I heard that Amen is said 773,692 Times according to the History Channel. What about the other two? Which is the most commonly used is it Amen or one of the other two?
Thanks and sorry if I sound ignorant but I am Pagan but I am not here to bash or say anything bad, as always I am here to learn and educate myself more.
Thank you.
2008-06-29T10:07:22Z
Sure PT but I mean of these three ty.
2008-06-29T10:09:13Z
@SKeptical - LOOK I am not Christian but there is NO NEED to be rude to them I am asking them a valid question they would know so please leave your opinions if they have nothing to do with answering this to yourself please.
2008-06-29T10:12:12Z
IF you have an arguement with the NUMBERS take it up with the HISTORY CHANNEL!
I still want to know which of the three is used most and about how many times. I will wait until some one knows more of what they speak of and I do apologize for the atheist slam here. I doubt any of my JPA friends will do so.
2008-06-29T10:19:15Z
Thanks Phil its its still Historical and educational!
2008-06-29T10:57:59Z
Thats cool Greek but what of these three in order?
Anonymous2008-06-29T10:22:20Z
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In the Greek original, "the" followed by "and" there is no word in Greek for "a".
I can send you a complete break down of say the top 100 Greek words and their meanings, in order of frequency, that is easy. Just email me.
The particular "History Channel 'Factoid'" you cite occurs about 47 minutes into the episode, "Prophecies from Below' from the series, 'Cities of the Underworld." Dated 2008, the factoid is still being broadcast in December 2013. The exact quote is:
"'Amen' appears 773,692 times in the King James Bible."
This is one of the most absurd things I have ever seen on the History Channel but, I suppose, not surprising from an "educational" operation that views "history" as two jokers digging around old barns for rusty bikes and oil cans or endless speculation from the Tesla-hair Boy that space aliens were behind every human endeavor.
The total text consumed by the word "amen" repeated 773,692 times would represent well over half of the entire Bible's text. Clearly, the author of this little gem has probably never actually opened the book, much less read it.
While I personally have never counted the occurrences of the word, there is a good resource at: http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Popular-Bible-Words.php. It appears to be a computer-generated frequency analysis of the words in the King James Version.
This source says the word "amen" occurs 179 times.
But where, you ask, did that intrepid History Channel researcher get the number 773,692?
I can't say for sure but I have a high degree of confidence in two things, 1) that drugs and/or alcohol was involved and 2) if, using information found at the above link, you take the number of words in the King James Bible, 788,258, and subtract the number of unique words, 14,565, you get a result of 773,693.
And since there must be at least one word that is NOT “amen,” we subtract that and, voila, we get 773,692... or so I suspect.
This factoid is notable only as the worst case I have seen. Time after time they publish similar garbage. The next time they present some interesting ‘fact’ or flash a bunch of numbers across the screen showing their version of a ‘math’ calculation, check them out and you'll see what I mean. A three-order-of-magnitude error is small change for these yahoos.
The History Channel was once my favorite television source but, in recent years, it has become a laughingstock. If you’re learning about the Bible under the tutelage of these people, you’re better off as a pagan.
This is not the answer but maybe you'll find it interesting ,the word god is just a titlle, the word jesus is not the saviors name, it did'nt appear untill after 1611.