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The Most Common Hebrew Morphemes

The most common part of speech found in the Hebrew Scriptures is unsurprisingly the noun, of which there are a total of about 170,489. There are around 52,931 Conjuctive-Waws, and 11,092 mysterious aleph-tav (אֵת) particles.

Names of persons appear about 26,548 times, while name of God (Tetragrammaton) appears 6,544 of those times.

Morph Code Part of Speech Count
HNcbsa noun|Common|both (noun)|singular|absolute 14969
HNcbsc noun|Common|both (noun)|singular|construct 14079
HNpm noun|Name|masc 11911
HTd/Ncbsa Art – noun|Common|both (noun)|singular|absolute 9977
HR preposition 9493
HNpl noun|Name|place 7360
HTo DirObjM 7075
Hc/Vqw3ms Conj-w – verb|Nitpalel|ConsecImperf|third|masc|singular 7066
HNpt noun|Name|YHWH 6544
HTc Conj 5549
HNcmpc noun|Common|masc|plural|construct 4859
HNcmpa noun|Common|masc|plural|absolute 4641
HR/Ncbsc preposition – noun|Common|both (noun)|singular|construct 4471
HTn Negative 3920
HVqp3ms verb|third|masc|singular 3917
HTr relative 3902
HNcfsa noun|Common|fem|singular|absolute 3773
HRd/Ncbsa preposition – noun|Common|both (noun)|singular|absolute 3756
HNcbsc/Sp3ms noun|Common|both (noun)|singular|construct – suffix|pronominal|masc|singular 3143
HR/Vqcc preposition – verb|Qal|common (verb)|construct 3084
HD Adv 3081
HVqi3ms verb|third|masc|singular 3021
HTd/Ncmpa Art – noun|Common|masc|plural|absolute 2941
HAabsa adjective||both (noun)|singular|absolute 2410
Hc/Vqw3mp Conj-w – verb|Nitpalel|ConsecImperf|third|masc|plural 2313
HC/To Conj-w – DirObjM 2189
HC/Ncbsc Conj-w – noun|Common|both (noun)|singular|construct 2133
HR/Ncbsa preposition – noun|Common|both (noun)|singular|absolute 2118
HNcbsc/Sp1bs noun|Common|both (noun)|singular|construct – suffix|pronominal|both (noun)|singular 2065
HNcfsc noun|Common|fem|singular|construct 2055
HC/Ncbsa Conj-w – noun|Common|both (noun)|singular|absolute 1996
HTd/Ncfsa Art – noun|Common|fem|singular|absolute 1987
HVqp3cp verb|third|common (verb)|plural 1973
HVqrmsa verb|masc|singular 1772
HC/Npm Conj-w – noun|Name|masc 1760
HC/Tn Conj-w – Negative 1750
HRd/Sp3ms preposition – suffix|pronominal|masc|singular 1608
HR/Ncmpc preposition – noun|Common|masc|plural|construct 1558
HNcbsc/Sp2ms noun|Common|both (noun)|singular|construct – suffix|pronominal|masc|singular 1520
HR/Npl preposition – noun|Name 1451
HVqi3mp verb|third|masc|plural 1408
HNcfpa noun|Common|fem|plural|absolute 1399
Hc/Vqq3ms Conj-w – verb|Qal|ConsecPerf |third|masc|singular 1397
HTj interjection 1362
HC Conj-w 1261
HNcmpc/Sp3ms noun|Common|masc|plural|construct – suffix|pronominal|masc|singular 1258
HTd/Tm Art – demonstrative 1254
HC/R Conj-w – preposition 1252
HVqi2ms verb|second|masc|singular 1225
HR/Sp3ms preposition – suffix|pronominal|masc|singular 1215