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The original text of the Hebrew Bible contains 8000 different words (This number is small because many common English words are only regarded as prefixes in Hebrew).

The original text of the Greek New Testament is 1067 different words.

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The original text of the Hebrew Bible contains 8000 different words (This number is small because many common English words are only regarded as prefixes in Hebrew).

The original text of the Greek New Testament is 1067 different words.

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How many words are in the original Bible in Hebrew and Greek languages?

Word Of God in the original Bible in language?? * Hebrew * Greek It's true!


How many words were in the Hebrew language when the bible was translated?

When the Hebrew bible was first translated into Greek, Hebrew was still a spoken language and there is know way to know how many words existed at that time. The Hebrew Bible has about 8000 Hebrew words in it, but the spoken language at that time would have had many more than that. Most spoken languages have between 40,000 and 140,000 words, depending on how you decide what a word is.


How many different Greek words are in the Old Testament?

You might be thinking of the New Testament, which was written entirely in Koine Greek.In the Old Testament, there are virtually no Greek words. The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) was written in Hebrew, plus about 250 verses in Aramaic, which is closely related to Hebrew). It contains Hebrew words that were borrowed from Egyptian, Persian, and possibly a few from Greek.The only Greek word I can think of in the entire Hebrew Bible is יָוָן (yavan), which is the Hebrew word for Greece, and comes from the Greek word "Ionia".


How many different Hebrew words for deny are there in the Hebrew Bible?

There are three:הִכְחִישכָּפַרדָּחָה


The Masoretes when copying the Bible counted every letter of the Bible how many original Hebrew Aramaic and Greek letters are in the Bible?

The Masoretes never read or translated Greek. But the total of Hebrew letters (Aramaic uses the same alphabet as Hebrew) is 39,613.


In Greek and Hebrew bible translation is the single letter a used as a word in it?

There are Greek one-letter words in the New Testament, but there are no one-letter words in Hebrew.The English word 'a' referring to the indefinite article, occurs many times in all English translations.


How many times love is used in the bible?

This is trickier than it sounds because many different Hebrew and Greek words are translated as 'love'. Three main Hebrew words and three Greek ones are the most common love words. The Hebrew word ahab occurs 250 times in the Law and the Prophets, while the Greek agape occurs 250 times in the New Testament. The King James Version uses 'love' at least 280 times. The NIV and Good News Bible each use 'love' more than 500 times.


How many different languages was the Bible originally written in?

Three: Hebrew, eastern Aramaic, and Greek


How many Languages is the Bible in?

The Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible) was written almost entirely in Hebrew. Some parts of the Old Testament were written in Aramaic. The New Testament was written in Greek.


How many times does the word PAYAM appear in the bible?

The word "payam" is not in the Bible. The word "payam" is of Islamic origin, not Hebrew or Aramaic or Greek, in which the Bible was written.


How many times is the word loved in the Bible?

That depends on which hebrew or greek word for love you want. Greek especially has many different love words with different meanings.I suggest finding the exact word you want and looking it up in Strong's Concordance.


How many times is the word understand used in the Bible?

There is no single word which translates into "understand" in the Bible. The Bible is a compilation of books, written in Hebrew Aramaic and Greek. Each uses different words, some with more than one meaning. The question doesn't have an easy answer