The creation of the King James or Authorized Version of the Bible (1611) was initiated by the newly crowned James I and carried out by scholars and clergymen in Oxford and Cambridge. The intention was to provide a single English language Bible founded on Greek and Hebrew originals which would be used throughout the whole Church. The King James or Authorized Version of the Bible became the standard edition of the Bible for nearly three centuries. It is arguably the most influential single document for English literary studies.
The text of the ‘He’ version contained here, comprises the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha. All introductory matter, annotation, calendars, genealogies and tables are included and fully searchable.
Search tips:
- Wherever possible King James Bible features the first authorized edition of any given literary work and preserves the spelling and punctuation of the copy text. Users should be aware when searching that the spelling of some words has changed and that a modern-spelling search term will not in itself be adequate to retrieve all the relevant results from historical texts. For instance, entering the search term virtue will not retrieve occurrences of vertue; sensibility will not match with sensibilitie or sensibillity, and honor will not pick up honour.
King James Bible provides 2 ways to search for variant spellings:
Using the ? or *characters, referred to as a wildcards. For example, v?rtue, hono?r or sensibil?it*.
Alternatively, you can now use the new Variant spellings check box. If you enter a modern English word in the Keyword(s) in Work box and check the Variant spellings box, you will automatically retrieve all instances of your search term and its early modern variant forms in King James Bible. For example, if the box for Variant spellings is checked and you type the word soldier in the Keyword(s) field, when you submit your search you will retrieve all occurrences of the word soldier and its early modern variants such as soldiour, souldiour, souldyer, and sovldiovr. - To list all texts containing a particular word: Enter the word in the Keyword(s) box and click the Search button. The List of Results page will be displayed, listing all the works containing your chosen word. To list all books containing a particular word: Enter the word in the book box and click the Search button. The List of Results page will be displayed, listing all the works with a title containing your chosen word.
- You can also use the drop down options to limit the search criteria to any of the following:
Old and New Testaments
Apocrypha
Old
New
Biblical Text, Notes and Apparatus
Biblical Text Only
Notes and Apparatus Only
Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter B and select Bible – King James Version.
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