Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The first recorded use of olive drab as a color name in English was in 1892. [7] Drab is an older color name, from the middle of the 16th century. It refers to a dull light brown color, the color of cloth made from undyed homespun wool. It took its name from the old French word for cloth, drap. [8] There are many shades and variations of olive ...
The King James Version ( KJV ), also the King James Bible ( KJB) and the Authorized Version ( AV ), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I. [ d][ e] The 80 books of the King James Version include 39 books ...
Green's Literal Translation or the Literal Translation of the Holy Bible (LITV) is a translation of the Bible by Jay P. Green Sr., first published in 1985. [1] The LITV takes a literal, formal equivalence approach to translation. The Masoretic Text is used as the Hebrew basis for the Old Testament, and the Textus Receptus is used as the Greek ...
The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was released at a Jehovah's Witness convention at Yankee Stadium, New York, on August 2, 1950. [ 34][ 35] The translation of the Old Testament, which Jehovah's Witnesses refer to as the Hebrew Scriptures, was released in five volumes in 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, and 1960.
Joseph Smith Translation. Yea, in the beginning I created the heaven, and the earth upon which thou standest. And the earth was without form, and void; and I caused darkness to come up upon the face of the deep. And my Spirit moved upon the face of the waters, for I am God. And I, God, said, Let there be light, and there was light.
The first modern, fully "red letter" bible was published in 1901. [ 2] The red letter bible instantly became popular, and is sometimes favored by Protestant Christians in the United States. The format has been cited as particularly useful in King James Version editions, which do not use quotation marks. [ 1][ 2]
Modern English Bible translations consists of English Bible translations developed and published throughout the late modern period ( c. 1800–1945) to the present ( c. 1945– ). A multitude of recent attempts have been made to translate the Bible into English. Most modern translations published since c. 1900 are based on recently published ...
The Wicked Bible, sometimes called the Adulterous Bible or the Sinners' Bible, is an edition of the Bible published in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, meant to be a reprint of the King James Bible. The name is derived from a mistake made by the compositors: in the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:14, the word ...