Sirach
Chapter 20
Verse 2
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Sirach 20

World English Bible, Verse 2

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2 How good is it to reprove, rather than to be angry. He who confesses will be kept back from harm.

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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Sirach 20:2. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.

Panels 3
Word Entries 15
Editorial Notes 0
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Greek Brenton Septuagint Greek · Septuagint / Brenton Greek tradition · Public Domain

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.

Ὡς καλὸν ἐλέγξαι ἢ θυμοῦσθαι,

5 word entries
Ὡς
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
ὡς
Transliteration
hos
Morphology
comparative conjunction/adverb
Gloss
as, like, when
Part of Speech
conjunction/adverb
Definition
Comparative or temporal conjunction/adverb.
Occurrences
1899
καλὸν
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.
Transliteration
kalon
Morphology
adjective, accusative masculine singular or nominative/accusative neuter singular
Gloss
good, beautiful
Part of Speech
adjective
Definition
Good, beautiful, noble.
Occurrences
62
ἐλέγξαι
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.
Transliteration
elegxai
Morphology
nominative plural feminine or infinitive/verb form depending on context
Gloss
...
Part of Speech
noun/adjective/verb form
Definition
Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences
2
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
Transliteration
e
Morphology
disjunctive/comparative particle
Gloss
or, than
Part of Speech
conjunction/particle
Definition
Disjunctive or comparative particle.
Occurrences
931
θυμοῦσθαι
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.
Transliteration
thymoysthai
Morphology
nominative plural feminine or infinitive/verb form depending on context
Gloss
...
Part of Speech
noun/adjective/verb form
Definition
Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences
3
Syriac Peshitta Old Testament Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License

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.

ܠܝܬ ܠܗ ܛܝܒܘܬܐ ܠܡ̇ܢ ܕܡ̇ܟܣ ܠܥܘܠܐ

6 word entries
ܠܝܬ
Confidence
medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note
OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration
LJT
Morphology
L(>-(>JT(J/
Occurrences
0
ܠܗ
Confidence
medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note
OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration
LH
Morphology
L-H
Occurrences
0
ܛܝܒܘܬܐ
Confidence
medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note
OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration
VJBWT>
Morphology
VJBW/T~>
Occurrences
0
ܠܡ̇ܢ
Confidence
medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note
OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration
LM^N
Morphology
L-MN=
Occurrences
0
ܕܡ̇ܟܣ
Confidence
medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note
OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration
DM^KS
Morphology
D-!M!](>]KS(S[/
Occurrences
0
ܠܥܘܠܐ
Confidence
medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
Note
OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
Transliteration
L<WL>
Morphology
L-<WL/~>
Occurrences
0
Latin Vulgate Clementine Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology

Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported

Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.

Concupiscentia spadonis devirginabit juvenculam:

4 word entries
concupiscentia
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Transliteration
concupiscentia
Morphology
GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences
43
spadonis
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
spado
Transliteration
spadonis
Morphology
GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences
3
devirginavit
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Transliteration
devirginavit
Morphology
GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences
1
iuvenem
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
iuuenis
Transliteration
iuvenem
Morphology
GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences
102
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