The 1769 edition of
the 1611 King James Bible contains a:
Total of 3,566,480 letters
Total of 788,280 words
Total of 31,102 verses
Total of 1,189
chapters
Total of 66 Books
Total Books in the Old
Testament: 39
Total Books in the New
Testament: 27
Total Chapters in the
Old Testament: 929
Total Chapters in the
New Testament: 260
Total verses in the
Old Testament: 23,145
Total verses in the
New Testament: 7,957
The word "AND" occurs
16,277 times, and the word "REVEREND," "GIRL," "BOYS"
and "GIRLS" but once
The 19th chapter
of 2nd Kings and the 37th chapter of Isaiah are nearly
alike
Out of the 31,102
verses in the KJV Bible, there are two middle verses,
i.e. 15,551 and 15,552 (Psalm 103:1 and Psalm 103:2) "1Bless
the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me,
bless His Holy Name.
2Bless
the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His
benefits."
The 21st verse of the
7th chapter of Ezra contains all letters
of the alphabets
except J
The longest verse in
the Bible is the 9th verse of the 8th chapter of Esther
The shortest verse is
the 35th verse of the 11th chapter of John "35Jesus
wept."
The 119th chapter of
Psalm is the longest chapter in the Bible, and every
verse in it except 121, 122, and 132 contains a
reference to the word of "GOD"
The middle Books in
the Bible are Micah and Nahum
The shortest chapter
is Psalm 117
The middle chapter is
Psalm 117
The shortest book are
the verses in 2nd John and the words in 3rd John
The word "LORD" occurs
1,855 times
The longest word is in
the 8th chapter of Isaiah, verse one "1Moreover
the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write
in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz."
You should know where
to find the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)
The Ten Commandments
(Exodus 20:3-17)
Jesus Christ's Great
Prayer (John 17:1-26)
250 Titles are given
to the Lord Jesus Christ in The Bible
The Name "Jesus"
occurs 973 times
The Title "Christ"
occurs 556 times
The Name "Jesus" means
literally "GOD" who is our Salvation
NEW
TESTAMENT
In the New Testament
of The Holy Bible, there are about 243 direct quotations
from the Old Testament
The first book to
issue from a printing press was the MAZARIAN BIBLE,
printed using movable type between 1450 and 1455 by
Gutenberg
The division into
chapters was first made by Robert Stephanus in 1557
The Old Testament
opens with five books of history, and the New Testament
opens with five books of history
The King James or
Authorized Version of The Holy Bible was first printed
by Robert Barker in 1611. The first Cambridge King
James Bible was printed in 1629. The Geneva Bible
was first printed in 1591 by the Cambridge University
Press
The first Bible
printed in the United States was in 1663
The first Bible in
English printed in the United States was in 1752
The first Pocket Bible
(Reference) was printed by Bagster in 1812
The first Bible in
FLEXIBLE BINDING was bound by Bagster in 1816
The first Bible
printed on India paper was published by Bagster in 1828
The overlapping or
Divinity circuit style of binding originated by Bagster
in 1865
The Scriptures in
whole or part are published into 2,287 languages and
dialects out of the world's estimated 6,500 languages
(according to United Bible Societies 2001 report)
392 complete
translations have been published in 2001 (179 in 1938)
1,012 of the Old and
New Testament published in 2001
883 of scattered
portions published in 2001 (only 48 in 1938).
In 2001, the complete
Bible has now been published in 392 languages, eight
having been reported for the first time in the past
year. Four of the eight are in African languages, two in
Asian languages and two are in languages spoken in
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands.
(From the 1998 report, two of which are
the Baoulé Bible in Côte d’Ivoire
(250,000 speakers) published by the Bible Society, and
the Konkomba Bible in Ghana (450,000 speakers). The
third is for the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan. Now
more than 2.5 million Kirghiz-speaking people can read
the Bible in their own language)
In addition,
translations of Testaments have now been registered in
1,012 languages, compared with 987 at the end of 2000.
The last-mentioned region claims the lion’s share of new
translations, with eight, Asian languages have seven and
those of Africa have five
In 1998, four New Testaments make
their appearance for the first time. Two are from
Africa: the Aari in Ethiopia published by the Bible
Society and the Koozime in Cameroon published by The
Bible League. The Bible Society in Bangladesh made the
Tipperah New Testament available, and the International
Bible Society published the Siriano New Testament
(Colombia) – this is the first time any part of the
Scriptures has been published in these four languages
In 1998, twelve new languages received
first-time Portions, four of them produced by the
national Bible Societies: Tetun in Indonesia; Murut
Timugon in Malaysia; Limbum in Cameroon; and Embu-Mbeere
in Kenya. Of the others, three languages are in Mexico,
three are in Asian languages, and two are from Africa
2001 Scripture
Language Report from the Communications Services
Department of the UBS World Service Center as obtained
from http://www.biblesociety.org/latestnews/latest185-slr2001.html:
A
STATISTICAL SUMMARY OF LANGUAGES
WITH THE SCRIPTURES
A
summary, by geographical area and type
of publication, of the number of
different languages and dialects in
which publication of at least one book
of the Bible had been registered as of
December 31, 2001 [A few corrections
were made to our language databases and
are reflected in this statistical
summary.]:
|
Continent/Region |
Portions
|
Testaments
|
Bibles
|
Bibles, DC*
|
Total
|
|
Africa |
213
|
279
|
149
|
(25)
|
641
|
|
Asia |
223
|
228
|
119
|
(25)
|
570
|
Australia/New Zealand/
Pacific Islands |
168
|
204
|
33
|
(5)
|
405
|
|
Europe |
110
|
31
|
62
|
(46)
|
203
|
|
North America |
40
|
26
|
7
|
(0)
|
73
|
|
Caribbean Islands/Central
America/Mexico/South America |
127
|
244
|
21
|
(8)
|
392
|
|
Constructed Languages |
2
|
0
|
1
|
(0)
|
3
|
|
TOTALS |
883
|
1,012
|
392
|
(109)
|
2,287
|
|
*This column is a sub-section of
the Bibles column - for example, there is a
translation of the Deuterocanon for 46 of the 62
languages of Europe in which the Bible has been
translated. |
