Statistics

The pastorals consist of three letters written by Paul, two to Timothy and one to Titus.

They contain altogether some 13 chapters, 252 verses and 3488 words [4806 in the KJV]  (ie 1 Timothy - 6 chapters, 123 verses, 1591 [2224] words; 2 Timothy - 4 chapters, 83 verses, 1238 [1666] words, Titus - 3 chapters, 46 verses, 659 [896] words).

Of the 902 unique words in the pastorals 54 are proper names. Of the 848 words that remain from the original total, 306 words do not occur elsewhere in Paul's letters (36%).

For 1 Timothy  the figure is 173 out of 529  words that appear elsewhere in Paul's letters (33%).

2 Timothy has 114 out of 413 words that appear elsewhere in Paul's letters (25%)

Titus 81 of 293 words found elsewhere in Paul's letters (28%).

Of the 306 words not in Paul's letters, 175 are hapax legomena (only found once in the NT).

Of the 175 hapax legomena, 1 Timothy has 96, 2 Timothy 60 and Titus 43.

Some 75 occur only in 1 Timothy, 48 only in 2 Timothy and 30 only in Titus (Total 153).

Relatively few hapax legomena occur in more than one book: 9 in 1 and 2 Timothy, 10 in 1 Timothy and Titus, 1 in 2 Timothy and Titus. Only two appear in all three.

The pastoral letters contain 131 words found in other New Testament books but not Paul's other letters (77 in 1 Timothy, 54 in 2 Timothy, 38 in Titus).

To read through in 30 days one needs to average just under half a chapter, 8.4 verses or 116.3 [160.2] words a day.

 

Greek

Book	Chaps	Verses						verses	words
1 Tim	6	20	15	16	16	25	21	113	1591
2 Tim	4	18	26	17	22	.		83	1238
Titus	3	16	15	15	.			46	659

KJV

	1 Timothy	6 Chaps	113 vv	2244 words
	2 Timothy	4 Chaps	83 vv	1666 words
	Titus	3 Chaps	46 vv	896 words