקַּ֤ת עוֹלָם֙ לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם בְּכֹ֖ל מֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶֽם	14		Neither bread nor parched grain nor from the plantation will you eat until this selfsame day, until you have brought the oblation of your God, a statute forever for your generations, in all your settlements.	3e	4C	31 15
וּסְפַרְתֶּ֤ם לָכֶם֙ מִמָּחֳרַ֣ת הַשַּׁבָּ֔ת מִיּוֹם֙ הֲבִ֣יאֲכֶ֔ם אֶת־עֹ֖מֶר הַתְּנוּפָ֑ה שֶׁ֥בַע שַׁבָּת֖וֹת תְּמִימֹ֥ת תִּהְיֶֽינָה	15		And you will count for yourselves from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day you brought the bale of the wave offering, seven Sabbaths to be complete,	3e	4C	24 11
עַ֣ד מִֽמָּחֳרַ֤ת הַשַּׁבָּת֙ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔ת תִּסְפְּר֖וּ חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים י֑וֹם וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֛ם מִנְחָ֥ה חֲדָשָׁ֖ה לַיהוָֽה	16	B	Until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath, you will count fifty a day span, and you will bring near a new gift to Yahweh.	3d	4C	18 11
מִמּוֹשְׁבֹ֨תֵיכֶ֜ם תָּבִ֣יאּוּ ׀ לֶ֣חֶם תְּנוּפָ֗ה שְׁ֚תַּיִם שְׁנֵ֣י עֶשְׂרֹנִ֔ים סֹ֣לֶת תִּהְיֶ֔ינָה חָמֵ֖ץ תֵּאָפֶ֑ינָה בִּכּוּרִ֖ים לַֽיהוָֽה	17		From your settlements, you will bring a wave offering of two loaves of bread. Two tenths of fine flour they will be. They will be baked with leaven, first ripe fruit to Yahweh.	3e	4C	31 5
וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֣ם עַל־הַלֶּ֗חֶם שִׁבְעַ֨ת כְּבָשִׂ֤ים תְּמִימִם֙ בְּנֵ֣י שָׁנָ֔ה וּפַ֧ר בֶּן־בָּקָ֛ר אֶחָ֖ד וְאֵילִ֣ם שְׁנָ֑יִם יִהְי֤וּ עֹלָה֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה וּמִנְחָתָם֙ וְנִסְכֵּיהֶ֔ם אִשֵּׁ֥ה רֵֽיחַ־נִיחֹ֖חַ לַיהוָֽה	18		And you will bring near with the bread, seven young yearling he-lambs complete, and one young bull of the herd, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to Yahweh and their gifts and their libations, an offering by fire, a restful fragrance for Yahweh.	3c	4C	33 22
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֛ם שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד לְחַטָּ֑את וּשְׁנֵ֧י כְבָשִׂ֛ים בְּנֵ֥י שָׁנָ֖ה לְזֶ֥בַח שְׁלָמִֽים	19		And you will do one kid of the she-goats for a sin offering, and two young yearling he-lambs, to offer peace offerings.	3c	4A	13 15
וְהֵנִ֣יף הַכֹּהֵ֣ן ׀ אֹתָ֡ם עַל֩ לֶ֨חֶם הַבִּכּוּרִ֤ים תְּנוּפָה֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה עַל־שְׁנֵ֖י כְּבָשִׂ֑ים קֹ֛דֶשׁ יִהְי֥וּ לַיהוָ֖ה לַכֹּהֵֽן	20		And the priest will elevate them with the bread of the first ripe fruit, a wave offering in the presence of Yahweh, with two young lambs. Holy they will be to Yahweh for the priests.	3d	4C	28 9
וּקְרָאתֶ֞ם בְּעֶ֣צֶם ׀ הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֗ה מִֽקְרָא־קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֔ם כָּל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֑וּ חֻקַּ֥ת עוֹלָ֛ם בְּכָל־מוֹשְׁבֹ֥תֵיכֶ֖ם לְדֹרֹֽתֵיכֶֽם	21		And you will proclaim this selfsame day, a holy convocation it will be for you. All the lines of work for service you will not do, a statute forever in all your settlements, for your generations.	3d	4B	29 15
וּֽבְקֻצְרְכֶ֞ם אֶת־קְצִ֣יר אַרְצְכֶ֗ם לֹֽא־תְכַלֶּ֞ה פְּאַ֤ת שָֽׂדְךָ֙ בְּקֻצְרֶ֔ךָ וְלֶ֥קֶט קְצִירְךָ֖ לֹ֣א תְלַקֵּ֑ט לֶֽעָנִ֤י וְלַגֵּר֙ תַּעֲזֹ֣ב אֹתָ֔ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם	22		And when you reap the harvest of your land, you will not finish the quarter of a field when you reap, and the gleaning of your harvest, you will not glean. You will forsake them for the poor and for the guest. I am Yahweh your God.	3e	4C	32 19
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר	23		And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,	3e	3g	10
דַּבֵּ֛ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר בַּחֹ֨דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֜י בְּאֶחָ֣ד לַחֹ֗דֶשׁ יִהְיֶ֤ה לָכֶם֙ שַׁבָּת֔וֹן זִכְר֥וֹן תְּרוּעָ֖ה מִקְרָא־קֹֽדֶשׁ	24		Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month on the first of the month, there will be for you a Sabbath, a memorial, a blast of triumph, a holy convocation.	3d	4C	10 28
כָּל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֑וּ וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֥ם אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַיהוָֽה	25		All the lines of work for service you will not do, and you will bring near an offering by fire to Yahweh.	3e	4B	11 8
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר	26		And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,	3e	3g	10
אַ֡ךְ בֶּעָשׂ֣וֹר לַחֹדֶשׁ֩ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֨י הַזֶּ֜ה י֧וֹם הַכִּפֻּרִ֣ים ה֗וּא מִֽקְרָא־קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֔ם וְעִנִּיתֶ֖ם אֶת־נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑ם וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֥ם אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַיהוָֽה	27	~	But on the tenth of this seventh month, a day of the cover-offerings it is, a holy convocation it will be for you, and you will afflict yourselves, and you will bring near an offering by fire to Yahweh.	3c	4B	35 8
וְכָל־מְלָאכָה֙ לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֔וּ בְּעֶ֖צֶם הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּ֣י י֤וֹם כִּפֻּרִים֙ ה֔וּא לְכַפֵּ֣ר עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם לִפְנֵ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם	28		And any line of work you will not do this selfsame day, for a day of cover-offerings it is, to make the cover-price for you before Yahweh your God.	3e	4C	16 20
כִּ֤י כָל־הַנֶּ֙פֶשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־תְעֻנֶּ֔ה בְּעֶ֖צֶם הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וְנִכְרְתָ֖ה מֵֽעַמֶּֽיהָ	29	C	For anyone that is not afflicted in this selfsame day, will be cut off from its people.	3e	4C	18 8
וְכָל־הַנֶּ֗פֶשׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר תַּעֲשֶׂה֙ כָּל־מְלָאכָ֔ה בְּעֶ֖צֶם הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וְהַֽאֲבַדְתִּ֛י אֶת־הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ הַהִ֖וא מִקֶּ֥רֶב עַמָּֽהּ	30		And any of the group that will do any trade this selfsame day, I will eliminate this group from within its people.	3d	4C	21 16
כָּל־מְלָאכָ֖ה לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֑וּ חֻקַּ֤ת עוֹלָם֙ לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם בְּכֹ֖ל מֹֽשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶֽם	31		Any line of work, you will not do. A statute forever for your generations, in all your settlements.	3e	4C	8 15
שַׁבַּ֨ת שַׁבָּת֥וֹן הוּא֙ לָכֶ֔ם וְעִנִּיתֶ֖ם אֶת־נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑ם בְּתִשְׁעָ֤ה לַחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ בָּעֶ֔רֶב מֵעֶ֣רֶב עַד־עֶ֔רֶב תִּשְׁבְּת֖וּ שַׁבַּתְּכֶֽם	32		The Sabbath of Sabbaths it is for you, and you will afflict yourselves. On the ninth of the month, in the evening, from evening till evening, you will cease on your Sabbath.	3e	4C	17 21
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר	33		And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,	3e	3g	10
דַּבֵּ֛ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֨ה עָשָׂ֜ר י֗וֹם לַחֹ֤דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי֙ הַזֶּ֔ה חַ֧ג הַסֻּכּ֛וֹת שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִ֖ים לַיהֹוָֽה	34		Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, the feast of tabernacles, seven days to Yahweh.	3c	4C	10 26
בַּיּ֥וֹם הָרִאשׁ֖וֹן מִקְרָא־קֹ֑דֶשׁ כָּל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֥א תַעֲשֽׂוּ	35		On the first day, a holy convocation. All the lines of work for service, you will not do.	3e	4A	9 11
שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים תַּקְרִ֥יבוּ אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַיהוָ֑ה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁמִינִ֡י מִקְרָא־קֹדֶשׁ֩ יִהְיֶ֨ה לָכֶ֜ם וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֨ם אִשֶּׁ֤ה לַֽיהוָה֙ עֲצֶ֣רֶת הִ֔וא כָּל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֥א תַעֲשֽׂוּ	36		Seven days you will bring near an offering by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day, a holy convocation it will be for you, and you will bring near an offering by fire to Yahweh. It is a conclave. All the lines of work for service you will not do.	3e	4C	11 36
אֵ֚לֶּה מוֹעֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־תִּקְרְא֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם מִקְרָאֵ֣י קֹ֑דֶשׁ לְהַקְרִ֨יב אִשֶּׁ֜ה לַיהוָ֗ה עֹלָ֧ה וּמִנְחָ֛ה זֶ֥בַח וּנְסָכִ֖ים דְּבַר־י֥וֹם בְּיוֹמֽוֹ	37	C	These are the appointed times of Yahweh which you will proclaim, holy convocations, to bring near an offering by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a gift offering, and a libation, as designated day by day.	3c	4C	19 23
מִלְּבַ֖ד שַׁבְּתֹ֣ת יְּהוָ֑ה וּמִלְּבַ֣ד מַתְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם וּמִלְּבַ֤ד כָּל־נִדְרֵיכֶם֙ וּמִלְּבַד֙ כָּל־נִדְב֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר תִּתְּנ֖וּ לַיהוָֽה	38		Besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your endowments, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, that you give to Yahweh,	3e	4C	6 28
אַ֡ךְ בַּחֲמִשָּׁה֩ עָשָׂ֨ר י֜וֹם לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י בְּאָסְפְּכֶם֙ אֶת־תְּבוּאַ֣ת הָאָ֔רֶץ תָּחֹ֥גּוּ אֶת־חַג־יְהוָ֖ה שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים בַּיּ֤וֹם הָֽרִאשׁוֹן֙ שַׁבָּת֔וֹן וּבַיּ֥וֹם הַשְּׁמִינִ֖י שַׁבָּתֽוֹן	39	~	Surely on the fifteenth day of the seventh month when you have gathered the income of the land, you will keep the feast, the feast of Yahweh, seven days, on the first day, a Sabbath and on the eighth day, a Sabbath.	3e	4C	36 17
וּלְקַחְתֶּ֨ם לָכֶ֜ם בַּיּ֣וֹם הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן פְּרִ֨י עֵ֤ץ הָדָר֙ כַּפֹּ֣ת תְּמָרִ֔ים וַעֲנַ֥ף עֵץ־עָבֹ֖ת וְעַרְבֵי־נָ֑חַל וּשְׂמַחְתֶּ֗ם לִפְנֵ֛י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִֽים	40		And you will take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of a tree of honour, palm branches of palm trees, and bough of a thick tree, willows of the wadi, and you will be glad before Yahweh your God seven days.	3d	4C	30 15
וְחַגֹּתֶ֤ם אֹתוֹ֙ חַ֣ג לַֽיהוָ֔ה שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִ֖ים בַּשָּׁנָ֑ה חֻקַּ֤ת עוֹלָם֙ לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י תָּחֹ֥גּוּ אֹתֽוֹ	41		And you will make it a festival, the feast to Yahweh, seven days in the year, a statute forever for your generations. In the seventh month, you will make it a festival.	3e	4C	16 20
בַּסֻּכֹּ֥ת תֵּשְׁב֖וּ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים כָּל־הָֽאֶזְרָח֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יֵשְׁב֖וּ בַּסֻּכֹּֽת	42		In booths you will settle seven days. All who are native in Israel will settle in booths.	3e	4B	9 13
לְמַעַן֮ יֵדְע֣וּ דֹרֹֽתֵיכֶם֒ כִּ֣י בַסֻּכּ֗וֹת הוֹשַׁ֙בְתִּי֙ אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּהוֹצִיאִ֥י אוֹתָ֖ם מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם	43		So that your generations will know that in booths I made the children of Israel to settle when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.	3e	4B	34 8
וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֶת־מֹעֲדֵ֖י יְהוָ֑ה אֶל־בְּנֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל	44		So Moses spoke about the appointed times of Yahweh, to the children of Israel.	3e	4B	11 6

Isaiah 9

As previously noted, the famous passages are different when a concordant set of glosses is used. The question remains of course whether the concordance is sufficient to the task. At times it is not. Here however, as in many KJV and other translations, the Christian influence is too pronounced and Christians cannot read the text without understanding how Jesus himself would have read it, but rather reading Jesus into it where he does not belong and failing to see how he does belong. In a word, it is with his ear and in his deed that we are to live, not in our own heads, making things up about him. This is no easy task. I am more comfortable at my computer playing at words than confronting a righteous taxi driver who takes up 5 parking slots while he lets off one handicapped person.

Each to its kin will show no pity! (v 18 below)

In verse 2 (verse numbers differ by 1 from English versions) I have used what is written rather than what is read (which sounds the same anyway - lo vs lo). What is written (לו=its) makes sense. What is read (לא=not) is confusing. Not that this text should not be confusing. Sometimes it is.

Here frequently, there is a singular pronoun (he or it) referring back to the people. In English I have let it stand sometimes as plural indicating the many, and sometimes as singular indicating a corporate view of the people. For we are not isolated individuals though we are legion. If you can read this, there are millions of others who have helped you from rocket scientists and satellite technicians to internet inventors and programmers - all those people 'behind the screen' that manipulate the photons that reach your eye. We don't need cathode ray tubes to hold them any more, but just look behind your flat screen. They are still there.

There are a number of hapaxes in this chapter. Each one is always a challenge especially if I find them in a semantic domain that is already full of similar words. Combust is an example below. (Shows as a spelling error! But I am only going to use it once of course.)

REB is quite good in this passage. Except for the gloss threatens in the refrain where I have stretched out. Why should the translator impose the 'meaning' when the context does not demand that conclusion? Surely it is as (more) likely that the hand is stretched out to be grasped as the means to life.

Verse 5(6) b,c REB
he will bear the symbol of dominion on his shoulder
and his title will be Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty Hero, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

משרה (dominion) is only used here in this verse and the next - derived from another rarely used word but perhaps related to Israel, ישר אל. I could use this word ...

When it comes to rulers, nobility, chiefs, princes, sultans etc, I have untangled some of the overlapping strands of tradition but at some expense to my sanity. One day I will figure out the best way to display my selections.

Here's a limited selection from my domain of Culture-Rule (it really needs culling and further separation - such a big task).
אדון lord, master,
אחשׁדרפנים satraps
אלף captain, (also) drove, educating, thousand,
אשׁף astrologists
בעל baal, husband, lordly, married, owned, owner,
חר freeborn
חרטם magicians
חשׁם ambassadors
טפסר marshals
לחשׁ conjurer
מלך king, queen, royalty, sovereign
משׁל governor
נדב prince, (also) freewill offering,
נשׂא principal
סגן prefect
סריס eunuch
סרן chieftain
עטר crown
פחה viceroy
פרתם patrician
קצה dictator
רב overlord
רדה ruler
רזן rule-makers
שׁבט sceptre (also) band, overlaps with another domain
שׁטר overseer
שׁלושׁ adjutant
שׁלט authority
שׁרביט mace
שׂר chief, nobility, sultan
שׂרה perseverance
שׂרר influence

Talk about walking in darkness!

Isaiah 9		Fn		Min	Max	Syll
הָעָם֙ הַהֹלְכִ֣ים בַּחֹ֔שֶׁךְ רָא֖וּ א֣וֹר גָּד֑וֹל יֹשְׁבֵי֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ צַלְמָ֔וֶת א֖וֹר נָגַ֥הּ עֲלֵיהֶֽם	1		The people who walk in the darkness have seen a great light. Those sitting in the land of the shadow of death, light has illuminated them.	3e	4B	13 14
הִרְבִּ֣יתָ הַגּ֔וֹי ל֖וֹ הִגְדַּ֣לְתָּ הַשִּׂמְחָ֑ה שָׂמְח֤וּ לְפָנֶ֙יךָ֙ כְּשִׂמְחַ֣ת בַּקָּצִ֔יר כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר יָגִ֖ילוּ בְּחַלְּקָ֥ם שָׁלָֽל	2		You have increased the nation. For it, you magnify gladness. They are glad in your presence as with the gladness of the harvest, as they rejoice from the division of spoil.	3e	4C	13 23
כִּ֣י ׀ אֶת־עֹ֣ל סֻבֳּל֗וֹ וְאֵת֙ מַטֵּ֣ה שִׁכְמ֔וֹ שֵׁ֖בֶט הַנֹּגֵ֣שׂ בּ֑וֹ הַחִתֹּ֖תָ כְּי֥וֹם מִדְיָֽן	3	B	Because the shackle of its burden, and the rod of its backside, the sceptre of the taskmaster in it, you have dismayed as on the day of Midian.	3e	4B	18 8
כִּ֤י כָל־סְאוֹן֙ סֹאֵ֣ן בְּרַ֔עַשׁ וְשִׂמְלָ֖ה מְגוֹלָלָ֣ה בְדָמִ֑ים וְהָיְתָ֥ה לִשְׂרֵפָ֖ה מַאֲכֹ֥לֶת אֵֽשׁ	4	C	For every boot booting in a quake, and shawl rolled in blood, will be for incineration, fuel for fire.	3e	4C	19 11
כִּי־יֶ֣לֶד יֻלַּד־לָ֗נוּ בֵּ֚ן נִתַּן־לָ֔נוּ וַתְּהִ֥י הַמִּשְׂרָ֖ה עַל־שִׁכְמ֑וֹ וַיִּקְרָ֨א שְׁמ֜וֹ פֶּ֠לֶא יוֹעֵץ֙ אֵ֣ל גִּבּ֔וֹר אֲבִיעַ֖ד שַׂר־שָׁלֽוֹם	5		For a newborn is born to us, a child is given to us, and perseverance will be on his backside, and his name will be called wonderful counselor, valiant God, my father for ever, sultan of peace.	3e	4C	19 18
לְמַרְבֵּ֨ה הַמִּשְׂרָ֜ה וּלְשָׁל֣וֹם אֵֽין־קֵ֗ץ עַל־כִּסֵּ֤א דָוִד֙ וְעַל־מַמְלַכְתּ֔וֹ לְהָכִ֤ין אֹתָהּ֙ וּֽלְסַעֲדָ֔הּ בְּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט וּבִצְדָקָ֑ה מֵעַתָּה֙ וְעַד־עוֹלָ֔ם קִנְאַ֛ת יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת תַּעֲשֶׂה־זֹּֽאת	6		Of the increase of the perseverance and for peace there is no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish her and to confirm her in judgment and in righteousness, from now and unto everlasting. The jealousy of Yahweh of hosts will do this.	3d	4C	37 18
דָּבָ֛ר שָׁלַ֥ח אֲדֹנָ֖י בְּיַעֲקֹ֑ב וְנָפַ֖ל בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל	7		My Lord sent a word against Jacob, and it will miscarry against Israel.	3d	4A	11 7
וְיָדְעוּ֙ הָעָ֣ם כֻּלּ֔וֹ אֶפְרַ֖יִם וְיוֹשֵׁ֣ב שֹׁמְר֑וֹן בְּגַאֲוָ֛ה וּבְגֹ֥דֶל לֵבָ֖ב לֵאמֹֽר	8		And the people will know, all of them, Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, in the pride and self-promotion of heart, saying,	3d	4B	14 11
לְבֵנִ֥ים נָפָ֖לוּ וְגָזִ֣ית נִבְנֶ֑ה שִׁקְמִ֣ים גֻּדָּ֔עוּ וַאֲרָזִ֖ים נַחֲלִֽיף	9		Bricks have fallen, so cut-stones we will build with. Sycamores are chopped, so cedar we will renew.	3e	4B	11 12
וַיְשַׂגֵּ֧ב יְהוָ֛ה אֶת־צָרֵ֥י רְצִ֖ין עָלָ֑יו וְאֶת־אֹיְבָ֖יו יְסַכְסֵֽךְ	10		And Yahweh will set on high the adversaries of Rezin over him, and his enemies overshadowing.	3c	4A	12 7
אֲרָ֣ם מִקֶּ֗דֶם וּפְלִשְׁתִּים֙ מֵֽאָח֔וֹר וַיֹּאכְל֥וּ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּכָל־פֶּ֑ה בְּכָל־זֹאת֙ לֹא־שָׁ֣ב אַפּ֔וֹ וְע֖וֹד יָד֥וֹ נְטוּיָֽה	11		Aram before, Philistines from behind, and they will devour Israel in every mouth. In all this his anger will not turn, but yet his hand is stretched out.	3e	4B	21 14
וְהָעָ֥ם לֹא־שָׁ֖ב עַד־הַמַּכֵּ֑הוּ וְאֶת־יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת לֹ֥א דָרָֽשׁוּ	12		And the people did not turn to the one that strikes them, and Yahweh of hosts they do not search out.	3e	4A	10 11
וַיַּכְרֵ֨ת יְהוָ֜ה מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֗ל רֹ֧אשׁ וְזָנָ֛ב כִּפָּ֥ה וְאַגְמ֖וֹן י֥וֹם אֶחָֽד	13		So Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and pool in one day.	3c	3g	21
זָקֵ֥ן וּנְשׂוּא־פָנִ֖ים ה֣וּא הָרֹ֑אשׁ וְנָבִ֥יא מֽוֹרֶה־שֶּׁ֖קֶר ה֥וּא הַזָּנָֽב	14		One who is old and shows partiality, he is the head, and a prophet instructing falsehood, he is the tail.	3e	4B	9 11
וַיִּֽהְי֛וּ מְאַשְּׁרֵ֥י הָֽעָם־הַזֶּ֖ה מַתְעִ֑ים וּמְאֻשָּׁרָ֖יו מְבֻלָּעִֽים	15		And it happens that those who make this people happy make them wander, and those making them happy are being swallowed up.	3d	4A	12 8
עַל־כֵּ֨ן עַל־בַּחוּרָ֜יו לֹֽא־יִשְׂמַ֣ח ׀ אֲדֹנָ֗י וְאֶת־יְתֹמָ֤יו וְאֶת־אַלְמְנֹתָיו֙ לֹ֣א יְרַחֵ֔ם כִּ֤י כֻלּוֹ֙ חָנֵ֣ף וּמֵרַ֔ע וְכָל־פֶּ֖ה דֹּבֵ֣ר נְבָלָ֑ה בְּכָל־זֹאת֙ לֹא־שָׁ֣ב אַפּ֔וֹ וְע֖וֹד יָד֥וֹ נְטוּיָֽה	16		Therefore over their youths in their prime my Lord is not glad. And on their orphans and their widows he will not have compassion, for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer and every mouth speaks senselessness. In all this his anger will not turn, but yet his hand is stretched out.	3e	4C	43 14
כִּֽי־בָעֲרָ֤ה כָאֵשׁ֙ רִשְׁעָ֔ה שָׁמִ֥יר וָשַׁ֖יִת תֹּאכֵ֑ל וַתִּצַּת֙ בְּסִֽבְכֵ֣י הַיַּ֔עַר וַיִּֽתְאַבְּכ֖וּ גֵּא֥וּת עָשָֽׁן	17		For wickedness kindles as fire. Spike and gibe it devours, and will char the thickets of the forest, and they will braid together a pride of smoke.	3e	4C	14 17
בְּעֶבְרַ֛ת יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת נֶעְתַּ֣ם אָ֑רֶץ וַיְהִ֤י הָעָם֙ כְּמַאֲכֹ֣לֶת אֵ֔שׁ אִ֥ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֖יו לֹ֥א יַחְמֹֽלוּ	18		In the fury of Yahweh of hosts, combusted is earth, and the people become as fuel for fire. Each to its kin will show no pity.	3d	4C	12 18
וַיִּגְזֹ֤ר עַל־יָמִין֙ וְרָעֵ֔ב וַיֹּ֥אכַל עַל־שְׂמֹ֖אול וְלֹ֣א שָׂבֵ֑עוּ אִ֥ישׁ בְּשַׂר־זְרֹע֖וֹ יֹאכֵֽלוּ	19		And one adjudicates on the right hand and is hungry, and he eats on the left hand and is not satisfied. Each the flesh of his seed will eat.	3e	4C	21 9
מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה אֶת־אֶפְרַ֗יִם וְאֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ אֶת־מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה יַחְדָּ֥ו הֵ֖מָּה עַל־יְהוּדָ֑ה בְּכָל־זֹאת֙ לֹא־שָׁ֣ב אַפּ֔וֹ וְע֖וֹד יָד֥וֹ נְטוּיָֽה	20		Manasseh, Ephraim and Ephraim, Manasseh. They will be as one against Judah. In all this his anger will not turn, but yet his hand is stretched out.	3e	4B	21 14

Compromises in concordance

I'm 1/3 through and I have concordance rules that I have broken for various reasons:

• acrostics take precedence over concordance,
• there are some legitimate homonyms,
• some gadget usage is idiomatic in both guest and host language,
• sometimes I don't push the derived root to the limit,
• some words are always distinguished with a preposition, e.g. offer up vs offer
• some words in English are so generic in sense that distinguishing them is too awkward in the host language. Go and come, or put are good examples - see below.
• prepositions are problematic, period. No escape. Some depend on verb usage or are explicit with the verb. Here bias will creep in to any reading. 
• Some of the errors I have made I do not yet see. The matching of English roots is as tricky as Hebrew and I have not made the English roots explicit. One day I may have to verify (with a software solution) that for example, held and hold are not overlapping. The example is only one of many hundreds. 

These are the roots I have compromised on at the moment. This is pretty short list, folks. I doubt that anyone's list is this short after a 1/3 reading. This list does not represent the multiple English glosses that may be used for one Hebrew root. (In case you were wondering).

This is the list where I have multiple Hebrew glosses for a single English root.

afflicted ענּה  ענּו  
amon אמּוןּ עמּוןּ 
another אחדּ  אחר  
ascent מּעלה  עלה  
back אחור  גּבּ  מּןּ 
balance אזןּ תּכּןּ 
bear דּבּ  נּשׂא  
beds ערגּ  ערשׂ  
being היה  נּפּשׁ  
blow נּדּףּ פּוח  
bore בּור  נּשׂא  
both גּםּ שׁנּה  
bound אסר  לוט  
bow כּרע  קשׁה  
break נּתּץ שׁבּר  
breaks נּתּץ שׁבּר  
bring בּוא  עלה  
broken נּתּץ שׁבּר  
brought בּוא  עלה  
came בּוא  היה  הלךּ עלה  
come בּוא  הלךּ עלה  
comes בּוא  עלה  
coming בּוא  עלה  
crowd נּהר  רגּםּ 
crushed דּךּ דּכּא  דּכּה  
crushes דּכּא  דּכּה  
cubs בּןּ כּפּר  
cut כּסח  כּרתּ  
days דּור  יוםּ 
deceitful רמּה  שׁקר  
die גּרל  מּותּ  
done עשׂה  רפּה  
draw מּשׁךּ פּעל  שׁאבּ  שׁלףּ 
draw out מּשׁה  מּשׁךּ 
drawn שׁאבּ  שׁלףּ 
drop נּטףּ נּשׁל  
drove אלףּ נּהגּ  
each אישׁ  אשׁה  
each one אחדּ  אישׁ  
ever עדּ  עודּ  עלםּ 
extreme אפּס  קצה  
fall נּפּל  סוט  
falling נּפּל  שׂוט  
far חלל  רחק  
first אחדּ  ראשׁ  
fly זבּובּ  עוףּ 
foot פּעםּ רגּל  
force חיל  פּגּע  
full מּאדּ  מּלא  
gave חדּל  נּתּןּ 
give חדּל  נּתּןּ 
given חדּל  נּתּןּ 
go בּוא  גּלל  דּרךּ הלךּ עבּר  עלה  רפּה  
god אל  אלוה  
god's אל  אלוה  
gods אל  אלוה  
goes בּוא  הלךּ 
going בּוא  הלךּ עבּר  
going down ירדּ  
good טובּ  יטבּ  
great גּדּל  גּםּ 
grew עלה  צמּח  
gripped חלץ לחץ 
ground אדּםּ גּרס  
grow גּמּל  צמּח  
growing גּדּל  צמּח  
haran הרןּ חרןּ 
heart לבּ  לבּבּ  
heart's לבּ  לבּבּ  
hearts לבּ  לבּבּ  
hey גּםּ הןּ 
hide סתּר  עבּר  
high עליוןּ רוםּ 
intimates ידּע  סודּ  
just כּמּו  צדּק  
kids בּןּ גּדּי  שׂעיר  
known ידּע  נּגּדּ  
laid out נּצבּ  שׁכּבּ  
lay שׁיתּ  שׂוםּ 
laying רבּץ שׂוםּ 
lead נּהגּ  נּצח  עפּר  
lean רזה  שׁעןּ 
leaves חדּל  עלה  
left חדּל  ינּח  יתּר  שׂמּאל  
little ones בּןּ טףּ 
longing יאבּ  תּאבּ  
lord אדּוןּ יהוה  
lot גּרל  כּל  לוט  
male זכּר  מּתּ  
many רבּ  רבּה  
master אדּוןּ חפּשׂ  
men אישׁ  מּתּ  
mercy חסדּ  חסידּ  
move מּוט  סוגּ  
note הנּה  נּחנּו  
o god אל  אלוה  
offer זבּח  עלה  
offered זבּח  עלה  
offering זבּח  עלה  
offers זבּח  עלה  
old זקןּ עלםּ קדּםּ 
one takes לקח  תּפּשׂ  
order למּעןּ סדּר  
pile כּבּדּ  ערםּ 
point להבּ  צור  
pride גּאה  שׁחץ 
push דּחה  נּטה  
put פּוט  קוט  שׁיתּ  שׁלח  שׂוםּ 
ram איל  רוםּ 
reproof חסדּ  יכּח  
rest יתּר  נּוח  
returning שׁובּ  
ridden נּדּדּ  רכּבּ  
ride נּדּדּ  רכּבּ  
rider אישׁ  רכּבּ  
right ימּןּ צדּק  ראשׁ  
righteous צדּיק  צדּק  
righteousness צדּיק  צדּק  
rush גּמּא  הלךּ 
sake גּלל  למּעןּ 
set עמּםּ צוה  שׁיתּ  שׂוםּ 
sets שׁיתּ  שׂוםּ 
setting ערבּ  שׂוםּ 
sharp חרץ שׁנּןּ 
sigh אנּח  נּחםּ 
sighs אנּח  נּחםּ 
sight עיןּ ראה  
since עודּ  על  
slips מּוט  שׁתּל  
sounded גּדּל  תּקע  
spread out יצע  מּלק  
spring עיןּ צמּח  
stationed יצבּ  נּצבּ  
stole גּנּבּ  שׂמּלה  
stricken נּכּה  צמּתּ  
striking נּכּה  נּקףּ 
swallow בּלע  דּרר  
sweet מּתּק  ערבּ  
take לקח  נּסק  נּשׁל  נּשׂא  נּתּןּ תּפּשׂ  
tears דּמּע  טרףּ 
temple היכּל  רק  
tender בּלס  רךּ 
theirs הםּ הןּ ל  
thing אתּ  דּבּר  
things אלה  אשׁר  דּבּר  
times עתּ  פּעםּ 
toss ידּדּ  נּער  
tossed ידּדּ  נּער  
trouble צר  צרה  צרר  
troubles צר  צרר  
turned אחור  שׁובּ  
turns סור  שׁובּ  
vanished יצא  פּסס  
very הוא  מּאדּ  
victory ישׁע  נּצח  
vocal אמּר  גּרר  
wayward דּרךּ הפּךּ 
well בּאר  טובּ  יטבּ  
went בּוא  הלךּ עלה  
what good טובּ  יטבּ  
whether או  אםּ 
while עדּ  עודּ  
whole כּל  שׁלםּ 
wrap עטה  רדּדּ  
zealous זכּר  נּבּע

Animals in the Bible

Help me out here, some of these things are not like the others. Can you find them? This first one is easy. I have bolded the first few errors that I see, can you see others?

The errors might be spelling, or the gloss is not an animal of creation, or what else. Eventually I will be able to list all the glosses I have used and all my compromises by domain and sub-domain. At the moment I have 129 distinct combinations for 3768 distinct roots. About 30 each. And I have about 8,583 distinct glosses - that is too many because as you can see, I am including singular and plural, and so on.

CREATION-ANIMAL
איל hart(13), ram(17), rams(31),
אלף drove(1), oxen(5), thousands(10),
אפעה asp(1),
ארי lion's(3), lion(21), lions'(2), lions(1),
אתון donkey(2), donkeys(1), she-donkeys(2),
בהמה beast(38), beasts(15), behemoth(1), cattle(22), hte beast(1), o beasts(1),
בקר heifer(2), herd(15), herds(2), oxen(44),
גבשׁ pearls(1),
גדי kids(1),
גוב great grub(2),
גזם nymph(3),
דב bear(4), dreadful bear(1),
דג fish(14), fishes(5),
זאב than wolves(1),
זבוב fly(1), zebub(4),
זיז wild creature(2),
זנה harlotries(3),
חגב grasshopper(1),
חזיר boar(1),
חמר ass(6),
חסל caterpillar(5), decimate(1),
ילע fangs(2),
ילק cankerworm(4), pygmy(3),
יעל mountain goats(1), what use(1),
יען is null(2), ostriches(1),
כבשׂ young lamb(15), young lambs(16), young rams(1),
כלב dog(5), dogs(3),
כן gnats(2),
כפר cover over(21), cover-price(4), cub(2), cubs - young lions(1), cubs'(1), cubs(3), lion cubs(1), mercy seat(22), over-covering(1), young lion(3), young lions(3),
לביא great cat(2), great cats(1), old lion's(1), old lion(1), old lions(1),
לישׁ codger cat(1),
נחשׁ brass(25), brazen(3), serpent(2), snake(10),
נמר leopards(1), than leopards(1),
סוס horse(9), horses(16), mares(1),
עגל calf(2), calves(4),
עור when foal(1),
עזז she-goats(17),
עכבישׁ spider's(1),
עכשׁב viper(1),
עפר faun(5),
עקרב scorpion(1),
עתד eager(3), goats(18),
פר bull(1), bulls(2), cow(1), young bull(15), young bulls(10),
פרא wild ass(3), wild donkeys(1),
פתן adder(3), adders(2),
צאן flock(26), flocks(6), lamb-(2), lambkin(1), sheep(43), sheep-(1),
צבי gazelle host(2), gazelle(2), hosts gazelle(3), status(1),
צלל cicada(1),
צמר wool(2),
צפרדע frogs(2),
קטב canker(1),
קפד procupine(1),
קצב shorn sheep(1),
ראם coral(1), wild bulls(3),
רחל ewe(2),
רמה maggot(3),
רמשׂ creep(8), creeper(9), creepers(2), creeping organism(2), creeps(3),
שׁבל stalks grain(3),
שׁבלול slug(1),
שׁור over ox(1), ox(12),
שׁחל aged beast's(1), aged beast(2), fierce lion(2),
שׁחץ pride(2),
שׁפן conies(1),
שׂה lamb(2), newborn lamb(1),
שׂעיר kid(12), kids(1), seir(3),
תולע crimson(4), worm(4),
תור turtledove(2),
תחשׁ dyed indigo(1),
תנין dragon(3), dragons(7),

The semantic range of giving

I have a pattern of assignment of gloss that is evolving in my reading of the Hebrew Scriptures. A gloss is not a translation. Defining anything is difficult. I would rather call my 'translation' at this time 'a reading' of Scripture. It's not an opinion because I have a host of opinions and I don't necessarily want to be ruled by them. Some of my opinions are unruly. In 'reading' and reporting I want to open the faces of the texts to reflect their many facets. There are many readings. When I am finished, it will be a translation and I hope it retains the ability to be read and to reflect many faces.

The pattern is at the moment as follows:

• A Hebrew stem can be reflected in many different English glosses.
• An English gloss should represent only one Hebrew stem.

This is not a one-to-one relationship. Some words have one gloss throughout, but most words do not. What I am doing is striving for a one-to-many relationship. Exceptions.

• Prepositions and conjunctions are fluid and contextual in both languages. Subtlety required.
• Homonyms in English must allow for multiple Hebrew stems.
• Helping verbs in English are allowed as freely required for grammar.
• An English gloss + preposition is considered distinct from the English gloss alone.
• Word games may take precedence over these rules of concordance.

So what do you do when give means take, or give means put, or give means set up?

There's the rub - it lies in the little word 'means'. I do not translate for 'meaning' if that means 'demeaning' or simply selecting the middle value or being mean. The 'meaning' of a text is in the relationship set up, given, from reader to reader, from one unspeakable to another. I seek to perceive many possible 'meanings' by preserving the patterns that I learn as I read more and more.

When I'm stuck, what I do is search until I decide that an English homonym or exception will need to be defined to my algorithm to allow the exception in some cases. So give can be take as in 1 Samuel, 'Do not take your maidservant as the face of a daughter of worthlessness,'

And give can be yield, and there are several others at the moment, though how long some of the rare ones will last is moot. Sometimes I look back at the list and wonder if it should stand. But I try at all costs to avoid a many-to-many situation of source stem to gloss, because that simply loses any if not all discipline, and the reading becomes too subject to my face only.

This self-justifying thought was produced as I approach the creation of the tabernacle and the ark. (I am going to call Noah's 'ark' something else - big boat maybe.) Here I am talking about the ark that is the intimate presence of God with the people. The language is delicate and the rules are like a father showing his child how to make something. Not a bossy know-it-all father either.
וְנָתַתָּ֖ אֶל־הָאָרֹ֑ן
אֵ֚ת הָעֵדֻ֔ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֶתֵּ֖ן אֵלֶֽיךָ
And you will yield to the ark,
the testimony that I will yield to you.

The primary gloss for נתן is give. Is this gifting, to yield to us the 'testimony'? Is it our gift to yield the tables of the law to the box under the mercy seat?

Law is then yielded to mercy and compassion. (Now that is subversive.)

There are of course many other aspects of reading and reporting at this stage that are equally difficult.

• The tense in which a verb is expressed is moot. Almost anything goes in poetry and also in prose. The basic rules of course are observed, but there are many exceptions. English and Hebrew each have a host of possibilities in tense, aspect, mood. It has to do with telling the story or allowing the story to have its provocative and subversive impact. Often it is a matter of stepping back from the obvious. It is a political game of love.
• Neither language has equality of gender at its base. Genders are of course not equivalent in all respects, but legally the masculine may include the feminine when no other singular allows representation. I often use 'it' as an inclusive personal pronoun, but I am far from consistent. Grammatical gender, e.g. the feminine noun, is not a feature of English, but it is of Hebrew and the feminine particularly can represent metaphor (like the boat in Jonah who 'was reckoning she was a wreck'). The degree to which language is play must be considered. Metaphor is unavoidable of course.

When I have the computer assign glosses automatically, the algorithm takes this precedence:

• assign the glosses from read to unread sections by phrase, beginning with 6 in a row and reducing progressively to 2 in a row. As the assignment is made, correct the stem and semantic domains in the unread section.
• for single words in Hebrew, assign the gloss only for matching word and stem and semantic domains, preferring first from the same chapter, then from the same book, then any book with the exception of Daniel (Aramaic) and the chapters that are acrostics.

So far the algorithm stats are improving each time I run it. Right now the complete unknowns have reduced over the last 6 weeks from over 75,000 to nearly 60,000. The knowns are now over 72,000, and the knowns if I include guesses by repeated phrases are over 107,000. That leaves 65% of the Hebrew 'words' remaining.  (Hebrew words are more often than not English phrases because Hebrew is an enclitic language. I.e. its components stick together to form a lexical word).

For interest, this is the current list of phrases and their count, which arise from the word נתן in my data. It could use a few tweaks.

give	140
gave	97
gives	48
given	42
permit	12
giving	12
make	2
assign	2
made	2
he will let	2
grant	2
yielding	2
yield	2
chanted	1
demonstrated	1
one gives	1
permitted	1
attach	1
else give	1
letting	1
will I let	1
netted	1
play	1
than give	1
take it	1
give here	1
paid	1
take	1
would	1
refrain giving	1
consigned	1
and I have let be	1
gave myself	1
does let	1
make responsible	1
gave permission	1
Nathan	1
and have let you be	1