How do I convert a source language search list into a project reference list?

Question

I want to show our committee every verse that has the Hebrew word chesed to help them think through (1) how the word is used in each context and (2) how the word is used across contexts. I can easily do a search on chesed in the source language search tool, and I get a nice list. I can then “save texts in list…” to output the texts of each verse – but it’s in Hebrew (naturally).

What I want to do is use the “save texts in list…” feature to output the texts in our PROJECT language rather than in Hebrew. Is there a straightforward way to create a source language reference list and then convert it to a project reference list?

Answer 1

I recommend doing the search from an Enhanced resource. The search results will be displayed in a list window. All List windows in Paratext have an option Copy references. Use that then paste the list of references into a note or document.

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GEN 19:19 "kindness"
GEN 20:13 "kindness"
GEN 21:23 "kindly"
GEN 24:12 "steadfast love"
GEN 24:14 "steadfast love"
GEN 24:27 "his steadfast love"
GEN 24:49 "steadfast love"
GEN 32:10 "steadfast love"
GEN 39:21 "steadfast love"
GEN 40:14 "kindness"
GEN 47:29 "kindly"
EXO 15:13 "your steadfast love"
EXO 20:6 "steadfast love"
EXO 34:6 "steadfast love"
EXO 34:7 "steadfast love"
NUM 14:18 "steadfast love,"
NUM 14:19 "your steadfast love,"
DEU 5:10 "steadfast love"
DEU 7:9 "steadfast love"
DEU 7:12 "steadfast love"
JOS 2:12 "kindly"
JOS 2:12 "kindly"
JOS 2:14 "kindly"
JDG 1:24 "kindly"
JDG 8:35 "steadfast love"
RUT 1:8 "kindly"
RUT 2:20 "kindness"
RUT 3:10 "kindness"
1SA 15:6 "kindness"
1SA 20:8 "kindly"
1SA 20:14 "steadfast love"
1SA 20:15 "your steadfast love"
2SA 2:5 "loyalty"
2SA 2:6 "steadfast love"
2SA 3:8 "steadfast love"
2SA 7:15 "my steadfast love"
2SA 9:1 "kindness"
2SA 9:3 "kindness"
2SA 9:7 "kindness"
2SA 10:2 "loyally"
2SA 10:2 "loyally"
2SA 15:20 "steadfast love"
2SA 16:17 "your loyalty"
2SA 22:51 "steadfast love"
1KI 2:7 "loyally"
1KI 3:6 "steadfast love"
1KI 3:6 "steadfast love"
1KI 8:23 "steadfast love"
1KI 20:31 "merciful"
1CH 16:34 "his steadfast love"
1CH 16:41 "his steadfast love"
1CH 17:13 "my steadfast love"
1CH 19:2 "kindly"
1CH 19:2 "kindly"
2CH 1:8 "steadfast love"
2CH 5:13 "his steadfast love"
2CH 6:14 "steadfast love"
2CH 7:3 "his steadfast love"
2CH 7:6 "his steadfast love"
2CH 20:21 "his steadfast love"
2CH 24:22 "kindness"
2CH 32:32 "his good deeds,"
2CH 35:26 "his good deeds"
EZR 3:11 "his steadfast love"
EZR 7:28 "steadfast love"
EZR 9:9 "steadfast love"
NEH 1:5 "steadfast love"
NEH 9:17 
NEH 9:17 "steadfast love,"
NEH 9:32 "steadfast love,"
NEH 13:14 "my good deeds"
NEH 13:22 "your steadfast love."
JOB 6:14 "kindness"
JOB 10:12 "life"
JOB 37:13 "love"
PSA 5:7 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 6:4 "your steadfast love."
PSA 13:6 "your steadfast love;"
PSA 17:7 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 18:50 "steadfast love"
PSA 21:7 "steadfast love"
PSA 23:6 "mercy"
PSA 25:6 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 25:7 "your steadfast love"
PSA 25:10 "steadfast love"
PSA 26:3 "your steadfast love"
PSA 31:7 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 31:16 "your steadfast love!"
PSA 31:21 "his steadfast love"
PSA 32:10 "steadfast love"
PSA 33:5 "steadfast love"
PSA 33:18 "his steadfast love,"
PSA 33:22 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 36:5 "Your steadfast love,"
PSA 36:7 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 36:10 "your steadfast love"
PSA 40:10 "your steadfast love"
PSA 40:11 "your steadfast love"
PSA 42:8 "his steadfast love,"
PSA 44:26 "your steadfast love!"
PSA 48:9 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 51:1 "your steadfast love;"
PSA 52:1 "steadfast love"
PSA 52:8 "steadfast love"
PSA 57:3 "his steadfast love"
PSA 57:10 "your steadfast love"
PSA 59:10 "steadfast love"
PSA 59:10 
PSA 59:16 "your steadfast love"
PSA 59:17 "who shows me steadfast love."
PSA 61:7 "steadfast love"
PSA 62:12 "steadfast love."
PSA 63:3 "your steadfast love"
PSA 66:20 "his steadfast love"
PSA 69:13 "your steadfast love"
PSA 69:16 "your steadfast love"
PSA 77:8 "his steadfast love"
PSA 85:7 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 85:10 "Steadfast love"
PSA 86:5 "steadfast love"
PSA 86:13 "your steadfast love"
PSA 86:15 "steadfast love"
PSA 88:11 "your steadfast love"
PSA 89:1 "steadfast love"
PSA 89:2 "love"
PSA 89:14 "steadfast love"
PSA 89:24 "my steadfast love"
PSA 89:28 
PSA 89:33 "my steadfast love"
PSA 89:49 "your steadfast love"
PSA 90:14 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 92:2 "your steadfast love"
PSA 94:18 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 98:3 "his steadfast love"
PSA 100:5 "his steadfast love"
PSA 101:1 "steadfast love"
PSA 103:4 "steadfast love"
PSA 103:8 "steadfast love."
PSA 103:11 "his steadfast love"
PSA 103:17 "steadfast love"
PSA 106:1 
PSA 106:7 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 106:45 "steadfast love."
PSA 107:1 "his steadfast love"
PSA 107:8 "his steadfast love,"
PSA 107:15 "his steadfast love,"
PSA 107:21 "his steadfast love,"
PSA 107:31 "his steadfast love,"
PSA 107:43 "steadfast love"
PSA 108:4 "your steadfast love"
PSA 109:12 "kindness"
PSA 109:16 "kindness"
PSA 109:21 "your steadfast love"
PSA 109:26 "your steadfast love!"
PSA 115:1 "your steadfast love"
PSA 117:2 "his steadfast love"
PSA 118:1 "his steadfast love"
PSA 118:2 "steadfast love"
PSA 118:3 "steadfast love"
PSA 118:4 "steadfast love"
PSA 118:29 "his steadfast love"
PSA 119:41 "your steadfast love"
PSA 119:64 "your steadfast love;"
PSA 119:76 "your steadfast love"
PSA 119:88 "your steadfast love"
PSA 119:124 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 119:149 "your steadfast love;"
PSA 119:159 "your steadfast love."
PSA 130:7 "steadfast love,"
PSA 136:1 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:2 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:3 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:4 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:5 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:6 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:7 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:8 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:9 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:10 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:11 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:12 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:13 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:14 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:15 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:16 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:17 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:18 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:19 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:20 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:21 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:22 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:23 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:24 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:25 "his steadfast love"
PSA 136:26 "his steadfast love"
PSA 138:2 "your steadfast love"
PSA 138:8 "purpose"
PSA 141:5 "kindness"
PSA 143:8 "your steadfast love,"
PSA 143:12 "your steadfast love"
PSA 144:2 "my steadfast love"
PSA 145:8 "steadfast love."
PSA 147:11 "his steadfast love."
PRO 3:3 "steadfast love"
PRO 11:17 "kind"
PRO 14:22 "steadfast love"
PRO 16:6 "steadfast love"
PRO 19:22 "steadfast love,"
PRO 20:6 "steadfast love,"
PRO 20:28 "Steadfast"
PRO 20:28 "Steadfast"
PRO 21:21 "kindness"
PRO 31:26 "kindness"
ISA 16:5 "steadfast love,"
ISA 54:8 "love"
ISA 54:10 "my steadfast love"
ISA 55:3 "love"
ISA 57:1 "devout"
ISA 63:7 "steadfast love"
ISA 63:7 "his steadfast love."
JER 2:2 "devotion"
JER 9:24 "steadfast love,"
JER 16:5 "steadfast love"
JER 31:3 "faithfulness"
JER 32:18 "steadfast love"
JER 33:11 "his steadfast love"
LAM 3:22 "steadfast love"
LAM 3:32 
DAN 1:9 "favor"
DAN 9:4 "steadfast love"
HOS 2:19 "steadfast love"
HOS 4:1 "steadfast love,"
HOS 6:4 "Your love"
HOS 6:6 "steadfast love"
HOS 10:12 "steadfast love;"
HOS 12:6 "love"
JOL 2:13 "steadfast love;"
JON 2:8 "steadfast love."
JON 4:2 "steadfast love,"
MIC 6:8 "kindness"
MIC 7:18 "steadfast love."
MIC 7:20 "steadfast love"
ZEC 7:9 "kindness"

Answer 2

Here’s my current work-around:

1. Conduct source language search.
2. In the list, select “save list as…” from the menu and save as a .ref file.
3. Open the .ref file in a text editor, and scroll to the bottom.
4. Replace the ScrTextName and ScrTextID tags with the identifiers for the translation project. (I found these by outputting a .ref list from the project.)
5. Save the file.
6. Go back into PT, open the translation project, conduct a search on anything (to get the results list).
7. In the results list, select “Open list” from the menu and load the list that was saved in step 5. This replaces the results from step 6 with the results from step 1.
8. Now “Save texts in list”, and you get an output with the translated verses instead of the source language verses.

[Edit: when the source language versification is different from the project versification, the wrong verse will be output. There seems to be no solution for this. Changing the Versification identifiers in the .ref file doesn’t make a difference to the “Save texts in list”, though it does affect where you go when you double-click on a reference from the list in PT.]

Answer 3

Here is a procedure. First you do a search for all the verses in your Project, then you do a search in the Source text for the term you are interested in using the Share with List option.

1. In your Target language project use this Find on the OT books only
   regex:(?<=\\v \S+\s)(?s)((?!\\v ).)*?(?=(\s*\\\w+)*\s*(\\v|Z))
   This will give you one hit for every verse (23145 Items)
2. Use the Source language Find to look for the Hebrew word you are interested in.
3. Click Display Results and choose Share with List.
   
   

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4. In the List results you can now chose Copy references. This will be a list of verses where the Hebrew word occurs.

GEN 19:19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I canʼt flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and Iʼll die.
GEN 20:13 And when God had me wander from my fatherʼs household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”
GEN 21:23 Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”
. . . . .

Regex has been edited to make it compatible with various versions of PT. Best results are from 9.1 or 9.2 using regex:(?<=\\v \S+\s)(?s)((?!\\v ).)*?(?=(\s*\\\+?\w+[\s\*])*\s*\Z)

Answer 4

An alternative might be to use the Biblical Terms Tool for your project. Select OT books. Find the term chesed. The verses containing this term will display for your project. You can specify one or more Comparative texts. You can see the term with its definition, its occurrences in your project and in another translation (resource or project). It is a dynamic list: You can approve renderings and edit specific verses.

(When I searched on the Hebrew term הֶסֶד, I could type this in the Find box but no results appeared, with or without vowel pointings, but it did appear under the English rendering ‘lovingkindness’.)

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Answer 5

@anon044949 Do you mind giving step-by-step instructions of how @viverechristus can find and copy every “verse that has the Hebrew word chesed” from his Project using Enhanced Resources. I do not see how to do it from your picture.

Answer 6

A quicker workaround:

1. Search [e.g. for chesed] in SLT
2. Open search in translation project
3. Choose option shared with list
4. Find term \v

This works, because every result from SLT is part of a biblical verse. The same caveat about different versifications applies.

Comments

Yes, this works with the search list window generated by an Enhanced Resource. If you start with the Enhanced resources and not the SLT, then you can refine the search for a particular sense of the Hebrew/Greek word.