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Note: This "KJV Word Meaning Differences" list does not necessarily mean an error in translation, but offers additional understanding to what is highlighted. The list is in alphabetical order of the yellow highlighted words.

(M) Luke 16:22 - KJV

KJV Word: Abraham's bosom

Modern English: "the Kingdom of God"

Galatians 3:7 - KJV

7:   Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

Abraham is the father of the faithful. Those who are redeemed by Christ at His return will share the eternal inheritance of the Kingdom of God here on earth with Abraham and have a close, intimate family relationship with both Jesus and Abraham. Though it is translated "Abraham's bosom" or "Abraham's side," the wording is synonymous with the understanding that it is the Kingdom of God.

(M) Galatians 5:24 - KJV

KJV Word: affection(s)

Modern English: passions

(M) Leviticus 23:27, 32; Psalms 35:13 - KJV

KJV Word: afflict your souls

Modern English: humble your souls

Meaning literally "to fast."

(M) Colossians 2:18 - KJV

KJV Word: beguile

Modern English: defraud

(M) Proverbs 13:24 - KJV

KJV Word: betimes

Modern English: early

(M) Exodus 9:9 - KJV

KJV Word: blains

Modern English: blisters

(M) 2 Samuel 12:3, 8; John 1:18 - KJV

KJV Word: (in his/into thy/in the) bosom

Modern English: "have an intimate relationship with"

(M) Jeremiah 10:22 - KJV

KJV Word: bruit

Modern English: rumour

(M) Nahum 3:19 - KJV

KJV Word: bruit

Modern English: report, tidings, news

The English bruit = a rumor.

(M) 1 Corinthians 13 - KJV

KJV Word: charity

Modern English: love

(M) Psalms 51:10; 73:1 - KJV

KJV Word: clean heart

Modern English: right attitude

(M) Hebrews 13:16 - KJV

KJV Word: communicate

Modern English: fellowship

(M) 1 Corinthians 15:33 - KJV

KJV Word: communications

Modern English: association, companionship

(M) Philippians 1:27; 1 Peter 1:15 - KJV

KJV Word: conversation

Modern English: conduct

(M) Philippians 3:20 - KJV

KJV Word: conversation

Modern English: commonwealth

(M) 1 Peter 3:1 - KJV

KJV Word: conversation

Modern English: behavior

(M) James 2:9; Titus 1:9 - KJV

KJV Word: convince(d)

Modern English: convict(ed)

(M) 1 Samuel 24:3 - KJV

KJV Word: cover his feet, to

Modern English: to stoop

Hence causing the feet to be covered with the robe, probably in order to defecate.

(M) Romans 8:19-21; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 6:15 - KJV

KJV Word: creature

Modern English: creation

(M) Matthew 10:38 - KJV

KJV Word: cross

Modern English: stake

"Our English word "cross" is the translation of the Latin crux; but the Greek stauros no more means a "crux" than the word "stick" means a "crutch."

-- The Companion Bible
Appendix 162

cross = stake. Greek stauros denotes an upright pale or stake with no cross member. What Jesus carried was the cross beam member, not a "T" shaped cross.

(M) Mark 16:16 - KJV

KJV Word: damned

Modern English: condemned or judged

(M) 1 Timothy 4:1 - KJV

KJV Word: devils

Modern English: demons

(M) Galatians 2:13 - KJV

KJV Word: dissimulation

Modern English: hypocrisy

(M) Matthew 24:7; Acts 19:9; James 1:2; Hebrews 1:1 - KJV

KJV Word: divers

Modern English: different

Places, persons or things

(M) 2 Timothy 2:15 - KJV

KJV Word: dividing

Modern English: expounding, dissecting

(M) 1 Timothy 6:4 - KJV

KJV Word: doting

Modern English: sick, or diseased (morbid)

(M) 1 Corinthians 7:3 - KJV

KJV Word: due benevolence

Modern English: conjugal dues

i.e., sexual dues from one's spouse.

(M) 1 Corinthians 10:11 - KJV

KJV Word: ensamples

Modern English: examples

(M) Luke 18:1; Galatians 6:9 - KJV

KJV Word: faint

Modern English: give up

(M) Proverbs 2:12 - KJV

KJV Word: froward

Modern English: perverse (evil)

(M) James 2:3 - KJV

KJV Word: gay

Modern English: goodly, splendid

(M) Matthew 1:18 - KJV

KJV Word: Ghost or Holy Ghost

Modern English: Holy Spirit

The word "Ghost" is a very poor rendition. This should always be translated "Holy Spirit".

(M) 1 Corinthians 13:12; James 1:23 - KJV

KJV Word: glass

Modern English: mirror

(M) John 14:16-17, 26; 16:7-8, 13-15 - KJV

KJV Word: he him, himself

Modern English: in reference to the Holy Spirit

In the King James and many other translations, the Holy Spirit is often referred to as a person with the pronoun "he" not realizing that the Holy Spirit is the power of God and not the third person of a trinity. All Greek nouns translated into "the (Holy) Spirit" and "Holy Ghost" are always in the neuter gender in the Greek text, not in the masculine gender like those of the Father and Jesus Christ.

(M) Jeremiah 17:9 - KJV

KJV Word: heart

Modern English: known as the "attitude of mind

(M) Matthew 10:28; Mark 9:43-48 - KJV

KJV Word: hell (hell fire)

Modern English: gehenna (lake of fire)

Gehenna = transliteration of Heb. Originally Hinnom (the Valley of Hinnom).

A literal place where children were passed through the fire to Molech and later a continual burning place for refuse outside the city of Jerusalem. "Gehenna" is used by God as the place for destruction of the wicked by fire. It is not an ever-burning place where people will be tortured consciously indefinitely, but a literal place where God will destroy both body and spirit permanently forever. It is the molten lava in the earth beneath our feet risen to the surface of the earth. Also known as the "lake of fire." (Revelation 19:20; 20:10, 14-15)

(M) Acts 2:27 - KJV

KJV Word: hell (hell fire)

Modern English: hades (the grave)

Hades = equivalent to Heb. Sheol in the Old Testament. It is best rendered "the grave" and literally means "the state of the dead."

(M) 2 Peter 2:4 - KJV

KJV Word: hell (hell fire)

Modern English: tartaroo (a place of restraint or imprisonment)

Tartaroo = Greek, meaning "to thrust down to Tartarus" It is the place of restraint reserved for Satan and his demons.

(M) James 5:7 - KJV

KJV Word: husbandman

Modern English: a land-worker (i.e. a farmer)

(M) Matthew 24:12 - KJV

KJV Word: iniquity

Modern English: lawlessness

(M) 2 Corinthians 11:2 - KJV

KJV Word: jealous

Modern English: zealous

(M) Genesis 4:1, 17, 25; 38:26; Judges 11:39; 19:25; 1 Samuel 1:19 - KJV

KJV Word: knew

Modern English: had sexual relations with

(M) Psalms 4:2; 5:6 - KJV

KJV Word: leasing

Modern English: falsehood (lying)

(M) 2 Thessalonians 2:7 - KJV

KJV Word: letteth

Modern English: restraining

(M) Deuteronomy 14:26 - KJV

KJV Word: lusteth after

Modern English: longs for (earnestly desires)

(M) John 14:2 - KJV

KJV Word: mansions

Modern English: abiding (dwelling) places, (abode)

(M) Exodus 29:41; Leviticus 23:13 - KJV

KJV Word: meat offering

Modern English: meal offering

(M) Genesis 2:18; Matthew 3:8 - KJV

KJV Word: meet

Modern English: proper, fitting, worthy

(M) Galatians 6:7 - KJV

KJV Word: mocked

Modern English: ridicule

(M) Job 38:7 - KJV

KJV Word: morning stars

Modern English: angels

(M) Deuteronomy 24:6 - KJV

KJV Word: nether

Modern English: lower

(M) Nehemiah 13:26 - KJV

KJV Word: outlandish

Modern English: foreign

(M) 2 Timothy 3:17 - KJV

KJV Word: perfect

Modern English: complete (fitted)

(M) Genesis 17:1 - KJV

KJV Word: perfect

Modern English: without blemish (complete)

(M) Philippians 1:6 - KJV

KJV Word: perform

Modern English: complete (finish)

(M) 1 Samuel 25:22; 1 Kings 14:10; 21:21; 2 Kings 9:8 - KJV

KJV Word: (him that) pisseth against the wall

Modern English: (i.e., referring to) every male

(M) Mark 5:30; Luke 19:3 - KJV

KJV Word: press

Modern English: crowd (multitude)

(M) Psalms 88:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:15 - KJV

KJV Word: prevent

Modern English: come before (precede)

(M) 1 Corinthians 14:1, 6, 22, 24, 31, 39 - KJV

KJV Word: prophesy (prophesying)

Modern English: inspired preaching

(M) Romans 8:11 - KJV

KJV Word: quicken

Modern English: make alive

(M) 1 Corinthians 16:13 - KJV

KJV Word: quit

Modern English: acquit (conduct)

(M) Jeremiah 4:30 - KJV

KJV Word: rentest

Modern English: enlargest, or enlarge

To paint the eyes, as if enlarging them.

(M) 1 Timothy 5:4 - KJV

KJV Word: requite

Modern English: return recompenses to

(M) 1 Samuel 29:2 - KJV

KJV Word: rereward

Modern English: hinder, last, rear

(M) Colossians 2:8 - KJV

KJV Word: rudiments

Modern English: elements

(M) Philippians 2:7 - KJV

KJV Word: servant

Modern English: bond-servant (slave)

(M) Romans 16:19 - KJV

KJV Word: simple

Modern English: harmless, innocent

(M) Ephesians 6:24 - KJV

KJV Word: sincerity

Modern English: incorruptness

(M) 2 Kings 13:9; 2 Chronicles 16:13 - KJV

KJV Word: slept with his fathers

Modern English: died

(M) Job 1:6 - KJV

KJV Word: sons of God

Modern English: the angels

(M) Ephesians 6:12 - KJV

KJV Word: spiritual wickedness

Modern English: spiritual (hosts) of wickedness (i.e. wicked spirits and their power)

(M) Mark 10:14; Revelation 11:9 - KJV

KJV Word: suffer

Modern English: let, allow, permit

(M) Luke 24:49; 1 Corinthians 16:8 - KJV

KJV Word: tarry

Modern English: remain for a time (wait)

(M) 1 Corinthians 10:13; James 1:13 - KJV

KJV Word: tempted (tempteth)

Modern English: put thoroughly to the test

(M) Exodus 34:27 - KJV

KJV Word: tenor

Modern English: according to

(M) Mark 16:17; 1 Corinthians 14:5-6, 18, 21-23, 39 - KJV

KJV Word: tongues

Modern English: foreign languages

(M) Mark 5:30 - KJV

KJV Word: virtue

Modern English: [inherent] power

(M) Isaiah 52:14 - KJV

KJV Word: visage

Modern English: appearance