About the text
How the King James Bible Is Printed Here
A guide to the 1769 KJV text and to the marks on its page: italics, red letters, small capitals, the ¶, Psalm titles and the 1611 margin notes.
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.a
a Jaare-oregim: or, Jair
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.a
a firmament: Heb. expansion
The text
This site and the app use the Authorized King James Version in its 1769 standard form, the text behind nearly every KJV printed today, as published by Cambridge. It has 66 books, 1,189 chapters and 31,102 verses. The italics, red letters, paragraph marks and margin notes are aligned from the eBible.org KJV edition.
Italics
Words in italics were supplied by the translators so the English would read naturally. They have no direct equivalent in the Hebrew or Greek, and they are not emphasis. Dropping them silently changes the text.
Red letters
The words spoken by Jesus are printed in red, the convention of red-letter editions since the end of the nineteenth century.
LORD and GOD in small capitals
LORD in small capitals translates the Hebrew name YHWH; GOD in small capitals is YHWH where it follows Lord (Adonai), as in “Lord GOD”. Lord and God in ordinary type translate other words. A few inscriptions printed entirely in capitals, such as “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS” (Revelation 19:16), are left as printed.
¶ paragraph marks
The pilcrow marks a new paragraph as the 1611 printing divided the text. In printed KJV Bibles the marks stop after Acts chapter 20, and they stop there here too.
Psalm titles and Psalm 119
The titles above the Psalms (“A Psalm of David”) are part of the text and are shown above verse 1. Psalm 119 is an acrostic in 22 sections, each headed by a Hebrew letter: א ALEPH, ב BETH and so on.
The 1611 margin notes
The translators put notes in the margin giving the literal Hebrew or Greek, or another possible reading. They appear as small letters in the text and are listed under each chapter.
Copyright
The King James Version is in the public domain everywhere except the United Kingdom, where the Crown’s letters patent still govern it. Spurgeon’s Faith’s Checkbook (1888) and Daily Light on the Daily Path are in the public domain.