SUGGESTION: Way to Improve “Interesting Words”

I am currently studying Galatians 2:11-21 and noticed that ἀναγκάζω occurs twice within these 11 verses. In light of the fact that these word is used only 9 times in the Greek NT and 3 of those times is in the book of Galatians, this is clearly an “Interesting Word”.

I have no idea how the program currently determines which words are “interesting” but it would seem to me that it’s results would be vastly improved if it took into account the percentage usage of the word by book (in this case 33%). Perhaps a threshold of 25% would flag a word as “interesting”. In addition, if the program would consider the total words of the book compared to the total words of the NT or OT this would be another indicator of how “interesting” the word is.

Finally, while composing this post it occurred to me that with these types of improvements “Key Words” would be a better name for this function in the Program Guide.

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Kenneth Neighoff

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I wouldn't confuse unusual word usage with 'key' word usage. For all we know, Paul had too much wine for his stomach (or his secretary had too much).

Just opining, but I'd assume (with the Logos forumula) that once you enter 'books', the equations can get a bit squirrelly. I have a similar function in my software, and the book level goes to sleep on lengthy volumes, and is positively unwound with the John-nines. I had to put in a geometric smoothing function relative to book-length to accomodate. My eventual solution was you choose testament vs book.

While wasting everyone's reading pleasure, actually the function is much more interesting on what words are not used (and would be expected given the surrounding words). I'm guessing Logos also has that info too in its equation (but not shown).

Keith Larson

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I wouldn't confuse unusual word usage with 'key' word usage. For all we know, Paul had too much wine for his stomach (or his secretary had too much).

Just opining, but I'd assume (with the Logos forumula) that once you enter 'books', the equations can get a bit squirrelly. I have a similar function in my software, and the book level goes to sleep on lengthy volumes, and is positively unwound with the John-nines. I had to put in a geometric smoothing function relative to book-length to accomodate. My eventual solution was you choose testament vs book.

While wasting everyone's reading pleasure, actually the function is much more interesting on what words are not used (and would be expected given the surrounding words). I'm guessing Logos also has that info too in its equation (but not shown).

I agree that unusual does automatically equal a "Key Word", however, modifying the way the program determines "interesting words" by what I am suggesting would help generate more meaningful results that what we are currently getting. Even then, the results would have to be evaluated by common sense.

To add another layer of complexity, it is often not individual words that are significant but phrases. In Galatians 2:11-21, "the truth of the gospel", "in step" and "works of the law" are all significant phrases.