Kjv Bible

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CHAPTER ONE
How do you find the
Bible’s built-in dictionary?

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CHAPTER ONE
How do you find the
Bible’s built-in dictionary?

THE BIBLE’SBUILT-IN DICTIONARY
y examination of the 1000 most difficult words in the KJV reveals that God defines all of them, in the context, in their first usage, using the very words of the Webster’s or Oxford English Dictionary. If the Lord wills, this research will be published shortly, citing all of the words and their built-in definition. This brief overview is offered to give enough examples of howGod’s built-in dictionary works, thereby allowing the reader a head-start in discovering this dictionary for himself. “The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.”
Psalm 119:130

The First and the Last
The KJV is a looking glass, looking back at 1000 years of the history of our culture’s thinking and beliefs. The Webster’s and Oxford dictionaries match the KJV’sdefinitions exactly, because the KJV preceeded them. God created the meaning of the words in the Bible itself. People read the Bible and picked up those meanings. The dictionaries merely reflect the culture.
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One secular lexicographer admits,
About the beginning of the 17th century, in the reign of James I, our language had already begun toassume the form in which we now find it, and is from that date entitled to be called the English language. From the time when the Bible was translated into English, and, by being printed and spread among the people…the language may be said to have been fixed. (NSD)

Scholars agree that the English language did not become fixed until the King James Bible. Earlier editions, like the Tyndale and theGeneva, although practically identical to the KJV did not always contain the built-in dictionary found in , the KJV. They did not need it, because they were written at that unusual juncture in history when English was becoming English; the root languages of Anglo-Saxon, French, and Latin were still familiar.
Example:
Geneva: collops KJV: collops of fat

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How to Find God’sBuilt-in Dictionary…
TEP ONE
LOOK AT THE WORD NEXT TO THE WORD IN QUESTION

For example:
KJV FIRST USAGE & DEFINITION DICTIONARY DICTIONARY DEFINITION

ABROAD Gen. 10:18 AVERSE Mic. 2:8 ADAMANT Ezek. 3:9 Zech. 7:12 CHARGE Gen. 26:5 CHASTE 2 Cor. 11:2

“spread abroad”

OED

“wide spread”

“averse from war”

WEB

“This word includes the idea of from” “A very hard stone”

“Anadamant harder than flint” “An adamant stone” “my charge, my commandments” “a chaste virgin”

WEB

WEB

“synonymous with command” “refraining from all acts, thoughts, etc. that are not virginal”

WNC

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THE LANGUAGE OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE

“ In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.”
Ps. 56:10

Additional examples:
KJV FIRST USAGE & DEFINITION DICTIONARYDICTIONARY DEFINITION

CHAMBERING “chambering and Rom. 13:13 wantonness”

WEB

“wanton”

CHAPMEN 2 Chron. 9:14

“chapmen and merchants”

OED

“a merchant”
(Note: The word ‘cheap’ comes from this word.)

CURRENT Gen. 23:16

“current money” (Modern usage ‘currency’)

OED

“of money” “Circulation of money” (A current of water moves.) “all sorts of”

DIVERS Deut. 22:9-11...