English: Corpus-based research in translation involves using computerised corpora to study
translated text and is concerned with revealing both the universal and the specific
features of translation. A corpus of Bible translations and religious literature is in a
process of being established at the University of the Free State. The purpose of this
paper is to examine the nature of the vocabulary of the translation of Psalms 1-50
in various Afrikaans Bible translations within corpus-based translation studies. The
way in which corpus processing techniques could be utilised to investigate the vocabulary
of the translation of Psalms 1-50 will be discussed.