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?Thanks,
Mark
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 CountsNASB 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 723,393Folks 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 VersionsWorth 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, CEVSome resources to dig deeper:http://Bible-translation.110mb.com/
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.
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]
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.
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!?
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.
Logos have always been weak with "count the words" searches
Implementing "count the words" searches efficiently was not a design goal of the Logos 4 search engine. (Searching for a specific word, phrase, or Bible reference across dozens or hundreds of resources was. These are fundamentally two different approaches to searching that have different tradeoffs.)
You can try to "trick" the search engine to answer a problem it wasn't designed to solve by searching for "*", but you'll quickly discover that this is very slow (because it wasn't designed to solve that problem [:)]).
The implication here is that it's an either/or situation. Accordance searches for words, verses and phrases across hundreds of resources even quicker than it performs a word search, which only takes seconds. So Logos appears to have made the decision that speed is not a priority for certain types of searches.
I've read this thread, along with earlier ones on the same subject 'how many words'. I've always wondered why someone would want to know that. (not being negative; just wondering).
In the old days of manual copying and typewriters, word counts were a proof-check (in addition to fitting on a type-page; not the issue here). Even knowing the middle word is important if you're trying to find the missing or extra word. Similar to a binary search.
But in Logos in 2012? I suppose.
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
