Posted on 05/25/2006 7:14:13 PM PDT by Full Court
Archaic Words in the NIV
Adapted from,
Archaic Words in the NIV by Dr. Laurence M. Vance
featured at Dial the-Truth Ministries Website
| 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
Very interesting!
I am vexed. I have tried to view this thread with detachment, but find I must vent a little. What kind of weakling considers these words archaic? The English language is a beautiful thing and it exasperates me that the tyranny of ignorance threatens to emasculate it. Perhaps a little food will restore my tranquility. I'm famished.
I agree. And the guy that wrote this has waaaaaaay too much time on his hands. Maybe the authour would benefit from some of the Word Power tests from Readers Digest. Geeze!
His premise is that the "archaic words" claim made against the AV is better suited to be made against the NIV.
Sorry but the "synonyms" in the AV suck. The NIV is clear in it's meaning. My daughter and I just went through them all and laughed at the AV list. The NIV was more understandable and clear in it's meaning. AND more specific. Daughter just said " I can be quite vexed without being grieved". And yearling is specific, fatling is not. And turbulent is waaaaaay past unstable. The list is just petty silliness.
It can't be. It removed over 64,000 words without manuscript evidence and removes WHOLE verses!!!
Also, the KJV is much easier to read.
"Modern versions bave been marketed extensively as being easier to read than the KJV Bible. However, recent computerized document analysis programs have objectively revealed that the King James Version of the Bible is in far easier to read than the NIV or the NASB.
The Fleisch-Kincaid research firm has, through computerized analysis, sbown that the KJV vocabulary has fewer syllables per word than the NIV or the NASB.
Furthertmore, the KJV has less complex sentences than the NIV or NASB. In reality, the KJV is easier to read than its modern counterparts in the manner of vocabulary and syntax."
http://av1611.com/kjbp/articles/hall-whykjv.html
That's silly. We don't speak that language any more.
"According to the F-K [Flesch-Kincaid] formula 74.3% of the books [in the KJV] are on or below the sixth grade level, and 94% are on or below the seventh grade level! . . . And the FRE [Flesch Reading Ease] rated 97% of the KJV books as Fairly Easy or Easy! These were all first place statistics!" (Ibid, p. 80)
Nah, you'll get the hang of it.
If you want the original, learn Aramaic and Hebrew.
Translations are just that. One opinion of the relative meanings between two languages. As language changes over the years, various opinions on those meanings will happen.
None of the variances of any of the major translations is material, IMHO. The only controversy seems to come from those more interested in sowing discord.
Evidently you only read what backs your opinion.
The New International Version is a completely new translation of the Holy Bible made by over 100 scholars working directly from the best available Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts.
I'm not a King James fan, of him or his Bible. I'm also not a "computerized document analysis program". Guess that ends the discussion.
Only The 1611 King James Bible is Trustworthy!
It's not my opinion that the NIV removed all those words and verses!!!!
But come back any time!!
Ain't that the truth. If I'd known this was a "my Bible's better than YOUR Bible" thread, I would have avoided it like the plague.
That looks like a cheat sheet for a theology final.
Is it?
Not likely.
Would the deity of Christ be immaterial?
The Catholic liturgy is going back to some of these older words. If I were you -- I would encourage all to keep them. They are wonderful Biblical words.
It's fine to read others to get the translations others place on them, but I'm really old school. It's the KJV, and ya like it! Thee, thou, ye.
Get thee behind me, Satan!
How are you going to make that better? Do we update Shakespeare? Yes, but not usually and not entirely.
What next, crucifixion = owie?
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