What are the Longest (and Shortest) Books of the Bible?

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Thanks for the feedback, Kristin-next video should be a good deal louder. Mostly because I'll be playing the bagpipes. ;-)

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[@lornalincoln60]

I'm still confused about the shortest book in the Bible. Help please thanks

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[@misseli1]

I once read that Kings was originally able to fit in a single scroll when it was recorded in Hebrew, because ancient Hebrew lacked vowels. When it was translated into Greek (which did include vowels), the overall length of the book doubled, and it had to be split into two scrolls. Is any of this true?

[@daisybrain9423]

I am not at all an expert, but this seems very plausible to me, because in the Tanakh these double-books are still treated as one.

[@dattmuffy]

but how many words are used in the bible? not a total of how many im saying if the dictionary says there are 270,000 words how many words are in the bible? if i could have a bible dictionary of all the worrds in the bible kjv how many would there be? i cant seem to find anything first page of searching. "how many words in bible" google

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Spell check on "Chronicles".

[@OverviewBible]

You got me! It's corrected in the screenshot on the website. Didn't even catch that until it was in post! =)

[@BillWettler]

Do you realize that according to the AI chat bots in both Google and Bing, your word counts in the original languages for the biblical books is way off? Can you account for this discrepancy? How confident are you of your Logos software source?

[@OverviewBible]

"Way off" doesn't really help me in terms of discrepancies to account for, but you can see how I got to these word counts here: overviewbible.com/bible-word-counts-logos-word-lists/ These numbers about word count come from the NA27 (the Greek New Testament that is the basis for almost every modern Bible translation) and the Lexham Hebrew Bible (an edition of the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete Hebrew Bible, with a sophisticated morphological tagging). For the few Aramaic portions, I used the NASB 1995 interlinear. All of these word counts were generated using the Logos edition of these documents. Given the extensive morphological metadata each of these editions have surrounding it, I feel it's safe to assume the word count is reliable. I trust Logos to give an accurate word count of these particular Logos resources as much as I'd trust Microsoft Word to give a reliable word count for a .docx file. But due to the amount of meticulous tagging involved in these works, I also trust Logos to give an accurate word count just as much as I'd trust Microsoft Excel to give an accurate cell count.

[@tiagovazkez9356]

i thought the longest was 1st Macabees

[@misseli1]

Also, isn't there a Judeo-Christian tradition that claims Jeremiah authored the book of Kings? I know it's uncertain, but if that were the case, then Jeremiah wrote the two longest books of the Bible.

[@OverviewBible]

Hi, Ellie! The Talmud (teachings of the rabbis) does claim that Kings was written by Jeremiah. It puts forth a few better-known traditions on authorship as well, such as Ezra as the author of the Chronicles.

[@bottledoo3639]

Ever if they had a ipad to write kings the battery would have died too much.. just saying

[@Voltar78]

You should also add Luke + Acts => 38 k words... the same as Samuel

[@OverviewBible]

Not really. Although they seem to be one continuous story, they were written as two books from the start. Samuel was originally a single work that was later divided.

[@MsHburnett]

There is the latin bible too

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The Bible project

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[@Voltar78]

I'm thinking of buying Logos. Can this program make a list of all the words in a given gospel based on their root, how often they occur, or how often they occur in each book?

[@OverviewBible]

It's been a while since I've attempted something like this, but I think this is totally doable-if not directly within Logos, then you could do 95% of the work in Logos and the other 5% in a spreadsheet. =)