I am putting together a team of people to do a collaborative Greek (and later Hebrew) dictionary to have a more modern alternative to Strong's but that is released under an Creative Commons attribution-share alike license. The concept would mirror the collaboration which takes place for open source software development but would be focused on content. Part of the goal is to make it easily translatable so it can be used freely worldwide.

I have a technical question, though. We will be using SIL's MDF markers (similar to USFM) for the source file which can then be transformed into TEI or other formats for various uses. I am thinking that each entry should include Strong's number(s), the lexical form, and Goodrick-Kohlenberger number(s). The G-K numbers seem to be a modern replacement for Strong's.

My question is this--does anyone have a sense for the future of the use of numbers in SWORD for dictionary lookup for Greek and Hebrew? If we decide to divide entries according to G-K, would it be possible to have a mapping scheme to map between Strong's and G-K numbers and StrongLemma's to allow for dictionaries to be keyed differently but still be able to look up the correct entry? I know there would be problems/conflicts for some entries, but it would be nice if all Greek NT dictionaries could generally find their way to the right entry based on a text which used any one of the three systems. Links could be used for entries which create conflicts so that the user would never be more than two clicks away from the right entry.

I imagine there are tables out there which map the two numbering systems, but I haven't found one just yet. We may need to generate our own for the purpose of the dictionary. Looking at various modules in SWORD, it seems that for NT Greek in SWORD, modules either use the Strong's number (KJV, TR, and the majority of other Greek texts) or lexical form (MorphGNT, which uses lemma="StrongLemma:..."). For the StrongLemma, do those correspond to Strong's numbers? In other words, would the StrongLemma have an equal number of distinct entries as Strong's numbers?

If anyone knows of a table that already exists mapping between any of the three systems (Strong's, G-K, or the MorphGNT StrongLemma), I'd appreciate knowing how to obtain it so we don't have to do it ourselves. If we do generate such a table, would that be useful for the engine?

Daniel

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