[B-Greek] Rod Decker's LXX Vocabulary List

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed May 3 14:59:16 EDT 2006


Rod Decker has not been active on the list recently but he has  
informed that he's completed a LXX Vocabulary list that may be  
helpful to some B-Greekers. Here's his description; the URL follows  
below:

"LXX Greek vocabulary list by frequency. One of the more frequent  
questions I've been asked over the past few years is, "Where can I  
find a vocabulary frequency list for the Septuagint?" I've not been  
able to point to any such tool, so eventually I got around to making  
a beginning attempt at offering such a tool. This one is by no means  
complete. It offers only the most frequent words from the LXX: all  
those which occur 100 or more times in the LXX--519 words, to be  
specific. My guess is that given the vocab size of the LXX, this may  
be roughly analogous to a first year Greek NT vocab list (which often  
gives words occurring 50+ times in the NT). Perhaps I will be able to  
extend it to include more words at a later time. I fully realize that  
some have hesitated to offer such a list until the Gottingen LXX is  
completed (and some folks are becoming cautiously optimistic that the  
Gottingen may actually be completed in our lifetime!), but so long as  
one realizes that this is a provisional list based on Rahlfs' text  
and the stats in Lust, Eynikel, and Hauspie's LXX lexicon, I think it  
will serve a useful, if limited, tool for those students who want to  
work on vocabulary beyond that of the NT for reading in the LXX."

http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/documents/LXX_vocab.pdf

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
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