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Count It Yourself
“Who counted it? And why should I believe them?”
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”1 Thessalonians 5:21
Every number in The Sevens was counted from the printed Cambridge text before it went on this site. That is a claim, and a claim is only as good as the one making it. So here is the whole King James Bible, loaded into your own browser, with every pattern running live and its rule printed beside it. Change the rule and watch the number move. Nothing is sent anywhere. The counting happens on your screen.
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Seven to the seventh, counted in front of you.
Take the Book exactly as the Cambridge press prints it and count everything a printer has to set: every word, every heading, every number. Your browser has just done it, part by part.
7 × 7 × 7 × 7 × 7 × 7 × 7 = 823,543
| The words of the 31,102 verses | … |
| The headings over the Psalms | … |
| The notes closing fourteen epistles | … |
| The title of the Bible | … |
| The titles of the sixty six books | … |
| The word CHAPTER or PSALM over each chapter | … |
| The numbers: each chapter's number, then every verse number after the first | … |
| The Hebrew letters over the sections of Psalm 119 | … |
| Total | … |
Or leave this page altogether. Download the same text as a plain file and count it with any program that counts a word as whatever stands between two spaces. On a Mac or Linux machine, wc -w does exactly that. It returns the same number.
Each one run again, right now.
These are the counts published across The Sevens. Each card holds the exact search behind it: the words, the capitals, the scope, and anything set aside, with the reason. Your browser runs them all and sets its answer beside the published one. Open any card in the counter below to see every mention it found, or change the rule and see what breaks.
Now count anything you like.
Any word, any phrase, any book. Tap a mention in the list to set it aside, and tap it again to put it back. When you have something worth showing, copy the link: it carries the whole search with it.
Set aside
Add a word to begin, or open any pattern above.
The rules, in plain sight.
A count is only as honest as its rule. These are the rules this page uses, every time, for every search.
The text
The standard Cambridge text of the King James Bible, the same text used by King James Pure Bible Search. The first word of each chapter, printed in capitals as a drop letter, is restored to its ordinary spelling so that capitals can be matched fairly.
What counts as a word
Whatever stands between two spaces, with punctuation trimmed off either end. A hyphenated name such as Bar-jesus or Beth-lehem is one word. The words the King James translators printed in italics are counted, because they are printed.
Capitals
Off by default, so God, GOD and god are one search. Turn on Match capitals exactly when the capital carries the meaning, as it does with Father and Son. Each word in a search keeps its own setting.
Possessives
Jesus' and Christ's are their own words, exactly as a concordance lists them. Search for them by name when you want them in.
Headings and closing notes
The Cambridge text prints headings over many Psalms and a closing note after fourteen epistles. Some patterns count them and some do not, and the difference is never hidden. Every pattern above says which it uses, and you can switch either one off in the counter.
Setting a mention aside
Some patterns count a name only where it means one person, so the Joshua of Acts 7:45 is not counted as the Lord Jesus. Every such exclusion is listed with its verse and its reason, and you can put any of them back with one tap.
Do not take this page's word for it either
Everything above can be checked a second way, with no connection to this site at all. Run the same searches in King James Pure Bible Search, which is free, or count the downloaded text yourself.
The patterns counted here were found and documented by Brandon Peterson, whose book Sealed by the King is free to download. Used with permission.
Before you go
“What must I do to be saved?”
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.Acts 16:31 Read the Gospel