"The first of all the commandments is, (...) thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these."
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.
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.
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.)
^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?
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.
Hence, words or ideas that may be pretty common in the New Testament have an uphill battle to make this sort of list population mostly by simple words (of, the, and, etc.). Jesus introduced some pretty revolutionary concepts to the world, and some of the words he used frequently were not nearly as common in the OT.
Jerry, I'd love to see a quiz ranking the words of the New Testament alone!
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.
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)
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!
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'.
And a couple of male angels who drop in on Lot and are apparently so irresistible that all of the men of the city can't help but immediately try to get squelchy with them
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..
^ True, but (in KJV) both the townspeople ("Where are the men which came in to thee this night?") and Lot ("unto these men do nothing") refer to them as male
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.
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 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.
Are you talking about the whole Bible or just the Old Testament?
A quiz based on the top 100 nouns of the Bible would make more sense.
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.
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.
NT: 180,500 words
Hence, words or ideas that may be pretty common in the New Testament have an uphill battle to make this sort of list population mostly by simple words (of, the, and, etc.). Jesus introduced some pretty revolutionary concepts to the world, and some of the words he used frequently were not nearly as common in the OT.
Jerry, I'd love to see a quiz ranking the words of the New Testament alone!
Rest is pocket change.