>>

Archaic Words Found in the NIV!

The authors of the NIV (and many other 'per'-versions of the Bible, have a propensity to claim that the reasons for using a "modern" translation is that the King James Bible uses too many old, outdated, archaic words that are hard to be understood.  Examine this study by Doctor Laurence Vance.  Then YOU decide for yourself  about the "archaic" word claim!

Archaic Words in the NIV
by Dr. Laurence M. Vance

 

The following list of archaic words in the New International Version (NIV) is taken from the 606-page, intensive and detailed, revised and updated work entitled, "Archaic Words and the Authorized Version," by Dr. Laurence M. Vance.

As we have seen, archaic words are not limited to the AV (Authorized Version, also known as the King James Version).

Not only do modern versions often retain the supposedly archaic words found in the AV, but many times a more formidable word is used to correct a perfectly understandable word or phrase in the AV.

This appendix gives those places in the NIV where a simple word or phrase in the AV is replaced by a more difficult word, the base or root form of a word is unnecessarily extended, and those instances where an archaic or somewhat arduous word in the AV is replaced by an equally archaic or even more onerous word.

In two respects, however, this list is not intended to be exhaustive.

Not listed are those cases where a word or phrase in the AV is replaced by two or more words in the NIV; however, singular words in the NIV that update a small phrase in the AV are included.

Secondly, due to the tremendous size of the Bible itself, an exhaustive list would not be suitable for inclusion as an appendix.

 

NIV

BIBLE VERSE

AV

abasement

Ezra 9:5

heaviness

abashed

Is 24:23

confounded

abutted

Ezek 40:18

over against

acclamation

2 Chr 15:14

voice

aghast

Is 13:8

amazed

alcove

Ezek 40:13

little chamber

annotations

2 Chr 13:22

story

armlets

Num 31:50

chains

bewilderment

Acts 2:6

confounded

blunted

Ps 58:7

cut in pieces

blustering

Job 8:2

strong

breakers

Ps 93:4

waves

brooches

Ex 35:22

bracelets

brood

Is 57:4

children

burnished

Dan 10:6

polished

carnelian

Rev 4:3

sardine

charioteers

I Sam 13:5

horsemen

citron

Rev 18:12

thyine

colonnade

I Ki 7:6

porch

commemorate

Ex 13:3

remember

cooing

Song 2:12

voice

cors

I Ki 4:22

measures

curds

Gen 18:8

butter

dappled

Zec 6:6

gristled

debauchery

Gal 5:19

lasciviousness

decimated

2 Sam 21:5

destroyed

dejected

Gen 40:6

sad

deluded

Is 44:20

deceived

denarii

Matt 18:28

pence

denarius

Matt 20:2

penny

desecrate

Lev 21:12

profane

despoil

Jer 30:16

give for a prey

detachment

John 18:3

band

disheartened

Ezek 13:22

sad

disillusionment

Ps 7:14

falsehood

dissipation

I Pet 4:4

riot

drachmas

Ezra 2:69

drams

dragnet

Hab 1:15

drag

duplicity

Lk 20:23

craftiness

elation

Pro 28:12

glory

embedded

Ecc 12:11

fastened

embitter

Ps 73:21

grieved

embodiment

Rom 2:20

form

emphatically

Mk 14:31

vehemently

encouragingly

2 Chr 30:22

comfortably

encrouch

Pro 23:10

enter

engulf

Ps 69:2

overflow

enrollment

2 Chr 17:14

numbers

enthralled

Ps 45:11

greatly desire

enveloped

Lk 9:34

overshadowed

exasperate

Eph 6:4

provoke

exterminate

Ezek 25:7

perish

exult

Is 14:8

rejoice

factions

1 Ki 16:21

parts

famished

Is 8:21

hungry

fattened

1 Sam 28:24

fat

faultfinders

Jude 16

complainers

fawns

Song 4:5

roes

fellowman

Micah 2:2

man

festival

Ex 5:1

feast

festive

I Sam 25:8

good

fieldstones

Deut 27:6

whole stones

figurehead

Acts 28:11

sign

filigree

Ex 28:20

enclosings

fishnets

Ezek 26:5

nets

flagstaff

Is 30:17

beacon

flank

Ezek 34:21

side

fleeting

Ps 89:47

short

flinging

Acts 22:23

threw

flogged

Acts 5:40

beaten

floodgates

Gen 7:11

windows

fluttering

Is 16:2

wandering

fomenting

Is 59:13

speaking

forded

Josh 2:23

passed over

forevermore

Jude 25

for ever

frolic

Ps 104:26

play

fruitage

Is 27:9

fruit

gadfly

Jer 46:20

destruction

gaiety

Is 24:8

mirth

galled

1 Sam 18:8

displeased

gateway

Gen 19:1

gate

gaunt

Gen 41:3

leanfleshed

gauntness

Job 16:8

leanness

gecko

Lev 11:30

ferret

glancing

Ex 2:12

looked

glint

Hab 3:11

light

glistcning

Job 41:32

shine

gloat

Ps 30:1

rejoice

gloom

Job 10:21

darkness

glutted

Ezek 39:19

full

goblet

Is 51:17

cup

goiim

Gen 14:1

nations

grapevine

James 3:12

vine

Hades

Rev 20:14

hell

harrowing

Is 28:24

break the clods

haunt

Ps 44:19

place

headwaters

Gen 2:10

heads

hoopoe

Lev 11:19

lapwing

horde

Ezek 17:17

army

ibex

Deut 14:5

pygarg

ignoble

2 Tim 2:20

dishonour

impaled

Ezra 6:11

hanged

imperishable

I Cor 15:50

incorruption

impetuous

Hab 1:6

hasty

improvise

Amos 6:5

invent

incited

1 Chr 21:1

provoked

incurs

Pro 9:7

getteth

indestructible

Heb 7:16

endless

indignant

Mk 10:41

displeased

indispensable

1 Cor 12:22

necessary

infamy

Is 44:11

ashamed

innumerable

2 Chr 12:3

without number

insolence

Jer 48:30

wrath

insolent

Rom 1:30

despiteful

jeered

2 Ki 2:23

mocked

joists

2 Chr 34:11

couplings

jowls

Deut 18:3

cheeks

kingship

1 Sam 10:16

kingdom

lifeboat

Acts 27:30

boat

magi

Matt 2:1

wise men

mainstay

Jer 49:25

chief

marauders

Job 12:6

robbers

marshaled

Job 32:14

directed

mattocks

1 Sam 13:20

courter

maxiums

Job 13:12

remembrances

melodious

Ps 81:2

pleasant

memorandum

Ezra 6:2

record

mina

Lk 19:16

pound

misdemeanor

Acts 18:14

wrong

naive

Rom 16:18

simple

nationality

Est 2:10

people

naught

Is 40:23

nothing

Negev

Gen 12:9

south

Nephilim

Gen 6:4

giants

nightfall

2 Sam 19:7

night

noonday

2 Sam 4:5

noon

Nubians

Dan 11:43

Ethiopians

nuggets

Job 22:24

gold

nurtured

Lam 4:5

brought

oarsmen

Ezek 27:26

rowers

oblivion

Ps 88:12

forgetfulness

obscenity

Eph 5:4

filthiness

offal

Ex 29:14

dung

officiate

2 Ki 17:32

sacrificed

opportune

Mk 6:1