#WORD COUNTER BOOKS UPDATE#

I’ve told Logos where the words are coming from (the selected Bible) and where the words are going (the Word list). This tells Logos which text to pull words from when I designate a book of the Bible. Then I selected the Bible I was using (let’s say the ESV for this post). Then I added the words from a single book of the Bible. This opened up a new Word List, which looked like this:Īnd of course, I chose a title. … and then selecting “Word List” from the options. First thing I did was create a new Word list. Once I chose my Bibles, it was time to start getting word counts. Obviously, you could do this using just one Bible.

#WORD COUNTER BOOKS UPDATE#

The New American Standard 1995 Update (for the little slivers of Aramaic).I needed word counts for every book of the Bible, so the first thing I had to do was choose the text I’d be drawing from. I’ll walk you through my process step-by-step. If you don’t use Logos, you’re about to see why I do. If so, feel free to open it up and follow along. I know that a good deal of you use Logos. So I used one of Logos Bible Software‘s not-so-famous features: Word Lists. RankĪs you can imagine, I don’t have the time nor original-language knowledge to tally all these words on my own. You can click on any book of the Bible to read an overview of what it’s about. Word counts on every book of the Bible (from longest to shortest) You can check out the Web versions, or just download the spreadsheet and play with the numbers all you want: (By the way, if you want to know what I think of Logos. I used the Lexham Hebrew Bible and the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece for these word counts. I’ve put together word counts for every book of the Bible. These numbers are pulled from the original languages using Logos Bible Software-you can see how I did it below. Have you ever wondered what the longest and shortest books of the Bible are? The Bible is more than 600,000 words long in its original languages-but how are those words distributed across the 66 books of the Bible?

Word counter books