Stephanus Karnadhi

Stephanus Karnadhi · 2025-02-13T22:46:58+00:00

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I run the concordance on NA28 two months ago and just now, I get two different numbers of greek words, I checked all the boxes for both of time. How can I be sure the latest number is the right one? The difference is signicant, 2-3 months ago its 138,093 Greek words, and now 132,087 Greek words - about 6K words for the whole NT.

I run the concordance on THGNT, the number is stagering: 154.748 Greek words compared to 132.387 Greek words in NA28. Almost 22K different! What is this? Please enlighten me. I am a firm believer that we really have 99% accuracy of Greek text and only 0,2% of Greek NT lines are in question. But this differences staggers me. Please, please, somebody do a deep checking. This is of utmost important.

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Andrew Batishko

Please upload a screenshot of the Concordance panel to indicate what settings you are using to collect your counts of the NA28.

MJ. Smith

Welcome to the forum. I would need screens shots to identify the difference. Limiting it to Bible text only which you did not specify, these are my results on the three GNT

estimates to verify data:

Breakdown of Word Count
Total words: 138,000 - 140,000
Unique words: Approximately 5,400 different Greek words

Andrew Batishko

MJ, you are also omitting (at least in the two NA28s) stopwords and numbers, which affects the count…

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1358205#Comment_1358205

Correct I should have mentioned that. It was my interpretation of his "checked all the boxes".

Stephanus Karnadhi

Thank you Andrew & M.J. I did checked all the boxes like in M.J. screenshots. But I also tap on "Greek" under Language to get only Greek words. The problem is that 3 months ago, with the same settings, I got different numbers. I'm sure of it because I listed them in my presentation, and was so suprised that the number changes recently. Thank again for taking time to answer me.