Adapted from,
Archaic Words in the NIV by Dr. Laurence M. Vance
featured at Dial the-Truth Ministries Website
| NIV | BIBLE VERSE | AV | |
| abasement | Ezra 9:5 | heaviness | |
| abashed | Is 24:23 | confounded | |
| abutted | Ezek 40:18 | over against | |
| acclamation | 2 Chr 15:14 | voice | |
| aghast | Is 13:8 | amazed | |
| alcove | Ezek 40:13 | little chamber | |
| annotations | 2 Chr 13:22 | story | |
| armless | Num 31:50 | chains | |
| bewilderment | Acts 2:6 | confounded | |
| blunted | Ps 58:7 | cut in pieces | |
| blustering | Job 8:2 | strong | |
| breakers | Ps 93:4 | waves | |
| brooches | Ex 35:22 | bracelets | |
| brood | Is 57:4 | children | |
| burnished | Dan 10:6 | polished | |
| carnelian | Rev 4:3 | sardine | |
| charioteers | I Sam 13:5 | horsemen | |
| citron | Rev 18:12 | thyine | |
| colonnade | I Ki 7:6 | porch | |
| commemorate | Ex 13:3 | remember | |
| coomg | Song 2:12 | voice | |
| cors | I Ki 4:22 | measures | |
| curds | Gen 18:8 | butter | |
| dappled | Zec 6:6 | gristled | |
| debauchery | Gal 5:19 | lasciviousness | |
| decimated | 2 Sam 21:5 | destroyed | |
| dejected | Gen 40:6 | sad | |
| deluded | Is 44:20 | deceived | |
| denarii | Matt 18:28 | pence | |
| denarius | Matt 20:2 | penny | |
| desecrate | Lev 21:12 | profane | |
| despoil | Jer 30:16 | give for a prey | |
| detachment | John 18:3 | band | |
| disheartened | Ezek 13:22 | sad | |
| disillusionment | Ps 7:14 | falsehood | |
| dissipation | I Pet 4:4 | riot | |
| drachmas | Ezra 2:69 | drams | |
| dragnet | Hab 1:15 | drag | |
| duplicity | Lk 20:23 | craftiness | |
| elation | Pro 28:12 | glory | |
| emasculate | Gal 5:12 | cut off | |
| embedded | Ecc 12:11 | fastened | |
| embitter | Ps 73:21 | grieved | |
| embodiment | Rom 2:20 | form | |
| emphatically | Mk 14:31 | vehemently | |
| encouragingly | 2 Chr 30:22 | comfortably | |
| encrouch | Pro 23:10 | enter | |
| engulf | Ps 69:2 | overflow | |
| enrollment | 2 Chr 17:14 | numbers | |
| enthralled | Ps 45:11 | greatly desire | |
| enveloped | Lk 9:34 | overshadowed | |
| exasperate | Eph 6:4 | provoke | |
| exterminate | Ezek 25:7 | perish | |
| exult | Is 14:8 | rejoice | |
| factions | 1 Ki 16:21 | parts | |
| famished | Is 8:21 | hungry | |
| fattened | 1 Sam 28:24 | fat | |
| faultfinders | Jude 16 | complainers | |
| fawns | Song 4:5 | roes | |
| fellowman | Micah 2:2 | man | |
| festival | Ex 5:1 | feast | |
| festive | I Sam 25:8 | good | |
| fieldstones | Deut 27:6 | whole stones | |
| figurehead | Acts 28:11 | sign | |
| fil~gree | Ex 28:20 | enclosings | |
| fishnets | Ezek 26:5 | nets | |
| flagstaff | Is 30:17 | beacon | |
| flank | Ezek 34:21 | side | |
| fleeting | Ps 89:47 | short | |
| flinging | Acts 22:23 | threw | |
| flogged | Acts 5:40 | beaten | |
| floodgates | Gen 7:11 | windows | |
| fluttering | Is 16:2 | wandering | |
| fomenting | Is 59:13 | speaking | |
| forded | Josh 2:23 | passed over | |
| forevermore | Jude 25 | for ever | |
| frolic | Ps 104:26 | play | |
| fruitage | Is 27:9 | fruit | |
| gadfly | Jer 46:20 | destruction | |
| gaiety | Is 24:8 | mirth | |
| galled | 1 Sam 18:8 | displeased | |
| gateway | Gen 19:1 | gate | |
| gaunt | Gen 41:3 | leanfleshed | |
| gauntness | Job 16:8 | leanness | |
| gecko | Lev 11:30 | ferret | |
| glancing | Ex 2:12 | looked | |
| glint | Hab 3:11 | light | |
| glistcning | Job 41:32 | shine | |
| gloat | Ps 30:1 | rejoice | |
| gloom | Job 10:21 | darkness | |
| glutted | Ezek 39:19 | full | |
| goblet | Is 51:17 | cup | |
| goum | Gen 14:1 | nations | |
| grapevine | James 3:12 | vine | |
| Hades | Rev 20:14 | hell | |
| harrowing | Is 28:24 | break the clods | |
| haunt | Ps 44:19 | place | |
| headwaters | Gen 2:10 | heads | |
| hoopoe | Lev 11:19 | lapwing | |
| horde | Ezek 17:17 | army | |
| ibex | Deut 14:5 | pygarg | |
| ignoble | 2 Tim 2:20 | dishonour | |
| impaled | Ezra 6:11 | hanged | |
| imperishable | I Cor 15:50 | incorruption | |
| impetuous | Hab 1:6 | hasty | |
| improvise | Amos 6:5 | invent | |
| incited | 1 Chr 21:1 | provoked | |
| incurs | Pro 9:7 | getteth | |
| indestructible | Heb 7:16 | endless | |
| indignant | Mk 10:41 | displeased | |
| indispensable | 1 Cor 12:22 | necessary | |
| infamy | Is 44:11 | ashamed | |
| innumerable | 2 Chr 12:3 | without number | |
| insolence | Jer 48:30 | wrath | |
| insolent | Rom 1:30 | despiteful | |
| jeered | 2 Ki 2:23 | mocked | |
| joists | 2 Chr 34:11 | couplings | |
| jowls | Deut 18:3 | cheeks | |
| kingship | 1 Sam 10:16 | kingdom | |
| lifeboat | Acts 27:30 | boat | |
| magi | Matt 2:1 | wise men | |
| mainstay | Jer 49:25 | chief | |
| marauders | Job 12:6 | robbers | |
| marshaled | Job 32:14 | directed | |
| mattocks | 1 Sam 13:20 | courter | |
| maxiums | Job 13:12 | remembrances | |
| melodious | Ps 81:2 p | leasant | |
| memorandum | Ezra 6:2 | record | |
| mina | Lk 19:16 p | pound | |
| misdemeanor | Acts 18:14 | wrong | |
| naive | Rom 16:18 | simple | |
| nationality | Est 2:10 | people | |
| naught | Is 40:23 | nothing | |
| Negev | Gen 12:9 | south | |
| Nephilim | Gen 6:4 | giants | |
| nightfall | 2 Sam 19:7 | night | |
| noonday | 2 Sam 4:5 | noon | |
| Nubians | Dan 11:43 | Ethiopians | |
| nuggets | Job 22:24 | gold | |
| nurtured | Lam 4:5 | brought | |
| oarsmen | Ezek 27:26 | rowers | |
| oblivion | Ps 88:12 | forgetfulness | |
| obscenity | Eph 5:4 | filthiness | |
| offal | Ex 29:14 | dung | |
| officiate | 2 Ki 17:32 | sacrificed | |
| opportune | Mk 6:1 | convenient | |
| ore | Job 28:2 | stone | |
| overawed | Ps 49:16 | afraid | |
| overweening | Is 16:6 | very | |
| parapet | Deut 22:8 | battlement | |
| piled | Lk 23:9 | questioned | |
| pinions | Deut 32:11 | wings | |
| porphyry | Est 1:6 | red | |
| portent | Is 20:3 | wonder | |
| portico | 1 Ki 6:3 | porch | |
| poultice | 2 Ki 20:7 | lump | |
| Praetorium | Matt 27:27 | common hall | |
| prefects | Dan 3:3 | governors | |
| proconsul | Acts 13:8 | deputy | |
| profligate | Deut 21:20 | glutton | |
| promiscuity | Ezek 16:26 | whoredoms | |
| qualm | Jude 12 | fear | |
| rabble | Num 11:4 | mixed multitude | |
| ramparts | Hab 2: 11 | tower | |
| rawboned | Gen 49:14 | strong | |
| reeked | Ex 8:14 | stank | |
| repointing | 1 Sam 13:21 | sharpen | |
| reposes | Pro 14:33 | resteth | |
| reputed | Gal 2:9 | seemed | |
| resound | I Chr 16:32 | roar | |
| resplendent | Ps 76:4 | glorious | |
| reveled | Neh 9:25 | delighted themselves | |
| revelry | Is 22:13 | gladness | |
| revening | Jer 2:30 | destroying | |
| rifts | Jer 2:6 | pits | |
| sachet | Song 1:13 | bundle | |
| satraps | Est 3:12 | lieutenants | |
| sheathed | Ps 68:13 | covered | |
| siegeworks | Ecc 9:14 | bulwarks | |
| simplehearted | Ps 116:6 | simple | |
| sistrums | 2 Sam 6:5 | cornets | |
| squall | Mk 4:37 | storm of wind | |
| stadia | Rev 14:20 | furlongs | |
| stag | Song 2:9 | hart | |
| stipulations | Deut 4:45 | testimonies | |
| suckling | 1 Sam 7:9 | sucking | |
| sullen | I Ki 21:5 | sad | |
| temperate | I Tim 3:11 | sober | |
| tempest | Ps 55:8 | storm | |
| terebinth | Hos 4:13 | elms | |
| tethered | 2 Ki 7:10 | tied | |
| thong | Lk 3:16 | latchet | |
| thornbush | Is 55:13 | thorn | |
| thundercloud | Ps 81:7 | thunder | |
| timidity | 2 Tim 1:7 | fear | |
| tinder | Is 1:31 | tow | |
| torrent | Rev 12:15 | flood | |
| tranquillity | Ecc 4:6 | quietness | |
| transcends | Phil 4:7 | passeth | |
| transplanted | Ezek 17:10 | planted | |
| tresses | Song 7:5 | galleries | |
| tumult | 1 Sam 14:19 | noise | |
| turbulent | Gen 49:4 | unstable | |
| tyrannical | Pro 28:16 | oppressor | |
| tyranny | Is 54:14 | oppression | |
| underlings | 2 Ki 19:6 | servants | |
| vassal | 2 Ki 24:1 | servant | |
| vaunts | Job 15:25 | strengtheneth | |
| vent | Job 20:23 | cast | |
| verdant | Song 1:16 | green | |
| vestments | Ezra 3:10 | apparel | |
| vexed | Ps 112:10 | grieved | |
| wadi | Num 34:5 | river | |
| waylaid | 1 Sam 15:2 | laid wait for | |
| waywardness | Hosea 14:4 | backsliding | |
| weakling | Joel | weak | |
| wily | Job 5:13 | froward | |
| windstorm | Is 29:6 | storm | |
| wrenched | Gen 32:25 | out of joint | |
| wretches | Matt 21:41 | wicked men | |
| yearling | Is 11:6 | fatling |
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