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Spelling issues in Blayney's 1769

Though modern editions of the KJV claim to be essentially the same as the 1769 standard, Blayney's work still contained some archaic spellings and some inconsistent spellings. Most of these were unified and corrected in works such as the Scofield Bible that was used as the Reference Text for the earlier editions of the KJV module. Though there is much to be gained by examining the Blayney's 1769, it would be a retrograde step to revert the KJV module to his spellings.

For further details please visit my user page: User:David Haslam/Benjamin Blayney's 1769 KJV.

David Haslam 10:37, 25 January 2016 (MST)

I don't think it'd be a backward step. But if so, maybe we fork the KJV as what we have now is not the 1769 Blayney, but rather Old Scofield? There is considerable value in having an accurate text for the Blayney edition. --Dmsmith 11:11, 25 January 2016 (MST)

Rather than forking the module (which would lead to a lot of extra work), I would prefer to use OSIS markup to record spelling (and punctuation) variants in the various printed editions 1769 to present. David Haslam 04:26, 27 January 2016 (MST)

It's not as if we don't already have another related module which has become outdated compared to the KJV, namely the KJVA module with the Apocrypha included. The Protocanonical Books for that should ideally have been made to track the KJV module in terms of updates. David Haslam 04:29, 27 January 2016 (MST)

catchWord and osisRef with @s[word]

Not sure why this got removed?

• Add osisRef to catchWord (for now at least, mainly for single keywords).

David Haslam 13:01, 29 January 2016 (MST)

Reinstated for 2.10 – David Haslam 09:11, 30 January 2016 (MST)

List of ordinary words that are not found with all lowercase in the KJV main text

This list may not be complete.

The following 41 ordinary words are not found with all lowercase letters: (i.e. these capitalised words are not names)

Accounting
Acquaint
Alleluia
Associate
Backbiters
Blotting
Choosing
Distributing
Endeavouring
Enflaming
Enviest
Ephphatha
Esteeming
Finally
God’s
Godhead
God-ward
Hosanna
I
Launch
Listen
Maranatha
MENE
Musician
O
Outcast
Owe
PERES
Produce
Providing
Rabbi
Raca
Remembering
Revilest
Submitting
Talitha
TEKEL
Traitors
UPHARSIN
Wherewithal
Yes

This list can be used for fine tuning the filtering of a complete words list in order to tabulate names that occur in the KJV text.
My big list now includes words that are in the canonical Psalm titles. David Haslam (talk) 14:39, 5 February 2017 (MST)

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN all appear in one verse, Daniel 5:25 and in the following three verses Daniel explains them; verse 28 leading with the root word PERES. So these five capitalized words are a special case. David Haslam (talk) 08:13, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

List of ordinary words that are also names

This list may not be complete.

The following 44 ordinary words in the KJV are also names:^[1][2][3][4]

Angel
Apostle
Bishop
Branch
Creator
Death
Devil
Faithful
Father
Ghost
God
Governor
Hell
Holy
High
Judge
King
Lamb
Light
Lion
Lord
Lot
Master
No
On
One
Priest
Prince
Prophet
Put
Rock
Saviour
Sceptre
Seer
Shepherd
Sin
Son
Spirit
Star
Strength
Sun
True
Word
Wormwood

Notes:

1. ↑ That is, they are found capitalised mid-sentence.
2. ↑ Some of these are symbolic names for Christ.
3. ↑ This list currently excludes uppercase words.
4. ↑ Names in the KJV that are ordinary words outside the KJV will not be listed.

David Haslam (talk) 09:56, 11 February 2017 (MST)

List of words that contain the EN DASH (U+2013)

The following is a counted list of the 259 different words in the KJV containing the EN DASH character used as a hyphen:^[1][2][3]

Count	Word
00015	Abed–nego
00002	Abel–beth–maachah
00001	Abel–maim
00003	Abel–meholah
00001	Abel–mizraim
00001	Abel–shittim
00001	Abi–albon
00004	Abi–ezer
00001	Abi–ezrite
00002	Abi–ezrites
00003	Adoni–bezek
00002	Adoni–zedek
00004	Al–taschith
00001	Allon–bachuth
00002	Almon–diblathaim
00001	Aram–naharaim
00001	Aram–zobah
00003	Ashdoth–pisgah
00001	Ataroth–adar
00001	Ataroth–addar
00001	Aznoth–tabor
00002	Baal–berith
00003	Baal–gad
00001	Baal–hamon
00005	Baal–hanan
00001	Baal–hazor
00002	Baal–hermon
00003	Baal–meon
00006	Baal–peor
00004	Baal–perazim
00001	Baal–shalisha
00001	Baal–tamar
00004	Baal–zebub
00003	Baal–zephon
00001	Baalath–beer
00001	Bamoth–baal
00001	Bar–jesus
00001	Bar–jona
00001	Bashan–havoth–jair
00001	Bath–rabbim
00011	Bath–sheba
00001	Bath–shua
00001	Beer–elim
00001	Beer–lahai–roi
00034	Beer–sheba
00001	Beesh–terah
00001	Ben–ammi
00027	Ben–hadad
00001	Ben–hail
00001	Ben–hanan
00001	Ben–oni
00001	Ben–zoheth
00001	Bene–berak
00002	Bene–jaakan
00001	Berodach–baladan
00003	Beth–anath
00001	Beth–anoth
00003	Beth–arabah
00001	Beth–aram
00001	Beth–arbel
00007	Beth–aven
00001	Beth–azmaveth
00001	Beth–baal–meon
00002	Beth–barah
00001	Beth–birei
00001	Beth–car
00002	Beth–dagon
00001	Beth–diblathaim
00066	Beth–el
00001	Beth–elite
00001	Beth–emek
00001	Beth–ezel
00001	Beth–gader
00001	Beth–gamul
00002	Beth–haccerem
00001	Beth–haran
00001	Beth–hogla
00002	Beth–hoglah
00014	Beth–horon
00003	Beth–jeshimoth
00001	Beth–jesimoth
00001	Beth–lebaoth
00031	Beth–lehem
00010	Beth–lehem–judah
00004	Beth–lehemite
00002	Beth–maachah
00002	Beth–marcaboth
00001	Beth–meon
00002	Beth–nimrah
00001	Beth–palet
00001	Beth–pazzez
00004	Beth–peor
00001	Beth–phelet
00001	Beth–rapha
00002	Beth–rehob
00003	Beth–shan
00006	Beth–shean
00021	Beth–shemesh
00002	Beth–shemite
00001	Beth–shittah
00001	Beth–tappuah
00004	Beth–zur
00001	Caleb–ephratah
00001	Chephar–haammonai
00001	Chisloth–tabor
00001	Chor–ashan
00004	Chushan–rishathaim
00002	Col–hozeh
00001	Dan–jaan
00002	Dibon–gad
00006	Ebed–melech
00003	Eben–ezer
00001	El–beth–el
00001	El–elohe–Israel
00001	El–paran
00001	Elon–beth–hanan
00003	En–dor
00001	En–eglaim
00003	En–gannim
00006	En–gedi
00001	En–haddah
00001	En–hakkore
00001	En–hazor
00001	En–mishpat
00001	En–rimmon
00004	En–rogel
00002	En–shemesh
00001	En–tappuah
00001	Ephes–dammim
00003	Esar–haddon
00002	Esh–baal
00002	Evil–merodach
00003	Ezion–gaber
00004	Ezion–geber
00001	Gath–hepher
00004	Gath–rimmon
00001	Gittah–hepher
00001	Gur–baal
00001	Hamath–zobah
00001	Hammoth–dor
00002	Hamon–gog
00002	Havoth–jair
00001	Hazar–addar
00004	Hazar–enan
00001	Hazar–gaddah
00001	Hazar–hatticon
00004	Hazar–shual
00001	Hazar–susah
00001	Hazar–susim
00001	Hazazon–tamar
00001	Hazezon–tamar
00001	Helkath–hazzurim
00002	Hephzi–bah
00002	Hor–hagidgad
00001	I–chabod
00001	I–chabod’s
00002	Ije–abarim
00001	Ir–nahash
00001	Ir–shemesh
00012	Ish–bosheth
00002	Ish–tob
00001	Ishbi–benob
00001	Ittah–kazin
00001	Jaare–oregim
00012	Jabesh–gilead
00001	Jashubi–lehem
00001	Jegar–sahadutha
00001	Jehovah–jireh
00001	Jehovah–nissi
00001	Jehovah–shalom
00002	Jiphthah–el
00001	Jonath–elem–rechokim
00001	Jushab–hesed
00010	Kadesh–barnea
00001	Kedesh–naphtali
00001	Keren–happuch
00005	Kibroth–hattaavah
00001	Kir–haraseth
00001	Kir–hareseth
00001	Kir–haresh
00002	Kir–heres
00006	Kirjath–arba
00001	Kirjath–arim
00002	Kirjath–baal
00001	Kirjath–huzoth
00018	Kirjath–jearim
00001	Kirjath–sannah
00004	Kirjath–sepher
00002	Lahai–roi
00001	Lo–ammi
00003	Lo–debar
00002	Lo–ruhamah
00001	Maaleh–acrabbim
00001	Magor–missabib
00001	Mahaneh–dan
00002	Maher–shalal–hash–baz
00004	Malchi–shua
00001	Me–jarkon
00001	Melchi–shua
00004	Merib–baal
00001	Meribah–Kadesh
00001	Merodach–baladan
00001	Metheg–ammah
00001	Migdal–el
00001	Migdal–gad
00002	Misrephoth–maim
00001	Moresheth–gath
00001	Muth–labben
00001	Nathan–melech
00015	Nebuzar–adan
00003	Nergal–sharezer
00020	Obed–edom
00010	Padan–aram
00006	Pahath–moab
00001	Pas–dammim
00001	Perez–uzza
00001	Perez–uzzah
00001	Pharaoh–hophra
00001	Pharaoh–necho
00004	Pharaoh–nechoh
00001	Pi–beseth
00004	Pi–hahiroth
00003	Poti–pherah
00002	Rab–mag
00002	Rab–saris
00008	Rab–shakeh
00001	Ramath–lehi
00001	Ramath–mizpeh
00001	Ramathaim–zophim
00019	Ramoth–gilead
00001	Regem–melech
00001	Remmon–methoar
00002	Rimmon–parez
00002	Romamti–ezer
00001	Ru–hamah
00001	Samgar–nebo
00001	Sela–hammahlekoth
00001	Shear–jashub
00004	Shethar–boznai
00001	Shihor–libnath
00001	Shimron–meron
00001	Shoshannim–Eduth
00001	Shushan–eduth
00001	Succoth–benoth
00001	Syria–damascus
00001	Syria–maachah
00001	Taanath–shiloh
00001	Tahtim–hodshi
00001	Tel–abib
00001	Tel–haresha
00001	Tel–harsa
00002	Tel–melah
00003	Tiglath–pileser
00003	Tilgath–pilneser
00001	Timnath–heres
00002	Timnath–serah
00001	Tob–adonijah
00002	Tubal–cain
00001	Uzzen–sherah
00001	Zaphnath–paaneah
00001	Zareth–shahar

Note:

1. ↑ This list includes such words as found in the canonical Psalm titles.
2. ↑ A few of these words may also appear elsewhere in the Bible without the EN DASH.
3. ↑ The name Shoshannim–eduth in the title for Psalm 80 is actually Shoshannim–Eduth in the Blayney edition.

Similar names in the KJV study notes

Here's a counted list of the 88 such names:

Count	Name
00001	Abel–mizraim
00001	Abel–shittim
00001	Abi–albon
00004	Al–taschith
00001	Allon–bachuth
00001	Aram–naharaim
00003	Ashdoth–pisgah
00002	Baal–meon
00002	Baal–perazim
00001	Baalath–beer
00001	Bamoth–baal
00002	Bath–sheba
00001	Bath–shua
00001	Bath–shuah
00001	Beer–lahai–roi
00002	Beer–sheba
00001	Ben–abinadab
00001	Ben–dekar
00001	Ben–geber
00001	Ben–hesed
00001	Ben–hur
00001	Ben–oni
00001	Berodach–baladan
00002	Beth–azmaveth
00001	Beth–eden
00003	Beth–el
00001	Beth–ezel
00002	Beth–nimrah
00001	Beth–shemesh
00001	Eben–ezer
00001	El–beth–el
00001	El–elohe–Israel
00001	El–paran
00001	En–hakkore
00001	En–rogel
00002	Ephes–dammim
00002	Esh–baal
00001	Gibeah–haaraloth
00001	Hamon–gog
00001	Hatsi–ham–menuchoth
00001	Havoth–jair
00001	Hazar–hatticon
00001	Hazar–susah
00001	Hazar–susim
00001	Helkath–hazzurim
00001	Hephzi–bah
00002	Ije–abarim
00001	Ir–nahash
00002	Ish–bosheth
00001	Ish–tob
00002	Jaare–oregim
00001	Jegar–sahadutha
00001	Jehovah–jireh
00001	Jehovah–nissi
00001	Jehovah–shalom
00001	Jehovah–shammah
00002	Jehovah–tsidkenu
00002	Kibroth–hattaavah
00001	Kir–haraseth
00002	Kirjath–arba
00001	Kirjath–arim
00001	Kirjath–huzoth
00002	Kirjath–jearim
00002	Maaleh–acrabbim
00001	Magor–missabib
00001	Mahaneh–dan
00001	Maher–shalal–hash–baz
00003	Merib–baal
00001	Meribah–kadesh
00001	Meribah–Kadesh
00001	Merodach–baladan
00001	Metheg–ammah
00001	Misrephoth–maim
00001	Moresheth–gath
00001	Obed–edom
00001	Perez–uzza
00001	Perez–uzzah
00001	Pi–beseth
00001	Ramath–lehi
00001	Ru–hamah
00001	Sela–hammahlekoth
00001	Shear–jashub
00001	Tahtim–hodshi
00001	Tiglath–pileser
00001	Tilgath–pilneser
00001	Timnath–heres
00001	Timnath–serah
00001	Zaphnath–paaneah

"If the endashes are not there in order to signal the presence of maqafs, is there any reason they should be retained or would it be better just to go to "normal" hyphens throughout?" (email from MBP) David Haslam (talk) 07:12, 8 July 2023 (UTC) .

List of words containing a hyphen

The following is a counted list of the only 5 words in the KJV containing an ordinary hyphen:

Count	Word
00003	God-ward
00001	joint-heirs
00001	thee-ward
00003	us-ward
00003	you-ward

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Of the 3609 words in the KJV that are proper names, only 2392 have entries in Hitchcock (two thirds of the total). David Haslam (talk) 14:35, 5 February 2017 (MST)

Eleven verses detected with a comma missing

Detailed analysis of the pattern Name Name has detected the following 11 verses that have a comma missing between the two names:

Location		Name Name
II Chronicles 16:1	Asa Baasha
II Kings 12:1		Jehu Jehoash
II Kings 13:1		Judah Jehoahaz
II Kings 14:23		Judah Jeroboam
II Kings 15:27		Judah Pekah
II Kings 15:23		Judah Pekahiah
Daniel 2:1		Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar
Jeremiah 52:30		Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar–adan
Numbers 13:16		Nun Jehoshua
II Chronicles 12:2	Rehoboam Shishak
II Kings 16:1		Remaliah Ahaz

David Haslam (talk) 05:21, 6 February 2017 (MST)

These don't have a comma in Blayney. --Dmsmith (talk) 12:54, 25 February 2017 (MST)

Nor in Old Scofield. --Dmsmith (talk) 16:16, 25 February 2017 (MST)

To illustrate in more detail, here's one of these verses: (the others are similar)

Daniel 2:1: And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

The KJV departed here from best practice English punctuation. Many more recent printings have the comma inserted. David Haslam (talk) 09:53, 26 February 2017 (MST)

List of uppercase words in the KJV

This is a list of 40 uppercase words found in the KJV text:

ABOMINATIONS
AM
AND
BABYLON
BRANCH
EARTH
GOD
GREAT
HARLOTS
HOLINESS
I
IS
JAH
JEHOVAH
JESUS
JEWS
KING
KINGS
LORD
LORD’S
LORDS
MENE
MOTHER
MYSTERY
NAZARETH
O
OF
OUR
PERES
RIGHTEOUSNESS
TEKEL
THAT
THE
THIS
THY
TO
UNKNOWN
UNTO
UPHARSIN

Some of these are parts of multiword names. David Haslam (talk) 09:59, 11 February 2017 (MST)

Multi-word names in the KJV

There are several patterns that match multi-word names in which the two main words are capitalized:

• Name Name
• Name of Name
• Name of the Name
• Name the Name
• Name in Name
• Name at Name

There are also some three word names, such as:

• Lord Jesus Christ

Yet there are also names in which the major part of the name is not capitalized:

• Isaiah 35:8: And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
• Jeremiah 16:21: Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.
• Jeremiah 19:6: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
• Lamentations 2:15: All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
• Ezekiel 39:11: And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamon–gog.
• Amos 5:27: Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
• Zechariah 6:12: And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
• Acts 27:8: And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.
• Acts 28:15: And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
• Revelation of John 19:13: And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

David Haslam (talk) 06:56, 14 February 2017 (MST)

Jer 16:21 should be Lord, not LORD. --Dmsmith (talk) 13:01, 25 February 2017 (MST)

Agreed. I didn't then know how to do small-caps in the wiki. David Haslam (talk) 10:28, 5 August 2017 (MDT)

The way that's done in wiki is by using

<font style="font-variant:small-caps">Lord</font>

- David Haslam (talk) 08:28, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Curiously enough, within in-line wiki style <code>...</‌code> the font style still gets applied! And I even had to insert a ZWNJ to display that correctly. David Haslam (talk) 08:35, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Two suspect apostrophes in the apocrypha

A search of the DC books for the regexp [^s]\x{2019}\s gave two matches:

• Sirach 8:1: Strive not with a mighty man’ lest thou fall into his hands.
• II Maccabees 7:39: Than the king’ being in a rage, handed him worse than all the rest, and took it grievously that he was mocked.

Most online versions are the same. Both items look suspicious. They don't meet any grammatical rule involving possessives. Further research required. David Haslam (talk) 13:15, 14 February 2017 (MST)

I also think the first word in 2Macc.7.39 ought to be "Then" and not "Than". David Haslam (talk) 13:22, 14 February 2017 (MST)

Both verses would appear more correct if the right single quotation mark was replaced with a comma:

• Sirach 8:1: Strive not with a mighty man, lest thou fall into his hands.
• II Maccabees 7:39: Then the king, being in a rage, handed him worse than all the rest, and took it grievously that he was mocked.

cf. There are 80 matches in the DC books to the pattern ", being ". David Haslam (talk) 13:28, 14 February 2017 (MST)

Decided to make these changes. David Haslam (talk) 01:16, 15 February 2017 (MST)

confirmed against Blayney. --Dmsmith (talk) 13:02, 25 February 2017 (MST)

Hyphenated words in the KJV Apocrypha

There are only three hyphenated words in the deuterocanonical books, all place names:

Beth-horon
Cades-Barne
En-gaddi

But are there any other names in the DC books that ought to be hyphenated?

Phaath Moab
Pahath Moab

The spelling difference between 1Esd.5.11 and 1Esd.8.31 also needs to be checked.
cf. Pahath–moab occurs six times in the KJV. This is the only hyphenated name in the KJV that occurs with a space in place of the hyphen in the DC books. Note the case difference too. David Haslam (talk) 09:07, 19 February 2017 (MST)

Spelling: ax or axe ?

Another hapax legomenon to consider:

Baruch 6:15: He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an ax: but cannot deliver himself from war and thieves.

Should this be axe as some online versions have it? cf. The KJV has 13 instances of 'axe' and none of 'ax' other than this in the DC book. David Haslam (talk) 15:20, 14 February 2017 (MST)

Decided to make this change. David Haslam (talk) 01:15, 15 February 2017 (MST)

Blayney has ax. --Dmsmith (talk) 13:07, 25 February 2017 (MST)

This change is to be reverted, and the 13 instances of the Cambridge spelling 'axe' are to changed to the Oxford spelling 'ax'. David Haslam (talk) 14:14, 16 March 2017 (MDT)

Bipolar names in the DC books

Here is a counted list of the bipolar names (aka polynym) found in the KJV DC books:

00002	Antiochus Epiphanes
00002	Antiochus Eupator
00001	Judas John’s
00007	Judas Maccabeus
00001	Judith Holofernes
00001	Jupiter Olympius
00001	Massias Israel
00001	Pahath Moab
00001	Phaath Moab
00002	Ptolemeus Philometor
00001	Quintus Memmius
00001	Simon Chosameus
00001	Titus Manlius

I have excluded the pattern "Persians Belemus" found in 1Esd.2.16 which is really two names.
I have also excluded three locations where a punctuation mark was missing. David Haslam (talk) 10:07, 19 February 2017 (MST)

Replace list for Oxford Text Archive book names

This list of book names suffices to replace those in the file KJV.1060 downloaded from the OTA with proper OSIS Book Abbreviations:

Pss	Ps
Qoh	Eccl
Cant	Song
1Esdr	1Esd
4Ezra	2Esd
AddDan	PrAzar
1Mac	1Macc
2Mac	2Macc
1Thes	1Thess
2Thes	2Thess
Tit	Titus

In addition to the above, in order to match Versification=KJVA:

• AddEsth must be reversified to start at 10.4
• The note in SirP must move into Sir and the book SirP removed
• EpJer must be reversified as Bar.6

The other books already had the correct book abbreviation. David Haslam (talk) 04:28, 12 March 2017 (MDT)

Oxford Text Archive - misled by the Complete Bible Genealogy site claims

I have removed this from the External Links section:

• Bible. English. Authorized – at the Oxford Text Archive^[1][2]

Note:

1. ↑ according to Complete Bible Genealogy, this is actually the text for the Oxford 1769 Blayney edition, albeit the description has "Exact edition not recorded." It's the complete text for 82 books including the Apocrypha. The text format is TEI Lite. The text is without cross-refs or notes, apart from 6 explanatory notes for some DC books. It omits the canonical Psalm titles. It also omits the non-canonical colophons to the Epistles. David has converted the source text to OSIS XML.
2. ↑ A comparison of the text with that of our KJV & KJVA modules has led me to the conclusion that the KJV.1060 download is NOT that of the Blayney Oxford Edition. It has too many differences and typos to be a reliable independent source. Based on its spelling inquire rather than enquire, it's actually derived from a Cambridge University Press edition. Even so, there are serious spelling errors among the typos.

David Haslam (talk) 08:54, 14 March 2017 (MDT)

Cambridge spellings in our Oxford based module

I've been comparing in detail the differences between the Cambridge and Oxford editions of the KJV, using a number of sources. My work confirms that we need to correct a small number of minor textual discrepancies in the SWORD module. There's a residue of Cambridge spellings in our KJV module. David Haslam (talk) 03:18, 15 March 2017 (MDT)

Textual emendations and module variants?

The new focus on the observed differences between Cambridge spellings and Oxford spellings has brought fresh impetus to the possibility of using OSIS variants in the KJV & KJVA modules. This topic is added as a placeholder for further discussion on this. My initial proposal is:

1. Variant 1 = Oxford 1769 Standard Edition of Benjamin Blayney
2. Variant 2 = Old Scofield Edition
3. Variant 3 = Cambridge Edition (yet to choose the suitable reference text)

David Haslam (talk) 14:10, 16 March 2017 (MDT)

For implementation details, see https://crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles#Marking_variants

David Haslam (talk) 09:25, 19 March 2017 (MDT)

For a related discussion in sword-devel during February 2014, see OSIS Variants - do we need a delimiter?

David Haslam (talk) 09:46, 19 March 2017 (MDT)

Currently, "SWORD does not support more than two variants". Is this still true? David Haslam (talk) 09:47, 19 March 2017 (MDT)

cf. The Greek NT module [TischMorph] already uses GlobalOptionFilter=ThMLVariants

David Haslam (talk) 09:48, 19 March 2017 (MDT)

See the proposal for enhancements to OSIS 211 CR#OSIS_variants. David Haslam (talk) 02:00, 22 March 2017 (MDT)

The possessive form of the divine name

The correct method (which is what we use) is to have
<divineName>Lord’s</divineName> and not <divineName>Lord</divineName>’s.

See Rendering the divine name with small caps for details. Our wiki doesn't have the small caps template.

The first instance is in Exodus 9:29. Even so, with the typography of the Blayney edition, the sizes of the lowercase letter 's' and the small caps letter 's' are identical, so this is actually a difficult choice to make. The problem is that in modern digital fonts, the size of small caps letters are intermediate in height between lowercase letters and uppercase letters. I think it's for this reason that we see differences between modern KJV printed editions in this matter. Semantically, it makes more sense for the whole of the possessive form to be within the same markup element, rather than for the apostrophe and letter 's' to be outside the element.

David Haslam (talk) 04:36, 18 March 2017 (MDT)

Aside: The KJVPCE module has the apostrophe and letter s outside the OSIS markup in 108 places: <divineName>Lord</divineName>’s. This was not best practice. David Haslam (talk) 04:34, 23 March 2017 (MDT)

Unhyphenated names in the main text that also appear with the en dash

Excluding names found in the notes, these are the only unhyphenated names in the main text that also appear elsewhere in the main text containing the en dash:

00003	Abiezer
00008	Bethlehem
00001	Rabsaris
00008	Rabshakeh

The corresponding counts for those with the en dash are:

00004	Abi–ezer
00031	Beth–lehem
00002	Rab–saris
00008	Rab–shakeh

This is a strange inconsistency! Maybe it's there in the Blayney 1769 Oxford Edtion.
David Haslam (talk) 04:03, 23 March 2017 (MDT)

As regards the 8 instances of Bethlehem, these are all in the NT. David Haslam (talk) 08:52, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

An observation about 'hyphenated' names in the OT

All the names that contain an en dash in the KJV module are without such 'hyphenation' in the "Pure Cambridge Edition" module KJVPCE. Currently this is also the case for the KJV Oxford 1769 text on Wikisource, though that can be systematically edited. David Haslam (talk) 04:27, 23 March 2017 (MDT)

The KJVPCE module was probably built using the file "TEXT-PCE.txt" (dated 2010-06-28) downloaded from the website specified in the TextSource.

The Rich Text File "KJB-PCE-RTF.rtf" (dated 2009-02-19) from the same website does contain hyphens. This would be a better starting point for any module update. David Haslam (talk) 14:21, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Trinitarian Bible Society

FIO. The reference text used by TBS for their own settings of the AV is the Concord Reference Bible published by Cambridge University Press, "widely regarded as being the standard text of the KJV". "Never use the CUP Ruby Bible KJV text to check anything – it is error strewn." (Philip Hopkins, personal email to David Haslam (talk) dated 2014-02-17). David Haslam (talk) 07:33, 5 August 2017 (MDT)

"CUP’s collection of Bibles has been built up over decades with different editions of the Bible being acquired from different publishers such as Eyre and Spottiswoode and others that have been bought out by CUP over the years. There is no synergy between the different editions, sadly, and all have a different stream of editors and proofreaders that have worked on them giving rise to minor variances in the text of nearly every edition." (Similar email dated 2014-02-18). David Haslam (talk) 07:39, 5 August 2017 (MDT)

The five book divisions in Psalms

"The Psalm book divisions aren’t thought to be original, but rather a Masoretic inclusion, although they probably were in Jewish tradition before the time of Christ – I believe there’s at least one Qumran manuscript that indicates the divisions. The Leningrad Codex (MT dated AD 1008) doesn’t include them, and our copy of Bomberg (1566) has them only as small insertions akin to the traditional reading marks in the Torah. Ginsburg’s MT, which we print, has them more clearly delineated, but why he doesn’t say. He says of his edition, ‘The Psalms have no Sections [i.e. traditional reading divisions], as each Psalm constitutes a continuous and undivided whole’ (Introduction to the Massoretico-Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible [London: TBS, 1897], p. 17).

The book divisions seem to mark theme breaks in the Psalms (particularly the first three books) and may well have been used as liturgical groupings. Problems arise as to where the actual breaks should come, particularly with books 4 and 5, as they’re not consistent in mss that contain them.

Should we include them? We include a lot of other ‘extra-biblical’ material, such as chapter and verse breaks. But as the book breaks are normally classified as superscripts along the lines of those we now omit from the New Testament epistles, probably not. However, I think our lack of these divisions is more a matter of tradition than evidence: they don’t appear in the 1611, or in CUP or Oxford editions of the AV."

(Dr Debra Anderson, senior editor at TBS) (In an email from PH dated 2014-02-20). David Haslam (talk) 07:48, 5 August 2017 (MDT)

Pronunciation help for KJV proper names

Mike E Adams has developed a resource called BibleVox described as "English language Bible Text-To-Speech pronunciation lexicon and development/demonstration tools for the CMU Festival speech engine." David Haslam (talk) 07:54, 5 August 2017 (MDT)

Textual discrepancies in KJV study notes

This section is to record observed differences between the wording in the KJV module study notes and the wording of the note in the Blayney 1769 reference text (ignoring for this purpose that these notes in the module also have a catchWord element and corresponding text). David Haslam (talk) 10:39, 5 August 2017 (MDT)

• Ps.119.24 "Heb. men of my counsel" should be "Heb. men of counsel"
• Ps.119.42 "... reproveth ..." should be "... reproacheth ..."

Names that should have more than one type attribute

A fair number of proper names in the KJV have (in effect) more than one type attribute. e.g. The same word can be found as type="person" and elsewhere as type="geographic". Even the word Adam occurs in one verse as a place name.

(Joshua 3:16)  That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

Assigning the type attribute to the name element for such words would require a detailed appreciation of the context. It's not amenable to scripting. David Haslam (talk) 05:17, 7 August 2017 (MDT)

Corrigendum for KJV - received in sword-devel 2017-12-17

Email from vtamara:

I'm using the latest http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/packages/rawzip/KJV.zip

In Luke 16:9 it says:

<w lemma="strong:G3688 strong:G4633 lemma.TR:τας lemma.TR:σκηνας" morph="robinson:T-APF robinson:N-APF" src="18 20">habitations</w>.

However the word τας shown and that also appears (as τὰς) at https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/luk/16/9/t_concf_989009 corresponds to the strong number 3588 (instead of 3688).

--David Haslam (talk) 15:57, 17 December 2017 (MST)

This is now fixed in v3.1 (currently in Beta). David Haslam (talk) 08:59, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

divineName markup in the binomial "Lord God" ?

The KJV is strangely inconsistent in how the binomial name "Lord God" is styled in its typography. There are three different forms:

Count	Text
-----	--------
00014	Lord God
00302	Lord GOD
00229	LORD God

NB. UPPERCASE is used to depict the style "small-caps" here.

It would be of scholarly interest to understand why there are these differences.

-- David Haslam (talk) 16:14, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Cardinal numbers with older forms

Protocanonical books

There are 131 matches to the regexp \w+score in the KJV. Here are the highlighted results.

• Genesis 16:16: And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
• Genesis 25:7: And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
• Genesis 25:26: And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
• Genesis 35:28: And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
• Genesis 46:26: All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were threescore and six;
• Genesis 46:27: And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
• Genesis 50:3: And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
• Exodus 7:7: And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
• Exodus 7:7: And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
• And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
• Exodus 38:25: And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
• Leviticus 12:5: But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
• Numbers 1:27: Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
• Numbers 1:39: Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
• Numbers 2:4: And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
• Numbers 2:9: All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
• Numbers 2:26: And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
• Numbers 3:43: And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
• Numbers 3:46: And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
• Numbers 3:50: Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
• Numbers 4:48: Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
• Numbers 26:22: These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
• Numbers 26:25: These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
• Numbers 26:27: These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.
• Numbers 26:43: All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
• Numbers 31:33: And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
• Numbers 31:34: And threescore and one thousand asses,
• Numbers 31:37: And the LORD’S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
• Numbers 31:38: And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD’S tribute was threescore and twelve.
• Numbers 31:39: And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD’S tribute was threescore and one.
• Numbers 33:9: And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
• Deuteronomy 3:4: And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
• Deuteronomy 10:22: Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
• Joshua 13:30: And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
• Joshua 14:10: And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
• Judges 1:7: And Adoni–bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
• Judges 3:30: So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
• Judges 8:14: And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
• Judges 8:30: And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
• Judges 9:2: Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
• Judges 9:4: And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal–berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
• Judges 9:5: And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
• Judges 9:18: And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
• Judges 9:24: That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
• Judges 12:14: And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
• And he smote the men of Beth–shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
• I Samuel 22:18: And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
• II Samuel 2:31: But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner’s men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
• II Samuel 19:32: Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
• II Samuel 19:35: I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
• I Kings 4:13: The son of Geber, in Ramoth–gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:
• And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
• I Kings 5:15: And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
• I Kings 5:15: And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
• I Kings 6:2: And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
• I Kings 9:14: And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
• Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
• And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
• II Kings 6:25: And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
• II Kings 10:24: And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
• And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
• II Kings 25:19: And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king’s presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:
• And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.
• I Chronicles 2:23: And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
• The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
• I Chronicles 7:5: And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
• I Chronicles 9:13: And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
• I Chronicles 15:9: Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:
• I Chronicles 16:38: And Obed–edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed–edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
• And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
• I Chronicles 25:7: So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
• I Chronicles 26:8: All these of the sons of Obed–edom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and two of Obed–edom.
• II Chronicles 2:2: And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
• II Chronicles 2:2: And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
• II Chronicles 2:18: And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
• II Chronicles 2:18: And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
• Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
• Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
• II Chronicles 11:1: And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
• II Chronicles 11:21: And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
• II Chronicles 11:21: And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
• II Chronicles 12:3: With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
• II Chronicles 14:8: And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
• II Chronicles 17:15: And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand.
• II Chronicles 17:18: And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
• II Chronicles 26:17: And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
• II Chronicles 29:32: And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
• II Chronicles 36:21: To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
• Ezra 2:9: The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
• The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
• Ezra 2:69: They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
• Ezra 6:3: In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
• Ezra 6:3: In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
• Ezra 8:8: And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
• Ezra 8:10: And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.
• Ezra 8:13: And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.
• Nehemiah 7:14: The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
• Nehemiah 7:18: The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.
• Nehemiah 7:19: The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.
• Nehemiah 7:26: The men of Beth–lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
• The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
• Nehemiah 7:72: And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests’ garments.
• Nehemiah 11:6: All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
• Nehemiah 11:18: All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.
• Esther 1:4: When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
• Psalms 90:10: The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
• Psalms 90:10: The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
• Song of Solomon 3:7: Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
• Song of Solomon 6:8: There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
• Song of Solomon 6:8: There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
• Isaiah 7:8: For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
• Isaiah 37:36: Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
• Jeremiah 41:5: That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
• Jeremiah 52:25: He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king’s person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
• Ezekiel 40:14: He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
• Daniel 3:1: Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
• Daniel 5:31: And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
• Daniel 9:25: Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
• Daniel 9:26: And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
• Jonah 4:11: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
• Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
• Luke 2:37: And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
• Luke 16:7: Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
• And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
• Acts 7:14: Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
• Acts 23:23: And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Cæsarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
• Acts 27:37: And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
• I Timothy 5:9: Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
• Revelation of John 11:3: And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
• Revelation of John 12:6: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
• Revelation of John 13:18: Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

David Haslam (talk) 18:01, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Deuterocanonical books

There are also 28 instances in the DC books:

• I Esdras 2:14: So all the vessels of gold and of silver, which were carried away, were five thousand four hundred threescore and nine.
• I Esdras 5:15: The sons of Aterezias, ninety and two: the sons of Ceilan and Azetas threescore and seven: the sons of Azuran, four hundred thirty and two:
• I Esdras 8:34: Of the sons of Saphatias, Zaraias son of Michael, and with him threescore and ten men:
• I Esdras 8:36: Of the sons of Banid, Assalimoth son of Josaphias, and with him an hundred and threescore men:
• I Esdras 8:65: Moreover they that were come out of the captivity offered sacrifice unto the Lord God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams,
• I Esdras 8:66: Threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.
• Judith 1:3: And set the towers thereof upon the gates of it an hundred cubits high, and the breadth thereof in the foundation threescore cubits:
• Bel and the Dragon 1:10: Now the priests of Bel were threescore and ten, beside their wives and children. And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel.
• I Maccabees 4:28: The next year therefore following Lysias gathered together threescore thousand choice men of foot, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them.
• I Maccabees 7:16: Whereupon they believed him: howbeit he took of them threescore men, and slew them in one day, according to the words which he wrote,
• I Maccabees 7:41: O Lord, when they that were sent from the king of the Assyrians blasphemed, thine angel went out, and smote an hundred fourscore and five thousand of them.
• I Maccabees 10:57: So Ptolemee went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra, and they came unto Ptolemais in the hundred threescore and second year:
• I Maccabees 10:67: Furthermore in the; hundred threescore and fifth year came Demetrius son of Demetrius out of Crete into the land of his fathers:
• I Maccabees 11:19: By this means Demetrius reigned in the hundred threescore and seventh year.
• I Maccabees 14:1: Now in the hundred threescore and twelfth year king Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media to get him help to fight against Tryphone.
• I Maccabees 14:27: So then they wrote it in tables of brass, which they set upon pillars in mount Sion: and this is the copy of the writing; The eighteenth day of the month Elul, in the hundred threescore and twelfth year, being the third year of Simon the high priest,
• I Maccabees 15:10: In the hundred threescore and fourteenth year went Antiochus into the land of his fathers: at which time all the forces came together unto him, so that few were left with Tryphon.
• I Maccabees 16:14: Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called Sabat:
• II Maccabees 1:7: What time as Demetrius reigned, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews wrote unto you in the extremity of trouble that came upon us in those years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and kingdom,
• II Maccabees 1:10: In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus’ master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt:
• II Maccabees 4:8: Promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents:
• II Maccabees 5:14: And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict; and no fewer sold than slain.
• II Maccabees 6:24: For it becometh not our age, said he, in any wise to dissemble, whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, being fourscore years old and ten, were now gone to a strange religion;
• II Maccabees 8:11: Wherefore immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, proclaiming a sale of the captive Jews, and promising that they should have fourscore and ten bodies for one talent, not expecting the vengeance that was to follow upon him from the Almighty God.
• II Maccabees 8:19: Moreover, he recounted unto them what helps their forefathers had found, and how they were delivered, when under Sennacherib an hundred fourscore and five thousand perished.
• II Maccabees 11:2: And when he had gathered about fourscore thousand with all the horsemen, he came against the Jews, thinking to make the city an habitation of the Gentiles,
• II Maccabees 11:4: Not at all considering the power of God but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.
• II Maccabees 15:22: Therefore in his prayer he said after this manner; O Lord, thou didst send thine angel in the time of Ezekias king of Judea, and didst slay in the host of Sennacherib an hundred fourscore and five thousand: