| Last word in the Bible: | Amen (Rev. 22:21) |
| Longest word (and name): | Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8:1) |
| Shortest verse: | John 11:35 (2 words: “Jesus wept”) |
| Longest verse: | Esther 8:9 |
| Shortest book (number of words): | 3 John |
| Longest book: | Psalms (150 chapters) |
| Middle books: | Micah and Nahum |
| Middle chapter: | Psalm 118 |
| Middle verse: | Psalm 118:8 |
| Chapters: | 1,189 |
| Longest chapter: | Psalm 119 (176 verses) |
| Shortest chapter (number of words): | Psalm 117 |
| Number of times the word “God” appears: | 3,358 (It appears in every book except Esther and Song of Solomon.) |
| Number of times the word “Lord” appears: | 7,736 |
| Number of different authors: | Over 40 |
| Number of languages the Bible has been translated into: | More than 1,200 (as of 2001) |
| Number of new Bibles distributed (sold or given away) in the U.S.: | About 168,000 per day (as of 2001) |
Comments (1)
it's funny with the names, you know if we put a lot of those really big names into the original language they aren't nearly as long. One reason is because they don't write vowels in like we do in English and a lot of the "sh" or 'tz", etc are only one letter in the original.