[sword-devel] FYI: A source for the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[Timothy Allen]

I see on the Module Requests wiki page[1] that one of the requested 
modules is the unabridged Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon. There's 
already a "BDBGlosses_Strongs" module in the Crosswire repository, based 
on the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Hebrew Lexicon[2], but it appears to 
be an abridged version.

I've discovered an openly-licensed (CC-BY) digital copy of the 
unabridged text that seems promising, at 
<https://github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced/>. The 
text is stored in HTML with lots of semantic markup, so it should be 
practical to reformat it nicely to different conventions. The main 
obstacle with this version (so far as I can tell) is that only English 
and Hebrew text is in the HTML, words in other languages (Arabic, 
Syriac, Ethiopic, Aramaic, Samaritan, Persian etc.) have not been 
transcribed and are just images. Still, it seems rich enough to be worth 
trying to convert it to a SWORD module.

[1]: https://wiki.crosswire.org/Module_Requests#Lexicons

[2]: https://github.com/openscriptures/HebrewLexicon


Timothy.