[sword-devel] Canonical Psalm titles and SWORD search?

[David Haslam]

Thanks John,

Aside: I'm puzzled by the use of type="acrostic" when the 125 Psalms with canonical titles are nothing to do with acrostics, per se. Surely, that attribute should be reserved for the 22 stanza headings in Psalm 119 ?

There are Alternative Versifications in which the canonical Psalm titles are assigned to verse 1 (or in a few cases to verses 1 & 2) with subsequent verse numbers being offset by +1 (or +2).
I was not enquiring about modules that are for Bible versions like that.

In the KJV and many other modules, the Psalm titles proper are before the start of verse 1.

Best regards,

David

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On Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 at 11:17 AM, Johan Marais <johan.marais at messianic.co.za> wrote:

> David.
>
> In our translation I set Ps 6:1 as:
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> And a ‘normal’ search in Xiphos 4.2.1 returns 7 results:
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> Regards,
>
> Johan Marais
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> Subject: [sword-devel] Canonical Psalm titles and SWORD search?
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> I just tried to search for the word 'Neginoth' using Xiphos.
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> There were no results found!
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> This word occurs in the canonical Psalm title for Ps.6 and five other Psalms.
>
> "To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David."
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> In view of the fact that canonical Psalm titles are translated from the original Hebrew, ought it not to be within the scope of SWORD search?
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> Or is this merely a shortcoming of Xiphos?
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> cf. Xiphos Advanced Search dialog allows search scope to look in footnotes, but there's no such option for titles.
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> Of course, many Bible versions have non-canonical headings throughout the module, yet I'm not concerned with such in asking this question here.
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> Best regards,
>
> David
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