About Bible Says About
Bible Says About is a free website of Bible verses by topic and Bible facts counted from the full text of the King James Version and the World English Bible.
It started in August 2025 and is based in Florida, US. Every count on the books, word and numbers pages is computed from the source text and names the translation it was counted in.
The facts
- Name
- Bible Says About
- What it is
- A free website of Bible verses by topic and Bible facts counted from the full text
- Started
- August 2025
- Based in
- Florida, US
- On the site now
- 144 topic pages with 3,860 verses, counts for 66 books and 1,189 chapters, 253 word and name pages
- Translations quoted
- World English Bible (default) and King James Version, both public domain
- Cost
- Free to read, no account needed
- Contact
- rpdoyle1@gmail.com
- Last updated
- October 7, 2026
Where the text comes from
Every verse on the site is quoted from the World English Bible or the King James Version, both public domain. Each quotation is checked word for word against the full text of the translation, taken from the open-bibles project. We quote no licensed translations.
The verse lists on the topic pages pick which verses to show using OpenBible.info topical data (CC BY), then print the text from the translations above. Pick a translation with the toggle on any topic page.
How the numbers are counted
The Bible has 66 books, 1,189 chapters and 31,102 verses in the King James Version (31,098 in the World English Bible). The counts on the books page, the Bible by the numbers and the word counts come from running a script over the complete text of both translations, so anyone can repeat them.
Counted by Bible Says About from the full public-domain text of the King James Version (1769 edition) and the World English Bible. Verse text only: headings and psalm titles are left out. A word is a run of letters: a hyphenated name like Beer-sheba counts as two, and an apostrophe stays inside its word (LORD'S is one). Matching ignores capital letters. Data compiled 2026-10-03.
Sources
- open-bibles (KJV and WEB text files): the text every verse and every count is checked against. Read October 7, 2026.
- OpenBible.info topics: which verses belong to a topic, licensed CC BY. Read October 7, 2026.
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869): the meaning of 72 names and places on the Bible names page. It is an 1869 reference in the public domain, so some meanings are traditional readings that modern scholars dispute. Read October 7, 2026.
- Brysbaert, M. (2019), Journal of Memory and Language 109: adults read English non-fiction silently at 238 words a minute, which sets the reading times on the reading time calculator. Read October 7, 2026.
- The reading figures on the Bible reading statistics page each link to the group that published them, with the year.
Money and corrections
Some pages link to Bible study resources on Amazon. If the site earns a commission from those links, the page says so, and the links are marked sponsored.
If a count, a quotation or a name meaning looks wrong, email rpdoyle1@gmail.com. We check it against the source text and fix the page, and each data page shows the date its numbers were compiled.