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Top 100 Most Common Words in the Bible

What 100 words appear most commonly in the King James Bible?
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and
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the
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of
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that
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to
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in
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he
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for
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unto
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a
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Lord
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his
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shall
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I
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they
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not
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be
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is
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them
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with
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him
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all
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it
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thou
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but
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which
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was
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God
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said
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from
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have
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as
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thy
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their
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word
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my
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me
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will
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when
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thee
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ye
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are
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this
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were
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out
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upon
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man
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by
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then
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up
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Israel
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there
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people
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had
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came
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so
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into
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hath
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you
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king
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come
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also
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one
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son
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before
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an
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on
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men
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house
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word
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at
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day
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children
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now
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against
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if
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made
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land
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no
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we
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her
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go
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went
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saying
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even
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do
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word
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therefore
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things
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hand
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let
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your
90
these
91
behold
92
us
93
shalt
94
because
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after
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great
97
every
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saith
99
down
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Jerry928
+25
Level 75
Feb 4, 2015
Some words that didn't make the cut: hast (111th), thine (121st), Jesus (135th), Christ (203rd), wicked (241st) and love (295th).
bomber184
+3
Level 20
Feb 9, 2015
What about Preach? Do you know what that rank was?
Jerry928
+18
Level 75
Feb 9, 2015
1358th.
bomber184
+6
Level 20
Feb 9, 2015
Oh, lol, sorry, didn't realize it was that low. Great quiz though.
jbro
+1
Level 61
Aug 5, 2021
what about bless, holy, and sin
Jerry928
+7
Level 75
Mar 25, 2015
At the other end of the spectrum, try Words That Only Appear Once in the Bible.
Evers15
+1
Level 4
Jul 14, 2017
Jesus should be in there
ChipOtley
+6
Level 74
Mar 18, 2018
Jesus didn't make an appearance until the new testament
peslac
+1
Level 29
Mar 30, 2018
I was so certain that Love and Jesus would be in there.

Are you talking about the whole Bible or just the Old Testament?

Jeremy
+2
Level 73
Jan 3, 2019
Whole Bible.
Bainbo
+3
Level 52
Apr 19, 2023
I’m surprised that “smote” and “begat” didn’t make it. There always seems to be a lot of smiting and begetting going on.
courthousedoc
+8
Level 76
Feb 8, 2015
Says something that love was so far down the list.
dwo
+5
Level 91
Feb 14, 2015
Yeah? What does that say?
Milezinator
+9
Level 65
Mar 18, 2018
That religious does not equate to loving
KateLanderer
+26
Level 40
Mar 19, 2018
"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."
InterAlia
+2
Level 72
Apr 21, 2023
Love may be the central idea in that excerpt, but is not near the top of the rankings in word count. That metric is only obliquely related to word count. Words like is, with, the, etc are far more prevalent because of their linguistic function. Anybody drawing conclusions about the value or centrality of an idea based only on word count is being shallow and is using motivated reasoning to make a case either for or against the Bible. It's fallacy either way.
HumbleGeneral
+5
Level 20
Oct 28, 2021
The only thing this says is that you're too busy trying to dunk on Christianity to notice that most of the most common words are prepositions, determiners, pronouns, conjunctions etc. There are a handful of other words like God or people which you would expect to be in the bible but mainly words that you literally cannot form a coherent sentence without.
Jerry928
+5
Level 75
Oct 29, 2021
I think courthousedoc makes a fair point. I counted 25 nouns in this list, and I think it would be reasonable to expect love to have been one of them.
InterAlia
+1
Level 72
Apr 21, 2023
Based on what? Vibes? Lots of nouns are more useful (have more varied definitions and simply need to appear more frequently to convey an idea) and should be expected to be more prevalent, as they are.
sillie
+2
Level 78
Feb 9, 2015
"saith" ?
Milezinator
+1
Level 65
Mar 18, 2018
ikr what is that lol
Jacktheguy
+6
Level 88
Mar 18, 2018
The archaic third person singular present of say.
emersonriley94
+3
Level 56
May 23, 2019
It's also the Welsh word for 7
KiwiQuizWhiz
+1
Level 39
Aug 11, 2020
You obviously don't read the Bible. -_-
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 73
Aug 16, 2020
I thought it was 'sayeth'
camus
+3
Level 77
Oct 22, 2020
Or not from an English-speaking country.
ouishdvoojaf
+1
Level 28
Apr 19, 2021
Yes, I would have spelled it sayeth
buck1017
+8
Level 77
Feb 9, 2015
Would have thought Begat would have made an appearance just because of Genesis.
bluesdjben
+19
Level 73
Mar 25, 2015
I would make a "begat" pun, but those may begetting a little old.
DeusCaritasEst
+19
Level 55
Sep 9, 2015
You should best begetting out.
ruudsje
+2
Level 70
Mar 27, 2015
What's Phil Collins got to do with this?
Jacktheguy
+3
Level 88
Mar 18, 2018
Nothing. It was all Peter Gabriel's doing.
Elan
+7
Level 65
Mar 25, 2015
This has nothing to do with the bible and requires no knowledge. It's just a sprint of writing common pronouns and prepositions.
RPHXX
+3
Level 69
Feb 20, 2018
and to write Israel XD
ChipOtley
+19
Level 74
Mar 18, 2018
Yes, saith is certainly one of the 100 commonest words I use
rocamorar
+5
Level 78
Mar 19, 2018
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.
kalbahamut
+6
Level 83
Jul 24, 2019
Saying would
Sifhraven
+3
Level 66
Jan 7, 2020
God would too, I hear so many people say o my god... some use it every other sentence, nearly as popular as the word like..
burntofferings4all
+1
Level 54
Nov 28, 2021
not even "house"?
JBman
+4
Level 44
Mar 25, 2015
How is this much different than the most common words quiz?

A quiz based on the top 100 nouns of the Bible would make more sense.

ramurray
+7
Level 68
Sep 30, 2015
You're in luck! http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/115106/top-100-nouns-in-the-bible
brandybuck96
+5
Level 82
Nov 23, 2015
It has old-fashioned words and inflexions, which won't be found much in modern literature, for a start.
samwisegamgee
+6
Level 37
Mar 25, 2015
this is a boring quiz.
Milezinator
+23
Level 65
Mar 18, 2018
you're the only person who left a comment saying that and you got no likes... seems that "this is a boring quiz." is merely your opinion
InterAlia
+1
Level 72
Apr 21, 2023
That statement could never have been anything other than an opinion. That's what it is - a statement of opinion. It doesn't become fact even if everyone who ever read it "liked" it.
JackintheBox
+5
Level 77
Oct 25, 2020
I enjoyed it
Zefyrinus
+3
Level 70
Mar 25, 2015
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.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Mar 25, 2015
Got "saying," currently at 2%, but missed "was" and "shall." D'oh.
walterwhite
+2
Level 46
Mar 25, 2015
Where is "sin" ranked?
Jerry928
+2
Level 75
Mar 25, 2015
231st.
stromae
+1
Level 69
Mar 25, 2015
name a few prepositions and some pronouns and you are good to go
kinjapan
+3
Level 71
Mar 25, 2015
Also, it is a little surprise that there are so few feminine nouns or pronouns. "He" but not "she," and "son" but no "daughter."
kalbahamut
+8
Level 83
Mar 26, 2015
Not much of a surprise. Can you name even 10 women in the Bible?
AUSCUBA
+22
Level 43
Mar 26, 2015
Eve, Jezebel, Hannah, Leah, Rachel, Naomi, Sarah, Ruth, Rebekah, Judith...ten from the Old Testament.
kalbahamut
+8
Level 83
Apr 3, 2015
If you did that from memory then you're probably in the top 1% of Biblical female namers. Nobody knows who Naomi is.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 83
Apr 3, 2015
Only two of these are among the top 25 most mentioned characters.
GhostRider
+3
Level 35
Jun 1, 2015
I do.
ander217
+11
Level 76
Mar 2, 2017
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.)
JBlouw1850
+3
Level 44
Mar 3, 2017
Don't forget Delilah
Maladroit
+4
Level 52
May 19, 2017
There are three Marys - the mother of Jesus, the sister of Martha, and Mary Magdalene.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Mar 18, 2018
^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.
camus
+2
Level 77
Oct 22, 2020
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.
KiwiQuizWhiz
+3
Level 39
Aug 11, 2020
Abigail, Ruth, Bathsheba, Elizabeth, Esther, Mary, Delilah, Hannah, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah, Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Claudia, Dorcas, Priscilla, Susanna, Tabitha, Naomi, Eve, Noa, Orpah, Michal, Phoebe, Julia, Haggath, Jezebel, Basemeth, Adah. Just to name a few. ;-)
determinedtobeatthis
+3
Level 69
Nov 28, 2021
and my favorite, Jael =)
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 64
Apr 2, 2015
What rank is the word "holy" in?
Jerry928
+1
Level 75
Apr 2, 2015
162nd
Milezinator
+1
Level 65
Mar 18, 2018
i was pretty surprised about that one, given im not religious
Yankee
+3
Level 52
Jul 22, 2015
I am a bad Christian for not doing well on this quiz.
Terran
+6
Level 61
Feb 3, 2022
Just because you didn't do well in a Bible quiz doesn't make you a bad Christian. Just be confident in yourself and keep growing that relationship with Jesus!

(and yes, I am replying to a 6 year old comment)

ChaosLord
+4
Level 73
Apr 19, 2023
This is inspiring. My imaginary friend is called Gerald. I'm going to increase my relationship with him.
dantheman156
+2
Level 20
Aug 3, 2015
Did you go through the bible and tally up every word??
Jerry928
+21
Level 75
Apr 29, 2017
Yeah, they took months to count
samiamco
+2
Level 69
Jan 25, 2018
LOL. Yes, Jerry is a dedicated guy, and also apparently assumed to be a Luddite. ;-) // P.S. But srsly, great quiz.
Malbaby
+3
Level 71
Aug 16, 2015
I note that LOVE doesn't make it.
Jerry928
+1
Level 75
Aug 17, 2015
295th.
JBlouw1850
+3
Level 44
Mar 3, 2017
Or "FEAR", which is actually supposedly the most written command in the Bible.
Jerry928
+1
Level 75
Apr 29, 2017
199th.
Maladroit
+5
Level 52
Aug 23, 2017
Not to mention that, in context, fear usually means respect and worship - as in 'Fear the Lord your God'.
markthoma
+5
Level 73
Jan 26, 2018
OT: 602,500 words (approx, varies by translation)

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!

MickeyMcNutt
+2
Level 22
Jan 20, 2016
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.
Devvik2
+1
Level 68
Jun 4, 2016
Me too, I am thinking the same thing why not Jesus, or Christ?!?!
roleybob
+9
Level 76
Jun 29, 2016
Because there are at least another 100 words which appear more often...
ander217
+1
Level 76
Oct 26, 2020
Jesus was often referred to in other ways - Savior, King, Lord, Messiah, Christ, Immanuel, Redeemer, shepherd, etc.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 66
Jan 7, 2020
Because you need more words to make complete sentences ;) plus your words reminds me more of sermons/church than the bible.
brettski
+1
Level 48
Mar 7, 2016
rigged
Jerry928
+37
Level 75
Mar 7, 2016
Nah, that word's not even in the top 1000.
TheodoreE45
+4
Level 93
Jan 3, 2017
This comment just made my day!
RoxyTheQuizzer
+3
Level 74
Mar 8, 2018
Mine too, lol
Milezinator
+3
Level 65
Mar 18, 2018
ha gotee
InterAlia
+1
Level 72
Apr 21, 2023
Yep, it's a conspiracy. Think of all the people who have been plotting for thousands of years to make sure you did poorly on this quiz. It was a complicated endeavor, but ... well, mission accomplished. What should we do next?
GreenGiant
+5
Level 24
May 19, 2016
Any Metallica fan who knows all the lyrics to CREEPING DEATH will get automatically 50/100 of these words.7

Rest is pocket change.

Sifhraven
+2
Level 66
Jan 7, 2020
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)
catlover2496
+1
Level 44
Mar 3, 2017
Faith?
kolovozzz
+1
Level 33
Mar 11, 2017
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!
jajaco2017
+2
Level 58
Apr 29, 2017
I say to thee: I made them all
Maladroit
+1
Level 52
Aug 23, 2017
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'.
Jerry928
+1
Level 75
Aug 23, 2017
Please see the answer to jmcpetunia above. S/he didn't read the instructions either.
divantilya
+3
Level 37
Nov 9, 2017
HelenO: If we ignore him, will he go away?
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Mar 18, 2018
I don't know, diva, but why don't you try it? Right now your approach of obsessively commenting about him on every single quiz you take isn't working.
azzyclark
+2
Level 68
Mar 18, 2018
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Popular-Bible-Words.php
Jerry928
+1
Level 75
Mar 19, 2018
Someone (in a now-deleted post) asked if homosexual appears in the KJV; the answer is No, but neither does heterosexual or bisexual.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Mar 21, 2018
There's some dirty talk about men laying with other men, though.
roleybob
+3
Level 76
Jan 24, 2019
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
kalbahamut
+4
Level 83
Jul 24, 2019
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.
MasterKenobi
+1
Level 59
May 1, 2023
There's a lot (no pun intended) that you don't seem to understand about the story of Lot, or the culture of the day. First, the angels did appear as men. The angels are always referred to with masculine pronouns. Second, the men of Sodom were not just trying to get to know the angels, or even have sex with them, but rape them (since the angels themselves were of course not willing). Third, Lot was considered righteous, not perfect (no one is perfect but Jesus) and offering his virgin daughters to the men was a real dick move not approved by God. Fourth, his reasoning was based on the ancient near-east custom, still prevalent in some parts of the region, of treating one's houseguests with special honor not even normally reserved for family. If anything had happened to the men under Lot's care, it would've brought shame on him. Plus he recognized they were from God, which is of course even bigger. Fifth, the men refused sex with his daughters, proving they were indeed homosexual.
MasterKenobi
+1
Level 59
May 1, 2023
And lastly, it was for the violent acts of rape, plus God only knows what other horrible crimes, the people of Sodom were constantly committing that God destroyed them, not for simply experiencing same-sex attraction.
benjaminmarker
+3
Level 70
Jan 22, 2020
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..
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Jan 22, 2020
They weren't gay they were indiscriminate. Also, angels don't have a specific gender.
roleybob
+1
Level 76
Jan 28, 2020
^ 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
Panifex
+1
Level 28
Mar 20, 2018
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.
IXON009
+3
Level 40
May 22, 2018
I just got one point. Is this because I'm an atheist?
TWM03
+3
Level 67
Aug 15, 2018
I'm an atheist and I got 4 points so probably not.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
May 5, 2019
I got 5 points and my high score is only 69. You can do better.
ander217
+1
Level 76
Oct 26, 2020
My high score is 69 but I only got four points. Does QM like you better than me, or does he give atheists a handicap like in golf? :)
kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Nov 27, 2022
the number of points a score is worth changes depending on the average at the time.
Keithg
+1
Level 50
Feb 12, 2019
I died at 37 too
undeadwarrior
+2
Level 63
Feb 12, 2019
The key to doing well in this quiz is to just open the nearest book and writing down all the common words that you see.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 66
Jan 7, 2020
Plus god, lord and israel and a few old-english words.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 66
Jan 7, 2020
And I guess king, not a word you find in every written piece of text.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 88
Jan 22, 2020
A lot of directive.
SirPhilippines
+2
Level 61
Oct 22, 2020
How... did... I... get... 100... percent?...
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 88
Oct 18, 2022
Divine intervention.
stylus
+2
Level 73
Oct 22, 2020
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.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 77
Oct 22, 2020
I got 71/100 and have never read any Bible!
Damangio
+3
Level 65
Oct 23, 2020
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.
greezybacon2
+2
Level 24
Mar 3, 2021
Can't believe that God is 28th and Jesus didn't even make it in the top 100. Jeez.
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 73
Oct 28, 2021
The Old Testament is very God-heavy and Jesus-light.
HiFibad
+1
Level 39
Mar 5, 2021
What about "Peace"?
OwlArm
+3
Level 58
Jun 27, 2022
Hallucinogenic wasn't in there? Who knew!
ooftownroad
+2
Level 56
Nov 27, 2022
The Bible be like: Y E
ooftownroad
+1
Level 56
Nov 27, 2022
Props to the guy who counted all these words
NQChien
+1
Level 64
Apr 19, 2023
Include past tense of the verbs? No way!
rocamorar
+1
Level 78
Apr 19, 2023
It would be interesting to have this one with only the New Testament.
AdamH1996
+2
Level 41
Apr 19, 2023
Just typing out the Pulp Fiction "bible quote" helped get a few of these
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 65
Apr 20, 2023
That's literally what I did
sarielise
+3
Level 58
Apr 20, 2023
I did this with the help of two friends: a Christian and an atheist. The atheist was the bigger help because she guessed words like “nor”, “and”, and “to”. The Christian guessed words like “river”, “heavenly”, and “truth”.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 65
Apr 20, 2023
Interesting
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 65
Apr 20, 2023
53/100, managed to get ones like Hath but missed And. I was literally reciting random excerpts in my head and whenever I came across a common word I tried it but I forgot to for And
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 65
Apr 20, 2023
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you.
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