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Searching on the Cantillation marks(Ta’amin) of the Hebrew Bible

Modern Software makes it easy to search for individual accents/Cantillation marks as well as on specific combination of them in the Hebrew Bible.[A program called Bibleworks comes licensed with two different database for searching on cantillations/Ta’amin. The WTM(Westminster Morphological date base) and the JDP(Dr. J.D. Price accent database) . One, must be sure, to observe the different accent codes particular to each database. There are also differing codes from prose and poetic books of the Bible in the JDP datebase] Let’s say you’d like to search for every occurrence of the Mereka accent in the WTM.
(1) Enable the Permit accent code searching in Hebrew morph. version(s) option. (2)Now, select the  WTM database as your search version (3) Then on the command line type: .*@*Zy*

This yields you 286 hits in in 283 verses.
For reference sake here are the WTM accent codes:

  1. Segolta (a)
  2. Sinnorit (s)
  3. Zarqa, Sinnor (b)
  4. Pazer (t)
  5. Pashta, Azla Legarmeh (c)
  6. Pazer Mag or Qarne Parv (u)
  7. Pashta (with previous left) (d)
  8. Zaqep Magnum (v)
  9. Telisha Parvum (e)
  10. Mahpak or Mehuppak (w)
  11. Paseq [separator] (f)
  12. Mereka (y)
  13. Yetib (g)
  14. Mereka Kepulah (z)
  15. Dehi or Tipha (h)
  16. Tipha, Majela, or Tarha (0)
  17. Mugrash (i)
  18. Munah (1)
  19. Telisha Magnum (j)
  20. Silluq [meteg (left)] (9,2)
  21. Ole or Mahpakatum (k)
  22. Meteg (right) (3)
  23. Geresh or Teres (l)
  24. Tebir (4)
  25. Gershajim (m)
  26. Atnah (5)
  27. Azla or Qadma (n)
  28. Galgal or Jerah (6)
  29. Illuj (o)
  30. Darga (7)
  31. Shalshelet (mag,parv) (p)
  32. Telisha Qetannah (med) (A)
  33. Zaqep Parvum (q)
  34. Telish Magnum (med) (B)

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  1. Patrick Etoughé Anani says

    February 21, 2020 at 3:39 pm

    You gave the impression that this search can be done with Accordance Bible Software?

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    • Brian K. Mitchell says

      March 8, 2020 at 11:54 am

      Sure, the searches like the one in BibleWorks Software mentioned in the post above can also be done with Accordance Bible software but without any need to use codes and those types of queries can be done visually via Accordance’s sophisticated, beautiful, and intuitive construct searches in the construct tab.

      A while back at wrote at least one post about this:
      https://www.adfontes.mitchellbk.com/2013/05/27/accent-searches-in-accordance-bible-software/</aa

      I will write an updated post soon focusing on Accordance Accent Searches.

      Grace and Peace

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    • Brian K. Mitchell says

      March 15, 2020 at 11:12 am

      Hello Patrick Etoughé Anani,
      I have just made a new post about how to use Accordance to seach on the cantillation Marks:
      https://www.adfontes.mitchellbk.com/2020/03/15/the-ethnachta-clause/

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  2. Melissa Rose says

    November 3, 2020 at 12:17 am

    Hi Brian!

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