Acts 28:29 - absent verse in Khaboris Peshitta?

[Lars Lindgren]

Zardak,

And are you sure about that 777 number for the total word count in the Panin Greek text? Seems very small to me for 22 Chapters...I just counted Chapter 22 in the Western Peshitto text...and it has 303 words just in that Chapter alone.

Shlama,
Chuck

Just for fun, here is a word count of unique words found in Revelation in the Greek NT editions used at dukhrana.com:

# for file in $(ls gnt_*.txt); do echo -n "$file: "; grep "^Revelation " $file | tr ' ' '\n' | grep "&" | sort | uniq -c | wc -l; done
gnt_byz_05-unicode.txt: 2095
gnt_greek_orthodox-unicode.txt: 2627
gnt_st_scr-unicode.txt: 2131
gnt_tisch_8-unicode.txt: 2715
gnt_wh_na27-unicode.txt: 2144

It is worth noting that gnt_greek_orthodox-unicode.txt and gnt_tisch_8-unicode.txt both include diacritical markings and thus have a higher variance and more unique words than the other three texts. However, the word count in all texts clearly exceed 777. The only way to perhaps come down to around 777 words in Revelation would be to only count unique lexemes or root words and thus ignoring any variance introduced by inflections. Unfortunately, I have no easy way of testing this with the Greek NT texts I have <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!-- s -->

Furthermore, the Aramaic Revelation found in the British and Foreign Bible Society's 1920 edition (also used at dukhrana.com) has the following stats:

unique vocalized words: 2482
unique unvocalized words: 2345
unique lexemes: 823
unique roots: 615

Shlama,
Lars