Macula Search finds grammatical constructions in the syntax trees of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament. You describe a construction as a small tree of nodes and get every place it occurs. It was built at the Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship.
Getting started
- Pick an example from Start from an example… and press Search.
- Or open the Text tab, click a word, and choose Search for clauses like this.
- Click tree next to a result to see MACULA's analysis, and SDBH next to a Hebrew word to read its entry in the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew.
- Saved searches are kept in your own browser.
Sources
- MACULA Hebrew © Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0: the Westminster Leningrad Codex with the Westminster Hebrew Syntax (J. Alan Groves Center), OpenScriptures morphology and Cherith glosses.
- MACULA Greek © Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0: the SBL Greek New Testament (Logos Bible Software) with Cherith glosses.
- The lexical meanings and semantic domains of Hebrew words come from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (SDBH) © United Bible Societies, not from MACULA's older SDBH codes.
- The Hebrew text is divided into clauses as in the Nida Institute's alignment clause view.