KJV Fun Facts
The book of Revelation, if you include the 5 words of its proper title (“The
Revelation of Jesus Christ”), has exactly 12000 words
Books in Bible: 66 (22 x 3)
Books in Old Testament: 39 (13 x 3)
Books in New Testament: 27 (9 x 3)
Total Chapters: 1189
Old Testament Chapters: 929
New Testament Chapters: 260
Total Verses: 31102
Old Testament Verses: 23145
New Testament Verses: 7957
Total Words: 789629 (excluding titles, superscriptions, and colophons) and
790849 including superscriptions and colophons.
Old Testament Words: 609247 (excluding titles, superscriptions, and
colophons) and 610281 including superscriptions and colophons.
New Testament Words: 180382 (excluding titles, superscriptions, and
colophons) and 180568 including superscriptions and colophons.
Longest Chapter of the Bible: Psalm 119
Shortest Chapter of the Bible: Psalm 117
Center Chapter of the Bible: Psalm 117 (Chapter 595 in the Bible)
Center Verses of the Bible (when dividing by verse count): Psalm 103:1-2
Psalm 103:1, the Left-Center Verse is the 1611
th
verse of Psalms.
There are no Arabic Numerals in the King James Bible. All numbers are
written out as words. It’s the “Holy Word of God”, not the “Holy Numbers”.
Most Alike Chapters: 2 Kings 19 and Isaiah 37 – Compare them side-by-side,
they are nearly identical
Shortest Verse: John 11:35
Longest Verse: Esther 8:9
The Garden Verse: Numbers 11:5
The word “the” doesn’t appear in “Psalm 70” at all (unless you count its
superscription), but appears in every other Chapter of the Bible
The word “Christ” appears in every New Testament Book except for “3
John”
“Christ” appears 555 times
“in Christ” appears 77 times
“church” appears 77 times (not counting the 3 in the colophons)
“baptiz*” (words beginning with “baptiz”) appears 77 times
“spirit” (all lowercase) appears 333 times
“Son” (initial caps) appears 297 times (33 x 9)
“mystery” appears 22 times
Longest word: “Maher-shalal-hash-baz” in Isaiah 8:1
“Jesus Christ” appears 196 times (49 x 4 = 7 x 7 x 4)
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