Percent of Bible in Hebrew
Anyone know of a resource that lists the percentage of the Bible that is written in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic?
I know there would be a couple of ways to calculate that, I just can't figure out a way to search for that kind of information that give me good results. (even on google)
Alan
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That information can be found in many good Bible dictionaries, study bibles, and encyclopedias like the ESV Study Bible and the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. These should allow you to calculate the percentages on your own.
In case you do not own the either of the highlighted resources, I’ve included the ISBE information below:
The OT, it is well known, is written mostly in Hebrew; the NT is written in Greek. The parts of the OT not in Hebrew, viz., Ezr. 4:8–6:18; 7:12–26; Jer. 10:11; Dnl. 2:4–7:28, are in Aramaic (formerly called Chaldean), a related dialect which after the Exile gradually displaced Hebrew as the spoken language of the Jews (see ARAMAIC; HEBREW LANGUAGE). The ancient Hebrew text was “unpointed,” i.e., without the vowelmarks that came into use as a result of the labors of the Masoretic scholars (after 6th cent. A.D.).
The Greek of the NT, on which so much light was thrown by the labors of Deissmann and others from the Egyptian papyri, showing it to be a form of the “common” or koinḗ (Hellenistic) speech of the time (see GREEK LANGUAGE), still remains—from its penetration by Hebrew ideas, the influence of the LXX, peculiarities of training and culture in the writers, and above all the vitalizing and transforming power of Christian conceptions in vocabulary and expression—a study by itself. “We impart this,” the apostle says, “in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit” (1 Cor. 2:13). This is not always remembered in the search for parallels in the papyri. (For translations into other languages, see VERSIONS.)
Harrison, R. K. (1979–1988). Bible. In G. W. Bromiley (Ed.), The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised (Vol. 1, p. 483). Wm. B. Eerdmans.
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Hi mate. By my calculations, these are the proportions:
611,224 words in the Bible:
• 468,921 Hebrew words (76.72%)
• 4,283 Aramaic words (0.7%)
• 138,020 Greek words (22.58%)I was curious about this myself. A few weeks ago I found a forum where a guy used logos to do a total word count of each of the books of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation (not including the Apocrypha). From this data I kept a record of them and added it all up to get 611,224 words all up, then checked out how much of those numbers were OT and NT etc.
I spent some time on blueletterbible.com copying and pasting every Aramaic word from every Aramaic verse in the Bible into MS Word. It did a word count for me and got 4,283 words. Some simple subtraction then division with a calculator got me those percentage figures.
Feel free to check em. I'm way better at languages than maths, lol!
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Alan said:
I know there would be a couple of ways to calculate
One way to calculate is using Morph Search (of Surface Text and Primary Morph that excludes variants)
Hebrew 464,484 ~ 76.3 % of 608,890
Aramaic 6,665 ~ 1.1 % of 608,890
Greek 137,741 ~ 22.6 % of 608,890
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<LogosMorphAram ~ A>,<LogosMorphAram ~ C?>,<LogosMorphAram ~ D>,<LogosMorphAram ~ G>,<LogosMorphAram ~ I>,<LogosMorphAram ~ J???>,<LogosMorphAram ~ N????>,<LogosMorphAram ~ P?>,<LogosMorphAram ~ R?????>,<LogosMorphAram ~ U????>,<LogosMorphAram ~ V????????>,<LogosMorphAram ~ X>
<LogosMorphGr ~ B?>,<LogosMorphGr ~ C?>,<LogosMorphGr ~ D???>,<LogosMorphGr ~ I>,<LogosMorphGr ~ J????>,<LogosMorphGr ~ N????>,<LogosMorphGr ~ P>,<LogosMorphGr ~ R??????>,<LogosMorphGr ~ T?>,<LogosMorphGr ~ V???????>,<LogosMorphGr ~ X?>
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Keep in mind that the NT drew its quotations from the Greek in the LXX. It's still remarkable how much Hebraic writing is retained in NT Greek.
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