Bible book codes

Every book of the Bible on the site has a three-character code: gen is Genesis, jhn is the Gospel of John, 1co is First Corinthians. The code is written in page addresses and in search.

Where is a book code written?

In an address:

• /bible/kjv/jhn-3/ — John chapter 3 in the King James Version;
• /bible/kjv/jhn-3.16/ — a verse;
• /bible/kjv/jhn-3.16-18/ — several verses;
• /jhn-3.16/ — the verse in the translation you read last;
• /compare/jhn-3.16/kjv/web-us/ — the verse in several translations side by side.

If the translation you read last lacks the book, the site shows “Page not found”: put the translation into the address.

In search you can type a place the way you like: “Gospel of John 3”, “John 3” or the short name “Jhn 3” — the site will try to recognise the book. To search for a word in one book only, add its code: love in:jhn or love book:jhn. Book sets are written the same way: in:nt is the New Testament, in:gospel the Gospels, and testaments have a shorter form: :nt.

All books

The table lists only the books that at least one translation on the site contains. For sections and groups the “In search” column gives the set of books: in:ot searches the whole Old Testament, in:moses the Pentateuch. “Not in English” means the book is only in translations into other languages. Which books make up the Bible in different churches is shown in the table “The Bible canon across churches”.