Bible Word List and Reading Plan
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A Bible Word List Daily Reading & Plan A list of words in the Authorised (King James) Version describing terms no longer in everyday use, or now used with a different meaning. Also, a course for reading through the whole Bible once in two years, the Psalms and the New Testament twice. B IBLE W ORD L IST AND D AILY R EADING P LAN Trinitarian Bible Society William Tyndale House, 29 Deer Park Road London SW19 3NN, England Bible Word List and Daily Reading Plan Product Code: BWL2 ISBN 978 1 86228 148 6 © 1993, 2016 Trinitarian Bible Society William Tyndale House, 29 Deer Park Road London SW19 3NN, England Registered Charity Number: 233082 (England) SC038379 (Scotland) 10M/12/16 A BIBLE W ORD L IST HIS list gives brief explanations of words in the Authorised Version describing unfamiliar Tobjects, animals and plants, weights, measures and money, and words no longer in every- day use, or now used with a different meaning. If the English word is used in more than one sense, or stands for more than one Hebrew or Greek word, the list refers to passages where the word is used with each meaning. In most cases the list gives all the places where the word is found. An asterisk * means that the word is used in other passages with its normal mean- ing, or with one of the meanings given. This is not a complete list of unfamiliar or archaic words. We would recommend that the reader use a good English language dictionary to aid in understanding words which this list does not define. The names of the Books of the Bible with their abbreviations are listed with the book names at the end of this booklet. abase* – humble, humiliate, cast down: afore* – before: Ro. 1.2 Job 40.11; Phi. 4.12 agone – ago: 1Sa. 30.13 abjects – the lowest, outcasts: Ps. 35.15 ague – a fever, usually malarial: Le. 26.16 abroad* – away from the house: 1Sa. 9.26 algum – almug, sandalwood: 2Ch. 2.8, 9.10,11 – over a wide area: Mar. 1.28 alleging – bringing evidence: Ac. 17.3 adamant – a sharp, hard stone, diamond: alleluia – praise the LORD: Re. 19.1,3,4,6 Eze. 3.9; Zec. 7.12 allow* – approve of: Lu. 11.48; Ro. 7.15 adjure* – command or charge solemnly: all to – utterly: Ju. 9.53 Jos. 6.26; Ac. 19.13 almug – algum, sandalwood: 1Ki. 10.11,12 admiration – wonder, astonishment: amazed* – terrified, fearful: Mar. 9.15, 14.33 Jude 16; Re. 17.6 amazement – terror: Ac. 3.10; 1Pe. 3.6 admire – marvel at: 2Th. 1.10 ambassage – ambassadors, a deputation: Adria – the Adriatic Sea: Ac. 27.27 Lu. 14.32 adventure – venture, risk: De. 28.56; Ju. 9.17; amerce – fine, impose a penalty: De. 22.19 Ac. 19.31 amiable – lovely: Ps. 84.1 adversary* – opponent in law-suit: anathema – under a curse: 1Co. 16.22 Mat. 5.25; Lu. 12.58 ancients* – elders: Is. 3.14 advertise – tell, inform: Nu. 24.14; Ru. 4.4 anon – immediately: Mat. 13.20; Mar. 1.30 advisement – consideration, taking advice: apothecary* – perfume and spice dealer: 1Ch. 12.19 Ex. 30.25 affect – cause pain: La. 3.51 apparel* – clothing, garments: Ju. 17.10; Ja. 2.2 – embitter: Ac. 14.2 apparently – openly, manifestly: Nu. 12.8 – desire, seek: Ga. 4.17,18 apple of the eye – pupil of the eye: De. 32.10; affinity – relationship by marriage: 1Ki. 3.1; Ps. 17.8; Pr. 7.2; La. 2.18; Zec. 2.8 2Ch. 18.1; Ezr. 9.14 apprehend* – lay hold of, seize: Phi. 3.12,13 affording – furnishing, providing: Ps. 144.13 artificer* – skilled craftsman, inventor: affrighted* – frightened: Mar. 16.5 Ge. 4.22; Is. 3.3 1 artillery artillery – weapon, equipment: 1Sa. 20.40 blasting* – a plant disease which causes assay* – try, attempt: De. 4.34; Ac. 9.26 foliage death: De. 28.22; Hag. 2.17 assuage/asswage – restrain: Ge. 8.1; Job 16.5,6 bolled – full of seed pods: Ex. 9.31 astonied* – astonished: Is. 52.14 boss – knob at centre of shield: Job 15.26 asunder* – apart, into pieces/parts: Le. 1.17; botch – ulcer or boil: De. 28.27,35 He. 4.12 bottom* – valley: Zec. 1.8 attent – attentive: 2Ch. 6.40, 7.15 bowels* – affections: 2Co. 6.12 aul – pointed tool for making holes: Ex. 21.6; – tender mercies: Phi. 1.8, 2.1 De. 15.17 – heart: Phile. 12 avoided – departed, escaped: 1Sa. 18.11 bray* – to pound in a mortar: Pr. 27.22 avouched – declared: De. 26.17,18 bridechamber – bridal room; away with – endure, tolerate: Is. 1.13 – children of the bridechamber: – take away: Lu. 23.18; Jn. 19.15 wedding guests: Mat. 9.15; Mar. 2.19; axletrees – bars connecting wheels: Lu. 5.34 1Ki. 7.32,33 brigandine – coat of mail, breastplate: Je. 46.4, 51.3 bade* – invited, asked, told: Ge. 43.17; brimstone* – sulphur: Ge. 19.24 Ac. 22.24 broided – braided, plaited: 1Ti. 2.9 bakemeats – cooked food: Ge. 40.17 broidered* – embroidered: Eze. 16.10 baken* – baked: Le. 2.4 bruit – rumour, report: Je. 10.22; Na. 3.19 bank* – mound for besieging a city: buckler* – small shield: 2Sa. 22.31 2Sa. 20.15; 2Ki. 19.32; Is. 37.33 bulwarks* – defensive walls, earthworks: barbarian* – foreigner: 1Co. 14.11 De. 20.20; Is. 26.1 barbarous – foreign: Ac. 28.2 bunches* – humps: Is. 30.6 barked – stripped of bark: Joel 1.7 burnished – polished: Eze. 1.7 base* – lowly, humble: 1Co. 1.28; 2Co. 10.1 bushel* – NT dry measure (Gr. modios): bath* – OT liquid measure: 6 hins; about 2 dry gallons or 8.8 litres: Mat. 5.15 9 gallons or 34 litres: 1Ki. 7.26,38; Is. 5.10 butler* – cup-bearer: Ge. 40.21 beeves* – cattle, oxen, bulls, cows: butlership – office of cup-bearer: Ge. 40.21 Le. 22.19 by* – with reference to, against: 1Co. 4.4 beggarly – worthless: Ga. 4.9 byword* – object of scorn or derision: behemoth – large animal: Job 40.15 De. 28.37; Ps. 44.14 behoved – was necessary for: Lu. 24.46; He. 2.17 cab – OT dry measure: 4 logs; 3.5 pints or bekah – OT dry weight: 0.5 shekel; 2 litres: 2Ki. 6.25 0.22 ounces or 6.2 grams: Ex. 38.26 camphire – henna, Egyptian privet: besom – broom: Is. 14.23 Song 1.14, 4.13 bestead – beset with difficulties: Is. 8.21 canker – cancer, ulcerous disease: betimes* – early: Ge. 26.31 2Ti. 2.17 bewrayeth – betrays, reveals: Pr. 27.16, 29.24; cankered – eaten away with rust: Ja. 5.3 Is. 16.3; Mat. 26.73 cankerworm* – hopping locust: Joel 1.4 bier – portable framework supporting a carbuncle* – a deep red gem: Ex. 28.17; coffin: 2Sa. 3.31; Lu. 7.14 Eze. 28.13 bishop* – overseer: Phi. 1.1; 1Pe. 2.25 careful* – full of care or anxiety: Je. 17.8; bishoprick – oversight, office, charge: Phi. 4.6 Ac. 1.20 carefulness* – anxiety: 1Co. 7.32 blains – boils: Ex. 9.9,10 careless* – free from care, secure: Ju. 18.7 2 coping carriage(s) – baggage, goods, burdens: closet – private room: Joel 2.16; Mat. 6.6; Ju. 18.21; 1Sa. 17.22; Is. 10.28, 46.1; Ac. 21.15 Lu. 12.3 cast about – turn round, turn back: clouted – patched: Jos. 9.5 Je. 41.14 clouts – rags: Je. 38.11,12 cast a mount – build a raised fortification: cloven –split or divided: hoof De. 14.7; Je. 6.6; Eze. 4.2, 21.22, 26.8 tongues Ac. 2.3 cast angle – to fish with a hook and line: clovenfooted – split or divided foot or hoof: Is. 19.8 Le. 11.3,7,26 castaway – rejected: 1Co. 9.27 coasts* – borders, region, country: Ex. 10.14; caul* – fatty membrane around an organ: Mat. 2.16 Ex. 29.13; Ho. 13.8 cockatrice – adder, cobra: Is. 11.8, 14.29, 59.5; cauls – hair nets: Is. 3.18 Je. 8.17 causeway – paved road: 1Ch. 26.16,18 cockle – weeds: Job 31.40 chalkstones – pieces of chalk: Is. 27.9 coffer – box: 1Sa. 6.8,11,15 chambering – sensual, wanton living: collops – lumps: Job 15.27 Ro. 13.13 comeliness* – beauty: Is. 53.2 chamberlain* – manager of household: commotions – civil uprisings: Lu. 21.9 Ac. 12.20 companied – accompanied: Ac. 1.21 champaign – plain, flat countryside: compass* (fetch a) – go round, turn round: De. 11.30 Ac. 28.13 chancellor – chief counsellor, governor: compass* – circumference: Ex. 38.4 Ezr. 4.8,9,17 – make a circuit, surround: Jos. 6.3; Ju. 16.2 changeable – that can be changed, changes conceit* – opinion, conception: Pr. 18.11 of dress being a sign of wealth: Is. 3.22 concision – mutilation (circumcision): chapiter* – capital of a column: 1Ki. 7.16 Phi. 3.2 chapmen – merchants: 2Ch. 9.14 concluded* – included: Ro. 11.32; Ga. 3.22 chapt – cracked: Je. 14.4 concourse – assembly of people, crowd, charger* – dish, large plate: Mat. 14.8 gathering: Pr. 1.21; Ac. 19.40 charity* – love: 1Co. 13 concupiscence – strong desire or appetite, chasten* – correct by punishing: De. 8.5; especially of a sexual nature: Ro. 7.8; He. 12.11 Col. 3.5; 1Th. 4.5 check – rebuke: Job 20.3 conduit – pipe or channel for carrying chesnut – chestnut, or plane tree: Ge. 30.37; fluid: 2Ki. 18.17, 20.20; Is. 7.3, 36.2 Eze. 31.8 coney – hyrax, rock-badger, like a rabbit: chide – emphatically express anger or Le.