(KJV-1611) King James

The King James Version, also called the Authorized Version, was commissioned by King James I of England and published in 1611.

The work gathered companies of translators at Westminster, Oxford and Cambridge. The English starting point was the line of the Tyndale, Coverdale and Bishops’ Bibles.

The 1611 printing still has seventeenth-century spelling. The text readers call the King James today is not that spelling letter by letter.

The form usual in modern printings is the 1769 Oxford revision, associated with Benjamin Blayney. That is the text this edition reads.

The site folder keeps the historical mark 1611, because that is the year of the translation. The body is the 1769 revision.

The 1769 revision settled spelling, punctuation and some printer’s errors. It is not a new translation from Hebrew and Greek.

Words such as shewed and hath remain. They show that the text was not rewritten in contemporary English.

This revision is in the public domain. It can be read and quoted without a publisher’s licence.

It is not Darby’s 1890 translation, nor the Berean Standard Bible. The sentence, the vocabulary and the punctuation are those of the King James revised in 1769.

On Comentarionista the abbreviation of this edition is KJV-1611. The history above follows the English Wikipedia, at the link below.