[
  {
    "name" : "Searching Hebrew by Letters",
    "sortName" : "056.5",
    "difficulty" : "intermediate",
    "requirements" : [
    "MT-ETCBC"
    ],
    "accVersion" : 0,
    "tags" : [
    "Hebrew",
    "Searching"
    ],
    "summary" : "This tutorial will teach you how to search a grammatically-tagged Hebrew text by Letters. This is also referred to as a Literal search.",
    "actions" : [
      {
        "text" : "First, open the ‘BHS Hebrew (ETCBC)’ (MT-ETCBC).",
        "action" : "open",
        "object" : "MT-ETCBC"
      },
      {
        "text" : "To perform a Verse search, select Verses from the Words/Verses pop-up menu.",
        "action" : "control",
        "object" : "wordsVersePopup|Verses"
      },
      {
        "text" : "Enter ‘Gen 1:17’ (without the quotes) in the Search Entry box.",
        "action" : "type",
        "object" : "entryBox",
        "textToType" : "Gen 1:17"
      },
      {
        "text" : "Press the {macos Return}{windows Enter} key to perform your search.",
        "action" : "search"
      },
      {
        "text" : "To view the grammatical information, select Instant Details from the Window menu.",
        "action" : "menu",
        "object" : "Window|Instant Details"
      },
      {
        "text" : "With the Instant Details displayed, hover your cursor over the word אֹתָם in Genesis 2:17.\r\rNote how this ‘word’ is actually comprised of two distinct lexical forms: the direct object marker and the masculine plural suffix.",
        "action" : "none"
      },
      {
        "text" : "This treatment of prefixes and suffixes as separate lexical forms is a feature of the Hebrew tagged text known as morphological separation.",
        "action" : "none"
      },
      {
        "text" : "To perform a Words search, select Words from the Words/Verses pop-up menu.",
        "action" : "control",
        "object" : "wordsVersePopup|Words"
      },
      {
        "text" : "Enter the word אתם in the entry box.",
        "action" : "type",
        "object" : "entryBox",
        "textToType" : "אתם",
        "options" : [
          "noQuickEntry",
          "caseSensitive"
        ]
      },
      {
        "text" : "Press the {macos Return}{windows Enter} key to perform your search.",
        "action" : "search"
      },
      {
        "text" : "Note how this search did not find אֹתָם in Genesis 1:17.\r\rThat is because we entered the search as a single lexical form instead of as two separate lexical forms. To further complicate matters, the suffix needs to be entered as a tag rather than as a lexical form.",
        "action" : "point",
        "object" : "paneText"
      },
      {
        "text" : "Searching by Letters rather than Words offers an easy way to find a string of Hebrew letters without having to enter a phrase with proper morphological separation.",
        "action" : "none"
      },
      {
        "text" : "To perform a Letters search, select Letters from the Words/Verses pop-up menu.",
        "action" : "control",
        "object" : "wordsVersePopup|Letters"
      },
      {
        "text" : "Press the {macos Return}{windows Enter} key to perform your search.",
        "action" : "search"
      },
      {
        "text" : "Note how this search now finds אֹתָם in Genesis 1:17, even though it actually consists of two separate lexical forms. This search also finds אַתֶּם in Genesis 9:7, which is a single lexical form.",
        "action" : "point",
        "object" : "paneText"
      }
    ],
    "completion" : "Congratulations! You have learned how to search a grammatically-tagged Hebrew text by Letters, which can simplify things when you’re not sure how to format a proper Words search."
  }
]