Adapted from,
Archaic Words in the NIV by Dr. Laurence M. Vance
featured at Dial the-Truth Ministries Website
NIV | BIBLE VERSE | AV | |
abasement | Ezra 9:5 | heaviness | |
abashed | Is 24:23 | confounded | |
abutted | Ezek 40:18 | over against | |
acclamation | 2 Chr 15:14 | voice | |
aghast | Is 13:8 | amazed | |
alcove | Ezek 40:13 | little chamber | |
annotations | 2 Chr 13:22 | story | |
armless | Num 31:50 | chains | |
bewilderment | Acts 2:6 | confounded | |
blunted | Ps 58:7 | cut in pieces | |
blustering | Job 8:2 | strong | |
breakers | Ps 93:4 | waves | |
brooches | Ex 35:22 | bracelets | |
brood | Is 57:4 | children | |
burnished | Dan 10:6 | polished | |
carnelian | Rev 4:3 | sardine | |
charioteers | I Sam 13:5 | horsemen | |
citron | Rev 18:12 | thyine | |
colonnade | I Ki 7:6 | porch | |
commemorate | Ex 13:3 | remember | |
coomg | Song 2:12 | voice | |
cors | I Ki 4:22 | measures | |
curds | Gen 18:8 | butter | |
dappled | Zec 6:6 | gristled | |
debauchery | Gal 5:19 | lasciviousness | |
decimated | 2 Sam 21:5 | destroyed | |
dejected | Gen 40:6 | sad | |
deluded | Is 44:20 | deceived | |
denarii | Matt 18:28 | pence | |
denarius | Matt 20:2 | penny | |
desecrate | Lev 21:12 | profane | |
despoil | Jer 30:16 | give for a prey | |
detachment | John 18:3 | band | |
disheartened | Ezek 13:22 | sad | |
disillusionment | Ps 7:14 | falsehood | |
dissipation | I Pet 4:4 | riot | |
drachmas | Ezra 2:69 | drams | |
dragnet | Hab 1:15 | drag | |
duplicity | Lk 20:23 | craftiness | |
elation | Pro 28:12 | glory | |
emasculate | Gal 5:12 | cut off | |
embedded | Ecc 12:11 | fastened | |
embitter | Ps 73:21 | grieved | |
embodiment | Rom 2:20 | form | |
emphatically | Mk 14:31 | vehemently | |
encouragingly | 2 Chr 30:22 | comfortably | |
encrouch | Pro 23:10 | enter | |
engulf | Ps 69:2 | overflow | |
enrollment | 2 Chr 17:14 | numbers | |
enthralled | Ps 45:11 | greatly desire | |
enveloped | Lk 9:34 | overshadowed | |
exasperate | Eph 6:4 | provoke | |
exterminate | Ezek 25:7 | perish | |
exult | Is 14:8 | rejoice | |
factions | 1 Ki 16:21 | parts | |
famished | Is 8:21 | hungry | |
fattened | 1 Sam 28:24 | fat | |
faultfinders | Jude 16 | complainers | |
fawns | Song 4:5 | roes | |
fellowman | Micah 2:2 | man | |
festival | Ex 5:1 | feast | |
festive | I Sam 25:8 | good | |
fieldstones | Deut 27:6 | whole stones | |
figurehead | Acts 28:11 | sign | |
fil~gree | Ex 28:20 | enclosings | |
fishnets | Ezek 26:5 | nets | |
flagstaff | Is 30:17 | beacon | |
flank | Ezek 34:21 | side | |
fleeting | Ps 89:47 | short | |
flinging | Acts 22:23 | threw | |
flogged | Acts 5:40 | beaten | |
floodgates | Gen 7:11 | windows | |
fluttering | Is 16:2 | wandering | |
fomenting | Is 59:13 | speaking | |
forded | Josh 2:23 | passed over | |
forevermore | Jude 25 | for ever | |
frolic | Ps 104:26 | play | |
fruitage | Is 27:9 | fruit | |
gadfly | Jer 46:20 | destruction | |
gaiety | Is 24:8 | mirth | |
galled | 1 Sam 18:8 | displeased | |
gateway | Gen 19:1 | gate | |
gaunt | Gen 41:3 | leanfleshed | |
gauntness | Job 16:8 | leanness | |
gecko | Lev 11:30 | ferret | |
glancing | Ex 2:12 | looked | |
glint | Hab 3:11 | light | |
glistcning | Job 41:32 | shine | |
gloat | Ps 30:1 | rejoice | |
gloom | Job 10:21 | darkness | |
glutted | Ezek 39:19 | full | |
goblet | Is 51:17 | cup | |
goum | Gen 14:1 | nations | |
grapevine | James 3:12 | vine | |
Hades | Rev 20:14 | hell | |
harrowing | Is 28:24 | break the clods | |
haunt | Ps 44:19 | place | |
headwaters | Gen 2:10 | heads | |
hoopoe | Lev 11:19 | lapwing | |
horde | Ezek 17:17 | army | |
ibex | Deut 14:5 | pygarg | |
ignoble | 2 Tim 2:20 | dishonour | |
impaled | Ezra 6:11 | hanged | |
imperishable | I Cor 15:50 | incorruption | |
impetuous | Hab 1:6 | hasty | |
improvise | Amos 6:5 | invent | |
incited | 1 Chr 21:1 | provoked | |
incurs | Pro 9:7 | getteth | |
indestructible | Heb 7:16 | endless | |
indignant | Mk 10:41 | displeased | |
indispensable | 1 Cor 12:22 | necessary | |
infamy | Is 44:11 | ashamed | |
innumerable | 2 Chr 12:3 | without number | |
insolence | Jer 48:30 | wrath | |
insolent | Rom 1:30 | despiteful | |
jeered | 2 Ki 2:23 | mocked | |
joists | 2 Chr 34:11 | couplings | |
jowls | Deut 18:3 | cheeks | |
kingship | 1 Sam 10:16 | kingdom | |
lifeboat | Acts 27:30 | boat | |
magi | Matt 2:1 | wise men | |
mainstay | Jer 49:25 | chief | |
marauders | Job 12:6 | robbers | |
marshaled | Job 32:14 | directed | |
mattocks | 1 Sam 13:20 | courter | |
maxiums | Job 13:12 | remembrances | |
melodious | Ps 81:2 p | leasant | |
memorandum | Ezra 6:2 | record | |
mina | Lk 19:16 p | pound | |
misdemeanor | Acts 18:14 | wrong | |
naive | Rom 16:18 | simple | |
nationality | Est 2:10 | people | |
naught | Is 40:23 | nothing | |
Negev | Gen 12:9 | south | |
Nephilim | Gen 6:4 | giants | |
nightfall | 2 Sam 19:7 | night | |
noonday | 2 Sam 4:5 | noon | |
Nubians | Dan 11:43 | Ethiopians | |
nuggets | Job 22:24 | gold | |
nurtured | Lam 4:5 | brought | |
oarsmen | Ezek 27:26 | rowers | |
oblivion | Ps 88:12 | forgetfulness | |
obscenity | Eph 5:4 | filthiness | |
offal | Ex 29:14 | dung | |
officiate | 2 Ki 17:32 | sacrificed | |
opportune | Mk 6:1 | convenient | |
ore | Job 28:2 | stone | |
overawed | Ps 49:16 | afraid | |
overweening | Is 16:6 | very | |
parapet | Deut 22:8 | battlement | |
piled | Lk 23:9 | questioned | |
pinions | Deut 32:11 | wings | |
porphyry | Est 1:6 | red | |
portent | Is 20:3 | wonder | |
portico | 1 Ki 6:3 | porch | |
poultice | 2 Ki 20:7 | lump | |
Praetorium | Matt 27:27 | common hall | |
prefects | Dan 3:3 | governors | |
proconsul | Acts 13:8 | deputy | |
profligate | Deut 21:20 | glutton | |
promiscuity | Ezek 16:26 | whoredoms | |
qualm | Jude 12 | fear | |
rabble | Num 11:4 | mixed multitude | |
ramparts | Hab 2: 11 | tower | |
rawboned | Gen 49:14 | strong | |
reeked | Ex 8:14 | stank | |
repointing | 1 Sam 13:21 | sharpen | |
reposes | Pro 14:33 | resteth | |
reputed | Gal 2:9 | seemed | |
resound | I Chr 16:32 | roar | |
resplendent | Ps 76:4 | glorious | |
reveled | Neh 9:25 | delighted themselves | |
revelry | Is 22:13 | gladness | |
revening | Jer 2:30 | destroying | |
rifts | Jer 2:6 | pits | |
sachet | Song 1:13 | bundle | |
satraps | Est 3:12 | lieutenants | |
sheathed | Ps 68:13 | covered | |
siegeworks | Ecc 9:14 | bulwarks | |
simplehearted | Ps 116:6 | simple | |
sistrums | 2 Sam 6:5 | cornets | |
squall | Mk 4:37 | storm of wind | |
stadia | Rev 14:20 | furlongs | |
stag | Song 2:9 | hart | |
stipulations | Deut 4:45 | testimonies | |
suckling | 1 Sam 7:9 | sucking | |
sullen | I Ki 21:5 | sad | |
temperate | I Tim 3:11 | sober | |
tempest | Ps 55:8 | storm | |
terebinth | Hos 4:13 | elms | |
tethered | 2 Ki 7:10 | tied | |
thong | Lk 3:16 | latchet | |
thornbush | Is 55:13 | thorn | |
thundercloud | Ps 81:7 | thunder | |
timidity | 2 Tim 1:7 | fear | |
tinder | Is 1:31 | tow | |
torrent | Rev 12:15 | flood | |
tranquillity | Ecc 4:6 | quietness | |
transcends | Phil 4:7 | passeth | |
transplanted | Ezek 17:10 | planted | |
tresses | Song 7:5 | galleries | |
tumult | 1 Sam 14:19 | noise | |
turbulent | Gen 49:4 | unstable | |
tyrannical | Pro 28:16 | oppressor | |
tyranny | Is 54:14 | oppression | |
underlings | 2 Ki 19:6 | servants | |
vassal | 2 Ki 24:1 | servant | |
vaunts | Job 15:25 | strengtheneth | |
vent | Job 20:23 | cast | |
verdant | Song 1:16 | green | |
vestments | Ezra 3:10 | apparel | |
vexed | Ps 112:10 | grieved | |
wadi | Num 34:5 | river | |
waylaid | 1 Sam 15:2 | laid wait for | |
waywardness | Hosea 14:4 | backsliding | |
weakling | Joel | weak | |
wily | Job 5:13 | froward | |
windstorm | Is 29:6 | storm | |
wrenched | Gen 32:25 | out of joint | |
wretches | Matt 21:41 | wicked men | |
yearling | Is 11:6 | fatling |
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