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D. A. Waite is listed as the editor of H. D. William's book Word-For-Word Translating of The Received Texts--Verbal Plenary Translating, and it is published by Waite's The Bible for Today Press. He may be extreme, but he may not be any more extreme than Waite.

At times Waite makes some reasonable assertions but at other times he makes some extreme unreasonable assertions.

 

Genesis 1:20 [1611 margin—“Heb. face of the firmament of heaven”]

in the open firmament of heaven [1611 KJV]
on the face of the expanse of the heavens [Young’s Literal Translation—YLT]
across the face of the firmament of the heavens [NKJV]
on the face of the expanse of the heavens [Literal Translation in Interlinear Bible]

Genesis 5:20 [Hebrew has two conjunctions in this number]

nine hundred sixty and two years [1611 KJV]
nine hundred and sixty and two years [YLT]
nine hundred and sixty-two years [NKJV]

Genesis 7:22 [1611 margin—“Hebr. The breath of the spirit of life”]

Every thing in whose nostrils the spirit of life did breathe [1560 Geneva Bible]
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life [1611 KJV]
All in whose nostrils is breath of a living spirit [YLT]
All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life [NKJV]

Genesis 12:4

Abram was seventy and five years old [1611 KJV]
Abram is a son of five and seventy years [YLT]

Genesis 13:8

we be brethren [1611 KJV] [1611 margin—“Hebr. men brethren”]
we are men—brethren [YLT]
we are men, brothers [Literal Translation in Interlinear Bible]

Genesis 17:8 [1611 margin—“Heb. of thy sojournings”]

the land wherein thou art a stranger [1611 KJV]
the land of thy sojournings [YLT]
the land of your sojourning [Literal Translation in Interlinear Bible]


Genesis 17:12 [1611 margin--"Hebr. a son of eight days"]

And every man child of eight days old [1560 Geneva Bible]
And every manchild of eight days old [1602 Bishops’ Bible]
And he that is eight days old [1611 KJV]
And a son of eight days [YLT] [Literal Translation in Interlinear Bible]

Genesis 23:6

a prince of God [1537 Matthew’s Bible; 1560 Geneva Bible; 1602 Bishops’ Bible]
a mighty prince [1611 KJV] [1611 margin—“Hebr. a Prince of God”]
a prince of God [YLT]


Genesis 29:1

Then Jacob lift up his feet [1534 Tyndale’s; 1537 Matthew’s Bible, 1540 Great Bible]
Then Jacob gat him up upon his feet [1535 Coverdale’s]
Then Jaakob lift up his feet [1560 Geneva Bible]
Then Jacob went on his journey [1611 KJV] [1611 margin—“Heb. lift up his feet”]
And Jacob lifteth up his feet [YLT]
And Jacob lifted his feet [Literal Translation in Interlinear Bible]

Genesis 30:8

With godly wrestlings [1602 Bishops’ Bible]
With great wrestlings [1611 KJV] [1611 margin—“Heb. wrestlings of God”]
With wrestlings of God [YLT]
with struggles of God [Literal Translation in Interlinear Bible]

Genesis 30:39 [Hebrew has word for “flocks” twice in verse]

and brought forth [1611 KJV]
and the flock beareth [YLT]
and the flocks brought forth [NKJV]

Genesis 31:2

as in times past [1560 Geneva Bible]
as it was wont to be [1602 Bishops’ Bible]
as before [1611 KJV] [1611 margin—“Hebr. as yesterday and the day before”]
as the day before yesterday [Literal Translation in Interlinear Bible]

Genesis 32:20

accept of me [1611 KJV] [1611 margin—“Heb. my face”]
lifteth up my face [YLT]
will lift me my face [Literal Translation in Interlinear Bible]

Genesis 37:1 [1611 margin—“Heb. of his fathers sojournings”]

wherein his father was a stranger [1611 KJV]
of his father’s sojournings [YLT]
of his father’s travels [Literal Translation in Interlinear Bible]

Genesis 43:16

and kill meat [1560 Geneva Bible]
and slay [1611 KJV] [1611 margin—“Heb. kill a killing”]
and slaughter an animal [YLT] [NKJV]

Genesis 44:7 [the word for God is not in Hebrew]

God forbid [1611 KJV]
far be it [YLT]
Far be it [NKJV] [Literal Translation in Interlinear Bible]

Genesis 47:8

How old art thou [1611 KJV] [1611 margin—“how many are the days of the years of thy life”]
How many are the days of the years of thy life [YLT]
How many are the days of the years of your life [Literal Translation in Interlinear Bible]

 

D. A. Waite maintained that the KJV “preserves all of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Words of the Bible by means of an accurate English translation of those Words” (Fundamental Deception of Bible Preservation, p. 75). Waite asserted: “In our King James Bible, we have God’s Words kept intact in English because of its accurate translation of the verbal plenary preserved Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Words that underlie it” (p. 130). Waite maintained that “the King James Bible does not add, subtract, or change God’s Words” (Central Seminary Refuted, p. 26). Waite claimed that “the King James accurately translates every Hebrew and Greek Word into the English language” (Foes of the KJB Refuted, p. 39). Waite declared: “I believe that the King James Bible ‘preserves’ (with a small ‘p’) by means of an accurate translation into the English language, every word of the Hebrew and Greek texts that underlie it” (p. 98). Waite maintained that “the King James translators adopted a method of verbal equivalence; and formal equivalence, that is, the words from the Greek or Hebrew were rendered as closely as possible into the English. The same is true for the forms of those words” (Defending the KJB, p. 90).

By the technique of dynamic equivalence, D. A. Waite claimed that a translator “can choose to eliminate what God has explicitly and definitely stated, word for word, in the Hebrew or in the Greek” and that “this word, or that word, or several words if he wants to, he need not bother to translate, or put into the language” (p. 122). Waite asserted: “If you ADD to the Word of God what you think is implicit in the words, that is disobedience” (p. 124).

Does Waite possibly ignore or avoid the fact that in some place the KJV translators did not bother to translate or put into English some original-language words of Scripture?

 

Michael Hollner wrote: "The A. V. of God's Word holds nothing back, nor does it omit any of God's Words" (King James Only Debate, p. 5, 2021 edition).

Does this author try to dodge and avoid what the KJV translators acknowledged--that they did not provide any English rendering for some original-language words of Scripture in their underlying text so they in effect did omit some of God's words?

 

No, that is clearly not what my accurate statement said.

Most KJV-only advocates who use the term "word-for-word" translation do not clearly explain what they mean. I have read most KJV-only authors so I know what most of them write.