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.
Contents
Original Bibles
A scanned copy of the 1769 KJV is available at http://www.originalbibles.com/1769-king-james-bible-benjamin-blayney/
- Currently this is only for the books Genesis to Jeremiah.
Pilcrows
In the original 1611 edition, even the book titles had a Pilcrow!
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[1] that are not found in many present KJV editions:
- (this list may be incomplete)
"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:
- (this list may be incomplete)
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) grey (Prov. 20:29) gray (Deut. 32:25) 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) utter (Ezek. 40:31, 42:1, 47:2) outer (Ezek. 10:5) 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:
- ↑ http://bibleversiondiscussionboard.yuku.com/topic/5091/Nonstandard-spellings-in-Blayneys-1769-Oxford-KJV
Variant wordings
Archaic words
Websites & books 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
- Characteristics of the Authorized KJV Bible, 1769 Oxford edition – at Complete Bible Genealogy
See also
- CrossWire KJV – About the CrossWire KJV module.
- KJV 2.6 – DM's page covering recommended changes to the KJV module.