12 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Job 11:12. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
וְאִ֣ישׁ נָ֭בוּב יִלָּבֵ֑ב וְעַ֥יִר פֶּ֝֗רֶא אָדָ֥ם יִוָּלֵֽד׃
וְאִ֣ישׁ
נָ֭בוּב
יִלָּבֵ֑ב
וְעַ֥יִר
פֶּ֝֗רֶא
אָדָ֥ם
Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported
Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.
Ἄνθρωπος δὲ ἄλλως νήχεται λόγοις· βροτὸς δὲ γεννητὸς γυναικὸς, ἶσα ὄνῳ ἐρημίτῃ.
Ἄνθρωπος
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἄνθρωπος
- Transliteration
- anthropos
- Morphology
- noun, masculine nominative singular
- Gloss
- human, man
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Human being, person, man.
- Occurrences
- 1305
δὲ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- δέ
- Transliteration
- de
- Morphology
- postpositive conjunction/particle
- Gloss
- but, and, now
- Part of Speech
- conjunction/particle
- Definition
- Postpositive connective conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 4634
ἄλλως
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ἄλλως
- Transliteration
- allos
- Morphology
- adverbial -ως form or perfect participle pattern depending on context
- Gloss
- ...ly / having ...
- Part of Speech
- adverb/participle form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 7
νήχεται
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- νήχεται
- Transliteration
- nechetai
- Morphology
- verb, present/future middle-passive form, 3rd singular
- Gloss
- he/she/it ...
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 1
λόγοις
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- λόγος
- Transliteration
- logois
- Morphology
- noun, masculine dative plural
- Gloss
- words, matters
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Word, speech, account, matter, or reason.
- Strong's
- G3056
- Occurrences
- 1103
βροτὸς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- βροτὸς
- Transliteration
- brotos
- Morphology
- nominative masculine singular or genitive neuter singular pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 9
δὲ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- δέ
- Transliteration
- de
- Morphology
- postpositive conjunction/particle
- Gloss
- but, and, now
- Part of Speech
- conjunction/particle
- Definition
- Postpositive connective conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 4634
γεννητὸς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- γεννητὸς
- Transliteration
- gennetos
- Morphology
- nominative masculine singular or genitive neuter singular pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 5
γυναικὸς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- γυνή
- Transliteration
- gynaikos
- Morphology
- noun, feminine genitive singular
- Gloss
- of a woman, wife
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Woman or wife.
- Occurrences
- 889
ἶσα
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ἶσα
- Transliteration
- sa
- Morphology
- nominative/accusative neuter plural or feminine nominative singular pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 12
ὄνῳ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ὄνῳ
- Transliteration
- ono
- Morphology
- dative singular masculine/neuter pattern
- Gloss
- to/for ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 5
ἐρημίτῃ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- ἐρημίτῃ
- Transliteration
- eremite
- Morphology
- subjunctive/dative singular pattern depending on context
- Gloss
- form requires context
- Part of Speech
- verb/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 1
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܘܓܒܪܐ ܕܕܟܐ ܡܬܠܒܒ ܘܕܓܢܒܪ ܥ̇ܕܪ ܠܐܢܫ
ܘܓܒܪܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܓܒܪܐ
- Transliteration
- wgbr'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 92
ܕܕܟܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܕܟܐ
- Transliteration
- ddk'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 13
ܡܬܠܒܒ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܬܠܒܒ
- Transliteration
- mtlbb
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 1
ܘܕܓܢܒܪ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܕܓܢܒܪ
- Transliteration
- wdgnbr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 2
ܥ̇ܕܪ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܕܪ
- Transliteration
- 'dr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 4
ܠܐܢܫ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܐܢܫ
- Transliteration
- l'nsh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 15
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
וּגְבַר חָרִיף יִתְחַכֵּם לִבֵּיהּ וְעִילָא דִמְרוֹדָא הִיךְ בַּר נַשׁ אִתְיְלִיד׃ ]ת״א[ וּבַר נָשׁ מְפַלְפֵל יְדַיִק וְעוּלֵם מְסַרְבָן דְאִתָּבָן גַבְרָא רַבָּא מִתְעַבֵד׃
וּגְבַר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- גבר
- Transliteration
- wgbr
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 627
חָרִיף
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- חריף
- Transliteration
- chryp
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 3
יִתְחַכֵּם
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יתחכם
- Transliteration
- ytchkm
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 3
לִבֵּיהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ביה
- Transliteration
- lbyh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 359
וְעִילָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עילא
- Transliteration
- w'yl'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 26
דִמְרוֹדָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מרודא
- Transliteration
- dmrwd'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 2
הִיךְ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- היך
- Transliteration
- hyk
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 459
בַּר
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- בר
- Transliteration
- br
- Morphology
- noun masculine singular
- Gloss
- son
- Occurrences
- 2734
נַשׁ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נש
- Transliteration
- nsh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 72
אִתְיְלִיד׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אתיליד
- Transliteration
- 'tylyd
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 18
ת״
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ת״
- Transliteration
- t״
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 49
א
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- א
- Transliteration
- '
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 468
וּבַר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ובר
- Transliteration
- wbr
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 32
נָשׁ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נש
- Transliteration
- nsh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 72
מְפַלְפֵל
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- פלפל
- Transliteration
- mplpl
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 1
יְדַיִק
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ידיק
- Transliteration
- ydyq
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 1
וְעוּלֵם
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עולם
- Transliteration
- w'wlm
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 6
מְסַרְבָן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- סרבן
- Transliteration
- msrbn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 15
דְאִתָּבָן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אתבן
- Transliteration
- d'tbn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 1
גַבְרָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- גברא
- Transliteration
- gbr'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 524
רַבָּא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- רבא
- Transliteration
- rb'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 305
מִתְעַבֵד׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- תעבד
- Transliteration
- mt'bd
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 11
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Vir vanus in superbiam erigitur, et tamquam pullum onagri se liberum natum putat.
vir
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uir
- Transliteration
- vir
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 1641
vanus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uanus
- Transliteration
- vanus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 56
in
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- in
- Transliteration
- in
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Gloss
- in
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Definition
- in, into, among, on
- Etymology
- Latin preposition used with ablative for location or with accusative for motion.
- Occurrences
- 22264
superbiam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- superbia
- Transliteration
- superbiam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 102
erigitur
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- erigo
- Transliteration
- erigitur
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 72
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
tamquam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- tamquam
- Transliteration
- tamquam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 176
pullum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- pullus
- Transliteration
- pullum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 44
onagri
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- onager
- Transliteration
- onagri
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 10
se
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sui
- Transliteration
- se
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 1317
liberum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- liber
- Transliteration
- liberum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 252
natum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- nascor
- Transliteration
- natum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 189
putat
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- puto
- Transliteration
- putat
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 103
Ranked cross references
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But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
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I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
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What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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