The Name in the Reading Bibles

One band for each reading Bible. Each thin mark is one verse where the four-letter Name stands in the Hebrew. Its colour is the word that Bible prints in that verse.

• LORD
• GOD
• Jehovah
• Lord
• God
• not found
• not matched

and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them.Exodus 6:3 (ASV)

How this picture was made

The verses

The same 5,789 verses that shine in The Name as Light.

The Bibles

The King James Version, the World Messianic Bible, the JPS Tanakh 1917 and the Douay-Rheims. The ASV, which prints Jehovah, is not one of the bands.

How each verse was read

• Hebrew and English Bibles number some verses differently. A published table (from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible) turns each Hebrew number into the English one.
• Each Bible's verse is checked against the King James wording. Where the numbers disagree, nearby chapters are searched for the matching verse.
• A verse is marked by the words it holds: LORD or GOD in capitals first, otherwise Lord, otherwise God.
• "Not matched" means the verse is missing from the source file. All three files left out Joel 2:28-32 and Malachi 4, and the Douay-Rheims file lost some Psalm verses.

What it shows

• King James: LORD 5,515, GOD 289, JEHOVAH 4. World Messianic Bible: LORD 5,496, GOD 304. JPS 1917: LORD 5,508, GOD 299.
• The coral GOD marks gather in Ezekiel, where the Hebrew often reads "Lord GOD".
• The Douay-Rheims follows the Latin and prints Lord: 5,512 verses.

What it does not show

It reads whole verses, not single words. A verse that holds both LORD and Lord is marked by its capitals.