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KJV Archaic Words List

One common reason all new bible translators use to justify new translations is the "archaic words." They claim the archaic words are too difficult to read or understand. The Authorized Version written 400 years ago was understood then and now which make it ageless. The new translations have made the Bible "easier" to read, whereby they can "coast" people into reading it. In other words, lowering the standards while at the same time negatively impacting the doctrine.

  • If you run across an archaic word you don't understand then:
  • keep reading for the context
  • prayerfully store in your mind for God to shed light on its meaning in His word
  • compare other scriptures, 2 Timothy 3:16
  • use of Webster’s 1828 Dictionary - is also helpful in some cases

WORD

VERSE

MEANING

ambassage

Luke 14:32

message

anon

Mark 1:30

soon

bishopric

Acts 1:20

overseership

botch

Deuteronomy 28:27

boils

bowels

Philippians 1:8

inward affection, tender mercy

bray

Proverbs 27:22

pound

brigandines

Jeremiah 46:4

breastplate

broided

1 Timothy 2:9

braided

bruit

Jeremiah 10:22

rumor

by and by

Mark 6:25

immediately, straightway

cankered

James 5:3

corrode

careful

Luke 10:41

anxious

carriages

Acts 21:15

baggages

charger

Mark 6:25

platter

charity

1 Corinthians 13:1

love

coasts

Matthew 2:16

border

collops

Job 15:27

to be plump, obesity

concupiscence

1 Thessalonians 4:5

lust

conversation

Galatians 1:13

behavior

dam

Deuteronomy 22:6

mother

daysman

Job 9:33

umpire

dispensation

Ephesians 3:2

stewardship

do you to wit

2 Corinthians 8:1

to understand

draught

Matthew 15:17

privy

dure

Matthew 13:21

endure

fetched a compass

Acts 28:13

wander about

jangling

1 Timothy 1:6

vain discussion

leasing

Psalms 4:2

lying

let

2 Thessalonians

hinder

list

John 3:8

choose, will

milch

Genesis 32:15

milk giving animal

muffler

Isaiah 3:19

a long veil

murrain

Exodus 9:3

plague

naughtiness

James 1:21

wickedness

prevent

1 Thessalonians 4:15

precede

quit

1 Samuel 4:9

to act manly

ravin

Genesis 49:27

tear in pieces

rereward

1 Samuel 29:2

withdraw

scrip

Matthew 10:10

pouch

shamefacedness

1 Timothy 2:9

modesty

strait

2 Kings 6:1

narrow

take no thought

Matthew 6:25

don't worry

thoroughly

2 Timothy 3:17

to equip fully

vaunt oneself

1 Corinthians 13:4

to boast

verily

John 3:3

surely, amen

ware

Nehemiah 10:31

merchandise

waymark

Jeremiah 31:21

guiding pillar

wist

Exodus 16:15

understand, be sure

wit

Genesis 24:21

to know, understand

wot

Genesis 21:26

perceive, understand

This chart copied from:

http://www.shorewoodbiblechurch.org/


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