Frequency of hOS

Harry W. Jones hjbluebird at aol.com
Thu Nov 8 18:11:01 EST 2001


Dear Bill,

My copy of, "The Exhaustive Concordance to the Greek NT" by
Kohlenberger III gives 1407 occurrences of hOS.

Best,
Harry Jones

> I have been trying to correct some of the frequency usage data in Mounce's
> first-year textbook as I teach from it this year. For hOS, on page 113,
> Mounce gives the frequency as 1,365 times. This is the same number given in
> a couple of other sources, Robert VanVoorst's Building Your New Testament
> Greek Vocabulary (p. 21) and Warren Trenchard's The Student's Complete
> Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament. However, I suspect this figure
> is low. Accordance gives the figure as 1407, and I don't know why that
> figure should be wrong, but I notice that in Zondervan's new Greek English
> Concordance to the New Testament, which was done with computer technology,
> lists the figure as 1411. Any ideas?
> -- 
> Bill Combs
> Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary



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