Basic Bible Stats

Here are some basic Bible statistics based on the original languages.

Old Testament - From Van Pelt, Miles V. and Gary D. Pratico, The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003), ix.

• Total number of words: 419,687
• Total vocabulary: 8679

New Testament - From Statistik des neutestamentlichen Wortschatzes (Zurich, 1958) in Metzger, Bruce M. Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1997), 1.

• Total number of words: 137,490
• Total vocabulary: 5436

This means that the Hebrew Bible contains 3.052 times the number of words as the Greek New Testament. Further, the OT has 1.596 times the number of vocabulary terms as the NT.