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Is “AI” in the Bible?

Yes. “AI” is in the Bible. It appears 40 times in the Lumin Translation and 36 times in the King James Bible.

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Is “AI” in the Bible?

In the Bible

Yes. “AI” is in the Bible.

It appears 40 times in the Lumin Translation and 36 times in the King James Bible.

Ai is in the Bible, as a city. It is first named in Genesis 12:8 and is best known from Joshua 7 and 8. Artificial intelligence is not in the Bible.

In two Bibles

Lumin Translation: 40 times, first in Genesis 12:8.

King James Version: 36 times, first in Joshua 7:2.

Where it appears

  • 40 times
  • 33 verses
  • 5 books

In 5 of 66 books. Most often in:

  1. Joshua35
  2. Genesis2
  3. Ezra1
  4. Nehemiah1
  5. Jeremiah1

The first 5 of 33 verses with “ai” in the Lumin Translation:

He moved on from there to the hills east of Bethel and set up his tent, with Bethel lying to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar to Yahweh there and called on the name of Yahweh.
Genesis 12:8 · open the chapter →
He traveled by stages from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Genesis 13:3 · open the chapter →
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
Joshua 7:2 · open the chapter →
They came back to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up. Let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make all the people toil up there, for the people of Ai are few.”
Joshua 7:3 · open the chapter →
So about three thousand men from the people went up there, but they fled before the men of Ai.
Joshua 7:4 · open the chapter →

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Counted in the Lumin Translation, a modern English Bible, and the King James Version (1769), with the same index as the Bible word checker. Counts are of exact word forms.

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Is “AI” in the Bible?

Yes. “AI” is in the Bible. It appears 40 times in the Lumin Translation and 36 times in the King James Bible. Ai is in the Bible, as a city. It is first named in Genesis 12:8 and is best known from Joshua 7 and 8. Artificial intelligence is not in the Bible.

How many times is “AI” in the Bible?

AI appears 40 times in the Lumin Translation and 36 times in the King James Bible. Counts are of exact word forms.

Where is “AI” first mentioned in the Bible?

In the Lumin Translation, ai first appears in Genesis 12:8: “He moved on from there to the hills east of Bethel and set up his tent, with Bethel lying to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar to Yahweh there and called on the name of Yahweh.”

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