Saturday, September 16, 2006

Most commonly used words in the Bible

While doing my quick little study on Hell this evening (see previous post), I got to noticing which words had the most references in the concordance. So, I decided to do a little informal "most common word" research using the highly professional method of counting up how many words had more than one column of references in my Bible (including related derivatives). I think the results are rather interesting.

4 Columns or more
Lord (9 1/2)
God (8 1/2)
Love (7 1/2)
Faith (4 1/2)
Trust (4)

3 Columns
Heart
Knowledge
Right/Righteous
Sin

2 Columns
Believe
Christ
Commands/Commandments
eternal/everlasting
evil
Glory
Heal/healing
Holy
Israel
Jerusalem
Joy
Judge/Judgement
Just/Justice/Justify
Keep
King/Kingdom
Law
Life
People

1 Column
Baptism
Call/Calling/Called
Comfort
Compassion
Condemn
Create/Creation/Creator
Crucify
Delight
Desire
Die
Exalt
Father
Forgive
Give
Glad
Good
Grace
Hand
Hear
Heaven
Jesus
Live/Living
Look
Name
Obey
Peace
Please/Pleasure
Poor/Poverty
Power
Promise
Pray/Prayer
Prophet/Prophesy
Salvation
Save
Serve
Son
Spirit
Strength
Teach
Understand
Whole
Wicked
Woman

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