> 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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