The Bible, Wordled

Andrew at The Crazy Australian has Wordled the ESV New Testament (Wordle is a new tag-cloud application):

Tag cloud of the ESV New Testament created by Wordle. The most prominent words are “God,” Jesus,” Christ,” and “Lord.”

Here’s a Wordle we created of the complete ESV text:

Tag cloud of the ESV Bible created by Wordle. The most prominent words are “Lord,” “God,” “said,” and “people.”

Note: You need Java to use Wordle directly, but you can appreciate the static pictures in any browser.

20 Responses to “The Bible, Wordled”

  1. ΚΑΤΑΓΡΑΦΑΙΣ Says:

    tag clouds created for the ESV

  2. Philippians Wordled Says:

    I saw this done for the entire ESV NT on the ESV Bible Blog, so I thought I would try doing it for the book I’m preparing a series for: Philippians. It is called wordle.

  3. ESV Wordled Says:

    Wordle is a program “for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.” As the ESV Blog points out, Andrew (at The Crazy Australian blog)…

  4. Wordle Says:

    From wordle.net:. “Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.” The ESV Blog has depictions of the New Testament…

  5. Religious Affections Says:

    After the ESV Bible Blog posted a link to the Wordle application, I started experimenting with it. It is rather cool. This is a Wordle I made with the text of Religious Affections. . .

  6. Wordle-ing the NT and Psalms Says:

    This from Justin Taylor:. Wordle is a program “for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.” As the ESV Blog points out,…

  7. Wordle McWordsmith Says:

    Came across this cool online word-cloud generator today: WORDLE. Basically you inset a body of text into a form and it creates a sweet little word cloud for you. Here is one I made out of my seminar paper on the Acts of Thecla:…

  8. I’ve been Wordled Says:

    Because everybody else is doing it… Here’s my blog Wordled (at least part of it):

  9. Wordle Says:

    An neat tool for creating word clouds from a slab of text. Found via the ESV Bible Blog who have word clouds of the NT and the entire Bible.

  10. Catch up post Says:

    Hello world. I know I haven’t posted in about two weeks and I never finished that JC Ryle post series. I struggle to finish things. And then I felt guilty that I hadn’t finished so I was ashamed to come back here……

  11. Why all Christians need to think about Biblical Theology Says:

    How can we read the scriptures like Jesus on the road to Emmaus, Peter at Pentecost, and Paul in Romans, when the word Jesus is so small in a Wordle of the bible (from the ESV blog; what is a Wordle?)?…

  12. More Wordle Says:

    A few blogs pointed me to this ESV blog and an Australian blog (TheCrazyAustralian). Quite interesting, really. Go and have a look.

  13. Monday Links Says:

    My friends the Ross’ are taking an ice cream tour of KC. Want to discover some new ice cream joints? Check it. ESV Wordled. Check it. 3 Ways to sink your Email Newsletter. Check it. Read more about Cornerstone’s anticipated church…

  14. Wordle Word Clouds of Smaller Books of the Bible Says:

    Wordle has been getting popular among bibliobloggers. I thought I would do some smaller books of the Bible. Click on an image to see a larger one and use your browser’s Back button to come back. Ephesians–TNIV on the left and HCSB on…

  15. Wordle Says:

    I saw this first over at the ESV Blog’s post on “The Bible Wordled“. I also saw mention of it today at DIY*Planner today and thought I’d try it. Since I’m still reading through Machen, I dumped in the text of “Christianity and…

  16. ESV Wordled Says:

    Justin Taylor@ http://theologica.blogspot.com presents Wordle which is a program “for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.”…

  17. ESV Wordled (Word Cloud of the Bible) Says:

    I’ve already written about word clouds before, so when Justin Taylor pointed this out I thought it was worth passing on:. Wordle is a program “for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence…

  18. Wordles!? Warning: ADDICTING!! Says:

    Wordles: ““[W]ord clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. ” What you do is you go this site and paste a large block of text into the program and it…

  19. Christians crazy-go-nuts with Wordle Says:

    Wordle is an application to create tag clouds. The clouds show, proportional to size, the frequency of words in a text. It’s not a bad way to get the gist of what a text is all about. Commonly used on blogs to get the sense of what the…

  20. Visual Take on the Text of the Bible Says:

    The Bible Moodled…. an interesting visual perspective on the Bible. Rank the frequency of words and then organize the words by size according to frequency. Courtesy of the folks at the ESV blog.