How are variants marked in Hebrew text?

Question

In the Source Language Tools there are occasions in the Hebrew text when alternatives are given. In the example below one alternative is glossed with “K” and the other with “Q”. What do these signify? “Q” might be Qumran as in Dead Sea Scrolls, but what does “K” stand for? I cannot find this explained in Help or anywhere.

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Answer 1

The K stands for ketiv, the Q for qere. You can find a short text about it under the help topic

“What do the superscript characters in a Source Text Window mean?”

(There is a subheading “More on ‘ketiv’ and ‘qere’ forms”)

Comments

Ok, thank you. I did not think of Heard and Read. Not sure why this entry in the Help did not appear on the list with other entries related to the SLT. It should appear at the bottom of the entry “Intro to Source Language Tools”.