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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ENGLISH LETTERS/ALPHABETS USAGE IN BIBLE

The Graph Below Shows The Usage of English Alphabets In The Construction Of Bible. It is Showing Only The Unique Words Per letter. The Total of Unique Words in Bible Is 14,564

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BIBLE BOOKS CHAPTERS DISTRIBUTION IDEA

Shortest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 117 with 2 verses and 33 words and longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119.

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BIBLE BOOKS VERSES DISTRIBUTION IDEA

 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”

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BIBLE BOOKS WORDS DISTRIBUTION IDEA

Bible has a total number of 783,131 Words. These Words are distributed as 602,580 in Old Testament and 180,551 in New Testament Books. 

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.. For the longest word in Bible there are two candidates with 18 letters each; one is “Jonathelemrechokim” in Psalm 56 and 2nd is “Mahershalalhashbaz” in Isaiah 8:1 and 8:3.

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TOP TEN MOST USED WORDS IN BIBLE

Their Frequency And Percentage With That of Total Words

There are 783,131 words in the Bible King James version. If we disregard words that are articles, conjunctions and prepositions such as “The”, “And” etc, then the most used top ten words are shown in this Chart.

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BIBLE KJV WORDS USAGE IDEA

Chart shows the most common words used in the Bible, their quantity and ranking by order of frequency. Important words are either Bold Or Color Coded.

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Chart showing usage of words in KJV Bible

MISCELLANEOUS BIBLE INFORMATION

HISTORY OF THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM

First Temple was built by Solomon in 966BC to 950BC which replaced the Tabernacle constructed in the Sinai Desert Under Moses supervision. First Temple destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC. Second Temple Construction was authorized by Cyrus the Great and began in 538 BCE completed in 23 years in 515BC. It is called Zerubbabel’s temple because the Persian king appointed Zerubbabel as governor of Judah who started rebuilding the temple with the help of Joshua, the high priest. Zerubbabel was the leader of the tribe of Judah and part of the first Jewish captives. In the next 400 years, different Non-Jewish rulers built OR defiled the temple until the 39BC battle in which Herod took charge of the temple. Herod proposed to renovate the temple in 20-19 BC. Thus started the third massive reconstruction of the temple under Herod with an expansion of the Temple Mount. This Temple was famous as Herod’s temple and was destroyed by Titus in 70AD as Prophesied by Jesus in Matthew chapter 24.

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DISTANCE MEASUREMENT UNITS USED IN BIBLE

NO UNIT DESCRIPTION
1 Acre Amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow in 1 day.
2 Cubit Length of the arm from elbow to the end of the middle finger, almost 18 inches.
3 Fathom Length of the outstretched arms, about 6 feet.
4 Furlong Almost 660 feet or one-eighth mile.
5 Handbreadth Width of four fingers pressed together, almost 3 inches
6 Measuring reed Ten and one-half feet.
7 Mile Eight furlongs.
8 Span End of the thumb to the little finger when spread, almost 9 inches

WEIGHT MEASUREMENT UNITS USED IN BIBLE

NO UNIT DESCRIPTION
1 Shekel Almost 10 to 12 grams, .36 – .55 ounces
2 Bekah 1/2 Shekel
3 Gerah 1/20 Shekel
4 Litra 30 Shekel
5 Mina 50 Shekel
6 Talent 3000 Shekel

CURRENCY UNITS USED IN BIBLE

NO UNIT DESCRIPTION
1 Denarius 1 day’s  wage
2 Drachma 1 gram of Silver. Almost 16 cents
3 Didrachma 2 Drachma. 2 gram of silver. Almost 32 cents
4 Daric (dram) Almost USD 5
5 Farthing 1/4 Cent
6 Talent, silver Approx 45 kg
7 Talent, gold Approx 54 kg