Bible Discussion Thread

To Bill. Actually, thee, thou, thy, ye and so on makes it a more accurate translation. Thee, thou, thy, thine is singular, addressing one. Ye, you, your yours is plural, addressing multiple persons. The KJV underwent 6 revisions from the original 1611 in which no errors were found or corrected, but the language was updated as the alphabet had changed and so did the spelling of many words. Thee, thou and thine and so on were kept because they more accurately represented what was in the Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic texts. In fact, the KJV translators did something no one else did in any modern Bible. They used words that in English are synonyms and in context within the KJV, they have different meanings. For instance, wisdom, knowledge and understanding. They may define each other in common English, but in the KJV, wisdom is from a teacher and it is the dissemination of teaching to another whereas understanding is to receive teaching. "here is wisdom, let him that hath understanding calculate the number...". These and many other techniques make the KJV the best version in English. All others say you can't make a truly accurate translation and they settled for that. The KJV translators made no such excuse. They found a way. You can tell the meaning of the words by the context and thereby understand the translation.