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The inner life in Scripture's own words

The numbers: how every count in this file was produced

The method, so it can be checked. Every count in this file was produced by reading the Strong's-tagged interlinear Hebrew and Greek text row by row, the STEPBible TAHOT and TAGNT data, rather than by looking a figure up in a tool whose method was unknown. Only the dStrongs column was counted, the same row also carries columns of textual variants and cross-references that name identifiers belonging to other verses, and counting those inflates a total. The identifier was taken with its disambiguating letter (H3820A, not H3820), and a verse was counted once however many times the word occurs in it. Where a lexicon splits one word into lettered senses, both the sense figure and the total are given above.

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Two honest limits on these numbers. First, a verse count is not an occurrence count; a word appearing three times in one verse adds one. Second, the sense letters are a tagger's judgement, recorded in the STEPBible data shows two adjacent verses in Matthew 16 carrying different letters for the same Greek lemma. Where the letter matters to a claim in this file, the claim is stated as what the tagged data says, not as what the Greek requires.

Where a number is not known, none is given. No figure in this file was estimated, rounded from memory, or copied from a tool whose method was not checked.

Sources: STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew) and TAGNT (Greek) tagged text, as held in this reference.

On contested questions we show every major view, attributed and cited, and pick no winner. Answers are synthesized from primary sources, truth you can trace, not opinion.

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