Top 100 Most Common Words in the Bible

What about Preach? Do you know what that rank was?

Oh, lol, sorry, didn't realize it was that low. Great quiz though.

How about "slew"?

What rank is "weather"? I suspect it to be very low.

wow your a genius

Clearly you are not bc the correct form is you're

buster731, It would appear you are not a genius either. The abbreviation of because to 'bc' shows that very clearly.

SmarterThanEinstein, abbreviations are a way to save time, whereas using your instead of you're is a blatant grammatical error

i think he's using [command+f] on a PDF of the bible, or some other online version.

Still Jesus should be there

Jesus should be in there

Jesus didn't make an appearance until the new testament

I was so certain that Love and Jesus would be in there. Are you talking about the whole Bible or just the Old Testament?

Says something that love was so far down the list.

Yeah? What does that say?

That religious does not equate to loving

"saith" ?

ikr what is that lol

The archaic third person singular present of say.

Would have thought Begat would have made an appearance just because of Genesis.

I would make a "begat" pun, but those may begetting a little old.

You should best begetting out.

What's Phil Collins got to do with this?

Nothing. It was all Peter Gabriel's doing.

This has nothing to do with the bible and requires no knowledge. It's just a sprint of writing common pronouns and prepositions.

and to write Israel XD

Yes, saith is certainly one of the 100 commonest words I use

Lord, God, Israel, thou, thee, hath, house, ye, behold, shalt, saying,... All those and many others would never appear in a list of common nouns and prepositions.

How is this much different than the most common words quiz? A quiz based on the top 100 nouns of the Bible would make more sense.

You're in luck! http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/115106/top-100-nouns-in-the-bible

It has old-fashioned words and inflexions, which won't be found much in modern literature, for a start.

this is a boring quiz.

you're the only person who left a comment saying that and you got no likes... seems that "this is a boring quiz." is merely your opinion

Many of these were just different forms of the same word, such as be, is, was, are. It's unfair that you need to guess the correct inflection. I typed say, but it wasn't accepted although said is in the list.

Got "saying," currently at 2%, but missed "was" and "shall." D'oh.

I'm an atheist, and I thought this was a fascinating quiz. I recited Genesis 1:1, the Lord's Prayer, and the 23rd Psalm in my head to try to pick out words - at least as much as I could remember from the Sunday school I never had. Interesting that the only proper nouns are God, Lord, and Israel. I'm not concluding anything from any of these observations - I just found it interesting.

why r u atheist

Why is this a question

Lots of people are atheists, like I am. Some are atheists because they were brought up that way. Some are atheists because they disagree or don't believe in Religion. Some are atheists because they're part of the LGBTQ+ Community and most religions won't and don't accept them. Lots of people are atheists, especially in the Western World it's quite big now.

SuperCat It's not just the west. Eastern Asia is becoming extremely nonreligious. China holds like half of the world's atheists.

I mourn for all atheists. Many of them are friends and family, and on the day of coming judgment, we (who know Christ Jesus) will be separated from them. And they (who are strangers to Christ) will burn for all eternity.

Where is "sin" ranked?

name a few prepositions and some pronouns and you are good to go

Also, it is a little surprise that there are so few feminine nouns or pronouns. "He" but not "she," and "son" but no "daughter."

Not much of a surprise. Can you name even 10 women in the Bible?

Eve, Jezebel, Hannah, Leah, Rachel, Naomi, Sarah, Ruth, Rebekah, Judith...ten from the Old Testament.

If you did that from memory then you're probably in the top 1% of Biblical female namers. Nobody knows who Naomi is.

Only two of these are among the top 25 most mentioned characters.

I do.

The story of Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi is well known - "Whither thou goest I will go." I tried to think of ten women from the New Testament off the top of my head - Mary, Mary Magdalene, Martha, Elizabeth, Priscilla, Lydia, Salome, Anna, Damaris, and Dorcas. To add to the Old Testament list, I also thought of Deborah, Rahab, and Esther. However, you are correct that men are much more prevalent. (That actually might make it easier to remember the few women who are named.)

Don't forget Delilah

There are three Marys - the mother of Jesus, the sister of Martha, and Mary Magdalene.

^Aesthus and if you speak Arabic there are even more, as the Arabic name for Mary (mother of Jesus) and Miriam (sister of Aaron) are the same. They are also the same name in Aramaic. This leads to some funny mix-ups, such as when Muhammad got the two characters confused once while reciting a verse of the Qu'ran and he called Jesus' mother the sister of Aaron.

Helen's remark calling me nasty without justification is allowed to stand (I was not being nasty, and I wasn't proven wrong, I asked a question I didn't make an assertion), but my comment pointing out that she's being petty (she is, she's one of the handful of users on the site who got angry with me somewhere and has been posting personal attacks against me everywhere ever since) gets taken down 3 years after I posted it?

Someone's out to get you Kal. I'd watch your back.

Nobody's out to "get me" but there are 5-6 people who repeatedly leave nasty comments directed at me because they are holding some grudge against me from months or years ago. A couple it's because they first found this site because they were looking for religion quizzes and they saw me make a factual statement about something that contradicted their religious beliefs and they took it personally. A couple have seen me post something about my political beliefs which disagreed with theirs and assumed that I must be the enemy (amusingly, I get this from all sides, radical centrist that I am). And one or two saw a quiz I made that they misinterpreted as offensive, overreacted, got called out for their overreaction, and haven't been able to let it go.
That would all be fine if they were happy to just hash it out in the comments of whatever quiz offended them. But when you spend months or years carrying the argument over to other quizzes that is indeed childish.

and as to the often uneven comment moderation... I don't know if that's just the fact that the moderator is usually busy and doesn't always notice (that seems likely, like I said, my comment here was deleted years after I left it), or it could be that I speak more honestly and in a straightforward manner than most and this tends to get interpreted as me being confrontational since most people imply and beat around the bush.
I hate that. But when I do it myself here I notice that my comments are deleted much more infrequently. I can deliver a scathing insult through innuendo or sarcasm and it stays up but if I just say directly that a comment someone left is dumb... usually that gets deleted.

thanks

What rank is the word "holy" in?

i was pretty surprised about that one, given im not religious

it's pretty strange for 'and' to be at the top of a common words list, but if you look at most old texts (especially religious ones), they're actually quite fond of run on sentences. today you don't see a lot of ands because people have decided that run-ons sound sloppy.

I am a bad Christian for not doing well on this quiz.

Did you go through the bible and tally up every word??

I note that LOVE doesn't make it.

Or "FEAR", which is actually supposedly the most written command in the Bible.

Not to mention that, in context, fear usually means respect and worship - as in 'Fear the Lord your God'.

Does it not say King James ?

50% thanks largely to Metallica...

50% thanks to naming all the words I can that have nothing to do with religion they're just generally common...

I am surprised that I don't see love, faith, grace, peace, amen, church, Jesus, Christ, father, holy, hallelujah, eat, bread, almighty, heaven, earth, hell, sin, et cetera.

Me too, I am thinking the same thing why not Jesus, or Christ?!?!

rigged

This comment just made my day!

Mine too, lol

ha gotee

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay 100% 😃

damn nice

Any Metallica fan who knows all the lyrics to CREEPING DEATH will get automatically 50/100 of these words.7 Rest is pocket change.

Faith?

I had so much fun with this. At first i got 70 because I just guessed everyday words like: "a,and,you,me,him,her,son,and" and then at my third try i got 100/100!

sparta*

The title should have 'KJV' or equivalent in it. A similar list would be found in any seventeenth-century literature. You might as well have made a list of Shakespeare's most used words, save for the 'Lord'.

I don't know, diva, but why don't you try it? Right now your approach of obsessively commenting about him on every single quiz you take isn't working.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Popular-Bible-Words.php

There's some dirty talk about men laying with other men, though.

I always forget those darn archaic forms that appear so much in the KJV. My NABRE doesn't have any saith or shalt or thou/thee anywhere, and so I never remember to include them.