Datasets:

bcv-commons
/

hebrew-word-senses

license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: Hebrew Word Senses — polysemy inventory, Hebrew-context derived
language:
  - hbo
tags:
  - biblical-hebrew
  - lexicography
  - word-sense-disambiguation
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files: hbo_lex.tsv

Hebrew Word Senses

Which Biblical Hebrew lexemes are polysemous (have more than one distinct meaning), and how their occurrences cluster into each sense — 12,536 sense-rows across ~8,015 (lexeme, verbal-stem) groups.

Method

Sense-cluster structure (which occurrences belong to which sense) is decided entirely from Hebrew: occurrences of a (lexeme, stem) are grouped by their English gloss, then merged whenever their Hebrew- clause embedding centroids are close (single-linkage clustering) — the question "are these the same sense?" is answered by how the word is actually used in Hebrew context, not by an English label. No UBS/SDBH data is involved in this step at any point.

Gloss labels (the human-readable name for each sense) come from two sources:

The dominant sense of each group (its most common meaning) uses bcv-commons/strongs's own vetted gloss.
Every other (sub-)sense uses Cherith Glosses (Andi Wu, Copyright 2022, CC BY 4.0) via MACULA's own @gloss attribute — confirmed via MACULA-Hebrew's own LICENSE to be a distinct, separately-licensed source, not SDBH/UBS MARBLE.

Columns

column	meaning
`lex`	ETCBC/BHSA lexeme id
`stem`	verbal stem (binyan) — blank for non-verbs
`sense`	sense number within this (lex, stem) group; `1` is always the dominant sense
`gloss`	the English label for this sense (see Method above for provenance)
`count`	how many occurrences fall in this sense-cluster
`share`	`count` / the group's total occurrences — `sense=1`'s share tells you how polysemous the word actually is in practice (a word with `sense=1` at 99% share is barely polysemous despite having other senses tagged)

License

CC BY 4.0. Sense-cluster structure: independently derived, no restricted source. Dominant-sense glosses: from bcv-commons/strongs. Sub-sense glosses: Cherith Glosses (Andi Wu, CC BY 4.0), via MACULA (Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0) — not derived from or reproducing UBS MARBLE / SDBH.

Provenance

Built by bcv-RAG/scripts/cluster_senses_hebrew.py (clustering) and shoresh/macula/build_hbo_lex_export.py (publish-ready gloss substitution) in bcv-commons/bcv-query.