There are about 1550 hAPAX in the NT, and 4022 words that occur 3 times
or less. However, if you learn just 26 words, you can read half of the
words in the NT. [Psst! Don't tell the newbies that this is not taking
account of parsing and conjugating!]
Of course, being able to read KAI and DE, etc will not really help you
to actually read the NT, but if you learn 200 words, you certainly
could, because you would be able to read 75% of the NT.
Luke has about 19,652 words, while 3 John has 219.
Acts has 307 hAPAX while 2 John and 1 John only have 1.
Acts also has 744 words that occur 3 or less times in the NT, while 3
John and 2 John only have 2.
> by highest hAPAX by highest 3 words or less
> 2 Peter 4% 2 Peter 10%
> Titus 1 Timothy 9%
> 2 Timothy Titus 8%
> 1 Timothy 2 Timothy 7%
> Jude James
> 1 Peter 3% Jude
> James 1 Peter
> Hebrews Hebrews 5%
> Colossians 2% Philippians
> Philippians Acts 4%
> Acts 2 Corinthians
> Philemon Ephesians
> 2 Corinthians Colossians
> 1 Thessalonians Philemon
> Romans 2 Thessalonians 3%
> Galatians Romans
> Ephesians Galatians
> Luke Luke
> 1 Corinthians 1 Thessalonians
> 2 Thessalonians 1% 1 Corinthians
> 3 John Matthew 2%
> Revelation Mark
> Mark 0.5% Revelation
> Matthew John 1%
> 2 John 3 John
> John 2 John
> 1 John 0.05% 1 John 0.5%
>
> The correlation between the two columns, is interesting, don't you
> reckon?
>
> However, would you agree that a larger book, with many rare words, is
> more formidable than a short one, whatever statistics may say?
>
> David McKay
> music@fl.net.au