KJVOs - your view of the MKJV

Yes, my main Bible version is the New King James Version, though I also use the King James Version. I don't see the need of so many "updates" of the Holy Bible, all of which claim to make it easier to read, and to correct the text, etc. In the past 50 years alone there have been about 50 English versions of the Bible. is these a need for this, or, is this a cover for someone to make the Bible say something that it does not. Like the NRSV does, for example in Romans 16:1, "I commend unto you Phebe, our sister, being a servant...", where they have changed, "servant" to "deacon", with a footnote saying, "or, minister". This was done to show that there is Biblical support for women ministers!

 

Check out the Greek. It is "diakonon", the female form of deacon. Of course, a deacon/minister in the early church was simply a servant, and not really the office it has evolved into today. The KJV translated "diakonos" (the male form of the word) into "minister" 20 times.

 

Check out the Greek. It is "diakonon", the female form of deacon. Of course, a deacon/minister in the early church was simply a servant, and not really the office it has evolved into today. The KJV translated "diakonos" (the male form of the word) into "minister" 20 times. </font>[/QUOTE]Thanks natters. I do know what the Greek word is. My argument is the word choice by the NRVS which has the meaning of "women Priest", which of course the Greek does not mean! A Deaconess is not the same as an Elder!

 

Yes, a deaconess is not the same as an elder. Or a woman priest. The NRSV is not saying it is. You are. Phoebe was a "diakonon", a female deacon.

 

***Phebe***
No O.

My sister's name is Phoebe with an O.

Bible version has no O. (as with Shakespeare's character in Twelfth Night)

At least in the translations I use. But never mind.

 

Back on topic, according to people who have examined the MKJV (and the LITV, by the same translator) in detail, it apparently follows the TR even more closely than the KJV does.

 

Often when the Modern KJV (MKJV) has a word that is different from the KJV, it is a word from one of the earlier good English Bibles of which the KJV was a revision.

Gen. 1:28c
fill the earth (Tyndale's, Coverdale's, Matthew's, Geneva, MKJV)
replenish the earth (KJV)

Gen. 6:5
LORD (Coverdale's, MKJV)
God (1611 KJV)
GOD (present KJV)

Exod. 5:8a
the number of bricks (Tyndale's, MKJV)
the tale of the bricks (KJV)

Exod. 29:40a
tenth part (Geneva, MKJV)
tenth deal (KJV)

Lev. 12:8
turtledoves (Coverdale's, MKJV)
turtles (KJV)

1 Sam. 20:40a
weapons (Coverdale's, Matthew's, Great, MKJV)
artillery (KJV)

Psalm 67:2
salvation (Bishops', MKJV)
saving health (KJV)

Prov. 30:23
hateful woman (Geneva, MKJV)
odious woman (KJV)

 

Manchester, you say: There is no Greek word "servant."

What then would you make of the noun "doulos"? Which has the meaning of both "a slave", and also "a servant". You can check this in Kittle
http://207.44.232.113/~bible/nt/greek/kittel/de/de-Index.html

 

Are there any renderings in the MKJV that are clearer, better, or more accurate than those in
the KJV?


Matt. 23:24
strain out (Tyndale's, Coverdale's, Matthew's,
Taverner's, Great, Whittingham's, Geneva,
Bishops', Wesley's, Webster's, NKJV, MKJV)
strain at (KJV)

Mark 2:22
bottles (KJV)
wineskins (MKJV)

Mark 4:21
candlestick (KJV)
lampstand (MKJV)

Luke 17:6
worship (KJV)
glory (MKJV)

John 3:8a
The wind bloweth where it listeth (KJV)
The Spirit breathes where He desires (MKJV)

Rom. 8:16a
Spirit itself (KJV)
Spirit Himself (MKJV)