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King James phrase frequency

Here is a list of the ten most frequent four-word phrases in the King James Bible:

the children of israel    633
it came to pass 453
thus saith the lord 415
and it came to 396
of the children of 374
the lord thy god 303
the house of the 279
the word of the 266
word of the lord 257
saith the lord god 257

This is the sort of thing that would have taken years of scholarship even forty years ago, and yet I created this in less than one minute on a notebook PC (Clarification added 06 February 2002: It took less than a minute to run.  It took somewhat longer to write the script.  But not years longer.)  I used a home-baked Perl script to do this.  Perl can stand for “Practical Extraction and Report Language”; see why?

Mon, 04 Feb 2002 21:50:02 -0600
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One Response to “King James phrase frequency”

  1. Santa Fe Says:
    September 7th, 2006 at 3:19 am

    The software I’ve just found allows to calculate frequencies for words or phrases of any length. Just for those who don’t want to study Perl :)
    http://www.cro-code.com/textanz.jsp

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