Glossary

The words the statistics pages use, each with what it means. The small "?" next to a word on a page leads here.

Use

One reviewed record of a Bible passage being used: a sermon, a reading, a post, a quotation in a book. One use can cite several passages.

Cited passage

One passage a use cites, such as John 3:16 or Psalm 23. A use that cites two passages has two cited passages.

Uses of a verse

How often a verse is covered by cited passages: each cited passage counts once for every verse it covers, so a reference to a whole chapter counts for each of its verses.

Uses naming the verse

Like the uses of a verse, but only cited passages that name verses count; a reference to a whole chapter or book does not. The Top 100 and the rank use this number.

Rank

The place of a verse when all verses are sorted by their uses naming the verse, highest first. Verses with the same number share a rank.

Source

Where uses were found: a whole dataset such as a verse-of-the-day archive, a publication or a document.

Reviewed data

Only uses that a reviewer has checked against their source and approved count in the statistics.

Verse numbering

Bibles number some verses differently, for example in the Psalms. A verse numbering is the numbering of one edition or tradition; the site counts a citation for the verse it means, whatever numbering it uses.

Verse order

The order and labels in which the statistics place the verses; by default the 66 books of the Protestant Bible in the numbering of the King James Version.

Mapping

The link between a verse label of one numbering and the verse it means, so that a citation in any numbering counts for the right verse. Uncertain links are marked.

Data update

The numbers are recomputed regularly from the approved data; each page says as of when. They are provisional until a data release is frozen.

Data release

A frozen, citable copy of the numbers at one point in time, for research that needs to refer to fixed figures.

Lectionary

A plan of readings that a church prescribes for its services through the year. Prescribed readings are counted on their own pages, never in the uses.

The exact rules, with their technical names, are on the methodology page. நாங்கள் எவ்வாறு எண்ணுகிறோம்