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Hey, DDTF,

Well, our friend "Dyan" is at it again! This time Dyan (creator of the "TSKe" module) has taken several works by a gentleman named William Bonnell and combined them into two eSword modules: a .cmtx module and a .dctx module.

Rather than try to explain it myself, let me just give you the text from Dyan's email, which explains the tandem module:

...here's a new module for you. I got the text data from William Bonnell. The same fellow who's site I first got the raw text of the TSKe from. He's given me permission to produce a module from his work, with a copyright notice included. The module is called Bonnell's Combined Word Book, well, actually I've created 2 modules for it, a commentary and a dictionary, both with the same name. So, just what is Bonnell's Combined Word Book. Just to give you some background, the Bonnell’s Combined Word Book combines the First Occurrence Commentary, Bonnell’s Dictionary of 3 Word Phrases, and Bonnell’s Unique Word Book. All three works are from the same William Bonnell.

The following is quoted from Bonnell’s site, https://sites.google.com/site/wsbones/

"Bonnell's Dictionary of 3 Word Phrases - 5/19/2010 - is a dictionary of 3 word search phrases indexed on keyword. The keyword is the first, longest word in the phrase. These phrases were made by going through each word in the Bible (789,000+) and picking up the next two words to make a phrase. Then searching the Bible for that phrase and counting the occurrences, saving the phrase and its count in a list. This generated approximately 386000 unique phrases. Only those occurring more than once are used. This resulted in about 86,000 phrases categorized in a dictionary format. Many of these phrases make interesting searches and give surprising results. Click a phrase to perform the search. For each keyword the verse reference of the first occurrence in the Bible is also given.

"First Occurrence Commentary - 5/19/2010 - The law of first mention isn't really a law of Biblical Interpretation, but it often does give insight to the meaning of a word. This commentary lists all the words in a verse that appear for the 1st time in the Bible. When you hover the mouse over the Bible margin link for 1stC, it will pop up the list of 1st occurrence words.

"Bonnell's Combined Word Book - 5/19/2010 – combines the First Occurrence Commentary, Bonnell’s Dictionary of 3 Word Phrases, and Bonnell’s Unique Word Book into one book. BWCB is indexed by book of the Bible. Each entry contains a count of all the words occurring more than once in that book of the Bible, all three-word phrases in that book of the Bible, and all the unique words in that book of the Bible. At the top of each entry is a Bible reference to verse 1:1 so that a link will show up in the Bible margin on the first verse of every book."

So taking his text data, I've created the following 2 modules, Bonnell's Combined Word Book Commentary, and Bonnell's Combined Word Book Dictionary. Here's the details of the 2 modules:

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Bonnell's Combined Word Book

Bonnell's Combined Word Book (BCW) is a unique and useful for study of The Bible. BCW Commentary, and Dictionary, should be should be used in conjunction with each other.

The BCW Commentary has:

8,409 verse entries of 1st occurrence of words,
37,498 entries of unique words, and
70,643 entries of 3 word phrases.

***Book Notes consist of a list of word counts for unique word and 3 word phrases, sorted alphabetically, for that book of the Bible.
***Verse Notes shows the 1st occurrence of a word(s), if any in a verse.

The BCW Dictionary has:

12,848 entries of 1st occurrence words,
6,569 entries of unique words, and
43,087 entries of 3 word phrases.

The Dictionary gives the reference of 1st occurrence words, word count by book for unique words, and word count by book of 3 word phrases.

These modules are unique; I've never seen anything quite like them. I'm sure they will be quite helpful for the study of our Lord's Book - The Bible. May the Lord bless us as we study His Word.

The module double download is available at http://www.DoctorDaveT.com. Through mid-January 2011, the module will be found at "What's New." Afterward, it will be moved to "Free eS/TW Modules / Bibles, Commentaries & Dictionaries."

Hey, DDTF,

Our friend "Dyan" found a few booboos in the first edition of the WBC, so we have posted a revised version at DDT. Here is the bulk of Dyan's email to me about the problems and resolutions:

Due to an unforeseen error the unique words were not included in the "Bonnell's Combined Word Book". The updated version is now available for download at http://www.doctordavet.com. You will find it in the "What's New" section. If you have previously downloaded it, please do so again. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Here's a brief outline of what the modules contain.
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Bonnell's Combined Word Book

Bonnell's Combined Word Book (BCW) is a unique and useful for study of The Bible. BCW Commentary, and Dictionary, should be used in conjunction with each other.

The BCW Commentary has:

* 8,409 verse entries of 1st occurrence of words,
* 5,120 entries of unique words by book,
* 37,498 entries of words by book, and
* 70,643 entries of 3 word phrases by book.

Book Notes consist of a list of word counts for words and 3 word phrases, sorted alphabetically, for that book of the Bible.

Verse Notes shows the 1st occurrence of a word(s), if any in a verse.

verse 1:1 of every book lists the unique words for that book


The BCW Dictionary has:

* 12,849 entries of 1st occurrence words,
* 5,120 entries of unique words,
* 6,569 entries of words by book, and
* 43,087 entries of 3 word phrases by book.

The Dictionary gives the reference of 1st occurrence words, unique word by book, word count by book for unique words, and word count by book of 3 word phrases.

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The Modules were created with kind permission from William S. Bonnell (Module Creator for SwordSearcher)

Here are a few clarifications from William S. Bonnell, regarding the source of his data, and word count methodology:

"The version of the Bible [used] is the KJV (Pure Cambridge Edition). It is almost identical to the 1769 Oxford Edition. Here is a website with some clarifications of the the differences.
http://www.bibleprotector.com/. It is the default version in SwordSearcher. I have verified the counts of both words and phrases by sampling. The main causes of differences in counts are:

1. Different versions. Even in the KJV there are differences depending on publisher. I have several KJV's that differ in spelling and punctuation. Any other non-KJV version would certainly not match except by coincidence.
2. The apostrophe. Some Bible search routines treat words with 's the same as the word itself. I treat them as separate words. Take the book of John for example. My statistics show the word, father, occurs 104 times. If I do a search of father in E-Sword or SwordSearcher, I get 134 matches in 111 verses. If I subract out the verses with father's and not father, I get 104 verses.
3. In my searches I am looking for the exact word or phrase after removing all punctuation and special characters from the Bible except the apostrophe replacing them with spaces. I also have a space at the beginning and end of each verse so as not to miss beginning and ending words.

The phrase counts and word counts are greater than one occurrence. The unique words may occur one or more times but only in the specific book.

It's also possible there might be some mistakes too. I used a computer program to generate all the counts. After verifying that the routine was working on many samples, I assumed it was working everywhere. You know what they say."

The module is currently available for download at the main DDT site.

Hey, All,

Well, Dyan has been at it yet again! His combined "Bonnell's Combined Word Book" (BCW) is now updated for a second time. Here is his email to me about what the newest update includes:

William Bonnell has carried out further research, and has generously allowed me to have this new data, namely, the last occurrence of words, and words occurring only once. The "Bonnell's Combined Word Book" has now been revised to include the last occurrence of words, and words occurring only once.

Here's what "Bonnell's Combined Word Book" now contains:

Bonnell's Combined Word Book (BCW)

Bonnell's Combined Word Book (BCW) is a unique and useful tool for study of The Bible. The data for BCW is computer generated, based on the KJV (Pure Cambridge Edition). BCW Commentary, and Dictionary, should be used in conjunction with each other.

NOTE: Words with apostrophes are treated as seperate words. All word counts for words,
unique words and 3 word phrases, are by book and based on 2 or more occurrences,
single occurrences are excluded. Unique words may occure one or more times, in a specific book only.

The BCW COMMENTARY consists of:

* 8,409 verse entries of 1st occurrence of words,
* 7,925 verse entries of last occurrence of words,
* 3,310 verse entries of words occurring only once,
* 5,120 entries of unique words by book,
* 37,498 entries of words by book, and
* 70,643 entries of 3 word phrases by book.

* Book Notes consist of a list of word counts for words and 3 word phrases, sorted alphabetically, for that book of the Bible.
* Verse Notes shows the 1st occurrence of a word(s), the only occurrence of a word(s), and the last occurrence of a word(s), if any in a verse.
* Verse 1:1 of every book lists the unique words for that book

The BCW DICTIONARY consists of:

* 12,846 entries of 1st occurrence of words,
* 12,846 entries of last occurrence of words,
* 4,171 entires of words occuring only once,
* 5,120 entries of unique words,
* 6,569 entries of words by book, and
* 43,087 entries of 3 word phrases by book.

The Dictionary gives the Reference for:

* 1st occurrence words,
* Words occuring only once,
* Last occurrance words,
* Unique word by book,
* Word count by book for unique words, and
* Word count by book of 3 word phrases.

This updated module is now available at DDT.com.

Dave

Hey, DDTF,

Our friend Dyan has just submitted a new update (3/29/11) on the BCW modules. Here's an excerpt from his notes:

I've updated the Bonnell’s Combined Word Book commentary and dictionary with 17892 entries of unique 3 word phrases... with thanks to William Bonnell.
These are the details of the... modules

Bonnell's Combined Word Book (BCW)

Bonnell's Combined Word Book (BCW) is a unique, comprehensive and valuable tool for biblical word studies. The data for BCW is computer generated, based on the KJV (Pure Cambridge Edition). BCW includes a Commentary, Dictionary... which should be used in conjunction with each other.

NOTE: Words with apostrophes are treated as seperate words. All word counts for words, unique words and 3 word phrases, are by book and based on 2 or more occurrences, single occurrences are excluded. Unique words may occure one or more times, in a specific book only.

The BCW COMMENTARY consists of:
8,409 verse entries of 1st occurrence of words,
7,925 verse entries of last occurrence of words,
3,310 verse entries of words occurring only once,
5,120 entries of unique words by book,
37,498 entries of words by book,
70,643 entries of 3 word phrases by book, and
17,892 entries of unique 3 word phrases by book.

Book Notes consist of a list of word counts for words and 3 word phrases, sorted alphabetically, for that book of the Bible.
Verse Notes shows the 1st occurrence of a word(s), the only occurrence of a word(s), and the last occurrence of a word(s), if any in a verse.
Verse 1:1 of every book lists the unique words and unique 3 word phrases for that book

The BCW DICTIONARY consists of:
12,846 entries of 1st occurrence of words,
12,846 entries of last occurrence of words,
4,171 entires of words occuring only once,
5,120 entries of unique words,
6,569 entries of words by book,
43,087 entries of 3 word phrases by book, and
17,892 entries of unique 3 word phrases by book.

The Dictionary includes:
References for 1st occurrence words,
References for Last occurrance words,
Words occuring only once,
Unique word by book,
Word count by book for unique words,
Unique 3 word phrase by book, and
Word count by book of 3 word phrases

As always, thanks so much Dyan. Also, check out his separate "Word Cloud" module as a .mapx file. It is quite an eye-popping visual of the key words of the Bible. Thanks William & Dyan!!

Dave