Have you ever wondered what the longest and shortest books of the Bible are? The Bible is more than 600,000 words long in its original languages—but how are those words distributed across the 66 books of the Bible?
I’ve put together word counts for every book of the Bible. These numbers are pulled from the original languages using Logos Bible Software—you can see how I did it below. I used the Lexham Hebrew Bible and the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece for these word counts.
(By the way, if you want to know what I think of Logos . . . here’s my honest take.)
You can check out the Web versions, or just download the spreadsheet and play with the numbers all you want:
Word counts on every book of the Bible (from longest to shortest)
You can click on any book of the Bible to read an overview of what it’s about.
Rank | Book | Word count |
| 1 | Jeremiah | 33,002 |
| 2 | Genesis | 32,046 |
| 3 | Psalms | 30,147 |
| 4 | Ezekiel | 29,918 |
| 5 | Exodus | 25,957 |
| 6 | Isaiah | 25,608 |
| 7 | Numbers | 25,048 |
| 8 | Deuteronomy | 23,008 |
| 9 | 2 Chronicles | 21,349 |
| 10 | 1 Samuel | 20,837 |
| 11 | 1 Kings | 20,361 |
| 12 | Luke | 19,482 |
| 13 | Leviticus | 18,852 |
| 14 | 2 Kings | 18,784 |
| 15 | Acts | 18,450 |
| 16 | Matthew | 18,346 |
| 17 | 2 Samuel | 17,170 |
| 18 | 1 Chronicles | 16,664 |
| 19 | Joshua | 15,671 |
| 20 | John | 15,635 |
| 21 | Judges | 15,385 |
| 22 | Job | 12,674 |
| 23 | Mark | 11,304 |
| 24 | Proverbs | 9,921 |
| 25 | Revelation | 9,851 |
| 26 | Daniel | 9,001 |
| 27 | Nehemiah | 8,507 |
| 28 | Romans | 7,111 |
| 29 | 1 Corinthians | 6,830 |
| 30 | Ezra | 5,605 |
| 31 | Hebrews | 4,953 |
| 32 | Esther | 4,932 |
| 33 | Zechariah | 4,855 |
| 34 | Ecclesiastes | 4,537 |
| 35 | 2 Corinthians | 4,477 |
| 36 | Hosea | 3,615 |
| 37 | Amos | 3,027 |
| 38 | Ephesians | 2,422 |
| 39 | Lamentations | 2,324 |
| 40 | Galatians | 2,230 |
| 41 | 1 John | 2,141 |
| 42 | Micah | 2,118 |
| 43 | Ruth | 2,039 |
| 44 | Song of Solomon | 2,020 |
| 45 | James | 1,742 |
| 46 | 1 Peter | 1,684 |
| 47 | Philippians | 1,629 |
| 48 | 1 Timothy | 1,591 |
| 49 | Colossians | 1,582 |
| 50 | 1 Thessalonians | 1,481 |
| 51 | Joel | 1,447 |
| 52 | Malachi | 1,320 |
| 53 | 2 Timothy | 1,238 |
| 54 | Zephaniah | 1,141 |
| 55 | 2 Peter | 1,099 |
| 56 | Jonah | 1,082 |
| 57 | Habakkuk | 1,011 |
| 58 | Haggai | 926 |
| 59 | Nahum | 855 |
| 60 | 2 Thessalonians | 823 |
| 61 | Titus | 659 |
| 62 | Jude | 461 |
| 63 | Obadiah | 440 |
| 64 | Philemon | 335 |
| 65 | 2 John | 245 |
| 66 | 3 John | 219 |
And of course, you can download these, too
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How I got these Bible word counts
As you can imagine, I don’t have the time nor original-language knowledge to tally all these words on my own.
So I used one of Logos Bible Software‘s not-so-famous features: Word Lists. (Heads up: I’m a Logos affiliate.)
I know that a good deal of you use Logos. If so, feel free to open it up and follow along. If you don’t use Logos, you’re about to see why I do. =)
I’ll walk you through my process step-by-step.
Step 1: pick a Bible
I needed word counts for every book of the Bible, so the first thing I had to do was choose the text I’d be drawing from. I went with the following three Bibles:
- The NA27 Greek New Testament
- The Lexham Hebrew Bible
- The New American Standard 1995 Update (for the little slivers of Aramaic)
Obviously, you could do this using just one Bible. I made a similar list using the ESV.
Step 2: create a word list
Once I chose my Bibles, it was time to start getting word counts. First thing I did was create a new Word list. I did this by going to “Documents” …
… and then selecting “Word List” from the options.
This opened up a new Word List, which looked like this:
And of course, I chose a title.
Step 3: add text
Then I added the words from a single book of the Bible. That was easy. First, I clicked “Add.”
Then I selected the Bible I was using (let’s say the ESV for this post). This tells Logos which text to pull words from when I designate a book of the Bible.
So now
I’ve told Logos where the words are coming from (the selected Bible) and where the words are going (the Word list). Then I just enter in a book of the Bible. Let’s say Ruth.
I click “Ruth,” and blammo—Logos pulls in every Hebrew lemma in the book of Ruth (as far as the ESV is concerned). Here’s what it looks like:
Now I have a list of every Hebrew lemma in the book of Ruth.
What’s a lemma? Good question. A lemma is a word’s dictionary form. For example, “run,” “ran,” and “running” are all different words, but if you were to look up their meanings in a dictionary, you’d look up “run.” “Run” is the lemma. Learn more about lemmas here.
Here’s where it got time-consuming: I built one Logos Word List like this for every single book of the Bible. That should probably count as another step.
Step 3b: repeat step 2 for every book of the Bible
That left me with 66 Logos Word Lists, each giving me every original-language word in a given book of the Bible. We can do all sorts of things with these lists. We could print flash cards, see which words occur most, and more.
But I wanted all the words of the Bible in a spreadsheet, so I had to take it a step further. I exported each Word List as a CSV spreadsheet. To do that, I clicked the Word List icon and selected Print/Export.
Then selected “Spreadsheet” and exported it as a CSV file.
And of course, I did this with all those books, so …
Step 4b: repeat Step 4 for every book of the Bible
Yep.
Step 5: Add ’em up!
From here on out, it’s just doing the math.
I used my favorite Bible study tool, Logos Bible software, to do research that made this post possible. If you're a Bible geek like me, you might want to check it out.
Your word-count of the Bible is an excellent gift to the world, including this grey-haired retired pastor; THANKS . Forty years a pastor, several years in religious education, ONE trip to a college in India (wow), etc I will NOT be called on much to speak, but if so I will be prepared; even more so since I met your work!
Eighty but still I get that ‘special feeling’ when I help someone find Jesus!
I’m looking for a word count for each chapter of each book of the bible. I’m not finding a site that lists this. Have you seen this anywhere?
No, not in the original languages.
I just chanced on this website – no, even the Lord uses computers to help us dummies. I too was wanting the number of words by chapter, specifically Philippians, where Paul starts Chapter 3 with “finally.” I write notes for a Sunday School group in a Baptist church, and I said for Paul “finally” doesn’t mean anything. I wanted to support that statement with a word count, because Paul did not write in our verse/chapter divisions. I will make an icon for this website for my easy find. God bless.
Hi, Jeffrey
I love your research and methodology. Thanks for doing the “legwork” and sharing it.
Noting your most recent comment on June 6 “this is a count of total words” I’m a bit confused – are you counting the original language words or the words in your favorite NASB English translation or something else?
We’ve collated a number of word counts on this page
https://holyword.church/how-many-words-in-the-bible/
(Yours is at the bottom, not as a sign of its importance, just due to the chronology of adding it today!)
and as you can see your count is significantly longer than another source for the original language, but also significantly shorter than two different counts for the NASB.
Would love to understand this some more. Also, if you have data on your ESV analysis, could you share that – either via a published article here or by sending direct to me? I’m writing another article on the word counts of each book in the Bible, your material here is invaluable, but I’m concerned at how you end up with your 611,224 word total.
David, you can read that here: https://overviewbible.com/bible-word-counts-logos-word-lists/
Hi, Jeffrey
Thanks for answering back. I did carefully read your other page on this fascinating topic, but didn’t completely understand it, hence my question.
To perhaps restate my question, other sources suggest there are about 545,000 words in the original Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic. If you are counting from the original Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic, do you have any idea how it is your count is over 10% higher? Not saying you are wrong and they are right, just curious how to reconcile (and I’ll agree that a 10% variance may probably be within the realms of tolerance).
On the other hand, if you are counting the NASB (I like it, too!) then other sources suggest there to be 783,000 or 807,000 words, and your 611,000 word count is massively lower than either of these. Can you reconcile that?
I should add (and as you can see on our page https://holyword.church/miscellaneous-resources/how-many-words-in-the-bible/ ) most versions of the Bible (in English) seem to run around 750k-800k words, so the other counts of NASB conform to this, whereas yours doesn’t.
For “bears with very little brains” (but a fascination with numbers!) such as me, can you sort of simply explain (without words like “lemma”!).
Is this the number of total words or unique words?
This is a count of the total words (not just number of uniques).
Dear Sir/Madam
I was fascinated by the word count of the books in the Bible. May I please use them in my new poetry book called “Everlasting Love” (it’s all about the Lord Jesus)
Can I please give an acknowledgement to you. If you let me have the wording that will be great. God bless your ministry.
Susan
Go for it, Susan! Thanks.
Thanks for the chart. I’m prepping a proposal for our first three years of translation into a minority language of Cambodia, and these stats will be useful.
Very interesting, I didn’t know that Jeremiah and Genesis had more words than the Psalms!
I do see, however, that you didn’t distinguish between Hebrew and Greek, which makes comparing OT and NT books rather difficult if you want to compare length, given how on the one hand Hebrew is an agglutinating language, while Greek likes to multiply its articles for example.
I’m curious what the … “conversion rate” would be though.
Well done. Played an intricate part in my sermon tomorrow.
Thank you so much for creating this list! I love it. I had created a list similar to this, for the New Testament books. But I used a different method. Basically, I cut and paste an entire book into Microsoft Word, then used the “word count” feature. I was using the list in order to memorize the books of the New Testament, in order from shortest to longest books. Unfortunately I lost the list. But so thankful to you for creating this one. Now I can continue to study the Word. : )
Jeffrey,
Have you done word frequency lists? I am studying Russian, and being able to review frequency lists before each book I read in Russian will help greatly.
I know I can buy it, but another $400 is not what I would like to do.
Wayne
The Torah began as a series of ANDs. Ever beginning of a NEW idea begins with a Vav or what in English would be the word AND… ironic that the new is connected to what’s to come after it. Books are not in Torah. Modern man divided the Torah into 5 books. The book name in the Christian bible is not Torah Hebrew and was created thousands of years after Torah was given. However there WAS a way of telling where the “books” divide because the Torah scroll has huge spaces so we can’t miss the new beginning. There are only 4 Books of Moses. The 5th book is called by Moses Devarim which means WORDS. Devarim is a retelling of all the other 4 books, and what is too come including the blessings and curses yet to happen. Devarim takes place the last 36 days of Moses’ life when he began to talk and did not stop talking until the Lord lead him to the mountain top to die. The first 4 books of the Old Testament are the Books of Moses to the Jew… the 5th book speaks of Him to come and what’s will come when this all comes to pass. This is why the Christ said… Moses spoke of me. Each section has a Holy counting of Letters. The Hebrew name for the book is taken from the first meaningful WORD to be written. Wiki has a wonderful site to the Jewish perspective of Holy counting to compliment this wonderful study we see on the page. This however is man’s accomplishment. The Jewish counting is said to be given to Moses from G-d… the Holy counting! Both perspectives, of man made and G-d given are needed so we have the physical attempt and the Holy spiritual reveal.
Wiki… weekly Torah portions (parsha) to compliment this sight’s light
Gosh… I love Aba (the unseen Father as His SEEN Holy Hebrew Aleph Bet) and His Seed which is each Letter of Light… where ever two or more Letters of Light are, there is the LIGHT… there is the Aleph Bet’s glory; His WORD!
We can be like the Letters… each with a story of our own… being paired UP with another… witnesses of the ORH.
We are LIKE the Angels… like His 27 Letters with LIGHT to give.
Not hidden under where we sleep, not hidden in a hand made woven basket… but OUT of TORAH we too can step once we know Holy Hebrew enough to know each Letter by way of the Christ.
Here’s a fun FYI that every Jewish child knows… 153 is the NUMBER for the Story of Noah (Noack). Now here is what the Christ came to teach us, who are not already versed in Torah (not yet righteous).Remember this story… They went out to fish and the Word said, toss the net over to the OTHER SIDE (don’t fish/read from left to right, read from right to left). They did, and they finally CAUGHT what they were fishing for. 153 FISH… the days of Noah. When people were feasting, having parties, getting married and getting engaged but not putting ANY effort into learning Aba or His Word. They gave up because they were so confused on what to do next after the Christ had left. But He wasn’t gone long. He appeared to them, John recognized his VOICE because John was a practicing Jew who was friends with the High Priest of that time. Remember, he escorted YH’Shua (Jesus) to the midnight trial. The Stone was fishing naked, but when the Jew John said It is the Christ, the Stone, who had denied the Christ 3X, dressed and JUMPED into the TORAH/water! They ate on the sand because Torah is not yet firmed up. The WORD is firm and a solid foundation but the land which Torah stands is still sinking sand until He comes again to join all the Physical (Earth) and the Spiritual (heaven/Shamyim) together as ONE.
People… do you KNOW the WORD as it WAS in the day of your Deliverer’s Life?
Do you know Aba who reveals Himself through the WORD. Philip have I been with you this long and you still do not know that I am IN the Father and the Father is IN me.
Torah… the house of Aba with many, many study rooms for us ALL!
So many stories in the Word of the Christ that are NOT NEW… every Jew knows them and teachings their meanings as if they speak of them rather than of OUR Christ. Is so much fun to GROW in FAITH when Aba’s breath breathes life into you! John did not take the mother MARY home. John took the Spirit of Wisdom, the DOVE that settled upon Him as He stepped out of the WATER/TORAH to bring us home. Wisdom went home with John… lives with John still today. In the Beginning WAS the WORD… and the WORD was WITH G-d and the WORD was G-D! Philip was taught this and still did not understand until the Christ walked THROUGH the WALL. What wall? That stupid blank piece of paper in YOUR BIBLE separating the Old from the New. They old HAS to remain the SAME. WINE/PROMISE cannot be poured into the TORHA because it would demand a rewrite. G-d did not plan on a rewrite… G-d planned on a NEW WINE SKIN to pour out of TORAH to become His SEED of LIGHT to the WORLD. A patch cannot be sewed onto a prayer shawl. The prayer shawl needs to have ALL the FOUR corner, healing fring/tzitizit removed, the prayer shawl shorten to remove the damage, and THEN new patches to hold the OLD healing Tzitzit can be made and sewed on the OLD prayer shawl. Now, if you have an issure of blood, not born Jew, then you can touch the OLD and be healed. Same prayer shawl, only shortened so we can READ in first in English (left to right) then go fishing and toss the net to read right to left. Oh I do love my Aba and HIs seed of two Letters that became His sovereignty. What two Letters of Light are Aba’s sovereignty… ALEPH TAV or in Greek Alpha and Omega. Aleph Letters means Hidden power and strength of G-d and the Tav means Owner/Authority! In Torah the Aleph Tav is an undefinable WORD that is used only to show that what follows this Ahtah is G-d’s OWN. The most Holy of WORDS in TORAH is the Aleph Bet JOINED together as ONE… Father is the Son by way of His seed the WORD becoming flesh and blood to Deliver the WORLD back to TORAH. We need to follow to TRY so that our TRYING to make it physical will teach us the SPRITUAL and thus make Heaven and EARTH ONE. Our Father… thy kingdom come… they will be done… join the two ingredient of Adam and make them ONE AGAIN. Heave is Shamyim/water and Eretz is earth or dust… the TWO WITNESSES that G-d breathed LIFE into.
Thank you for your good work. Wondering….Matthew 26 27… Just reading this am and wondering how much of His gospel does he give to the passion of Christ. Curious about the percentage of words.
have you done a study on the percentage of torah words represented in the 1st 6 chapters of genesis
This is awesome and done by Torah scholar editing team with Wiki English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Torah_portion
153 fish they caught in their net… Noah is 152 verses
go here to read more of my found bread
https://plus.google.com/+FOCForestville/posts/D1B9r5EkM6p
Have you ever read Torah from the Genesis of EACH LETTER? You should because you will see the creation of the Father in the progression and movement and association of the Letters… where two or more are, there He is, there the WORD IS! The best of it… when you know what order the Letters came into creation you will see the Father’s glorious plan and a surprise Letter hunt too. Here’s a taste… the first verse has all the Letters but 12! Go find the other twelve, look at the WORD where its found and the Letters that make up that word for the best most glorious KNOWING of the Father’s seed. His house has many rooms, each word is a room with Letters as guests. There is only ONE Letter that is missing for what seems to be a very long time… but when you find Him you will see He comes with the 144K wearing the Name that is Gold on their foreheads as they ride with the WORD. You could be one of the 144000 points of Light that travels around and around with the WORD. Hebrew Letters are the Father, the Word the Son and you a Yid working the Father’s perfect plan. Every Word, a room in the Father’s house prepared just for you to get to know Him who sent the Christ, the Word of G-d made flesh and blood. Go… know the LORD.
I would like to know more about what you are talking about here with the rooms and the 144000, if would could email me glenjmanning@gmail.com
Do you know Torah Hebrew? You will have to first learn each Letter of Light before I can explain it so that it will made sense. Here’s a link to video lessons for what each Letter of Light means. Its done by Aaron Raskin who also has it in book form on Amazon which is very nice too. If you don’t have the data for video, they can be listened to by selecting audio or download MP3. Salvation comes from the Jews and Aaron Raskin and his ministry is all about open door study with the mingling of the stranger and the Jew… the righteous gentile and the Y’sara El which means the Yid (man working G-d’s plan) who has the POWER/El to persevere/sara. Kabal means receiving and Kabal Ah is the divine power of receiving. Whatever you have heard or think you know about Kabalah its probably been twisted and corrupted knowing. Kabal is nothing more than the 4th layer or spiritual layer of torah (instruction of the WORD of G-d). Let me know where you are in your “torah” knowing and we can go from there. Can’t learn what you can’t SEE and FEEL spiritually. The YH is the physical and the VH is spiritual and the Name of YHVH is the Echad or ONENESS of shamyim and earth. Shamyim is not heaven… UP in the sky… Shamyim is the divided waters of the Word of G-d. The Word and then the Flesh and Blood or what many wrongfully call the Old T and the New T… there Aba dwells. Aba… Aleph Bet. Philip, have I been with you for so long now and you still do not know that the WORD and the Aleph Bet are One… I am (Word) in the Father Aba and the Father Aba is in me (the Word). Each Letter of Light has something to tell us, a story all its own. Each Letter stands separately but when two or more are gather there the WORD is. Let me knonw… I don’t spam people or ever invade your email or world. Ask… then and only then will I speak. Bea… the insect of the honey comb or 6 sided cell, in Hebrew the Name is Devorah. Opps forget link to Letters of Light
http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/1930265/jewish/Letters-of-Light.htm
Thank you for replying! I don’t see the link to the Letter of Light video’s??? I just started learning the Hebrew alphabet a little bit here and there 6 months ago, when God revealed to me Psalms 12:6 “The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.” Since then, I learned that Hebrew is his pure word, and life as I know it has now been flipped upside down!
http://www.chabad.org/1930265?sc=tw_share Here is the video, below the video you have other options for download of MP3 or to listen online so you do not burn up your data watching video. We have a sheet on our home site too for the page of evolution of Hebrew from beginning to Torah Hebrew. Very exciting stuff. Did you know, that at the Passover Seder, there are portion of the dialog that are in Aramaic (every day Hebrew not Holy Hebrew) because the Jewish teaching is that the Angels only listen when Torah Hebrew is spoken. When Aramaic is spoken, we can sit at the holy meal and some of the conversation is private. Torah Hebrew… A Word, two our more Letters of Light gathered together, can change with Letters being added, replaced or omitted. This is why it is tricky to read your daily portion of bread every day. But with time you get use to it but keep Strong’s concordance by our side to help. When a dot is missing, lets say the one that is is the B or Bet Letter, it means the house or dwelling place has no heart. Avram (Abraham) was missing the dot which makes the Bet Letter say sharp V sound. When he had Isaac, he received a NEW NAME, ABraHam. He got the dot for his house and the HEY which means behold. Sari also received the HEY Letter of Light. When you are strugging or in need of any kind, just saying the Aleph Bet brings you great blessings. It shows the Lord (the Holy Word) you TRYING to KNOW him. Many will recognize Him and shout Lord Lord but He never knew them because they didn’t even TRY to follow Him back to His origin as Andrew and John the beloved did when the Word turned and asked… Whom are you seeking. Good luck. We are here, ask and we will share what we have. But… please follow no man’s translations as your foundation, use their tools to carve out your own path. A well worn path is not what you should be seeking. The difficult, less traveled path is where He has called us too. Torah is Aba’s home where the Word was born so He could become seed of the Holy Father and step out of Torah into the world so that ALL of our Father’s children would return home. Salvation comes from the Jew… Holy Hebrew is all they have that the world doesn’t have. Modern Hebrew is NOT Torah Hebrew. Don’t bother to learn modern Hebrew… it is a disgrace to Torah Hebrew. Aramaic however is also a wonderful language you will learn as you Learn the Light onto the World. Our;s byitICU.info http://www.byiticu.info/learn-hebrew.html
Wow!!! Thank you so much for all your information. I am so grateful. “Thank You” Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
*Question:* Are you using Matthew 18:20 when you say: “A Word, two our more Letters of Light gathered together” I know that the name Matthew in Hebrew is a abbreviated form of the Tetragrammaton, YHWH or Gift Of Yah.
I have very limited and basic knowledge of the 22 letters, their number valve and the pictogram meaning, also I now know of the musical aspect of it too. I have an old Strong’s Hebrew, Greek concordance I am always looking up everything,
Aleph Bet, Aleph Bet, Aleph Bet
Glen
Oh my goodness, you do KNOW HIM! Isn’t wonderful how so many of us find each other. Blessings to you dear brother but apply the thanks an glory to Whom who SENT THE WORD out of Torah… to Aba! Praise be our Aba for we KNOW his GLORY!
Thank you so very much!
Here read this… https://plus.google.com/+FOCForestville/posts/D1B9r5EkM6p
Ask and I will point you to where I found bread but I will not teach. He is the only one elected to do that. But I can point to where I bought bread!
You will find that Chabad.org is wonderful and care about the other nations and the stranger in their land. Out of respect I do use the word Rabbi just as Peter was allowed to eat anything when he ate at the gentile’s house when Cefus (Peter) was asked to join him. I have only one teacher, Rabbi and Father but for the sake of my brothers… I will not disrespect them because they have given me Salvation in their keeping Torah alive long enough so that I CAN SEE without another man standing between me and my G-d.
Keeps of the flame… Chabad.org
Thanks. I may add this link it to my page http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/BooksOfTheBible.html. Here is a list of most of the prayers in Scripture, excluding many in Psalms (may be added later) by God’s grace. http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/BIBLE-PRAYERS.html This http://www.biblebelievers.com/believers-org/kjv-stats.htm has many on the KJV.
Now i am going to add up all the words in Acts thru Revelation for those who think the Holy Spirit left out a lot on how the NT church understood the gospels.
I would love to study the Bible on the basis of its internal repetition. Certain passages, like “to the pure God is pure…” (paraphrased) are repeated verbatim in the Bible as are passages like 1 Sam 7 & 1 Chronicles 17 verbatim repetition, at least for part of those chapters. Surely if God speaks repeatedly, we ought to listen repeatedly. Thank you for compiling this list of books, as I’m looking to memorize the shortest so I can claim to have memorized a multitude of books…like 3 John! I also hope to memorize a multitude of passages because some are repeated. Two birds one stone, I figure.
I figure I’ll memorize Jeremiah last.
Thank you for your efforts in performing this statistical feat. I love stuff like this. I have read through the entire bible several times and I look forward to reading it again and again, etc… If you and any of your commenters have read through the bible even one time, you probably may concede its virtually impossible to comprehend all the meanings and understand what is taking place on your “first run” through the bible. Anyway, I hope to someday perhaps put the bible in an MS Access database. If you have ever used Access, it is a powerful tool to manipulate data until you are “blue in the face.” Again, thanks for your efforts here!
There is a dynamic word counting tool here: http://www.leavening.net/
It lists the words by frequency and count. It only uses the KJV, so the counts are a bit different than here. I just put this together today, so its not very pretty (yet!)
Thanks. Link is http://www.leavening.net/
I moved it here: http://www.without-teeth.com/
For the time being, its the same code running on both sites. Hope its helpful or at least interesting.
Thank you so much. If it is alright, I will pass on this information to our homeschool co-op. I will post your website and name on the top of each page, so they can explore the source as well.
Go for it!
Hi Jeffrey,
Enjoying fruits of your research. Have you ever done, or thought of doing, a word count of how many different words in each book are used?
Tom
What a cool idea! I have all the data on hand—I’ll tackle that next month.
Thanks, Tom!
Hello Jeffrey,
Thanks for all study tools you are making available.
Is there a place I can take a look at the occurances of words in each specific bible book?
Have a great day! -Elias
You can do this with [cue the Superman theme] Logos Bible Software! That might make for a fun tutorial video to do sometime.
What a cool idea! I have the data on hand—I’ll tackle this next month.
Thanks, Tom!
Hey, I too am interested in that knowing how to know the different words for every book of the bible. Especially, the New Testament. I do have logos and if you have the instruction feel free to contact me.
I would like to know the number of times the word free or freedom are used in the New Testament.
Thank you.
Hey, Neil. Good question, though the answer is a little tricky.
I use the NASB, and the words “free” and “freedom” show up 48 times in the NT. I made a list of those passages here: https://documents.logos.com/documents/97c728e4b9e34846ac341777c51509c9 (You’ll need to create a Faithlife account to see them).
Of course, that’s just looking up the English word. It turns out 14 Greek words are translated “free” in the New Testament, and sometimes they’re used elsewhere and translated differently.
Did you know that the serpent in the bible is not a snake? Nachash in Torah Hebrew means SEER of future things through wisdom. The Nachash is not a prophet because He only speaks about what he sees in conversation not as a town crier or messenger to the peoples. Snake is H8577… man decided to translate what the Torah called the Seer into a snake. Only in the Christina bible will you find that the Nachash is called a snake. Yes He crawls on His belly after the DESCENT but so does the grape vine which brings forth the grape of holy promise and which is the metaphor of the blood of our savior… surely you won’t die! Torah Hebrew… know the Word. The Christ also said… before you can rise up, you first must DESCEND.
Blue Letter Bible! But remember… translations will always change the COUNT so don’t count on the number, count on the WORD and His Letters. A translation is a human trying to describe what another man has said using not that man’s experience but his own and in a different language and life time of experience no less. Below I have included Blue Letter’s link to FREE… but free in ancient times was not a word yet invented and the meaning of being free then is certainly not what we define as free today. Did you know that the Dictionary society says that the most difficult word to translate only has 3 English letters? Run! All the things run can mean are astounding… almost impossible to define. Don’t take stock in English, its too young to know anything when compared to Greek which was driveled from Aramaic (ancient everyday Hebrew).
https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=free&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1