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Words
Roughly three-quarters of a million words — and every translation counts differently.
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The story
783,137 is the traditional word count for the King James Version. Word counts swing widely by translation and language: Hebrew and Greek are far more compact than English, and modern translations make different word choices. Treat any single number as translation-specific.
How we count
Word counts vary substantially by translation. ~750,000–800,000 is the honest English range.
Sources
See our full methodology on the How we count page.
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№ 01The library
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Books in the Protestant Bible
39 in the Old Testament, 27 in the New — a library, not a single book.
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Chapters
929 in the Old Testament and 260 in the New Testament.
Protestant
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Verses
The most commonly cited verse count for the King James Version.
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