[B-Greek] tool for vocabulary distribution of GNT books?

Webb webb at selftest.net
Thu Sep 28 17:41:35 EDT 2006


I've downloaded Randy Leedy's spreadsheet, which looks to be very useful. My
question is, would a sum at the bottom of each column for NT books be a
reasonable rough indicator of the size (i.e. length) of that book in Greek
words? If not, what is a better yardstick?

Webb Mealy

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I have an Excel spreadsheet providing raw data for such studies. Each
row is headed by a Greek word, and each column is headed by an NT book.
At the intersection of each row and column is the number of occurrences
of that word in that book. Columns for Luke/Acts, Paul, Peter, John,
etc. can very easily be added by those with at least a rudimentary
understanding of Excel. The Greek words are in BibleWorks font (Bwgrkl),
which is available for free download at
http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html . The data derives from the
BibleWorks morphological database associated with the NA27 text. It is
about 1.5MB in size.

I believe that additional columns with James Tauber's statistical
calculations would also be relatively easy to add. Perhaps James or
someone else would want to do that and post the result somewhere on the
web for easy access. An explanation of the underlying statistical theory
would certainly be a helpful thing to include. I would suggest that
those wishing to modify the spreadsheet do so by inserting a new
worksheet, copying the existing data to that worksheet, and editing that
data, leaving the original data set intact.

Anyone wanting this file may email me with the subject NTVocab (no
spaces or extra characters of any kind). Incoming emails with that
subject will generate an automatic response with the spreadsheet
attached. I will not be able to engage in further discussion on the
topic; I just wanted to make the spreadsheet available for any who may
want it.


Randy Leedy
Bob Jones University Seminary
Greenville, SC
RLeedy at bju.edu

>>>>>>>Hello B-Greekers,

Specialized vocabulary is a part of each book's specific message, as
well as the writer's style.  How do I find a list of which vocabulary
is emphasized in which books?  Surely the information I want is
available in a book or website somewhere.  If I knew the *name* of the
tool, I could look for it.

I want to find out which words are found most frequently in any given
book of the NT.  For example, the word KUWN ("dog") appears more in
Matthew than in any other NT book, if I am correct.

I don't really care much about the word for "dog"; that was just a
silly example.

Anyway, is there a tool that will help me find which book emphasizes
which vocabulary?  If so, what is that tool called?  Is it available
on
the internet?

Thank you very much!

Ted Shoemaker
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