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What's the easiest/quickest way to do that?
Sorry I misunderstood your request. I always think "use someone else's work" is the quickest way[:D]
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I'm trying to get a count of the total number of words in the NKJV. What's the easiest/quickest way to do that?
Export it in chunks and use Word's word count.
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If you've never seen the book "what in the world is the bible really about" you should check it out. There are so many great bible and trivia questions and so much helpful knowledge to questions like this, but there are roughly 775 thousand words in the bible
No guarantee for accuracy but I love being a font of true trivia. From http://rti.myfineforum.org/archive/poll-selection-of-bible-verse-pop-up-translation__o_t__t_245.html
Bible Translation Word Counts
NASB and ESV are tied (recall I voted twice for the ESV during testing of the poll function).
I added the HCSB as an option to the poll in case anyone wants to vote for it.
Some might be interested to know a piece of trivia: that among the
popular English translations the HCSB uses the fewest words to translate
the original Greek and Hebrew into English.
The word count of the Hebrew and Greek text in the standard critical
editions is 545,202. A few word count stats on the English versions:
• Original KJV 774,746
• Current KJV 790,676 (Blayney 1769 version: 788,280)
• ESV 757,439
• NLT 747,891
• NIV 726,109
• HCSB 718,943
• NKJV 770,430
• NRSV 895,891
• NASB 782,815
• TNIV 723,393
Folks might consider Gordon Fee's paperback book published by Zondervan: How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth: A Guide to Understanding and Using Bible Versions
Worth every penny of the less than $20 it costs.
My English favorites (in descending order): NASB95 tied with ESV (2007 text), HCSB, TNIV, NIV, KJV (Blayney version), NET, NLT (2008 version), NRSV, NKJV, JB, The Message, CEV
Some resources to dig deeper:
http://Bible-translation.110mb.com/
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
MJ,
Thanks for the reply and the shout-out for Gordon Fee. Anything he writes is awesome. However, I don't need to know the word count for the NKJV, I already found it using Accordance. I need to know HOW to do it in Logos. I'm stumped. Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.
The only accurate way is a Bible Search of Surface Text using the wildcard. It is also very long..
That's from my Desktop with i7 cpu and 7200 RPM HDD. The Laptop with i5 and SSD is slightly faster!
Ignore the highlighting as Logos restricts itself to 8 words/verse.
If you search "All bible text" in a Reverse Interlinear (or any bible with morphology) like NKJV, ESV you will get unwanted results from the underlying morphology. "Surface Text" is the 'manuscript' text.
EDIT: run overnight on "All Passages" for a one-shot count.
Dave
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Wow! It took over a minute to find a word count in 2 John alone? It tok Accordance 3 seconds to find every word in the entire Bible!
Logos have always been weak with "count the words" searches despite repeated requests over many years with Libronix and now, Logos 4. The major problem is organising the results in memory and pushing them through the video subsystem. I imagine Accordance uses a command that only returns the word count!?
Dave
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