Archaic Words in the NIV

By Dr. Laurence M. Vance

The following list of archaic words in the New International Version (NIV) is taken from the 606-page, intensive and detailed, revised and updated work entitled, "Archaic Words and the Authorized Version," by Dr. Laurence M. Vance. This publication is now only available from the publisher in a special hardcover photocopy reprint edition. Please direct any questions or comments for the publisher and its author to Vance Publications. Dr. Laurence M. Vance's e-mail address is: vancepub@vancepublications.com. Placed on the Internet by permission of the author.

As we have seen throughout the main body of this work, archaic words are not limited to the AV. Not only do modern versions often retain the supposedly archaic words found in the AV, but many times a more formidable word is used to correct a perfectly understandable word or phrase in the AV. This appendix gives those places in the NIV where a simple word or phrase in the AV is replaced by a more difficult word, the base or root form of a word is unnecessarily extended, and those instances where an archaic or somewhat arduous word in the AV is replaced by an equally archaic or even more onerous word. In two respects, however, this list is not intended to be exhaustive. Not listed are those cases where a word or phrase in the AV is replaced by two or more words in the NIV; however, singular words in the NIV that update a small phrase in the AV are included. And secondly, due to the tremendous size of the Bible itself, an exhaustive list would not be suitable for inclusion as an appendix.