User:David Haslam/Benjamin Blayney's 1769 KJV

This user page is for collating information about Benjamin Blayney's 1769 Oxford Edition of the King James Bible.

Non-standard spellings

Not all the spelling variations were corrected in the 1769 Oxford KJV, and spelling was not all made uniform.

Blayney's 1769 Oxford edition of the KJV still had these non-standard spellings that are not found in many present KJV editions:

"ancle" (Acts 3:7),
"ancles" (Ezek. 47:3),
"befal" (Deut. 31:17),
"befel" (2 Sam. 19:7),
"carelesly" (Ezek. 39:6),
"dunghil" (Luke 14:35),
"dunghils" (Lam. 4:5),
"falshood" (Ps. 144:8 ),
"falsly" (Gen. 21:23),
"farewel" (2 Cor. 13:11),
"fole" (Gen. 49:11),
"foles" (Gen. 32:15),
"foretel" (2 Cor. 13:2),
"grashopper" (Ecc. 12:5),
"grashoppers" (Num. 13:33),
"houshold" (Gen. 18:19),
"housholder" (Matt. 13:27),
"housholds" (Gen. 42:33),
"injoin" (Philemon 1:8 ),
"injoined" (Heb. 9:20),
"loath" (Job 7:16),
"milstone" (Deut. 24:6),
"milstones" (Isa. 47:2),
"shamelesly" (2 Sam. 6:20),
"sope" (Mal. 3:2),
"vallies" (1 Kings 20:28),
"waggon" (Num. 7:3),
"waggons" (Ezek. 23:24),
"wholsome" (Prov. 15:4),
"yern" (Gen. 43:30).

Non-uniform spellings

These spellings may not all still be in present KJV editions, but these were the spellings as found in the actual 1769 Oxford KJV.

astonied (Ezra 9:3)			astonished (Isa. 52:14)
baken (Lev. 2:4)			baked (Num. 11:8)
builded (Neh. 3:1)			built (Neh. 3:13)
burnt (2 Kings 16:4)			burned (2 Kings 15:35)
clave (2 Kings 18:6)			cleaved (2 Kings 3:3)
clift (Exod. 33:22)			clefts (Isa. 2:21)
dwelled (Gen. 13:12)			dwelt (Gen. 13:18)
endued (Gen. 30:20)			endow (Exod. 22:16)
enflaming (Isa. 57:5)			inflame (Isa. 5:11)
fetcht (Gen. 18:7)			fetched (1 Sam. 7:1)
flotes (2 Chron. 2:16)			floats (1 Kings 5:9)
fole (Gen. 49:11)			foal (Matt. 21:5)
forsomuch (Luke 19:9)			forasmuch (Isa. 8:6)
gray (Deut. 23:25)			grey (Prov. 20:29)
hewed stone (2 Kings 12:12)		hewn stone (2 Kings 22:6)
injoined (Heb. 9:20)			enjoined (Esther 9:31, Job 36:23)
instructer (Gen. 4:22)			instructor (Rom. 2:20)
loaden (Isa. 46:1)			laden (Matt. 11:28)
lothe (Exod. 7:18)			loathe (Job 7:16)
mixt (Num. 11:4)			mixed (Exod. 12:38)
outer (Ezek. 10:5)			utter (Ezek. 40:31, 42:1, 47:2)
overflown (Dan. 11:22)			overflowed (Ps. 78:20)
pilled (Gen. 30:38)			peeled (Isa. 18:2)
pluckt (Gen. 8:11)			plucked (Luke 6:1)
rasor (Jud. 16:17, Ezek. 5:1)		razor (Num. 6:5)
ravin (Gen. 49:27)			ravening (Ezek. 22:27)
scepter (Gen. 49:10, Num. 24:17)	sceptre (Ps. 45:6)
scull (Jud. 9:53)			skull (Matt. 27:33)
shaked (Ps. 109:25)			shook (Ps. 77:18)
Sion (Ps. 65:1)				Zion (Ps. 69:35)
sith (Ezek. 35:6)			since (Jer. 23:38)
spued (Lev. 18:28)			spewing (Hab. 2:16)
straight (1 Sam. 13:6)			strait (2 Sam. 24:14)
strake (Acts 27:17)			struck (2 Sam. 12:15)
stript (Gen. 37:23)			stripped (Exod. 33:6)
sycomores (Isa. 9:10)			sycamore (Ps. 78:47, Amos 7:14, Luke 19:4)
throughly (Gen. 11:3)			thoroughly (Exod. 21:19, 2 Kings 11:18)
travel (Num. 20:14, Lam. 3:5)		travail (Exod. 18:8)
unwashen (Matt. 15:20)			washed (Matt. 27:24)
vallies (Ezek. 6:3)			valleys (Num. 24:6)
wonderously (Jud. 13:19)		wondrously (Joel 2:26)
yern (Gen. 43:30)			yearned (1 Kings 3:26)

Notes:

Archaic words

Websites with potentially useful details. Inclusion here does not imply any endorsement of doctrinal position.

• Archaic or obscure King James era words
• King James Bible Wordlist & Definitions
• Dictionary of Archaic and Unfamiliar Words in the KJV
• Archaic Words and Their Meaning in the KING JAMES BIBLE
• Word List and Definitions for the King James Bible
• King James Dictionary – (Windows PC shareware)
• Bible Word List and Reading Plan – Trinitarian Bible Society
• Daniels, David W., King James Bible Companion – Chick Publications
• Waite, D. A. Jr., 4,114 Definitions from the Defined King James Bible

See also

• KJV 2.6 – DM's page covering recommended changes to the KJV module.