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Bible
Statistics
The system of chapters
was introduced in A.D. 1238 by Cardinal Hugo de S. Caro,
while the verse notations were added in 1551 by Robertus Stephanus, after
the advent of printing.
The number of new Bibles
that are sold, given away,
or otherwise distributed in the United States is about 168,000 per day.
The Bible
can be read aloud in 70 hours.
There are
8,674 different Hebrew words in the Bible, 5,624 different Greek words,
and 12,143 different English words in the King James Version.
Bible
Statistics
- Number of books in
the Bible: 66
- Chapters: 1,189
- Verses: 31,102
- Words: 783,137
- Letters: 3,116,480
- Number of promises
given in the Bible: 1,260
- Commands: 6,468
- Predictions: over
8,000
- Fulfilled prophecy:
3,268 verses
- Unfulfilled prophecy:
3,140
- Number of questions:
3,294
- Longest name: Mahershalalhashbaz
(Isaiah 8:1)
- Longest verse: Esther
8:9 (78 words)
- Shortest verse: John
11:35 (2 words: "Jesus wept"). - This is the King James Bible.
Some Bibles might be Job 3:2 (Job said.) but King James has
that as "Job answered" which is longer than Jesus wept.
- Middle books: Micah
and Nahum
- Middle verse: Psalm
103:2-3
- Middle chapter: Psalm
117
- Shortest chapter:
Psalm 117 (by number of words)
- Longest book: Psalms
(150 chapters)
- Shortest book (by
number of words): 3 John
- Longest chapter: Psalm
119 (176 verses)
- Number of times the
word "God" appears: 4,094
- Number of times the
word "Lord" appears: 6,781
- Number of different
authors: 40
- Number of languages
the Bible has been translated into: over 1,200
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Old Testament
Statistics
- Number of books: 39
- Chapters: 929
- Verses: 23,145
- Words: 602,585
- Letters: 2,278,100
- Middle book: Proverbs
- Middle chapter: Job 20
- Middle verses: 2 Chronicles
20:17,18
- Smallest book: Obadiah
- Shortest verse: 1 Chronicles
1:25
- Longest verse: Esther 8:9
- Longest chapter: Psalms 119
- Largest book: Psalms
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New
Testament Statistics
- Number of books: 27
- Chapters: 260
- Verses: 7,957
- Words: 180,552
- Letters: 838,380
- Middle book: 2 Thessalonians
- Middle chapters: Romans
8, 9
- Middle verse: Acts
27:17
- Smallest book: 3 John
- Shortest verse: John
11:35
- Longest verse: Revelation
20:4
- Longest chapter: Luke
1
- Largest book: Luke
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