[B-Greek] Mood Frequencies in the NT

Harold Holmyard hholmyard at ont.com
Tue Jan 10 09:51:00 EST 2006


Dear Antti,

>	I would like to know what are the statistics of mood frequencies
>in the NT. According to Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, they
>are as follows (p. 447): indicative 15618, subjunctive 1858, imperative 1631,
>optative 68. However, when I checked the numbers with Bibloi 8.00 program,
>I got differing results. For example, according to Bibloi, there are 1820
>imperatives in the NT. Difference between that number and 1631 is huge.
>  
>

HH: The Accordance Bible program for the computer gives 1634 imperatives 
in the Greek NT.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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