BIBLE FACTS & FIGURES

Interesting Facts About The Holy Bible

Bible Facts Figures Regarding Verses, Words, Letters And Their Usage With Animations And Graphs

Bible Total Number of Books:

66

Old Testament Total Number of Books:

39

New Testament Total Number of Books:

27

Bible Total Number of Chapters:

1,189

Old Testament Total Number of Chapters:

929

New Testament Total Number of Chapters:

260

Bible Total Number of Verses:

31,102

Old Testament Total Number of Verses:

23,145

New Testament Total Number of Verses:

7,957

Bible Total Number of Words:

783,131

Bible Total Unique Words:

14,564

Old Testament Total Number of Words:

602,580

Old Testament Total Unique Words:

10,867

New Testament Total Number of Words:

180,551

New Testament Total Unique Words:

6,063

ALL ANALYSIS OF BIBLE DATA IS AS PER KING JAMES VERSION

Bible has a Total of 66 Books with 39 (59%) Books in Old Testament and 27 (41%) Books in New Testament. Total number of Chapters in Bible is 1189. Out of 1189 total chapters 929(78%) chapters are in Old Testament Books and 260(22%) chapters in New Testament Books. The 2nd broader distribution of these chapters is Pentateuch: 187 Chapters, Historical Books: 249 Chapters, Poetry&Wisdom Books: 243 Chapters, Major Prophets: 183 Chapters, Minor Prophets: 67 Chapters, Gospels: 89 Chapters, Acts: 28 Chapters, Epistles: 121 Chapters, Revelation: 22 Chapters. There are a total of 31,102 Verses in Bible. These Verses are distributed as 23,145 (74.42%) in Old Testament Books and 7,957 (25.58%) in New Testament Books respectively. Bible has a total number of 783,131 Words. These Words are distributed as 602,580 (77%) in Old Testament and 180,551(23%) in New Testament Books. Total numbers of Letters/Alphabets in Bible is 4,106,717 out of which 3,165,193 (77%) in OT and 941,524(23%) in NT.

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Total OT Chapters

929 (78%)

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Total NT Chapters

260 (22%)

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Total Verses

31,102

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Total Words

783,131

Average Word Length In Bible

The average word length of Bible is 5.2 i.e on average they constituted of 5.2 letters/Alphabets. The average Words per verse in Bible are 25.2. The average of Words per verse in OT is 27.6 and in NT its 22.2.

Longest Book Of Bible

Longest Book of OT and of Bible is Psalms with 150 chapters 2,461 verses. Longest book of the New Testament is Luke with 24 Chapters and 1,151 verses.

Shortest Book Of Bible

Shortest book of the Old Testament is Obadiah with 1 chapter, 21 verses and 670 words, and of New Testament and of Whole Bible is John 3 with 1 chapter, 13 verses and 299 words.

Middle Book Of Bible

Middle book of the Old Testament is Proverbs and of New Testament is 2 Thessalonians.

Middle Chapter Of Bible

Middle chapter of the Old Testament is Job 29 and of New Testament is Romans 13.

Shortest Chapter Of Bible

Shortest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 117 with 2 verses and 33 words.

Longest Chapter Of Bible

The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.

Longest And Shortest Verse in Bible

Longest verse in the Bible is Esther 8:9 with 90 words. Shortest verse of Old Testament is 1 Chronicles 1:25 – ” Eber, Peleg, Reu, ” and Shortest verse of New Testament and of whole Bible is John 11:35 – “Jesus wept”.

Longest And Shortest Word in The Bible

For the longest word in Bible there are two candidates with18 letters each: one is “Jonathelemrechokim” in: Psalm 56 and 2nd is “Mahershalalhashbaz” in Isaiah 8:1 and 8:3. The shortest words in the Bible are a, I and O.

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