u/Deiza

Recently I was preparing a talk on the Kingdom of God/Heaven and I was interested in seeing how frequently it was mentioned in the bible, especially in comparison to other words/themes.

Now, admittedly, using word frequency to make a point about significance/importance is a pretty bad idea and not something I would generally encourage.

That being said, it can be a useful or fun tool to highlight things. And whilst it isn't a good technique to use in isolation, it can point to the significance of certain words or concepts.

I initially tried finding a way to do it automatically, but found most of the tools/sources unreliable and ended up just doing it manually via the Blue Letter Bible.

During this process, I "vibe-coded" my own automatic way of doing it. It's able to handle words, phrases and groups of words (i.e if you want to count all instances of sin/sins/sinner/sinned as one group). It supports the free bible versions (KJV, ASV, RV and DRA).

It also supports* Greek via Nestle 1904.

I also ensured that it reports a list of references too, so you're able to manually verify the output (I for one am not very trustworthy of some tools, especially relating to the Bible).

I made it on a whim, there's no ads or data collection and it's essentially open source (static webpage). So if anyone finds any use out of it - awesome.

You can access it via: https://biblecounter.vercel.app/

*I'm not an expert in Greek, or the Bible (from a historic/literature perspective), and as far as I can tell, the implementation is reasonable. But if anyone sees any bugs/issues or problems in methodology, please let me know.