Bible "data"

For your curious interest...



If you have some Bible "data" that folks might find interesting - post it!

The 'Characters' counts are actually a little higher than the real counts - due to square brackets being used in the files to identify the italicized words.

Here's character counts for the whole Bible, with all stylings removed (everything except a-z, 0-9, whitespace, dot, comma and hyphen):

KJV: 4 085 314
AKJV: 4 035 034
Young's: 4 082 185
WMBB: 3 923 728
NHEB: 3 982 529
BSB: 3 776 600
ASV: 4 085 353
CPDV: 4 256 245

Which translation would vary the numbers consequentially it seems so you’d have to agree first on which translation

Here’s some Eggcellent Bible “data “ 524….

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
‭‭John‬ ‭5:24‬ ‭

even if we use a different translation it’s still 524

““Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.”
‭‭John‬ ‭5:24‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Here's some amazing facts:
The Central Chapter of the Bible: Psalms 118
The fact can be argued depending on what Bible version you are using, but by most reckoning, the very center of the Bible when measured by chapter count is Psalms 118.
Here are some other fun facts surrounding Psalm 118:

• The longest chapter of the Bible falls just after this center chapter-- Psalm 119.
• The shortest chapter of the Bible falls just after this center chapter-- Psalm 117.
• There are exactly 594 chapters before Psalm 118, and exactly 594 chapters after it. When you add the number of chapters before Psalms 118 and those after, the sum is 1,118. And the verse at the very center of the Bible is Psalms 118:8.

The Center Verse
Psalm 118:8 - "It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man." (NIV)
This central verse of the Bible reminds believers to ask the question, "Are you centered in your trust in God?" It is a particular verse that reminds Christians to trust in God over trusting in themselves or other people. As Christians understand, God consistently provides for us and His grace is given to us freely. Even in the most difficult times, we should center ourselves by trusting in God. He is there making us strong, giving us joy, and carrying us when life weighs heavily on us.

I did not realize at the time I started the thread with the OP that the program I am using to count lines, words, and characters was counting newlines...

My [new] counts...

spaces: 758528 (the text only without verse numbers and their associated spaces)
periods: 26139
commas: 70686
hyphens: 679
colons: 12717
semicolons: 10151
letters only: 3228471

I am assuming that your '0-9' is referring to verse numbers.

verse numbers with a space before and a space after: 113929

everything except verse numbers with spaces: 4107371

everything including verse numbers with spaces: 4221300

difference between my total and your total = 135986

less semicolons and colons = 113118

difference between that and my verse numbers with spaces = 811

I am guessing something is different with regard to the verse numbers and their associated spaces...?

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If you will point me to a copy of the KJV text you are using, I will compare it to mine...

Verse numbers are not included in the total count, but I included numbers just to be sure no text that is talking something about numbers would be missing (I'm not actually sure if there are any plain number characters in the scripture).

I was stripping "unnecessary" characters off with this preg_replace pattern:
I modified the pattern a little, colon and semicolon characters are now also included:
Now the character counts are:

KJV: 4 108 187
Young's: 4 101 292
AKJV: 4 057 869
WMBB: 3 931 170
NHEB: 3 994 735
BSB: 3 784 081
ASV: 4 108 320
CPDV: 4 264 440

I was running the character counting on Bible Search dataset. if I recall correctly, the source Bible data material is from https://openbible.com/xls/bibles.xlsx

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Yes, "when measured by chapter count," that is the center "chapter" (the underlined part being important to note, on this particular "fact").

• [*]There are exactly 594 chapters before Psalm 118, and exactly 594 chapters after it. When you add the number of chapters before Psalms 118 and those after, the sum is 1,118. And the verse at the very center of the Bible is Psalms 118:8.

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When I add "594 + 594" the sum is (instead) "1188"... I think the above (underlined) must be a typo.
Psalm 118:8 is not the "center verse" of the Bible. (Even if you go by the same "central chapter ['when measured by chapter count']" method. )

The OP has the correct info on "number of verses in the Bible" (true of both the kjv and nasb, if I recall correctly). So using THAT (correct) number, and then divided by 2, one comes to a completely DIFFERENT (set of 2) verses as being the CENTER VERSES of the Bible (from that of any verse in Ps118--nothing in Ps118 is "center verse" of the Bible).






Many people mistakenly use the (incorrect) notion of there being "31,175 verses" in the Bible [there aren't--the OP has the correct number, on this point], and yet somehow still repeat the supposed fact that Psalm 118:8 is the center verse (though the "math" doesn't add up!) lol
Psalm 118:8 is "verse # 15878" (doubling that, and add 1 for the center verse, and one does not come up with THAT "total" either)

Psst... 594 x 2 is 1188, not 1118.

I know... typo.

Yes, it's a typo from the author and I actually looked at it and thought 'why doesn't 1118 match the middle Scripture Psa 118.8 (1188)' and was too busy to check it. God is very precise, lol.

I figured it was indeed a "typo" (and I "get" it about being too busy to check it). The only thing I would say here ^ , is that Psalm 118:8 is not "the middle Scripture" (the author of that piece was actually mistaken here).

Yes, He is.

I looked it up again and most think it is Psa 118:8 and it makes sense with the Psa before it and after being the longest and shortest Psalms. So either way I'm good with it.

Well, the ones claiming that "Psalm 118:8 is the middle verse" (which is "verse #15878"), are they ALSO claiming that there are a total of "31,755 verses in the Bible"? (nope, they themselves do not claim such--IF THEY DO CLAIM the total number of verses is other than what the OP chart shows, please show me what they claim as to that... I'd like to see what they say.)

The Maths: "15877 + 1 + 15877 = 31,755" (<--no one says there are that amount of total verses in the Bible, even the folks claiming that Ps118:8 is the middle verse! lol--This should be OUR FIRST CLUE that something just isn't "adding up" with what they are claiming! )




And I was mistaken in part of my earlier post (how easily we receive data without double-checking! LOL... I just went through and double-checked this)... instead of Psalm 118 being "the middle CHAPTER," it's actually Psalm 117 that is the middle chapter (with 594 chpts coming before this, and 594 chpts coming after this Ps117)...

I went through and counted the chpts via this [very basic / simple] site: How Many Chapters & Verses are in Each Book of the Bible (biblememorygoal.com). I seem to (vaguely) remember this from my youth, as well (re: Ps117). lol




But, even though this (Ps117) is the middle chapter "when counting BY CHAPTERS," neither Ps117 nor Ps118 contain the center verses--there are two since there is an EVEN NUMBER of total verses in the Bible; the OP is correct on this total number of verses, as is this site I just linked (check those sources out!); Therefore, Verse #15878 / Ps118:8 is NOT the middle verse.

The site "GotQuestions" also says the same, about Psalm 117 being the middle chapter of the Bible:



[quoting excerpt from GotQuestions... first paragraph in the "Answer" section]

"The shortest chapter in the Bible, both in the number of verses and words, is Psalm 117, with only two verses and 17 words in Hebrew. Interestingly, Psalm 117 is also the middle chapter of the Bible. It is the 595th chapter, with 594 chapters before it and 594 chapters after it."

-- https://www.gotquestions.org/shortest-chapter-in-the-Bible.html


[end quoting GotQuestions; bold and underline mine]






[I had also double-checked my own "counting" of it... but this also helps confirm the fact that this is so]

The "middle" based on the number of total chapters (1189):

Psalms 117:

1 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. 2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.

The "middle" based on the number of total verses (31102):

Psalms 103:

1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

Agreed!




-- Psalm 117 being "the middle CHAPTER".


-- Psalm 103:1-2 being "the middle VERSES".





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One can check the "chapter" matter by counting it themselves (to find "the middle chpt") here at this link (as yet another source... for both number of chapters and number of verses in the Bible):

The 66 Books of the Bible - Study Resources (blueletterbible.org)

I concur with your equation.

I like simple math. Wish I had thought of it, but I don't know who to credit.