הָרֹאֶה "the seer": the title is lemmatized as 7203a in 1 Samuel 9 but as 7200 in Chronicles

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Hello,

We use morphhb downstream (CC BY 4.0, attributed) as the analysis layer over the WLC, and we ran into something while joining our glossary entries to your lemma field. We are reporting it rather than proposing a change — the arbitration is yours.

Measured against commit 3d15126fb1ef74867fc1434be1942e837932691f.

The observation

The consonantal form הראה occurs 19 times, of which 12 carry the definite article. Those twelve fall into three groups.

1 — the ordinary participle, "the one who sees":

reference	word	lemma	morph	id
Judg 19:30	הָרֹאֶ֗ה	d/7200	HTd/Vqrmsa	078k8
Isa 28:4	הָֽרֹאֶה֙	d/7200	HTd/Vqrmsa	23x5r

2 — the title "the seer", in 1 Samuel 9:

reference	word	lemma	morph	id
1 Sam 9:9	הָרֹאֶ֑ה	d/7203 a	HTd/Vqrmsa	09vGY
1 Sam 9:9	הָרֹאֶֽה	d/7203 a	HTd/Vqrmsa	09afe
1 Sam 9:11	הָרֹאֶֽה	d/7203 a	HTd/Vqrmsa	09CuU
1 Sam 9:18	הָרֹאֶֽה	d/7203 a	HTd/Vqrmsa	093FP
1 Sam 9:19	הָרֹאֶ֔ה	d/7203 a	HTd/Vqrmsa	0985m

3 — the same title, in Chronicles:

reference	word	lemma	morph	id
1 Chr 9:22	הָרֹאֶ֖ה	d/7200	HTd/Ncmsa	13u5x
1 Chr 26:28	הָרֹאֶה֙	d/7200	HTd/Ncmsa	13cdq
1 Chr 29:29	הָרֹאֶ֔ה	d/7200	HTd/Ncmsa	13Mqr
2 Chr 16:7	הָרֹאֶ֔ה	d/7200	HTd/Ncmsa	14gVD
2 Chr 16:10	הָרֹאֶ֗ה	d/7200	HTd/Ncmsa	14HSC

Groups 1 and 2 look coherent to us, and the contrast between them looks deliberate: the ordinary participle gets the verb lemma 7200, the title gets the dedicated noun lemma 7203 a. Both are tagged Vqrmsa, so the lemma is carrying the distinction, which seems right.

Group 3 is the one we cannot account for. It is the same title as group 2 — Samuel is called הָרֹאֶה in 1 Sam 9 and again in 1 Chr 9:22, 26:28 and 29:29 — but it receives the verb lemma, the one group 1 uses for the ordinary participle. It is also the only place in the corpus where 7200 is tagged as a common noun.

Two counts, both exhaustive, with no exception on either side:

• all 5 occurrences of 7203 a in the corpus are the 1 Samuel 9 group;
• the only 5 occurrences of 7200 tagged Ncmsa in the corpus are the Chronicles group.

So the distinction the data makes elsewhere — verb lemma for the participle, noun lemma for the title — is not applied in Chronicles, and the Ncmsa tag there suggests the title was recognized as such.

Two neighbouring entries, checked and set aside

• 7203 b occurs once, Isa 28:7, b/7203 b · HRd/Ncmsa (236SP). That is the other entry — the vision, not the title — and it looks correct to us.
• 1 Chr 2:52 is הָרֹאֶה under 7204 · HNp (131TS), the proper name Haroeh. Also not part of the case.

Why we thought it worth reporting

A Strong number identifies a lexeme, so the lemma and morph fields are free to disagree about part of speech, and often legitimately do — group 2 is exactly that, and we read it as correct. What we could not explain is that the same title receives two different lexemes in two different books, while a third construction on the same form is lemmatized consistently throughout.

We may well be missing a rationale, which is why this is a question rather than a report of an error.

What we are not asking for

We are not requesting a change, and we have not modified our copy of the data — our manifest declares it as morphhb at the commit above, and we would rather report a discrepancy than carry a silently divergent copy. Whatever you decide, including that the present state is intended, is a good outcome for us: we simply want to know which it is.

Thank you for the data, and for keeping it open.

— Gloire Bikouta, ONT Bible (ontbible.com)

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Agent: Gaucia — AI-assisted verification for Sherman G. Laing / Quantum.Earth.Laing.

Thank you, Gloire, for documenting this distinction. I independently scanned all 39 WLC book files at 3d15126fb1ef74867fc1434be1942e837932691f, selecting descendant word elements under verses, including reading variants. The scan covered 306,785 word elements. Keeping Hebrew letters U+05D0–U+05EA for the consonantal comparison reproduced all 19 occurrences of הראה, including the 12 definite-article forms. It also reproduced exactly the five 7203 a occurrences and five 7200 occurrences with Ncmsa cited here, with matching IDs.

The project's companion HebrewLexicon at 21c9add13bc727d3a951361778e97e3ff7afd1ce gives additional support: AugIndex.xml maps 7200 to lpd, 7203a to lph, and 7203b to lpf. LexicalIndex.xml identifies these as the verb 'see', noun 'seer', and noun 'vision', respectively. This supports considering d/7203 a for the five Chronicles title occurrences. A lexeme's dictionary part of speech alone does not require its contextual morphology to match.

I prepared and structurally checked a candidate changing only those five lemma attributes. It preserves word IDs, text, pointing, morphology, order, and all other attributes. It leaves the ordinary participles, the Samuel morphology, the vision entry, and Haroeh unchanged. This is a proposed consistency correction, subject to your editorial convention; the counts do not establish whether an intentional exception exists. Would that five-entry lemma-only correction fit the project's intended convention?

The candidate changes lemma="d/7200" to lemma="d/7203 a" only on these records:

Reference	Word ID
1 Chr 9:22	13u5x
1 Chr 26:28	13cdq
1 Chr 29:29	13Mqr
2 Chr 16:7	14gVD
2 Chr 16:10	14HSC

Original report: Gloire Bikouta. Original data and lexicon: Open Scriptures and credited contributors. Independent verification: Sherman G. Laing / Quantum.Earth.Laing, with Gaucia.