Sub-divided strongs numbers???

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Stephen Carlson wrote:Yes, I agree with Eeli. Different lexicons will slice and dice the meanings differently. There is no one standard.

And he's right that learning the Greek alphabet is the least of one's problems if they are serious about Greek. It occurs to me that. in the days of eight-bit computing (e.g., the 1980s). having integers for all the Greek words made computer implementations easier (e.g., no need for a Greek keyboard if the user can just type numbers), but these days we have the computing resources to handle Greek properly.
Yes, but there are still issues. The same word may be listed with different forms in lexicons, the Unicode normalization may differ even if the word looks the same to the human being, etc. So numbers are undeniably convenient in software.

Another option is to use, say, the Unicode NFC normalization of the lexical form of a word, and agree on one standard lexical form. BDAG is great, but it's not freely available. LSJ is freely available, so the Perseus lexical form might be a reasonable choice.
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Yes. Jim Tauber has some tagged NT texts (Tischendorf, WH, and SBL) with lexical forms. I wonder was standard he used.

(I'm assuming that one problem is deciding whether a form is deponent or not. Some verbs are "deponent" in the NT but in Classical Greek -- another reason to junk that concept.)
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I agree that the Perseus LSJ would be most appropriate for standardizing lexical forms and entry numbers.
As an example, for the entry βουλέυω, with the URL http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/tex ... bouleu%2Fw
click on the XML at the bottom of the page, and you can see such goodies as entryFree id="n20598" and sense id="n20598.0" n="A" level="1" opt="n"
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Stephen Carlson wrote:Yes. Jim Tauber has some tagged NT texts (Tischendorf, WH, and SBL) with lexical forms. I wonder was standard he used.
Ulrik Petersen did Tischendorf on that site. If I recall correctly, James started by normalizing forms in a machine readable Strong's, then used that for his lemmas. So it's not based on a standard. And I don't think OSIS defines a standard lexical system or set of lexemes. Perseus uses the words themselves for cross-reference, I imagine they rely on Perseus for lexical forms.
Stephen Carlson wrote:(I'm assuming that one problem is deciding whether a form is deponent or not. Some verbs are "deponent" in the NT but in Classical Greek -- another reason to junk that concept.)
Ah, if you decide to use the active 1st person singular present active indicative form of a verb, that doesn't work well for a verb that never uses that form. That's one advantage of relying on an existing lexicon for standard representations. Lexicons have already faced all of these problems. The disadvantage, of course, is that there are a few words in manuscripts that might not be in the lexicon ...
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Ken M. Penner wrote:I agree that the Perseus LSJ would be most appropriate for standardizing lexical forms and entry numbers.
As an example, for the entry βουλέυω, with the URL http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/tex ... bouleu%2Fw
click on the XML at the bottom of the page, and you can see such goodies as entryFree id="n20598" and sense id="n20598.0" n="A" level="1" opt="n"
Yes, you could use those numbers. I notice that Perseus itself uses the words for cross reference in the URIs, instead of these numbers. Which also has advantages. I would use Unicode NFC representation ...
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