King James Version (ENGKJV)

Overview

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the Authorized Version, is an English translation of the Bible commissioned by King James I of England and first published in 1611. This edition uses the standardized text of 1769 and includes the Apocrypha/Deuterocanon. The translation was carried out by 47 scholars organized into six companies, working from the Textus Receptus for the New Testament and the Masoretic Text for the Old Testament, with reference to earlier English translations including the Bishops' Bible and the Geneva Bible. [1] The companies drew on Hebrew sources (Bomberg's Rabbinic Bible), Greek editions of the Textus Receptus by Stephanus and Beza, and Latin sources, taking the Bishops' Bible of 1568 as their base for revision; Miles Smith and Thomas Bilson prepared the final text. The 1769 revision by Benjamin Blayney at Oxford standardized the spelling, punctuation, italics, and cross-references, producing the text in common use today. [1]

Language and People

English (ISO 639-3: eng) is spoken by approximately 379,000,000 people. [Glottolog: stan1293]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by R. Barker, London.

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