How many people are in the Bible?

Question

I was wondering. Does anyone know how many people that they are in the Bible? Or even an estimate?

There are approx. 3074 people.

Answer 1

Part of the problem in numbering them is do you just count the named ones or the ones that are individually treated. Then the problem is that there often are multiple stories of the same accounts. For instance, in the Christian Bibles (Hebrew Bibles sometimes have different sets of book divisions and grouping) the stories in 1 and 2 Samuel along with 1 and 2 Kings is retold often in summary in 1 and 2 Chronicles. The details are sometimes different. Just as today, we might read a story, say, in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, then read it again in, say, USA Today or Washington Post or, most likely, your hometown paper (I usually read from the websites). The story is the same, the events are the same, but the details are different. In the Bible, you might get the idea that "the Prophet" in one place is doing something similar to a named prophet in another place, is it or isn't it the same person. In the Gospels, three of them have a largely or apparent chronological order, but still some tell each the same story while others omit this or add that. Does that make them untrue? Not any more than one newspaper reporter citing one witness and another newspaper reporter citing a different one made one of the two reporters a liar. But if in one story a person is named but in another story something similar happened with an unnamed person, is that the same person? Jesus did a lot of healings and exorcisms (driving out demons), but if you just looked at the ones with names for the affected parties, how do you separate them from the unnamed persons. Jesus healed blind people and one named Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46), how do we know that one of the two in the Matthew 9:27 story wasn't him or Mark 8:22, or the two in Matthew 20:30 for that matter? It gets kind of confusing at times. Still, the people of the land didn't come flocking at different places and different times because he did one or two little things now and then. Even when he fed 5,000 at one time and 4,000 at another, are 4,000 present in the 5,000 and what of the "besides women and children"? Sorry, its kinda complicated. But then even today, we hear of a disaster and hear all of the numbers and later they change and later still they change again. Even today it gets complicated.

Answer 2

Are you serious??? I am quite certain there is no one on earth with that answer. My guess would be in the thousands. But I'm sure you could've come up with that. Sorry I could be of more help to you.

Answer 3

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a lolli pop?

Answer 4

There are no people in mine. Just the occasional scrap of paper for a bookmark.

Answer 5

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