Bibliological ‘Connections’ Puzzle

if you do not understand what I mean by connections, I urge you to go to the New York Times games app and discover the game called connections which has become something of a positive intellectual indulgence of mine.

The rules of the game or simple:

Below I will present to you a 4×4 containing 16 terms. Your challenge is to group the terms into four groups of four terms each, by figuring out the connection between them as you study the terms.

Here’s an example:

apple. sock. tooth. wrenched.

wish. dell. spare. heel.

shank. belt. funny. sony.

intel. spur. jab. cross.

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apple, dell, sony, intel – computer companies

sock, belt, jab, cross – terms for striking another

tooth, shank, spur, heel – cutting tool terms

wrenched, wish, spare, funny – first words to identify body parts in ‘Operation’ (wrenched)ankle, (wish)bone, (spare)rib, (funny)bone

so, you get the idea that the commonalities aren’t immediately apparent.

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Here’s a another set of terms (already grouped by their connection) illustrating another more important matter – favorability for use as authoritative witness to its original text. There are three groups of terms, see if you can suss out their connections. Answers below.

Group 1:

BHS, BHK, A, (Beza)/TR, Harley MS 647 (Cicero); Crane’s Scribal Transcript (Wm Shakespeare)

Group 2:

Origen’s Hexapla, Samaritan Pentateuch, NA28, UBS5, Cicero (Harv Class), Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623)

Group 3:

LXX, Vulgate, KJV, Coptic, Penguin Classics (Cicero); Oxford Shakespeare.

What are the Connections?