The KJV on Wordle

by Rick Beckman on June 28, 02008

I was play­ing around on Wor­dle ear­lier, and I came up with this using the com­plete text (includ­ing pref­ace and chap­ter head­ings) of the King James Bible. Click the image for a larger view:

Illustration of the 500 most used words in the KJV Bible

The 500 most used words are visu­al­ized, and I love how appar­ent it becomes, using this visu­al­iza­tion, that the mes­sage of the Bible is between the Lord God and His peo­ple. I also appre­ci­ated this par­tic­u­lar visu­al­iza­tion due to the sym­bol­ogy of the Lord being the cor­ner­stone thereof.

It’d be inter­est­ing to see how dif­fer­ent Bible ver­sions affect the visu­al­iza­tion. I may have to exper­i­ment with that some­time, but if any­one beats me to it, let me know.

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