VOCABULARY USED IN THE HOLY BIBLE

By Bibi Baxter

THE CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE

• Words

• General Rules

• Pronouns

• Phrases

(New vocabulary will be added from time to time)

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VOCABULARY USED IN THE HOLY BIBLE

SINGLE WORDS

• asunder = completely apart

• art = are

• behold = look

• cast = throw, threw, thrown

• commandment = a command from God

• doth = does

• fighteth = fights

• God’s house = church

• hath = has

• lest = in case

• pestilence = a disease of epidemic proportions

• rent = to tear

• shalt = shall

• spake = spoke

• thee = you

• thereof = also

• thou = you

• unto = to

• verily = truthfully

• ye = you

• Each new line must begin with a capital letter
• Verbs in the bible in the third person singular, which end in ETH or TH now have ES or S  (see hath, fighteth, doth, etc. above)
• Verbs do NOT have capital letters.
• The second person singular and plural both have an old English pronoun. (See the next box)
• Any pronoun, or possessive adjective, which refers directly to God must have a capital letter. (e.g. You, Your, His, Thee, Thy, etc.) 
• Anything  which 'belongs to God' must have a capital letter.  (e.g.  His Word, His Son, etc)
• Anything which refers, or belongs to us, or anyone else, does NOT have a capital letter (our world, my pets, etc.), otherwise, it would make ‘us’ as important as God

VOCABULARY USED IN THE HOLY BIBLE

BIBLICAL PRONOUNS & POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES

• Thou = you (singular)

• Ye = you (plural)

Thee = you

Thine = yours

Thy = your

VOCABULARY USED IN THE HOLY BIBLE

PHRASES

• It came to pass = It happened

• He saw him no more = He never saw him again

• Why callest thou? = Why are you calling?.

• There is none good but one = There is only one good one.

• She begat a son = She gave birth to a son 

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This website contains mostly British-English spellings. Most American software does not recognise/recognize all British-English spellings

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