Word Type
This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word.
- Shemaiah can be used as a proper noun in the sense of "One of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:" or "# A prophet in the reign of Rehoboam (1 Kings 12:22-24)." or "# Neh. 3:29." or "# A Simeonite (1 Chr. 4:37)." or "# A priest (Neh. 12:42)." or "# A Levite (1 Chr. 9:16)." or "# 1 Chr. 9:14; Neh. 11:15." or "# A Levite in the time of David, who with 200 of his brethren took part in the bringing up of the ark from Obed-edom to Hebron (1 Chr. 15:8)." or "# A Levite (1 Chr. 24:6)." or "# The eldest son of Obed-edom (1 Chr. 26:4-8)." or "# A Levite (2 Chr. 29:14)." or "# A false prophet who hindered the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Neh. 6:10)." or "# A prince of Judah who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 12:34-36)." or "# A false prophet who opposed Jeremiah (Jer. 29:24-32)." or "# One of the Levites whom Jehoshaphat appointed to teach the law (2 Chr. 17:8)." or "# A Levite appointed to "distribute the oblations of the Lord" (2 Chr. 31:15)." or "# A Levite (2 Chr. 35:9)." or "# The father of Urijah the prophet (Jer. 26:20)." or "# The father of a prince in the reign of Jehoiakim (Jer. 36:12)." or "# A rabbinic sage who was leader of the Pharisee's in 1st century BC."
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
