Archaic Words in the NIV
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Archaic Words in the NIV by Dr. Laurence M. Vance
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| NIV | BIBLE VERSE | AV | |
| abasement | Ezra 9:5 | heaviness | |
| abashed | Is 24:23 | confounded | |
| abutted | Ezek 40:18 | over against | |
| acclamation | 2 Chr 15:14 | voice | |
| aghast | Is 13:8 | amazed | |
| alcove | Ezek 40:13 | little chamber | |
| annotations | 2 Chr 13:22 | story | |
| armless | Num 31:50 | chains | |
| bewilderment | Acts 2:6 | confounded | |
| blunted | Ps 58:7 | cut in pieces | |
| blustering | Job 8:2 | strong | |
| breakers | Ps 93:4 | waves | |
| brooches | Ex 35:22 | bracelets | |
| brood | Is 57:4 | children | |
| burnished | Dan 10:6 | polished | |
| carnelian | Rev 4:3 | sardine | |
| charioteers | I Sam 13:5 | horsemen | |
| citron | Rev 18:12 | thyine | |
| colonnade | I Ki 7:6 | porch | |
| commemorate | Ex 13:3 | remember | |
| coomg | Song 2:12 | voice | |
| cors | I Ki 4:22 | measures | |
| curds | Gen 18:8 | butter | |
| dappled | Zec 6:6 | gristled | |
| debauchery | Gal 5:19 | lasciviousness | |
| decimated | 2 Sam 21:5 | destroyed | |
| dejected | Gen 40:6 | sad | |
| deluded | Is 44:20 | deceived | |
| denarii | Matt 18:28 | pence | |
| denarius | Matt 20:2 | penny | |
| desecrate | Lev 21:12 | profane | |
| despoil | Jer 30:16 | give for a prey | |
| detachment | John 18:3 | band | |
| disheartened | Ezek 13:22 | sad | |
| disillusionment | Ps 7:14 | falsehood | |
| dissipation | I Pet 4:4 | riot | |
| drachmas | Ezra 2:69 | drams | |
| dragnet | Hab 1:15 | drag | |
| duplicity | Lk 20:23 | craftiness | |
| elation | Pro 28:12 | glory | |
| emasculate | Gal 5:12 | cut off | |
| embedded | Ecc 12:11 | fastened | |
| embitter | Ps 73:21 | grieved | |
| embodiment | Rom 2:20 | form | |
| emphatically | Mk 14:31 | vehemently | |
| encouragingly | 2 Chr 30:22 | comfortably | |
| encrouch | Pro 23:10 | enter | |
| engulf | Ps 69:2 | overflow | |
| enrollment | 2 Chr 17:14 | numbers | |
| enthralled | Ps 45:11 | greatly desire | |
| enveloped | Lk 9:34 | overshadowed | |
| exasperate | Eph 6:4 | provoke | |
| exterminate | Ezek 25:7 | perish | |
| exult | Is 14:8 | rejoice | |
| factions | 1 Ki 16:21 | parts | |
| famished | Is 8:21 | hungry | |
| fattened | 1 Sam 28:24 | fat | |
| faultfinders | Jude 16 | complainers | |
| fawns | Song 4:5 | roes | |
| fellowman | Micah 2:2 | man | |
| festival | Ex 5:1 | feast | |
| festive | I Sam 25:8 | good | |
| fieldstones | Deut 27:6 | whole stones | |
| figurehead | Acts 28:11 | sign | |
| fil~gree | Ex 28:20 | enclosings | |
| fishnets | Ezek 26:5 | nets | |
| flagstaff | Is 30:17 | beacon | |
| flank | Ezek 34:21 | side | |
| fleeting | Ps 89:47 | short | |
| flinging | Acts 22:23 | threw | |
| flogged | Acts 5:40 | beaten | |
| floodgates | Gen 7:11 | windows | |
| fluttering | Is 16:2 | wandering | |
| fomenting | Is 59:13 | speaking | |
| forded | Josh 2:23 | passed over | |
| forevermore | Jude 25 | for ever | |
| frolic | Ps 104:26 | play | |
| fruitage | Is 27:9 | fruit | |
| gadfly | Jer 46:20 | destruction | |
| gaiety | Is 24:8 | mirth | |
| galled | 1 Sam 18:8 | displeased | |
| gateway | Gen 19:1 | gate | |
| gaunt | Gen 41:3 | leanfleshed | |
| gauntness | Job 16:8 | leanness | |
| gecko | Lev 11:30 | ferret | |
| glancing | Ex 2:12 | looked | |
| glint | Hab 3:11 | light | |
| glistcning | Job 41:32 | shine | |
| gloat | Ps 30:1 | rejoice | |
| gloom | Job 10:21 | darkness | |
| glutted | Ezek 39:19 | full | |
| goblet | Is 51:17 | cup | |
| goum | Gen 14:1 | nations | |
| grapevine | James 3:12 | vine | |
| Hades | Rev 20:14 | hell | |
| harrowing | Is 28:24 | break the clods | |
| haunt | Ps 44:19 | place | |
| headwaters | Gen 2:10 | heads | |
| hoopoe | Lev 11:19 | lapwing | |
| horde | Ezek 17:17 | army | |
| ibex | Deut 14:5 | pygarg | |
| ignoble | 2 Tim 2:20 | dishonour | |
| impaled | Ezra 6:11 | hanged | |
| imperishable | I Cor 15:50 | incorruption | |
| impetuous | Hab 1:6 | hasty | |
| improvise | Amos 6:5 | invent | |
| incited | 1 Chr 21:1 | provoked | |
| incurs | Pro 9:7 | getteth | |
| indestructible | Heb 7:16 | endless | |
| indignant | Mk 10:41 | displeased | |
| indispensable | 1 Cor 12:22 | necessary | |
| infamy | Is 44:11 | ashamed | |
| innumerable | 2 Chr 12:3 | without number | |
| insolence | Jer 48:30 | wrath | |
| insolent | Rom 1:30 | despiteful | |
| jeered | 2 Ki 2:23 | mocked | |
| joists | 2 Chr 34:11 | couplings | |
| jowls | Deut 18:3 | cheeks | |
| kingship | 1 Sam 10:16 | kingdom | |
| lifeboat | Acts 27:30 | boat | |
| magi | Matt 2:1 | wise men | |
| mainstay | Jer 49:25 | chief | |
| marauders | Job 12:6 | robbers | |
| marshaled | Job 32:14 | directed | |
| mattocks | 1 Sam 13:20 | courter | |
| maxiums | Job 13:12 | remembrances | |
| melodious | Ps 81:2 p | leasant | |
| memorandum | Ezra 6:2 | record | |
| mina | Lk 19:16 p | pound | |
| misdemeanor | Acts 18:14 | wrong | |
| naive | Rom 16:18 | simple | |
| nationality | Est 2:10 | people | |
| naught | Is 40:23 | nothing | |
| Negev | Gen 12:9 | south | |
| Nephilim | Gen 6:4 | giants | |
| nightfall | 2 Sam 19:7 | night | |
| noonday | 2 Sam 4:5 | noon | |
| Nubians | Dan 11:43 | Ethiopians | |
| nuggets | Job 22:24 | gold | |
| nurtured | Lam 4:5 | brought | |
| oarsmen | Ezek 27:26 | rowers | |
| oblivion | Ps 88:12 | forgetfulness | |
| obscenity | Eph 5:4 | filthiness | |
| offal | Ex 29:14 | dung | |
| officiate | 2 Ki 17:32 | sacrificed | |
| opportune | Mk 6:1 | convenient | |
| ore | Job 28:2 | stone | |
| overawed | Ps 49:16 | afraid | |
| overweening | Is 16:6 | very | |
| parapet | Deut 22:8 | battlement | |
| piled | Lk 23:9 | questioned | |
| pinions | Deut 32:11 | wings | |
| porphyry | Est 1:6 | red | |
| portent | Is 20:3 | wonder | |
| portico | 1 Ki 6:3 | porch | |
| poultice | 2 Ki 20:7 | lump | |
| Praetorium | Matt 27:27 | common hall | |
| prefects | Dan 3:3 | governors | |
| proconsul | Acts 13:8 | deputy | |
| profligate | Deut 21:20 | glutton | |
| promiscuity | Ezek 16:26 | whoredoms | |
| qualm | Jude 12 | fear | |
| rabble | Num 11:4 | mixed multitude | |
| ramparts | Hab 2: 11 | tower | |
| rawboned | Gen 49:14 | strong | |
| reeked | Ex 8:14 | stank | |
| repointing | 1 Sam 13:21 | sharpen | |
| reposes | Pro 14:33 | resteth | |
| reputed | Gal 2:9 | seemed | |
| resound | I Chr 16:32 | roar | |
| resplendent | Ps 76:4 | glorious | |
| reveled | Neh 9:25 | delighted themselves | |
| revelry | Is 22:13 | gladness | |
| revening | Jer 2:30 | destroying | |
| rifts | Jer 2:6 | pits | |
| sachet | Song 1:13 | bundle | |
| satraps | Est 3:12 | lieutenants | |
| sheathed | Ps 68:13 | covered | |
| siegeworks | Ecc 9:14 | bulwarks | |
| simplehearted | Ps 116:6 | simple | |
| sistrums | 2 Sam 6:5 | cornets | |
| squall | Mk 4:37 | storm of wind | |
| stadia | Rev 14:20 | furlongs | |
| stag | Song 2:9 | hart | |
| stipulations | Deut 4:45 | testimonies | |
| suckling | 1 Sam 7:9 | sucking | |
| sullen | I Ki 21:5 | sad | |
| temperate | I Tim 3:11 | sober | |
| tempest | Ps 55:8 | storm | |
| terebinth | Hos 4:13 | elms | |
| tethered | 2 Ki 7:10 | tied | |
| thong | Lk 3:16 | latchet | |
| thornbush | Is 55:13 | thorn | |
| thundercloud | Ps 81:7 | thunder | |
| timidity | 2 Tim 1:7 | fear | |
| tinder | Is 1:31 | tow | |
| torrent | Rev 12:15 | flood | |
| tranquillity | Ecc 4:6 | quietness | |
| transcends | Phil 4:7 | passeth | |
| transplanted | Ezek 17:10 | planted | |
| tresses | Song 7:5 | galleries | |
| tumult | 1 Sam 14:19 | noise | |
| turbulent | Gen 49:4 | unstable | |
| tyrannical | Pro 28:16 | oppressor | |
| tyranny | Is 54:14 | oppression | |
| underlings | 2 Ki 19:6 | servants | |
| vassal | 2 Ki 24:1 | servant | |
| vaunts | Job 15:25 | strengtheneth | |
| vent | Job 20:23 | cast | |
| verdant | Song 1:16 | green | |
| vestments | Ezra 3:10 | apparel | |
| vexed | Ps 112:10 | grieved | |
| wadi | Num 34:5 | river | |
| waylaid | 1 Sam 15:2 | laid wait for | |
| waywardness | Hosea 14:4 | backsliding | |
| weakling | Joel | weak | |
| wily | Job 5:13 | froward | |
| windstorm | Is 29:6 | storm | |
| wrenched | Gen 32:25 | out of joint | |
| wretches | Matt 21:41 | wicked men | |
| yearling | Is 11:6 | fatling |
Archaic Words and the Authorized Version
By Dr. Laurence M. Vance
As suitable for reading as it is valuable for reference this book provides an
explicit and comprehensive examination of every word in the Authorized Version
of the Bible that has been deemed archaic, obsolete, antiquated, or otherwise
outmoded. The result is both a fascinating and encyclopedic study of words
-their meaning, derivation, usage, and significance. The thesis of this seminal
work is that the Authorized Version is no more archaic than daily newspapers,
current magazines, and modern Bible versions. This book is unique in that it
seeks neither to criticize nor to correct the text of the Authorized Version.
Extensively documented with over 5,000 footnotes, the book contains twenty-four
chapters and fourteen appendixes, with a preface, introduction, epilogue, and
bibliography. 589 Pages
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