This week the From Hevel to Eternity podcast is starting a chapter by chapter walk through the book of Matthew. The previous podcast provided an Intro to reading the gospel and the last blog entry provided additional information about the four gospel accounts.
Sometimes what kinds of words are used and how often can help us frame a book better.
Knowing the number of times a specific word shows up doesn’t magically give you the overall theme of the books, but sometimes it can clue us into things the Biblical Author wants us to catch.
This is the template for a ‘word association game’ to go along with the four gospel accounts. The point of the game is to get you thinking through the language of the book. So look through this word list and without looking at the answer key (part 2) try to guess which words show up MOST frequently in each book.
Note that my word counts are not from one specific translation; they are an average taken from 6 different translations (ESV, NASB, KJV, CSB, NIV, & NLT). I did correct for different choices in the English translation (so if one uses the word commandment and another uses law, but it's the same Greek root word, then I searched for both to get an accurate count).
The way points are awarded is this:
A team guesses a word AND one of the four gospel books to go along with that word (ex: Lord, John)
The team gets points equal to the total number of times that word is used in all four books AND additional points for the number of times that word is used in the gospel book selected. (Ex: so if Lord was used 100 time total and 18 times in John, the team would be awarded 118 points).
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