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Macula Search
Find grammatical constructions by drawing them as a tree
A search tool for the MACULA syntax trees of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament. You describe a construction as a small tree of nodes, for example a clause whose verb is יָדַע “know” and whose object is a כִּי clause, and get every place it occurs, typically in about a second.
What it does
- Patterns as trees
- Nodes can sit directly in, anywhere in, or “is or is in” another node, and can be required in text order. Each node offers only the attributes and values that actually occur on that kind of node, with how often each occurs.
- Semantic domains as search terms
- Hebrew words carry the lexical and contextual domains of the current SDBH master files, so you can search for, say, any verb in the domain Speak governing a direct object.
- Start from the text
- The Text view shows a chapter clause by clause. Select a clause, phrase or word and choose “Search for clauses like this” to turn it into a pattern, then widen or narrow it.
- Results you can work with
- Hits are shaded in context, one verse per row, with MACULA’s tree for each. You can count hits by any attribute of any node, or export them all as a spreadsheet.
- Saved searches
- Named searches are saved with their treebank so they can be run again later.