How many times is fig mentioned in the Bible?
The word fig appears 41 times in the King James Version, in 39 verses. Counting every form (fig, figs), it appears 66 times in 55 verses across 28 of the 66 books. The World English Bible uses fig 44 times (70 with every form).
Fig in the King James Version and the World English Bible
Each form of fig counted in each translation.
| Form | KJV | WEB |
|---|---|---|
| fig | 41 | 44 |
| figs | 25 | 26 |
| Total | 66 | 70 |
Which books mention fig most
Fig appears in 28 books of the 66 in the King James Version. Jeremiah has the most (12), then Matthew (6) and Mark (5).
Also in: Revelation (2), Genesis (1), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Nehemiah (1), Psalms (1), Proverbs (1), Amos (1), Micah (1), Habakkuk (1), Haggai (1), Zechariah (1).
First and last mention of fig
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
The verse that uses it most is Jeremiah 24:2, 3 times:
One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Where the two translations differ
0 verses match in the KJV but not in the World English Bible, and 5 verses match only in the World English Bible, usually because the other translation chose a different word there.
Psalm 78:47: counted in the World English Bible only
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
Isaiah 9:10: counted in the World English Bible only
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
Verses with fig on our topic pages
3 verses that use fig in the World English Bible are in our topic collections.
For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
On: Worship
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
On: Tattoos
Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.
On: Faith
Common questions
How many times is fig in the Old Testament and the New Testament?
In the King James Version, counting every form, 45 of the 66 uses are in the Old Testament and 21 in the New Testament. Fig appears in 28 books of the 66 in the King James Version. Jeremiah has the most (12), then Matthew (6) and Mark (5).
Where is fig first mentioned in the Bible?
The first use in the King James Version is Genesis 3:7: "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." The last is Revelation 6:13.
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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 2026-10-22.