Edition and sources
The Latin text
This explorer follows the Clementine Vulgate (Biblia Sacra Vulgatæ Editionis, 1592) in the transcription of the Clementine Vulgate Project (Michael Tweedale and collaborators, distributed with VulSearch). The text is in the public domain. The file used is lat-clementine.usfx.xml from seven1m/open-bibles, pinned to commit e310b178189e30443c44f2338022aab73546b274 and checked by SHA-256 on every build.
Spelling is the edition's own: æ and œ ligatures, consonantal j (cujus, Jesus), and diaereses (Israël, Joël). The only changes are Unicode NFC normalization and closing up the French-style spaces the transcription prints before : ; ? !.
Books, order, and numbering
All 73 books in the source appear in the Clementine order, under the Latin titles printed in the source: the four books of Kings (Regum I–IV) and two of Chronicles (Paralipomenon I–II), Esdræ and Nehemiæ, then Tobit, Judith, and Esther; Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus after the Song of Songs; Baruch (with the Letter of Jeremiah as chapter 6) after Lamentations; and 1–2 Maccabees at the end of the Old Testament.
Chapter and verse numbers are the Vulgate's, with no remapping to the KJV or the Hebrew. Psalms follow the Greek and Latin count, so Psalm 22 is Dominus regit me and Psalm 50 is Miserere. Psalm titles are verse 1. Esther runs to chapter 16 with the Greek additions (10:4–16:24), Daniel 3 has 100 verses, and Susanna and Bel are Daniel 13 and 14.
The transcription attaches the unnumbered prologues of Ecclesiasticus and Lamentations to verse 1 behind a “Prologus” marker. Each is shown as its own row labelled prol. before verse 1, so that 1:1 is the verse the edition numbers 1:1.
The appendix of the Clementine edition (Prayer of Manasseh, 3 and 4 Esdras) is not in the source file and is not included.
Search and counting
Words are runs of letters, split at spaces, punctuation, and hyphens (Beth-horon is two words). Search ignores capitalization but not spelling: cælum finds the edition's form, while caelum finds nothing; a regex such as c(ae|æ)lum covers both. Sentences end at . ! ?; colons and semicolons, which the edition uses heavily, are treated as clause breaks.
No commentary counts are attached: the historical commentary used by the KJV and Luther instances is keyed to KJV numbering and has not been mapped to the Vulgate's.