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KJV

KJV is the initialism of King James Version.

Meaning of King James Version

Proper noun

the King James Version

  1. An English translation, published in 1611, of the Bible from the original Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament) commissioned for the Church of England, which is the version most quoted and influential in English literature and English Protestant religious culture.
    • [...], and of course the Bible, the men who wrote it and especially the men who made the King James version, for it was the language of the Bible rather than its "message" which I got first and which I will never shake off.a. 1964, Henry Miller, “The Books in My Life”, in Henry Miller on Writing, page 125

Words formed from KJV

Questions about KJV

What is KJV the initialism of?
KJV is the initialism of King James Version.

Words near KJV in the dictionary

  1. Kjet
  2. KJMG
  3. KJO
  4. Kjos
  5. KJs
  6. KJV
  7. KJV-onlyer
  8. KJV-onlyers
  9. kk
  10. kkachi durumagi
  11. kkakdugi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: KJV (page history and authors); King James Version (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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