Books | Approximate | Description and (or) meaning |
Dates | ||
Genesis | 4300-2075 BC | A coming into being |
Exodus | 1645-1605 BC | A journey by a large group to escape |
to escape from a hostile environment | ||
Leviticus | 1645-1605 BC | From Levy—-to be high actively, to rise or raise |
Numbers | 1645-1605 BC | Account |
Deuteronomy | 1645-1605 BC | Second giving of the law |
Joshua | 1605 -1580 BC | Jehovah-saved |
Judges | 1580-1065 BC | An authority that estimates worth or quality |
Ruth | 1200 BC | Companion, friendship |
1 Samuel | 1065-1025 BC | Heard of God |
2 Samuel | 1025 965 BC | Heard of God |
1 Kings | 1025 965 BC | Royal |
2 Kings | 1025 965 BC | Royal |
1 Chronicles | 985-586 BC | A historical account of facts or events |
disposed in the order of time | ||
2 Chronicles | 985-586 BC | A historical account of facts or events |
disposed in the order of time | ||
Ezra | 525 BC | Aid, help, perishing, destruction |
Nehemiah | 525 BC | Consolation or comfort of Jehovah |
Esther | 535 BC | Female hero, woman with a brave spirit |
Job | 2100 BC | Hated, afflicted one |
Psalms | 1040 BC | Sacred lyric or poem with complex stanza forms |
Proverbs | 1000 BC | To liken, to resemble, to compare, ,to utter. |
Ecclesiastes | 1000 BC | Reflections on the vanity of human life |
Song of Solomon | 1000 BC | Singing of peace |
Isaiah | 750 BC | Jehovah has saved |
Jeremiah | 600 BC | Jehovah will rise |
Lamentations | 600 BC | Song or hymn of mourning performed |
as a memorial to a dead person | ||
Ezekiel | 600 BC | God will strengthen |
Daniel | 586 BC | Judge of God |
Hosea | 740 BC | Deliverer |
Joel | 800 BC* | Jehovah is his God |
Amos | 790 BC | Burdensome |
Obadiah | 945 BC | Serving Jehovah |
Jonah | 945 BC | A dove |
Micah | 740 BC | Who is like Jehovah |
Nahum | 713 BC* | Comfortable |
Habakkuk | 626 BC* | Embrace |
Zephaniah | 625 BC | Jehovah has consealed |
Haggai | 586 BC | Offering fun |
Zechariah | 586 BC | Jehovah has remembered |
Malachi | 397 BC* | To despatch as an administrator |
Matthew | 50 AD | To war, quarrel, dispute |
Mark | 50 AD | To take aim, regard, consider, take heed, look at |
Luke | 50 AD | Light, beloved physician |
John | 50 AD | Yahweh is gracious |
Acts | 50 AD | Legal document organizing the results of a society |
Romans | 50 AD | Strength, descendants of Roem, Italy |
1 Corinthians | 50 AD | Descendants of Corinth |
2 Corinthians | 50 AD | Descendants of Corinth |
Galatians | 50 AD | Descendants of Galatia |
Ephesians | 50 AD | Descendants of Ephesus,Turkey |
Philippians | 50 AD | Descendants of Philipi |
Colossians | 50 AD | Descendants of Colosse |
1 Thessalonians | 50 AD | Descendants of Thessalonica |
2 Thessalonians | 50 AD | Descendants of Corinth |
1 Timothy | 50 AD | Dear to God |
2 Timothy | 50 AD | Dear to God |
Titus | 50 AD | Giant |
Philemon | 50 AD | Friendly |
Hebrews | 50 AD | Family or paternal name, Israelites |
James | 50 AD | An ancestor in the direct line, supplanter |
1 Peter | 50 AD | Rock |
2 Peter | 50 AD | Rock |
1 John | 50 AD | Yahweh is gracious |
2 John | 50 AD | Yahweh is gracious |
3 John | 50 AD | Yahweh is gracious |
Jude | 50 AD | One who is praised |
Revelation | 95 AD | Disclosure, manifestation, be revealed |
* Thompson | (Chain Reference Bible) |