Genesis
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Genesis 1:1
בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ
in/at beginning · to create · God(s) · - · the heaven(s) · and - · the land
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Words Genesis uses most
Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of Genesis — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.
- אָמַר H559 ʼâmar to say 606
- בֵּן H1121 bên son 365
- כֹּל H3605 kôl all 342
- הָיָה H1961 hâyâh to be 316
- אֶ֫רֶץ H776 ʼerets land 311
- אֱלֹהִים H430 ʼĕlôhîym God 219
- בּוֹא H935 bôwʼ to enter 217
- אָב H1 ʼâb father 208
- יַעֲקֹב H3290 Yaʻăqôb Jacob 180
- אָח H251 ʼâch brother 178
- יָלַד H3205 yâlad to bear 170
- יהוה H3068 Yᵉhôvâh LORD 163
About this book
- 50 Chapters
- 1,533 Verses
- 20,629 Hebrew words
- 1,772 Distinct lemmas
Genesis is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 50 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.
The counts on this page are not copied from a concordance — they are computed here from the morphology-tagged text of Genesis and our own curated glosses. How Lemma builds this →