KJV Words that Have Changed Meaning (part 1)

This list of 857 headwords and phrases derives from Luther A. Weigle’s Bible Words that have Changed in Meaning (New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1955).

abhor
abide
abide on
abroad
addicted
admiration
admire
advertise
advise thyself
affect
affections
affinity
join in affinity
after
bring again
shew again
tum again
against Joseph came
against he come
all lost thing
all manner vessels
allege
allow
along
amazed
amazement
amiable
ancients
but and if
angle
anon
answered unto
any
any thing
any thing at all
apparently
appoint
appointed
apprehend
armholes
artillery
as it had been
as it were
ask at
assay
assuage
as yet
at
attain to
at the length
give attendance to
audience
give audience
away with
backside
bands
barbarian
barbarous people
base
be
because they should
beside
bestow
blow up
bonnets
book
botch
bottle
bowels
breach
break up
brigandine
brim
broided
bruit
bunch
in the bursting of it
but
by
by and by
by that
by the space of
cabins
careful
carefully
carefulness
careless
carelessly
carriage
cast
cast
cast about
old cast clouts
a castaway
caul
causeless
certainty
certify you
challenge
chambering
champaign
changeable suits
change of raiment
chapiter
chapman
chapt
give in charge
lay to my charge
be chargeable unto
be charged
charges
be at charges with them
charger
charity
the check of my reproach
cheek teeth
moved with choler
churl
cieled
passed clean over
clean gone
clean dissolved
made it clean bare
clean dried up
closet
clothed upon
clouted
coast
cockatrice
cogitations
under colour as as though they would have case anchors out of the foreship
come at
come by
is comely for
comfortably
Comforter
comfortless
communed
communicate
communication
compacted
company with
fetched a compass
compel
comprehend
briefly comprehend
as concerning
concision
have written and concluded
conclude in
conclude under
concupiscence
confection
confectionaries
confidences
confound
confusion
conscience
consist
consort with
constant
constantly
contain
be content
contrariwise
convenient
not convenient
conversant
conversation
convince
corn
corn of wheat
corrupt
corruptible
uncorruptible
cousin
cousins
covet
creature
cumber
cumbered
cumbrance
cunning
cunning
cunning workman
curious
curiously
daily
dam
damnable
damnation
damned
in danger of
darling
daysman
dayspring
day star
tenth deal
deal to
debate
deceivableness
declare
decline
defenced
degree
degrees
delectable
delicacies
delicate
delicately
delicately bring up
feed delicately
delicates
lived deliciously
demand
denounce
deputy
descry
do despite unto
despite
despitefully use
device
devotions
diet
dig up
disallow
disannul
discern
discipline
discomfit
be discomfited
discomfiture
discover
of dishonesty
dispensation
by disposition of
dispute
disquietness
divers
doctor
doctrine
done away
dote
doubt
dissolve doubts
doubting nothing
nothing doubting
doubtful
doubtful mind
draught house
out into the draught
duke
dure
ear
eared
earing
earnest
the earnest of the Spirit
effect
either
either
eminent
emulation
enable
endeavor
endeavoring
ensue
entreat
be entreated
was entreated
equal
espoused
estate
estate
every
evidence
evidently
any evilfavouredness
example
exceed
excellency
exchanger
exercise
exercise myself
be exercised
learn by experience
express image of his person
eyesight
faint
fair
fame
those that have familiar spirits
fan
fan
fanners
fashion
grace of the fashion
fast
fat
winefat
feebleminded
fenced
fervent heat
to fetch about this form of speech
fine
fining pot
flag
flagon
flood
floor
footmen
for all
for because
for to
forecast
forepart
foreship
foretell
former
former
forth of
let it forth
for that
forwardness
fowl
frankly
fray
freely
frowardly
frowardness
furniture
gainsay
gainsayer
gain this loss
gender
generally gathered
generation
give up the ghost
yield up the ghost
give place to
glede
go aside
go beyond
go fight
go it up
go to
go to, go
now therefore go to
God forbid
live godly
going forth
mine own proper good
goodly
governor
grace
grieve
grudge
guilty of
hale
halt
halt
at your hand
hard after
joined hard to
hardly
endure hardness
harness
harnessed
harp
hasted them
hastily
headstone
heady
saving health
heaviness
are in heaviness
heavy
helps
herb
high
highminded
his
hitherto
hold
hold peace at
honest
honestly
honesty
honourable
horse heels
horsehoofs
hosen
hough
to house
how
how
howbeit
how that
husbandman
husbandry
if so be
ill-favored
illuminated
imagination
imagine
impart
implead
impotent
in building
in departing
in seething
in the earth
incontinent
inn
poor innocents
inquisition
instant
instantly
have intelligence with
inward
inwards
jangling
knop
know
take knowledge
lack
laid
laid unto
latchet
shoelatchet
laugh on
lay at
lay away
lay from
lay out
leasing
left
let
lewd
lewdness
Libertines
as much as lieth in you
light bread
vain and light persons
light
lightly
lightness
it liketh him
as it liketh you
is like to die
like as
like unto
are in good liking
worse liking
limit
list
lively
loft
looked when
lover
lucre
lunatick
made himself
made as though
make
make for
with the manner
mansion
mar
master
mean
meat
meat offering
meet
meetest
memorial
merchantman
me thinketh
minding
minister
minister
more
mortify
munition
murrain
naughtiness
naughty
neesing
neither … neither
not … neither … nor
nephew
nothing
set at nought
nourish
nursing father
nurture
occupied
occupier
occupy
occurrent
odd
of him
of thee
of the devil
of them
which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet
of any man
of the Lord
convinced of all
in comparison of you
zeal of God
zealous of the law
of the blood
of long time
of a child
had compassion of
provided of
rejoice of
following of
taking of
beating of
eaten of the king’s cost
power of
glorying of you
have glory of men
be an example of the believers
of a ready mind
often
oil olive
oldness of the letter
lame on his feet
on the day
on this wise
altogether on a smoke
on heaps
on mine account
when shall it once be
open
or ever
ordain
order
ouches
outlandish
out of hand
overcharge
overlive
overrun
pap
part
in particular
particularly
passage
passengers
pattern
peculiar
persecute
respect persons
have respect of persons
is no respecter of persons
persuade
pillow
pitiful
plague
plagued
plain
possess
post
power
have power with
prefer
presently
pressfat
prevent
prey
price
prick
privily
privy
profess
profiting
prolong
proper
mine own proper good
their proper tongue
his proper gift
prove
provoke
publican
publish
purchase
purtenance
put down
put to
put to the worse
quarrel
quaternion
question
question
quick
quicken
having in a readiness
reap down
rear up
reason
reasoning
reckon
record
recover
refrain
refuse
rehearse
reins
reject
remembrance
removed
repent self
replenish
report
reprobate silver
require
resemble
be in rest
revenge me of
reward
rid
riot
riot
rioting
road
room
scrip
search
secure
securely
seethe
seething
sentence
serve unto
set time
set day
set by
set light by
set forth
are set forth
set on
set to his seal
set upon
settle
sever
several
severally
shake his hand
shake the hand
shambles
with shamefacedness
shapen
sheepmaster
in a vain shew
the shew of their countnenance
took ship
shipmen
took shipping
shut to
in sight like unto an emerald
simple
sincere
singular vow
sit at meat
can skill
could skill of
sleight
on sleep
slime
to smell thereto
the smooth
snuff at
so as
sod
sodden
so many
some
sometime
sometimes
sober
softly
sop
sore
sore
sore boils
of sore diseases
sore displeased
sore displeasure
sorer
baser sort
after a godly sort
so that
sottish
space
the space of a
the space of the
in the space of
by the space of
by the space of
spare to take
spare to spit
specially
have sped
good speed
spend up
spitefully
spitefully entreated
spitted on
spoil
sport yourselves
sporting themselves
spring of the day
stagger
stand to it
stood to
stand upon
stay
still
store of servants
stoutness of heart
whose look was more stout than his fellows
strain at
strait
strait
straitly
straitness
strake
strake sail
from strangled
strength
strike
strike his hand
strike hands with
study
stuff
substance
living substance
succour
succourer
such like
suddenly
suffer
to supple
surely
overcharged with surfeiting
swellings
taber upon
table
tablet
tache
tackling
tacklings
take
taken
take thought
take wrong
tale
target
teach
tell
temperance
tempered
tempt
temptation
Leah was tender-eyed
thankworthy
that
tire
round tires like the moon
tire
title
torn
translate
translation
trow
true
turtle
tutor
twain
at unawares
uncomely
uncorruptness
unction
undertake
unicorn
unjust
unspeakable
unto
unto
untoward
usury
vagabond
vain
vanity
vehement
vehement flame
venison
vex
vile
virtue
vocation
void place
volume
wait upon
wanted
to us-ward
to thee-ward
to you-ward
even to the mercy-seatward
ward
wasteness
waster
wasting
wax
waxen
waxhot
wax short
anyways
wealth
wealthy
wench
went for
what
what time
when as
whether
which
whiles
while as
who
whose soever
will
will worship
win
wink at
wish
wit
wist not
do you to wit
wot
withal
without
witty inventions
wonderful great
woe worth
work
have worship
worthy
recount his worthies
would God
would to God
wrest
yesternight


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