Eighth Function: Word Analysis

In the Analysis window on BW, there are tabs located on the top, the very first tab is labeled “Analysis”. This tab displays the word analysis box. The function of this is quite simple. Once you scroll over a text with your mouse, the analysis window reveals things about the word or text, it’s that simple. If it is a Greek or Hebrew text it shows the morphology of the word which you are scrolling and the lexical entry for that word.
When looking at or Hebrew text it also gives you the strong numbers, they give you the corrected numbers. The Lockman editions which use their own Strong’s numbering.
There are several other features in this tab that can be accessed when you right click.
You can copy the text to the clipboard or also to the editor, the editor function copies straight to the editor, whether it is selected or just the complete text.
You can also change the function of the update. Kept with the default settings, the content of the analysis tab will change as you mouse over the text. However, if you would like to move your mouse to the tab window without changing the content you can press the shift key, however, with the right click option you can reverse that to make it to where you only change the analysis tab when you hold down the shift key.
You can also show or hide the header to the analysis, editor, and notes tab this is done the same way.
There are also several functions and options for how you display the strong’s numbers. I will not truly cover these because I do not use the strong’s numbers.
The right click is also where you can change the Lexicon which is used which can be used. This is nice when you need to use a different lexicon especially if you have purchased a better one than the default such as BDAG or HALOT.
The second to last option here is the statistics for the lemma usage.
And the final option is enable the Frequency Filter which I don’t fully understand at this point and my system for some reason will not let me open it.
Overall this is a good tab to work with. I prefer to keep mine with the basic where it changes constantly and only stick when I hold down the shift key. I don’t have any purchased lexicons otherwise I would have made that the display. This tab isn’t as versatile as some but the use of it is imperative with Bibleworks.