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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Size of Isaiah?
  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:36:44 -0500


Five minutes on the computer gave me the answer:

15,154 words if words joined by maqqef are counted as one
17,011 words if words joined by maqqef are counted separately

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Size of Isaiah?
Author: <ButhFam AT compuserve.com> at Internet
Date: 28/12/1999 13:53


Crea:
>I read that in Rabbinic Bibles the "title
>page" for each book included sundry and various information concerning the
>content of that book. If this is so, can some kind soul out there in
>cyber-land glance at his copy and tell me how many words are in the
>Masoretic text of Isaiah?

sorry
my rabbinic bible (incl. bar-ilan's wonderful "ha-keter")
only says
that isaiah has
1291 verses.
a computer program would produce it, though.
randall buth

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