There are 66 books in the Bible, and before the 12th century, they weren’t divided into chapters. Chapters and verses: finding your way around Luther reasoned that the Old Testament was Jewish, and, therefore, shouldn’t include anything that Jews didn’t accept. Martin Luther felt that seven of the books accepted as part of the Old Testament at the time were not quite up to scratch since the 90 AD Jewish Council of Jamnia had rejected them. The Catholic Bible has an even higher word count because it has seven books more than the protestant Bible. While 783,137 words and 3,116,480 may seem to be a lot, there are others with even more. In the notorious “Wicked Bible'” the word “not” was accidentally omitted from the commandment “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Three little letters can make a huge difference in meaning. Small wonder that in the days of movable type a lot of printing errors were made. Can you imagine how long type-setting must have taken in the early days of printing?Īs for the number of letter characters in the Bible, the total count is a staggering 3,116,480. 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. The King James Authorized Bible has 783,137 words. That being said, if you are looking for a general answer, it’s probably best to use one of the most common versions, such as the King James Bible. 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. Knowing how long these books are adds context to my sums so it seems only fair to share.When it comes to calculating the number of words in the Bible, it’s not as straightforward as it might first appear. The hebrew word hinneh is a flag-word for gematria, and I wanted to get some indication of how widely it is scattered in the Tanakh. I’ve been doing some counting of my own recently. I really ought to pay more attention to that book and break out of Genesis for a change.
How about that! I was surprised Jeremiah won by word count. With the foregoing information, if someone asks you what the longest book of the Bible is, I hope you are well prepared! On the Greek side of things, Luke (19,446) and Acts (18,412) head the list of longest books in the New Testament by word count. Thus, here is the list of longest books of the Bible by word count, using the Logos concordance feature. But, since the component parts are marked in Logos, we will distinguish by lemma. For example, the phrase “your house” is two words in English, but in Hebrew it is technically one word.
Because Hebrew combines multiple lemmas to form words, it is a little different. Thus, the best standard for determining the longest book of the bible is through word count. Of course we understand that chapters and verses are not inspired, nor were they part of the original text of Scripture.
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Matthew and Luke were able to crack the list by verse count, making into a list dominated by the Old Testament books. We get a little more complete of a picture when we look at the verse count for each book. Longest Book of the Bible by VerseĬhapters only tell part of the story. But most people would count Psalms as the longest book of the Bible by chapter count.Īdditionally, Matthew and Acts both hold the honor of being the longest book of the New Testament by chapter, each being composed of 28 chapters. So, perhaps Isaiah might win on a technicality.
Of course, technically Psalms is not composed of chapters but of individual psalms. In the interest of brevity, I am only making reference to the top 10 longest books of the Bible by chapter (you are welcome to double check my work through counting). Others of course have compiled lists which contain the chapters and verses for all the books of the Bible. In order to be as thorough as possible, I will list three categories: Longest Book by Chapter, Longest Book by Verse, Longest Book by Hebrew/Greek Word Count. So, although 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, or 1 & 2 Chronicles were originally composed as one book (respectively), and would thus be longest in the Bible, since we typically view them as separate books, they will be counted as separate. Of course, it should be noted that we are not combining any books of the Bible. You could also technically make a differentiation between Greek or Hebrew, and the common English translations that we use. You can count chapters, verses, or words. There are a variety of ways to calculate the longest book of the Bible.
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