Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT sil.org]

Microsoft Word 97. But I had to do some fiddling with the text first 
to remove chapter and verse markers. I was working with a 
transliteration of BHS. One could do the same with the CCAT text but 
one might have to replace the punctuation marks used in the text by 
letters (any letters!) for the count to come out right. By the way, 
there is a possible small error in that words with Ketiv and Qere 
variants may be double counted.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Size of Isaiah?
Author:  <Numberup AT worldnet.att.net> at Internet
Date:    29/12/1999 09:02


Sounds like you have an excellent computer program.  Which one is it that 
enable
d you
to find the number of words in Isaiah?

Solomon Landers
Memra Institute for Biblical Research 
http://www.memrain.org

peter_kirk AT sil.org wrote:

> 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
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> 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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