In those original languages, the Bible's word count is about 611,000. That word count is not going to line up with your Bible though, for a few reasons. When translating the Bible from its original languages to English, translators tend to use more words to get across the original author's point. Also, different translations word passages differently, which results in a variation in word count. Even so, it's interesting to think that while the Bible is longer than Moby Dick, it's nowhere near as long a read as the Harry Potter saga.