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Definition of King James Bible

1. Noun. An English translation of the Bible published in 1611.

Definition of King James Bible

1. Proper noun. A translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament) commissioned for the Church of England. ¹

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Literary usage of King James Bible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Authorized Edition of the English Bible (1611): Its Subsequent Reprints ...by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (1884)
""The following pages comprise in substance a reprint of the author's Introduction to the Cambridge Paragraph Bible of 1873, with such additions and..."

2. The Bible as English Literature by John Hays Gardiner (1906)
"CHAPTER IX THE King James Bible IN a final summing up of the literary characteristics of the Authorised Version there are two aspects in which it must be ..."

3. English Literature by Roy Bennett Pace (1918)
"The King James Bible. — With all their claims to distinction, the writings of Spenser, Bacon, even Shakspere, are of less importance than the translation of ..."

4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1882)
"So general was the opposition to King James' Bible that it was slow in gaining ... In 1649 King James' Bible was printed with the Genevan annotations, ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1882)
"366, " It is believed that in 1665 Bill and Barker got possession of the manuscript copy of King James' Bible, and having ' thus secured themselves from ..."

6. Gospel Christianity by Thomas Alfred Davies (1896)
"The controlling errors of translation in the King James' Bible, from the Hebrew ... We give below the English terms used in the King James'Bible and the ..."

7. Essays on Constitutional Law and Equity, and Other Subjects by Henry Schofield (1921)
"The chief objection, the one thought fatal, urged against the local school board was that the selection of the King James Bible, of itself and necessarily ..."

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