Keep these points in mind when entering search text in a non-English language.
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Greek, Hebrew, and other languages rely on special markings known as diacritical marks that combine with the basic letters. |
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If you enter these special marks, the search function finds only words that include the precise markings. |
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If you enter no special marks, any word with the same base letters will match. |
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Unless the diacritical mark is a defining characteristic of the word you want to find, enter the word without diacritical marks (or remove them if you've pasted the word from another source). |
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The order of entering diacritical marks is important. In QuickVerse, for any language, the basic letter should be entered first, then the diacritical mark. Otherwise, the basic direction of entering Greek is left to right, while Hebrew is entered right to left. |
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Once you enter a diacritical mark into a word, you also should enter any other diacritical mark of the same class that should appear in the word. This table shows the division of classes used in QuickVerse. |
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Language
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Class
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Markings
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Greek
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Accents
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Acute, grave, circumflex
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Breathing mark
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Smooth, rough
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Iota subscript
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Dieresis
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Hebrew
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Shin/sin dot
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Shin dot, sin dot
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Vowels,
Half vowels
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qamats, palah, tsere, segol, hiriq, holam, qubuts, sheva, hataf patah, hataf segol, hataf qamats
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Sureq and vav with dagesh
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Dagesh when it appears with the base letter vav
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Other marks
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Dagesh without a vav
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Other
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Any diacritical marks
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