Non-Consecutive Mappiq He

• 04 September 2023
• Torah,
• concordance

Previously: Consecutive Mappiq He

A natural follow-up question to yesterday's post is: What is the maximum number of mappiq he in any one verse?

In some ways this is a simpler question because we just need to look verse-by-verse and we don't care about streaks.

from pathlib import Path
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

URL_SEFARIA = "https://www.sefaria.org/{book}.{chap}.{verse}"

print("| count | ref |")
print("|-------|-----|")
for path in sorted(Path(".").glob("*.xml")):
    if ".DH" in path.name or "Index" in path.name:
        continue
    soup = BeautifulSoup(path.read_text(), features="xml")
    for verse in soup.find_all("v"):
        count = sum([
          1 if "הּ" in word.text else 0
          for word in verse.find_all("w")
        ])
        if count > 3:
            book = path.stem
            chap_num = verse.parent["n"]
            verse_num = verse["n"]
            ref = f"{book} {chap_num}:{verse_num}"
            url = URL_SEFARIA.format(book=book, chap=chap_num, verse=verse_num)
            print(f"|{count}|[{ref}]({url})|")

Lots of fours and fives, but there are six in Numbers 5:27.

Updates #

2023-11-28 #

• Updated broken links.