| 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) |