Conflict in word count in Revelation

If I generate a concordance on the book of Revelation using the NKJV the word "God" is listed 97 times. If I generate a word list using the NKJV on the book of Revelation, the word "God" is generated 100 times.

Can anyone repeat this result and if so why the difference?

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Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1190376#Comment_1190376

Here is a better shot.

Lynden O. Williams

The word list seems to be the more accurate, as it combines english words using the same greek words.

Kevin A

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1190378#Comment_1190378

I am getting a count of 99 for search/concordance of surface text and lemma, I am not sure why 2 more than you.

I am however also getting 100 in the word list.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1190384#Comment_1190384

I am getting a count of 99 for search/concordance of surface text and lemma, I am not sure why 2 more than you.

I am however also getting 100 in the word list.

I concur. The Word List count is inaccurate for that and other lemmas.

Andrew Batishko

The first thing to consider is that Concordance and adding entries to a Word List operate entirely differently. Take for example, the word "gold". Concordance indicates that the word shows up 10 times. Your Word List is going to show at least three different lemmas that have a gloss of "gold", and their total count adds up to 22. This is because the word list generates entries based on the lemma (which may or may not be translated according to the indicated gloss), while Concordance is actually counting occurrences of the English word in the surface text.

That said, I'm not exactly sure why the Word List counts are turning out as they are, but I'll create a case to investigate.

The other issue is that I (and others) see 99 for God in Concordance, not 97. I'm not sure why this is different for you. You could try forcing this to regenerate by deleting some files. If you are interested in trying this, use the instructions at the link below to collect log files, and I'll tell you which files need to be deleted. Then you'll need to regenerate the NKJV concordance.

https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027869132

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1191586#Comment_1191586

Thanks Andrew

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1191586#Comment_1191586

Revelation 12:10 had a misalignment in the reverse interlinear data that I believe was responsible for the unexpected count in the Word List. We fixed the alignment, and when I tested the new resource, my Word List gave a count of 99 for θεός like I would expect. This change should be available in the next batch of resource updates.

That said, comparing English surface text counts to Word List counts is still not a practical idea.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1191675#Comment_1191675

Revelation 12:10 had a misalignment in the reverse interlinear data that I believe was responsible for the unexpected count in the Word List.

That is the tip of the iceberg, Andrew.

lemma:αὐτός is not translated 13x which apparently accounts for 420 in the Word List, but 433 in Bible Search!

In a similar way, ὅς is not translated 3x when the Word List counts 74 vs. 76 with a probable misalignment at Rev 14:4

**I did a search for lemma:αὐτός NOT INTERSECTS him*,his, them,it*, the*, he*,they,whose,you,that for that count.

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1191790#Comment_1191790

Yes. I noticed that and wrote up a case to investigate. My method for finding the problem was to switch the Concordance to show lemmas and compare the counts against the word list counts. I would expect those to be the same.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1191816#Comment_1191816

I was intrigued to understand if the Word List count depended on alignment within the Reverse Interlinear data, as you had stated that fixing the latter corrected the count in Word List. I think there are some bad misalignments, but Word List should just count the lemmas.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1191826#Comment_1191826

but Word List should just count the lemmas.

I assume you mean lemmas that are translated in the NKJV - otherwise you are providing counts for the Greektext not the English text required.

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1191889#Comment_1191889

but Word List should just count the lemmas.

I assume you mean lemmas that are translated in the NKJV - otherwise you are providing counts for the Greektext not the English text required.

Exactly. It's kind of ambiguous how these should be counted, but it seems likely (to me at least) that Concordance and Word List should count lemmas in the same way.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1191889#Comment_1191889

I assume you mean lemmas that are translated in the NKJV

I mean lemmas in the Greek text used by the translation, whether translated or not, which is the same count as a Bible Search.

From Andrew's comment above I assumed the same, but Concordance provides an unfiltered count that agrees with Bible Search whilst filtering by Bible Text seems to agree with Word List. So I now assume that Andrew meant the latter. But many users are confused about the count in Word List when they compare it with Bible Search (and an unfiltered count in Concordance).

lemma:αὐτός occurs 5465x (ESV), 5679x (NKJV), 5345x (CSB) according to the lemma popup in Morph Search (it varies with Preferred bible). BWS Translation section agrees with these counts.

The filtered counts in Concordance are 5460x (ESV), 5679x (NKJV), 5345x (CSB). The Word List count for ESV is 5465, so it appears that Concordance needs some fine tuning and Word List is way too slow for more comparisons!

My conclusion is that a Word List should be used on an original language bible if one is using it for vocabulary training or needs an accurate count.

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1191924#Comment_1191924

My conclusion is that a Word List should be used on an original language bible if one is using it for vocabulary training or needs an accurate count.

Kind of similar to searching for original language words with relative positions (before/after). If you care about the specific details of the original language, you really should be using the original language.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1191924#Comment_1191924

I mean lemmas in the Greek text used by the translation, whether translated or not, which is the same count as a Bible Search

For me, that would be misleading. If one wants the original language text, one should use the original language text as the input. There would be no reason to run a translation. It fact, I would want it blocked as it would be misleading. If one allows the Greek vocabulary from an English text, then it must be on the words translated by that text or it is meaningless.