The Solution
The Solution
The error resulting from what Robert Young authoritatively determined to be "tens of thousands" of mistranslated words in the KJV can be greatly reduced by simply replacing mistranslated words by the correct words. The result of doing this is the accompanying searchable (within each book) KJV, which has been corrected for 12,633 errors in translation, as summarized in Table 1 below. Nineteen of the most important errors have been selected for correction, corresponding to the nineteen rows of Table 1. For example, with reference to the first two rows in Table 1, the English words "LORD" and "GOD" (all uppercase) have been incorrectly used to translate 6,831 instances of the sacred Name "Yahweh" (H-3068), and all 49 instances of the short form of the Name, "Yah" (H-3050), in the KJV Old Testament. However, in the accompanying corrected KJV, all 6,831-plus-49 erroneous instances have been corrected and restored to the original "Yahweh" or "Yah", on the authority of Strong's Concordance and Hebrew Dictionary; and Young's Concordance and Literal Translation of the Bible.
The nineteen selected corrections are concerned with the name and titles of the Almighty Father; racial references to Adam, Jews, and Gentiles; hell; the church/assembly,temple error; the pagan feast of Easter; and the Hebrew erets, adamah (H-776, H-127), corrected from "earth" to "land" -- thus restoring the flood from its absurdly unbounded global, to merely local extent. It will become obvious to the reader, upon studying the accompanying corrected KJV, that widespread confusion on central biblical doctrines is traceable to the obviously deliberate mistranslations of these nineteen terms. Several Briefs located elsewhere in this work provide a detailed explanation and justification for each of the nineteen corrections.
An important feature, for study and research purposes, of the accompanying corrected KJV is that each of the 12,633 corrections is enclosed in curly brackets, to facilitate recognition, searchability, and verification. Consider, for example, Exodus 20:2 of the uncorrected KJV, which reads:
"I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." Exodus 20:2 (KJV)
In the corrected KJV, the verse becomes:
"I am {Yahweh} thy {mighty one}, which have brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
Exodus 20:2 (KJV-Corrected)
Using the Edit/Find on the top menu bar, a search on the string "{mighty one}" will locate all instances of "{mighty one}" contained in the currently-selected book of the corrected KJV. More simply, a search on any unique substring of "{mighty one}" such as the four characters "{mig" will produce the same result. It should be noted that the corrected KJV will also contain instances of the word "Almighty" not enclosed in curly brackets, wherever the word was correctly translated in the (uncorrected) KJV. The following single verse contains an example of "Almighty" both with and without enclosing curly brackets:
"Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the
Almighty, who shall bless thee . . ." Genesis 49:25 (KJV)
which is corrected to:
"Even by the {mighty one} of thy father, who shall help thee; and by
the Almighty, who shall bless thee . . ."
Genesis 49:25 (KJV-Corrected)
Table 2 below contains a list of ten important words that are found in the (uncorrected) KJV, but are not found in the corrected KJV, because of the corrections made.
Table 3 below contains a list of seven important words that are not found in the (uncorrected) KJV, but are found in the corrected KJV, because of the corrections made.
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Table 1: Counts of Corrections Made in the KJV-Corrected
- [Correction] [OT] [NT] [Total] [Replacing] [Strong #]
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- 1. Yahweh 6831 1577 8408 LORD,GOD[1] H-3068
- 2. Yah 49 49 LORD H-3050
- 3. mighty one 2731 102 2833 God[2] H-410, H-430
- 4. El Shaddai 7 7 God Almighty[3] H-410+H-7706
- 5. (im)piety 19 19 (un)godliness G-2150
- 6. (im)pious 17 20 37 (un)godly H-7563,G-2152
- 7. Adam 538 88 626 man, men H-120, H-121
- 8. Judahite 93 93 Jew H-3064
- 9. Judaean 201 201 Jew G-2453
-10. nations 30 96 126 Gentiles H-1471, G-1484
-11. Greeks 5 5 Gentiles G-1672
-12. grave 31 10 41 hell H-7585, G-86
-13. Gehenna 12 12 hell G-1067
-14. Tartarus 1 1 hell G-5020
-15. assembly(ies) 116 116 church(es) G-1577
-16. temples 1 1 churches G-2417,G-2411
-17. passover 1 1 Easter G-3957
-18. land 51 51 earth H-776
-19. land 6 6 earth H-127
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- [Total] 10384 2249 12633
Table 1 Footnotes:
[1] Also, certain instances of "Lord" and "God (NT)", where required by context.
[2] However, certain instances of "God" are replaced by "Yahweh", where required by context.
[3] The KJV translators obviously sought to avoid a collision of synonyms, in the English translation, resulting from the combination of the Hebrew "El" (H-410, meaning "mighty one" as a noun) with the Hebrew "Shaddai" (H-7706, meaning "Almighty" as an adjective). Thus, "El Shaddai" literally means "The Almighty mighty one," although it has been translated in the KJV as "God Almighty," avoiding the awkward result, but at the expense of incorrectly using "God" in the translation, as more fully explained in another Brief of this work titled "God".
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Table 2: Ten Words No Longer Occurring in the KJV-Corrected
- 1. LORD (all uppercase)
- 2. GOD (all uppercase)
- 3. God
- 4. (un)godliness
- 5. (un)godly
- 6. Jew
- 7. Gentile
- 8. hell
- 9. church(es)
-10. Easter
Table 3: Seven Words Newly Occurring in the KJV-Corrected
- 1. Yahweh (OT,NT)
- 2. Yah (OT)
- 3. El Shaddai (OT)
- 4. Judahite (OT)
- 5. Judaean (NT)
- 6. Gehenna (NT)
- 7. Tartarus (NT)
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Dr. R.P. Carroll
Revised: 03/18/2007
