Bible book word count

The ten longest books in the old testament, in the original hebrew used in the masoretic texts are. In english bibles, the number of hits is the same as the number of words. Special thanks go to logos bible software for making determining the longest book of the bible by hebrew or greek word count much easier. The results will display under their own tab in the results display. This last one is really good for gauging where a topic is most emphasized in scripture. Headings, footnotes and the books of the apocrypha are not included. Select your desired bible from the bible dropdown list c. Once i chose my bibles, it was time to start getting word counts. The fifth longest book of the bible is exodus with 25,957 hebrew words. I built one logos word list like this for every single book of the bible. While there is a part of me that applauds someone for being able to write this many words on a single topic, another part of. As you can see, established authors get much more flexibility when it comes to the length of their book. The hunger games has a word count of 99,750 and my utility calculates it at 98,916.

Ive tried to find someone besides joseph smith who has produced a book of 273,725 words while in their midtwenties. There are some variations between versions with includedexcluded text and verses, however, for the purpose of establishing the relative lengths of each book, these counts are very helpful. Mahershalalhashbaz was a son of the prophet isaiah. The lemma is the base word that would be looked up in a dictionary or lexicon, whilst the word that appears in the original language text is referred to as the manuscript word. For most publishers, a book is novellength when its between 50,000 and 110,000 words. For example, atonement has a word count of 123,378 and my utility comes up with 110,765 words. All words in the bible with links to the verses in which they occur in the king james version.

I ignored common words like the, he, it, and, thee, ye, etc i checked these words on the bible word search function at. The bible word study guide will allow you to study the lemma form of an original language word from your bible i. I publish my books first on smashwords and then, after they pass vetting for the smashwords premium catalog, i publish them on amazon as well. Sharp objects has a word count of 80,565 and my utility calculates it at 80,7. All word counts are the work of computer programmer dave whitinger. We can see that the book of galatians has a very heavy emphasis on the subject. Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. Perhaps we can get an idea, by comparing word counts. What is a good way to get the word count of a kindle book. Special thanks go to logos bible software for making the process of determining the shortest book of the bible by hebrew or greek word count much easier. How many words in each book of the bible the holy word. Therefore i believe these word counts to be 100% accurate i hope.

The longest book of the new testament, and the twelfth longest book of the entire bible, is the gospel of luke with 19,482 greek words. Morris, who has trained thousands of logos users at his twoday camp logos seminars, provides many training materials. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words. And if we really want to calculate the lengths of the originals, english wordcount shouldnt be sufficient, either, since they are translations of the. The sorcerers stone 77,325 words the chamber of secrets 84,799 words the prisoner of azkaban 106,821 words. Tab six in the master control panel opens the bible statistics feature. Search for word count totals in books word counters. I used logos bible software to find out which books are the longest, by original word count. For the book hatchet, the actual word count is 41,672 and i give you 41,212. This panel is used to find wordlists of a book or chapter with a frequency count, word count by book, word form varations with various options. You can also enter any appropriate reference to get a word count on a range of books, chapters, or verses.

Small wonder that in the days of movable type a lot of printing errors were made. Todays post is from morris proctor, certified and authorized trainer for logos bible software. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook. The following list shows the most popular words in the bible ranked by order of frequency occurrence. The black text in the word cloud indicates the part of scripture from which the cloud is drawn. The name means speed the spoil, hasten the plunder. King james version bible breakdown books, chapters. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. Sticking with the english, the total word count of the four gospels matthew, mark, luke, john is 83,898. Then i added the words from a single book of the bible. At a writers conference i recently attended, publishing veteran jane friedman said 80,000 words is good for most fiction, below 60,000 isnt novel length territory, and above 120,000 is likely too much. The larger the word, the more often it appears compared to the others. In the notorious wicked bible the word not was accidentally omitted from the commandment thou shalt not commit adultery.

Heres a list of the ten longest books of the bible. A minimum count for a nonfiction ebook is about 10,000 words, as long as the content is solid. The middle verse of the bible is the 8th verse of the 118th psalm. The kjv bible breakdown by books, chapters, verses and word counts click or tap icons to share. I referenced the lexham hebrew bible for ot books and the na27 for nt books, and heres what i got. This is going by word count in the original languages not any english translation of the bible. Also, heres another list i may swipe and add in here. I have checked and doubledchecked his counts with a manual count in 10 of the 66 books and they all match perfectly. Word counts on every book of the bible from longest to shortest 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. I have counted every word of every chapter in the kjv bible. At an average reading rate of 125 words per minute, thats about 145 hours of reading. These word clouds show the comparative frequency with which words appear in a given text.

How can the books of the bible be listed from shortest to. It seems like ya novels are getting longer and longer nowadays, but maybe my attention span is getting shorter. The word count 788,280 is based on the kjv and seems to be almost exactly as wed expect see our page on how many words in the bible for more information on this. Page 1 of 1 9 items this post has 8 replies 0 followers posts 3368.

I agree that it seems like for a debut author, the agent really looks at that word count. Of course the number of books 66 and chapters 1,189 are fairly easy to count. When combined, the total harry potter word count is over a million words. Amazing how much more one can say with fewer words in koine greek. According to a word count program that i wrote i also used wc. But since those arent part of the original, and because some books may have words per verse or more words per chapter than another book, neither of these would be the right criteria to use. A marvellous source of information for linguists and bible students. The fourth shortest book of the bible, and shortest book of the entire old testament, is obadiah with 440 hebrew words. The actual word count for harry potter and the sorcerers stone is 78,792 and my utility calculates 77,876. Even though psalms has more contributors than any other book of the bible, it turns out that two other books are much longer than psalms.

That left me with 66 logos word lists, each giving me every originallanguage word in a given book of the bible. Smashwords gives a precise word count for each and every b. Here are the word counts for the some of most common versions of the bible. Book of mormon word count hi guys, ive never posted here but im working on a proposal for an article and it deals with word count of the book of mormon. Type a passage, like acts 1, in the reference box that appears under add lemmas from selected bible d. Interestingly enough, the word count for the greek new testament is 8,020 depending on which edition one is using. What are the longest and shortest books of the bible. Word count in a bible book logos bible software forums.

The average nonfiction book is about 50,000 to 75,000 words, which is about 153 to 230 ebook pages. Read gods word at anytime, anywhere using the youversion bible app. The 117th is also the midpoint of the bible by word count. The first book in each series below was the authors first. Famous book series and novel word counts count words and. A breakdown of the total number of books, chapters verses and words found in the king james version of the holy bible. The following statistics apply to the 1769 edition of the 1611 king james bible. Play sporcle s virtual live trivia to have fun, connect with people, and get your trivia on.

Bible concordance all words in the king james version. The word count 788,280 is based on the kjv and seems to be almost exactly as. Thats right the manuscript was almost as long as the old testament. Logos uses a feature called word list to count words. The fifth shortest book of the bible is jude with a count of 461 words. A concordance like strongs exhaustive bible concordance contains a word count of every word in the bible with the passages where they appear crossreferenced to. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, james 1. If a virtual private party is more your thing, go here for details. Sometimes, when studying a book or section of the bible, we can pick up on an authors theme by examining word usage. Thus, the count for lord does not include lords, and the count for light does not include lights, lighted, daylight, etc. Jeremiah 33,002 words genesis 32,046 words psalms 30,147 words ezekiel 29,918 words. Share scripture with friends, highlight and bookmark passages, and create a daily habit with bible plans.

Psalms is often said to be the longest book in the bible because it has the most chapters, but a better indication of actual length is the number of words. I have gone back and double checked every chapter of every book in order to correct any errors to be certain every thing is accurate. I came up with a word count for the kjv bible to be 789,617 words. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference. Many, yes, but there are exceptions due to the layout and font size of a particular book.