The
Bible is the greatest and most influential book ever written. It’s infallible
and intrinsic.
Even
though there are many authors who wrote the scriptures, they were guided and
given wisdom by the Holy Spirit on what to write, therefore, the Bible was
written by God. God created all the characters and stories in the Bible.
The
Bible is our instructions, reference, technical and operators manual for life here
on earth.
Timothy
Skon
Printings
= over 5 billion.
Books
= 66
Words=
over 700,000
Chapters
= 1,189
Verses
= 31,102
Commands
= 6,468
Promises
= 1260
Authors
= 80
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When
it comes to calculating the number of words in the Bible, it’s not as
straightforward as it might first appear. The problem is there are hundreds of
different translations of the Bible and each one has a different number of
words, so the answer depends on which Bible you’re actually referring to. That
being said, if you are looking for a general answer, it’s probably best to use
one of the most common versions.
How
many words are there in the Bible?
The Bible has 783,137 words. How many words is that? If you can type at 60 words a
minute, it would take you just over 217 and a half hours to retype the entire
Bible. Can you imagine how long type-setting must have taken in the early days
of printing?
As
for the number of letter characters in the Bible, the total count is a
staggering 3,116,480. Small wonder that in the days of movable type a lot of
printing errors were made.
Chapters
and verses: finding your way around
There
are 66 books in the Bible, and before the 12th century, they weren’t divided
into chapters. This innovation was brought about by a man named Stephen
Langton, and it made finding your way around a lot easier. All in all, the
Bible has 1,189 chapters, but it was still quite difficult to get “on the same
page” when studying the Bible. So in 1551, Robert Estienne came up with the
idea of numbering verses. There are 31,102 of them, and the shortest one is
John 11:35 “Jesus wept,” while the longest is in the book of Esther and
consists of 78 words.
What’s
in a name?
A
lot of the names we give to children have biblical origins. How many people
named “Mark” or “John” do you know? Now think of all the “Marys” you’ve met in
your time. Of course, some names have fallen out of grace for good reasons.
Being called “Judas” would be a bad start in life for any boy.
“Mahershalalhashbaz” is the longest name in the Bible, and fortunately for us,
it has fallen out of fashion.
Some
more wordy facts for fun
There
are, of course, only 10 commandments which Jesus neatly summed up into two
really comprehensive ones, but if you count commands instead of commandments,
you’d come up with a total of 6,468. Is anyone in the mood for checking this
fact? There are even more predictions – 8,000 of them – and a sum total of
1,260 promises.
Questions
are certainly asked. If you were to flip through your Bible counting question
marks, you’d find 3,294, but now that I’ve told you how many there are, you can
save yourself the trouble.
The
Bible has one Central Character, who is referred to as “God” 4,094 times and as
“Lord” 6,781 times.
Looking
for the longest book in the Bible? Look no further than Psalms, a book that
also includes the longest chapter in the Bible: Psalm 119, which has more words
than any other chapter. For those who are looking for a lot of information in a
very short book, 3 John is recommended reading; it has the lowest word count of
all the books in the Bible.
How
many copies of the Bible have been printed?
Nobody
really knows the answer to this question, but the Bible Society estimates that
since 1812, over 5 billion Bibles have been printed. Other experts differ, but
one thing is for certain, saying that “a lot” of Bibles have been printed over
the years would be an understatement.
Would
you like to guess which country prints the most Bibles? China comes in at
number 1. There’s only one publishing house that’s allowed to print them and
in 2012, its 100 millionth Bible rolled off the presses.
A REMARKABLE BOOK;
No
other book in history has been as influential as the Bible. From its
fascinating history to the debates around biblical matters that rage today.
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