King James Bible Word Book

By Anonymous

Book Overview

This entertaining and informative book explains everyday expressions and curious words and their origin in the KJV. The text gives details on the original meanings and when and where they were used in the Bible. Gives the fascinating and often humorous stories behind hundreds of contemporary phrases and expressions, including such sayings as "the blind leading the blind," "by the skin of my teeth," "a fly in the ointment," and many others that will surprise people with their biblical origin. Over 1,000 entries Comprehensive index lists more than 2,500 additional key words and phrases A great resource for Bible word studies Ideal gift for students of Shakespearean and English literature, Bible students, writers, word lovers, and anyone doing studies of KJV OTHER TITLES AVAILABLE: King James New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible ISBN: 0-7852-4723-8 King James Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words ISBN: 0-7852-4720-3 King James Bible Commentary ISBN: 0-7852-4601-0 King James Reference Set ISBN: 0-7852-4717-3

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785248595
• ISBN13: 9780785248590
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Nelson Incorporated, Thomas
• Length: 451 Pages
• Weight: 1.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Supplement with The Complete Guide to the Book of Proverbs.

This is a reprint of The Bible Word Book originally written in 1960. It gives interesting background on many Old English words and points out the many bloopers in the King James translation. Most famous of these is the "unicorn" which occurs 9 times and which is properly corrected to "wild ox" in modern versions. If you would like to compare the KJV to 5 contemporary versions, read THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS by Cody Jones. Besides an in-depth commentary, it features 6 translations of Proverbs side-by-side: New King James (1982), New Revised Standard (1990), New Century (1991), New International Version (1983), King James (1611) and New Living Translation (1996).

Must have reference for KJV users

Many words used in the King James Version have a different meaning today than they had in 1611. It is important to know what the words meant then instead of what they mean now. If you read the KJV thinking the words have the same meaning, you will misinterpret many passages of scripture.An earlier reviewer pointed out that this book does not cover Elizabethan grammar. I do not think that is a fair criticism. If you read Shakespeare in High School the grammar of the KJV should not be a problem.