Nave's Compact Topical Bible

by Orville J. Nave

This remarkable comprehensive reference tool for Bible students and teachers is arranged by topic and provides over 6,000 entries with more than 100,000 Scripture references. It lists Scripture verses that address a specific topic--even if only the concept occurs in the verse and not the particular word. This compact topical Bible also serves as a Bible dictionary, listing all proper names, places, objects, and events of the Bible along with their brief definition or description.

Genres: Reference, Christian, Christianity, Religion, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Biblical

544 pages, Paperback

First published September 26, 1969

About the author

Orville James Nave was an army chaplain who sought to produce an exhaustive classification of all the topics in the King James Version of the Bible. The first Nave's Topical Bible was the result of fourteen years of study by Nave, with the assistance of his wife Anna. Nave worked for the last twenty years of his life on various revisions of the work.

Reviews

[The Celtic Rebel (Richard) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received this book as a gift in 1983 from some dear friends. It is a very handy helpful resource when studying the Bible. Highly recommend it.

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is helpful if you like to look into a particular topic. You can look up the topic then it gives you all verses that mention that. I find it most helpful when used with Strong’s Concordance, available online for free.

[John Yelverton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would not describe this as a Bible so much as a dictionary. It takes all the major nouns of the Bible and give a break down of the who, what, where, when and how of it all. It's definitely a must for any preacher's library.

[Vrbeyond · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whether you are young or old, sometimes finding the exact scripture we need can be a challenge. This book lists almost everything in alphebetical order.
A must for all serious Bible Students.

[Sandi · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent bible refrence book I can look up almost any word and see all the bible verses that have that word in it. Great tool for bible study!

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Could have been amazing

This is a fantastic research tool. In paper form this would easily receive 5 stars. This Kindle version needs a revamp. I don't like having to goto the first letter of the alphabet and literally scroll through pages and pages to find what I am looking for. There should be a better way, either by search method or a better Table of Contents.

[Larry Day]

Best book ever written.

[Arnold hamilton · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a really good bible study reference book. this is an incredible reference and Helps to locate all the scriptures on a certain subject which helps you in the long run. it is so full of information on any subject.
let us say you want to look up "intercessory prayer" Here it says to see intercession, instances of, solicited, instances of, answered. that is one example of looking up a word.

there are so many very helpful words. according to the front cover, there are 20,000 topics and sub-topics with more than 100,000 associated scripture references.

[Ben B]

One day while reading this Bible I asked myself, "Why didn't God inspire the Bible this way? Why are all the subjects mixed up among narrative, poetry, and all that other stuff?" Exploring the answer to that questions has opened up the whole world of the Bible to me.

[Joanne Lincoln · Rating 4 out of 5]

A must for Bible Study

A great edition to your regular Bible Study. Quick to look up the topic and see what Goes Word says and compare.