Bible Word Books

The following are books I have found online that purport to give definitions of old and archaic words in the Authorized King James translation of the Bible. I am compiling them here in one list, ordered chronologically.

• A Short Explanation of Obsolete Words in Our Version of the Bible, and of Such as Are There Used in a Peculiar of Uncommon Sense -- (Henry Cotton, Oxford: S. Collingwood, 1832)
• A Glossary of the Obsolete and Unusual Words and Phrases of the Holy Scriptures, in the Authorized English Version -- (J. Jameson, London: Wertheim and MacIntosh, 1850)
• Motes Upon Crystal: Or Obsolete Words of the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible, Critically and Chronologically Considered, Part I -- (Kirby Trimmer, London: Bell and Daldy, 1864)
• The Bible Word-Book: a Glossary of Old English Bible Words -- (Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright, London: Macmillan and Co., 1866)
• The Bible Word-Book: a Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the Authorized Version of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer -- (William Aldis Wright, London: Macmillan and Co., 1884)
• Bible Words That Have Changed in Meaning -- (Luther Allan Weigle, New York, NY: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1955)
• The Bible Word Book: Concerning Obsolete or Archaic Words in the King James Version of the Bible -- (Ronald Bridges and Luther A. Weigle, New York, NY: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1960)
• King James Bible Word Book -- (Martin H. Manser, editor. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2002)
• Unique Words of the King James Bible -- (Jonathan Wheatley, Meadville, PA: Christian Faith Publishing, 2021) (Partial view)

Some of these are intended more as a help for the readers of the Authorized Version, while some may tend to be more critical of it. (For example, I think Bridges and Weigle hope to lead readers to eventually use the Revised Standard Version.) Additionally, be a Berean; search and study the definitions to see whether they are so in every case.

Thanks to Christopher Yetzer for information on the J. Jameson book.