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.

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?

Whole Bible.

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.

You obviously don't read the Bible. -_-

I thought it was 'sayeth'

Or not from an English-speaking country.

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.

Saying would

God would too, I hear so many people say o my god... some use it every other sentence, nearly as popular as the word like..

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.

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

I enjoyed it

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.

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.

Mary, Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth, Eve, Sarah, Hagar, Leah, Rachel, Batsheba and Lot's wife (if she counts) off the top of my head. But I took religion class in school and regularly went to church for years.

cool

Well, the Biblical God is a misogynist, so women are mostly considered irrelevant.

False

Both of these statements are true but I am not sure there is the causal connection implied by "so".

Abigail, Ruth, Bathsheba, Elizabeth, Esther, Mary, Delilah, Hannah, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah, Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Claudia, Dorcas, Priscilla, Susanna, Tabitha, Naomi, Eve, Noa, Orpah, Michal, Phoebe, Julia, Haggath, Jezebel, Basemeth, Adah. Just to name a few. ;-)

What rank is the word "holy" in?

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

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'.

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?!?!

Jesus was often referred to in other ways - Savior, King, Lord, Messiah, Christ, Immanuel, Redeemer, shepherd, etc.

Because you need more words to make complete sentences ;) plus your words reminds me more of sermons/church than the bible.

rigged

This comment just made my day!

Mine too, lol

ha gotee

Any song or piece of literature will get you atleast 50% because many of these are simply the most used words in any kind of sentence ( You, are, in, the etc)

Faith?

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.

Yeah lucky for the angels they were visiting the one good man in town who was such a great guy that he offered his two virgin daughters to the mob to be gang raped, if they would just avoid bothering his guests. And the story only goes downhill from there. So much moral wisdom.

The story of Sodom doesn't make any sense though. If all the men in the city were gay, why would Lot send out his daughter? For a make-over? The original text just say that the men would get to "know" the angels, same word is used that God knew King David.. I wonder how the men in back in 1604-1611 came to the conclusion that the story of Lot is about sex?! Well, not many things in the Bible make sense, but somehow a lot of people around the world believe it to be true. smh..

They weren't gay they were indiscriminate. Also, angels don't have a specific gender.

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.

I just got one point. Is this because I'm an atheist?

I'm an atheist and I got 4 points so probably not.

I got 5 points and my high score is only 69. You can do better.

My high score is 69 but I only got four points. Does QM like you better than me, or does he give atheists a handicap like in golf? :)

Plus god, lord and israel and a few old-english words.

And I guess king, not a word you find in every written piece of text.

How... did... I... get... 100... percent?...

feels like this should be subject to the same rules as the ‘100 most common english words’ quiz, where different inflections count as one (so has, have and had should all just show up under ‘have’). that way this one can start to be more specific to the bible, rather than just prepositions common everywhere, and it makes it more consistent with other quizzes.

I got 71/100 and have never read any Bible!

I got 76/100 but somehow missed #3: "of." Apparently I was in good company though, as only 52% got that one. Funny how the little things can easily slip through the cracks.