Updates

All 11,333 verses in the New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs were read in context alongside the KJV. The review covered 29 books and 441 chapters, with 1,537 verses corrected or clarified. The aim stays the same: use simple words while staying as close as possible to the meaning of the original Greek and Hebrew.

What changed

• Clearer sentences: Repaired missing words, broken grammar and unclear connections between clauses. Surrounding verses were read to keep the speaker, audience and action clear.
• Commands, questions and promises: Restored conditions, negatives and contrasts where the wording could change the meaning of a passage.
• Words chosen for their context: Clarified old words and expressions that modern readers could misunderstand, while keeping the passage’s images and key words of the faith.
• Greek and Hebrew checks: Checked source-language wording where it was needed to resolve a specific question, including names, prayer language, money and measures. Word Guide explanations were updated where needed.
• Study notes: Corrected affected Scripture quotations and notes, and removed a duplicated chapter note. Explanations remain separate from the verse text.
• Consistent text: The English manuscripts and online reader now carry the same reviewed wording. Recorded verse decisions preserve the approved words and punctuation when the reader is rebuilt.

Giga stays

When Jesus says “great”, we use “Giga”. It is a deliberate, playful part of GIGAKJV, and this review preserves it.

Review scope

This release covers the English New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs. It does not announce a new review of the other books or language editions. Every verse in this collection was read in context; the Greek and Hebrew checks addressed specific wording questions, rather than a complete independent source-language review of every verse. Unresolved interpretation questions remain recorded for further review.

Clarity and reverence in referring to the Godhead: In response to readers seeking immediate visual clarity between God, Jesus Christ, and surrounding human or demonic figures in biblical narratives, GIGAKJV establishes formal, context-checked reverential capitalization standards for divine pronouns (He, Him, His, Himself, and Me, My, You in divine speech or direct prayer). This honors God's majesty while upholding strict linguistic integrity.

The Golden Rules of Reverential Capitalization

To avoid careless automated search-and-replace errors, GIGAKJV enforces five strict Golden Rules across all English scriptures and study helps:

1. Unambiguous Deity Only: Capitalize personal, possessive, and reflexive pronouns (He, Him, His, Himself; Me, My, Mine, Myself in divine speech; You, Your, Yours, Yourself when addressing God) only when their referent is clearly and unquestionably God the Father, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Spirit.
2. Never Capitalize Human, Angelic, or Demonic Pronouns: In mixed-referent passages, human, angelic, and demonic pronouns remain strictly lowercase to guard truth and grammar. For example, in Matthew 8:3: “Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him [the leper], saying, I will; be clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.” Jesus' hand is capitalized; the leper and his leprosy remain lowercase. In Matthew 4:3, the tempter came to Him (Jesus), and he (Satan) said.
3. Leave Ambiguous Prophecies Natural: In Old Testament prophetic or poetic passages where a verse speaks of both an immediate earthly figure (such as King David, Solomon, or Cyrus) and an ultimate messianic shadow, pronouns remain natural rather than forcing human editorial dogma onto the Holy Spirit's prophetic text.
4. Preserve Authentic KJV Wording & Doctrine: Reverential capitalization is strictly a case-only alignment. Not a single word, punctuation mark, or doctrine is rewritten, added, or removed.
5. Language-Specific Orthographic Realism: Reverential capitalization applies to Latin/European script editions where uppercase distinctions exist. Non-Latin biblical scripts, such as Arabic (العربية), Tigrinya (ትግርኛ), and Urdu (اردو), have no uppercase or lowercase letters and remain completely faithful in their authentic native scripts without artificial tampering.

Direct Language URLs & Scripture Sharing

• Direct Language Editions: Every supported translation edition can now be accessed directly through clean URLs, e.g. gigakjv.org/norwegian, gigakjv.org/tigirinya (also /tigrinya), /arabic, /maori, /swahili, /portuguese, /swedish, and /urdu.
• Language-Aware Verse Copy & Share: Copying or sharing verses while reading in any edition formats links with the language route (e.g. gigakjv.org/tigirinya/john1v22-25 or gigakjv.org/norwegian/john1v1).
• Default Reader Experience: First-time visitors and cleared browser sessions always open cleanly to English John 1 in single-column Giga view with no auto-opened parallel mode and no lingering highlights.

Where Readers Can Learn More

A full scholarly breakdown of the 1611/1769 King James lineage, the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, and the theological history of reverential capitalization is now published in our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ #8) and Pronouns, Speakers, and Meaning article.

Historical release notes: These describe the September release. Version 1.9.2 supersedes earlier wording examples and the policy of keeping online quotations fixed to the wording of a previous print edition.

The rule for this release was simple: if a ten-year-old would stop on a word, it goes. Nearly 13,000 verses now read in plain 2026 English. Every change was made from the KJV and checked against the Hebrew or Greek where the sense was in question, and every changed verse was read with the verses before and after it.

Everything in the 26 September 2026 release:

• No “whom”, no “nor” and no “woe”, anywhere.
• Hundreds of hard and old words replaced by what they mean in each verse.
• About 3,700 new tap-cards, so every hard word, person and place has a dotted underline you can tap.
• Normal word order: “Do not be afraid”, not “be not afraid”.
• “Seed” and “stranger” read by their meaning, checked against the Hebrew and Greek.
• Measures and money in modern units.
• The verses quoted in You Were Healed kept word-for-word as printed in the book.

No more “whom”

Every “whom” is gone. The sentences were rewritten, not just swapped, so that they still say exactly who did what.

Hard words replaced with what they mean

• Begotten. Psalm 2:7 now reads “You are my Son. Today I am your Father.” John 1:14 reads “the only Son of the Father”.
• Imputed is now counted: “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
• Rent (which now sounds like paying rent) is tore: “Jacob tore his clothes.”
• Iniquity is wrongdoing and transgression is rebellion: “Blot out my rebellion. Wash me thoroughly from my wrongdoing, and cleanse me from my sin” (Psalm 51:1–2). Where the New Testament means breaking a law, it says so: “sin is breaking the law” (1 John 3:4).
• Vanity in Ecclesiastes is meaningless. Elsewhere it is read by its sense: lies, false visions, useless idols, or “every man is only a breath” (Psalm 39:5).
• Abomination is read by what it means: “something the Lord hates” in Proverbs, disgusting in the food laws, and the disgusting idol of the Moabites where the Hebrew means an idol.
• Also gone: dwell, gladness, handmaid, supplication, leaven, beheld, hasten, statutes, heed, render, reproach, loins, gird, spoil, desolate, valor, graven and molten images, groves (now Asherah poles), moreover, nevertheless, depart, forth, perceive, prevail, cease, tribulation, multitude, vessel, exalt, strive, covet, and hundreds more. Each one is chosen by the sense in that verse, not by a single blanket swap.

Tap any hard word

Every hard word now has a dotted underline you can tap for a plain explanation: about 3,700 new cards, including every person and place, built from the STEPBible names data (gender, family, tribe, time and first mention). “Woe” is gone: judgments now say “Disaster is coming to …”, and cries of grief say “How miserable I am!”

Normal word order

Old English put words in an order nobody uses today. Now the sentences read the way people talk: “They did not listen” instead of “they listened not”, “Do not be afraid” instead of “be not afraid”, “Do not look at the wine” instead of “look not you on the wine”, and “Then you shall call, and the Lord shall answer” instead of “then shall you call”.

No more “nor”

“Nor” is gone from all 598 verses that used it. Each one was read by its sense: “I will not fail you, or abandon you” (Joshua 1:5), “They do not sow or reap” (Luke 12:24), and “Height, depth, and any other creature, shall not be able to separate us from the love of God” (Romans 8:39). Where a verse used to begin with “Nor”, the “not” now sits inside that verse, so it still means the right thing when you read it on its own.

“Seed” read by its meaning

Where “seed” means a person’s family line, it now says descendants or children: “I have not seen the righteous abandoned, nor his descendants begging bread” (Psalm 37:25). Real seed for planting stays seed. In God’s promises to Abraham, “seed” also stays, because Paul says the word points to one Seed, Christ (Galatians 3:16). Tap it for the full explanation.

“Stranger” checked against the Hebrew and Greek

“Stranger” stood for several different words. Where the Hebrew or Greek means someone from another nation living among God’s people, it now says foreigner: “Love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt” (Deuteronomy 10:19). Where the priest laws mean anyone who is not a priest, they say so. Where it simply means someone you do not know, “stranger” stays: “I was a stranger, and you took me in” (Matthew 25:35). Sackcloth is now rough mourning clothes. Wrath and the Lord of Hosts stay, and each has a tap-card explaining the word.

Measures and money in modern units

• “Fifty cubits” is now 75 feet. Goliath stands 9¾ feet tall, and his armor weighs 125 pounds.
• Grain and oil are in quarts, gallons and bushels. Where the measure itself is the subject, it is described in plain words: in Zechariah 5 it is a basket, and the fair-trading laws speak of honest measures for grain and for liquids.
• Silver paid as money reads pieces of silver, and Jesus’ talents are bags of silver. A denarius is a silver coin, the usual day’s pay.
• “Thirty pieces of silver” stays exactly as everyone knows it.

Verses quoted in You Were Healed

The 294 verses quoted in the book You Were Healed keep exactly the wording printed in the book for now, so that the book and the online GIGAKJV always agree. An automated check stops any change to them.

What was deliberately kept

The core words of the faith stay: grace, faith, righteousness, salvation, sin, holy, repent, sanctify, atonement, redeem, gospel, prophesy and anoint. So do names of sacred things such as the tabernacle and the ephod.

Older errors fixed along the way

Reading every changed verse turned up about 60 older mistakes, and all were corrected. Examples include words run together (“says thisyou”), doubled words (“and and”), “an ass’s head”, “who spoken”, and a line in 1 Kings 2:4 that had broken into “Said he. A man on the throne”.

Why it cannot regress

Every replaced word is now banned by the automated guards, so it cannot quietly come back. Every changed verse is recorded with its KJV text, its old wording and its new wording in records/translation_review/2026-09-26-plain-english/. A watchlist of phrases from modern copyrighted translations is also checked on every change. It caught one of our own rewrites during this work, and that verse was reworded. All 284 automated checks pass.

The reader now lists every Protestant book. Genesis through Malachi sit beside the New Testament in the book picker. Languages that already have those books (English, Norwegian, Arabic, Tigrinya, and now Portuguese, Swedish, Swahili, and Urdu from their licensed sources) show them. Languages still missing a book simply omit it from the list.

Tap a dotted word, name, or place for a short plain-English card. The KJV remains one tap away. This is not a claim that every verse has a completed Hebrew or Greek review.

12 global languages, Scripture across the nations

The GIGAKJV is now a complete multilingual Scripture experience supporting 12 languages. Readers worldwide can switch languages instantly from the sidebar menu, and the entire app, including book selection, chapter navigation, scripture search, and Daily Bread devotions, follows seamlessly:

• International World Languages: English, Norwegian (Norsk), Tigrinya (ትግርኛ), Arabic (العربية), Swedish (Svenska), Swahili (Kiswahili), Urdu (اردو), and Portuguese (Português).
• First Nations & Australian Aboriginal Languages: Kriol, Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri, and Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole), bringing Scripture directly into indigenous native languages.
• Multilingual Covenant Lexicons: Dedicated Strong’s Greek and Hebrew definition cards translated and contextualized across supported languages.

Side-by-side parallel reader

A dedicated two-column parallel reading layout is now available at the flip of a switch, aligning scripture verse-for-verse:

• In English: Compare the modernized GIGAKJV directly against the original 1611 KJV base in parallel columns for complete transparency and side-by-side study.
• In Global Languages: Display English parallel to your chosen language (e.g. English / Norsk, English / العربية, English / Kriol) for bilingual study.

Daily Bread devotionals

Take fresh spiritual nourishment each day with integrated Daily Bread devotionals. Read today’s devotional reflection, browse previous days, or look ahead, with every entry anchored directly to Scripture and translated across all active languages.

Instant reference jumping & intelligent search

Scripture search now provides two powerful ways to navigate God’s Word:

• Direct Reference Jump: Type standard citations like John 3:16 or verse ranges like John 3:16-18 to instantly navigate directly to that passage.
• Smart Ranked Search: Type words or phrases you half-remember, and the engine automatically ranks the closest matching verses and semantic synonyms first across all languages.

Interactive study: Faith Facts & Ask King James

• Faith Facts: Tappable blue ? badges beside key verses reveal deeper theological, linguistic, and historical teaching notes directly in context.
• Ask King James: An interactive Bible study assistant in the Chat tab with speech-to-text mic input, direct scripture reference linking, and voice read-aloud support.

Personalized reading & lexicon controls

• Three-Color Verse Highlighting: Tap any verse to highlight it in vibrant Cyan, Emerald Green, or Royal Purple (saved locally on your device), with quick Copy and Report options.
• Strong’s Dot Density: Adjust Greek & Hebrew lexicon dot density in Display Settings to 100%, 50%, or OFF.
• Visual Comfort: Choose from 5 premium typefaces, adjustable font size, brightness slider, and warm amber Night Light mode.
• Free & Offline PWA: Zero ads, no account or tracking required, and full offline caching for the web app across desktop, iOS, and Android.

The Word That Hid Behind Being Ordinary, 70 verses modernized

A reader found this one on the live site: Revelation 4:8 described the four living creatures as having “six wings about him”. Read that today and it sounds like the wings were somehow concerning him. What it actually means is that each creature had six wings around it.

The word about is perfectly ordinary English, which is exactly why this survived every sweep we have run. Our guards look for words that stopped being English, firkins, twoedged, espoused. They cannot flag about, because about is a word we all still use every day. It had simply brought three of its 1611 meanings along with it, and a reader never stops on a word they are certain they already understand.

Three dead meanings wearing one familiar word, 70 verses

• Round about → around (60 verses). Throughout the text, “round about” simply meant around: a rainbow around the throne (Revelation 4:3), the angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him (Psalm 34:7), a light from heaven shone around him (Acts 9:3). Where a bare “around” could not carry the sense, the phrase was read properly instead: “all that country round about” is all the surrounding country (9 verses), “he looked round about on them” is he looked around at them (4 verses), and “I will camp against you round about” is on every side (4 verses).
• Went about to → tried to (6 verses), the worst of the three. This one does not merely confuse, it tells the reader something that did not happen. In 1611, to “go about to” do a thing meant to attempt it. Five of these six verses are about plots to kill a man, and every one of them read like a walk: Acts 9:29 said “they went about to kill him” and now reads they tried to kill him. Likewise Acts 21:31 (as they were trying to kill him), Acts 26:21, John 7:20 (who is trying to kill you?), Acts 24:6 (has tried to profane the temple), and Romans 10:3 (seeking to establish their own righteousness).
• Went about a place → went throughout it (2 verses). Matthew 4:23 and 9:35 now read Jesus went throughout all Galilee and throughout all the cities and villages.
• The plain about that meant around (6 verses). Including the verse that started this: Revelation 4:8 now reads the four beasts each had six wings around them. Also Mark 3:32 and 3:34 (the multitude sat around him), Mark 9:14, Revelation 7:11, and Psalm 48:12.

“Around” was not a new decision

Two verses in the text already read this way: Psalm 76:11 had “let all who are around him bring presents”, and Mark 12:1 had “put a hedge around it”. The choice had already been made here; the other sixty verses have simply been brought into line with it. Nothing was imported from another translation.

What was deliberately left alone

The word about itself remains everywhere it is still doing ordinary work, “about four hundred men”, “spoke about him”. Only the three dead frames are now banned by the automated guards, not the word. Acts 10:38’s “who went about doing good” is a living English phrase and is untouched.

Why it cannot regress

Every replacement is a rule in the translation pipeline (scripts/modernize_kjv.py) rather than a hand edit, so regenerating the text cannot bring any of them back, and the two hand-pinned verses that carried the old wording were corrected in scripts/verse_overrides.json. Round about and go about to are now stem-anchored bans in the automated guards. The pipeline audit reports 0 differences across all 12,625 verses and 0 structural problems, and the full suite of 225 automated checks passes.

One footnote for the curious: three of these rules silently missed a verse each on the first run, because the pipeline rewrites spelling after the phrase rules run, so a rule has to match the 1611 spelling, not ours (thine not your, unto not to, slay not kill). A rule that fires on five verses out of six looks exactly like one that worked. All three were caught by re-counting afterwards, which is now a required step.

Scripture you can listen to anywhere, on any device

The GIGAKJV now includes full-chapter and single-verse audio narration. Browser-native speech synthesis engines frequently sound metallic, drop connection, or fail entirely on mobile WebViews, Brave, and Linux. We solved this with a natural audio narrator featuring an authentic, masculine Male voice:

• Authentic Masculine Male Voice: Deep, clear, reverent narration paced specifically for meditative Scripture listening.
• Direct Audio Streaming: Narration streams with full pitch preservation and smooth clause boundaries, eliminating robotic stutter and browser audio drops.
• No Runaway Skips: Long verses are intelligently split along natural punctuation and clause pauses, ensuring playback never skips ahead or truncates.

The persistent footer dock ("Tap to Play")

Audio controls originally sat inside the chapter heading, which disappeared the moment a reader scrolled down into a long chapter. We moved the listen controller directly into the fixed bottom viewport navigation bar alongside SEARCH, BIBLE, and DAILY BREAD:

• Clean Instant Play: Tapping LISTEN in the bottom bar immediately begins audio narration using the authentic male voice with zero configuration required.
• Easy Pause & Resume: While audio is playing, the tab displays an active glowing PAUSE button. Tapping it instantly pauses the narrator, and tapping it again resumes right from the verse where you stopped.
• Verse Context Menu: Tapping any verse in the reader still lets you choose "Listen" to start narration directly from that specific verse.

High-contrast, vivid covenant lexicon dots

Earlier releases used subtle 1px dotted underlines that were difficult to see on high-density mobile screens or washed out in direct sunlight. Lexicon underlines have been upgraded to prominent, high-contrast 2px dots with subtle color-matched luminescence:

• Vivid Electric Cyan: Core theological words, difficult terms, and original covenant language definitions.
• Vivid Sunset Orange: Biblical persons, genealogies, and named historical figures.
• Vivid Emerald Green: Cities, mountains, regions, and biblical geography.

Direct translation feedback

Readers can now report translation questions or typos directly from any verse. Tapping the verse menu opens a new Report option alongside Copy and Reset, allowing community feedback to enter the review pipeline directly with its chapter and verse reference attached.

How three dead words survived every sweep

Our tooling checks the whole text for words that stopped being English centuries ago. It missed three of them, for a simple and embarrassing reason: it was looking for one spelling of each. The rules knew contemneth but not contemned. They knew beguiled but not beguiling. They knew waxeth but not waxing. Every check came back clean while eight verses still carried the old words.

Both the translation pipeline and the audit now match on the stem of a word instead of one of its endings, so a different ending can no longer hide a dead word from us.

What changed in the text

• Contemned → despised (Psalm 15:4, Psalm 107:11, Isaiah 16:14). This one is worse than a word nobody knows, it is a word that gets misread. A reader today sees contemned and understands condemned, which is a different word meaning something else. The Hebrew (בָּזָה, נָאַץ) means to hold in contempt, to despise.
• Beguile → cheat and lure (Colossians 2:18, 2 Peter 2:14). The only sense of beguile still alive in English is to charm, and neither verse is about charm. In Colossians the Greek καταβραβεύω is to rob someone of a prize, so it now reads let no man cheat you of your reward. In 2 Peter δελεάζω is to bait a hook, so it now reads luring unstable souls.
• Waxing → growing (Philippians 1:14). The verb wax, meaning to grow, has left ordinary English. The noun has not: Psalm 22:14’s “my heart is like wax” is candle wax, and it is untouched.
• Two sentences that had stopped being English. An earlier pass rewrote verses to avoid the word whom, and two of those rewrites came out broken. Romans 4:6 read “the man God imputes righteousness to without works”, and Romans 15:21 read “Those he was not spoken of to shall see”. Because whom is correct modern English in the objective case, both are now written the plain way: the man to whom God imputes righteousness without works, and Those to whom he was not spoken of shall see.

What was deliberately left alone

Begotten and imputed both stay. They carry theological weight that no everyday synonym reproduces, and each already has a tappable card in the Covenant Lexicon giving its meaning and its Greek. The rule has not changed: a dead word is replaced in the text, while a merely hard word keeps its place and gets a definition you can tap.

Why it cannot regress

All three words are now stem-anchored bans in the automated guards, the replacements are built into the pipeline rules in scripts/modernize_kjv.py so a regeneration cannot undo them, and the two Romans verses were corrected directly in the pinned-verse file the pipeline does not touch. The pipeline audit reports 0 differences across all 12,625 verses, and the full suite of 190 automated checks passes.

The most dangerous category: words that look plain

A word nobody knows, like firkins or phylacteries, stops the reader, but at least they know they stopped. A false friend does worse: the reader glides over it, completely confident they understood, having received an idea the original writer never wrote.

This release eliminates the largest remaining false-friend trap in the New Testament: 137 verses modernized across the Gospels, Acts, and the Epistles.

What changed in the text

• The dead indefinite certain (131 occurrences eliminated). In 1611, “a certain man” or “certain of the scribes” was how the KJV translated Greek indefinite pronouns like τις. Modern readers hear “certain” as sure, verified, without doubt. Not one of these 131 verses meant “sure”, they meant a man, a woman, some of the scribes, one day, or staying for several days. The modern “sure/clear” sense is preserved exactly where the Greek actually means it: Acts 12:11 (“Now I know for certain”) and 1 Timothy 6:7 (“and it is certain we can carry nothing out”).
• Communicate meaning share (5 occurrences). Modern English uses “communicate” for talking or sending messages. In Galatians 6:6, Philippians 4:14–15, 1 Timothy 6:18, and Hebrews 13:16, the Greek verb (κοινωνέω) means giving financial support and sharing resources. All five verses now read share, shared in my distress, and willing to share.
• Suffer meaning allow or tolerate (2 occurrences). In 1 Corinthians 4:12, “being persecuted, we suffer it” now reads we endure it (ἀνεχόμεθα). In Revelation 2:20, “you suffer that woman Jezebel” now reads you tolerate that woman Jezebel (ἀφεῖς). The other 58 occurrences in the NT already carry the live endure/bear affliction sense and remain untouched.
• A 1611 spelling defect caught by reading: 1 Corinthians 4:15 carried the archaic spelling instructers. Now corrected to instructors and enforced by regression guards.
• Owner decisions ratified: The rendering brothers and sisters (ἀδελφοί) is confirmed and retained across 190 verses, and the traditional KJV God forbid (μὴ γένοιτο) is preserved across all 15 occurrences.

Completed: all ten object cards in the Covenant Lexicon

The remaining five physical object cards from the New Testament standard have been written and published: alms (G1654, gifts of mercy to the poor), purple (G4209, the imperial dye from sea snails), alabaster (G211, the sealed stone flask for perfumed oils), praetorium (G4232, the Roman governor's palace), and mite (G3016, the smallest Jewish bronze coin). All ten §5b objects now have child-friendly, concrete definitions in the reader.

Why it cannot regress

Every single replacement is baked directly into the translation pipeline rules in scripts/modernize_kjv.py and verified in scripts/verse_overrides.json. The translation pipeline audit reports exactly 0 differences across all 12,625 verses, and the complete automated test suite of 190 checks passes.

A correction to what we told you in v1.0

Version 1.0 said it had replaced “the 17th-century vocabulary that no longer communicates.” That was not true, and this release is where we say so plainly. A read-through of Psalms, Proverbs and Isaiah on the live site turned up words nobody has used in ordinary English since about 1800, still sitting in the text, seraphims, conies, suretiship, pate, viols, satyrs, washpot, intreaties, villany, and more.

The reason they survived is worth stating. The v1.0 pass removed archaic grammar, thee, thou, saith, the -eth endings, and every automated check we built afterwards tested for exactly those. A word like suretiship has perfectly modern grammar. Nothing was looking for it, so nothing found it.

What changed in the text

90 verses across Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah and six New Testament books. Each replacement is anchored to the Hebrew or Greek, not to a modern translation:

• Words that pointed at the wrong thing entirely. Unicorns is רְאֵם (re'em, H7214), a wild ox, the one-horned horse is an artefact of the Latin Vulgate. Now wild oxen. Conies is the rock hyrax, now rock badgers. Satyrs is שְׂעִירִים, now wild goats.
• Double plurals and dead spellings. Seraphims was a plural of a plural, now seraphim. Also skilfully, inclosed, putrifying, innocency, and a simple misspelling of adulteress that had been sitting in Proverbs 6:26.
• Customs a modern reader has no way to picture. Suretiship and “striking hands” are one idea: guaranteeing somebody else's debt with a handshake. Proverbs 6:1, 11:15, 17:18, 20:16 and 27:13 now say that in words.
• The verb compass. Twenty-six places where it means surround. The noun stays: in Isaiah 44:13 a carpenter is holding an actual drawing compass.
• Broken English left by earlier passes. Psalm 60:8 read “Philistia, triumph you because of me,” which is not a sentence. Proverbs 30:31 was a row of fragments, “A greyhound; a he goat also”, with no clue that it was finishing the list started two verses earlier.
• Three places where the Hebrew itself is disputed, decided and documented rather than left to the KJV's guess. Proverbs 30:31 is a strutting rooster, the word means “girded at the loins” and appears nowhere else in the Bible, but the Septuagint, the Vulgate and the Syriac all read a rooster, and “greyhound” is a later guess. Isaiah 31:8 is put to forced labor: מַס (mas, H4522) is the work-gang word, and the KJV's “discomfited” reads it as a different verb. Psalm 139:3 is examine, from a word picturing a farmer tossing grain in the air to sort it. Tap any of the three for the full note.
• Proverbs 25:24 now matches 21:9, its own twin. The KJV added a stray “and” to one of them and not the other, though the Hebrew is identical. Note that 21:19, better to live in the desert, is a different proverb, and it is already in the text.

Why it cannot come back

Every word above is now in the automated guard at tests/archaic-words.test.mjs, and the replacement rules are in the translation pipeline itself, so a rebuild from source cannot restore them. All 90 verses are recorded in the change log with the KJV input, the previous wording, the new wording and the reason. The full suite of 188 checks passes.

The reader was rewriting punctuation, and we did not know

Chasing one odd-looking verse in Proverbs 30 turned up something larger. The reader carried a “punctuation modernizer” that rewrote every verse on its way to the screen: every semicolon became a full stop and a capital letter, and every colon became a comma or a full stop. It affected 8,651 verses containing a semicolon and 11,351 containing a colon, and it ran in three places, the reader, shared verses, and search results.

It did real damage. Proverbs 30:31 is a list finishing a sentence begun two verses earlier; it was served as three fragments, “A greyhound. A he goat also.” Psalm 1:2 is a Hebrew couplet, split into two sentences with the second opening on And. Psalm 2:7 was handed to readers as a comma splice we introduced ourselves.

The reason it went unnoticed for so long is worth being plain about: the text files were correct the whole time. Every check we run compares the manuscripts to the reader's data, and this rewrite happened after both, in the browser. The corpus passed; the page lied. It has been removed, punctuation now belongs to the text, where it is recorded and reviewable, and a new test guards the rendering code itself rather than the data.

Tap any word you don't know

The dotted underline under a word means there is help behind it. Three colours now, so you know what a tap will get you:

• Blue, what this word means.
• Orange, who this person is, what their name means, and where they sit in the story.
• Green, where this place is, and why the verse names it.

Hovering now waits half a second before the card opens, so a pointer crossing a word on its way somewhere else no longer sets one off. Clicking or tapping still opens it instantly and pins it open until you close it.

What is still outstanding

This release fixes the words that should never have been in a plain-English Bible, and adds a help card for every one of the 327 words flagged in a full read-through of Psalms, Proverbs and Isaiah: 39 were replaced outright, 250 now carry a tappable card, and 38 were judged plain enough that a dot would just be noise, each with a written reason. Coverage is checked by a script, not by eye. What is not done is the sweep beyond that list: the words a reader would stall on in chapters nobody has read closely yet, and a card for every person and place in these books. A complete independent Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek review of every verse, and legal clearance, both remain outstanding. Version 1.3 does not claim a perfect or fully verified translation.

986 verses updated across Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, and all 27 New Testament books. This release includes earlier prepared fixes and new contextual corrections. The active collection contains 30 books, 507 chapters, and 12,625 verses. The other 36 books remain hidden from the web reader, and their manuscript text was not changed in this review.

What changed in the text

• Warnings, prevention, and fear: All 124 passages containing the KJV word lest in this collection now have individual contextual decisions. The automatic replacement with or else was removed because it could reverse a sentence's meaning.
• Questions and grammar: Restored why where the KJV asks a question, repaired past-tense questions such as when did you come?, and corrected damaged relative clauses and possessives. The final reading also corrected forms such as many there be, I laid me down, and I do you not know.
• Context instead of blanket substitutions: All 11 passages containing withal now have individual decisions. This repairs wording about baptism, the benefit of spiritual gifts, and other sentences where besides gave the wrong connection.
• Pronouns and speakers: Retired the blanket removal of whom and the zero-pronoun policy. Valid modern grammar, the original audience, and the person a pronoun refers to take priority.
• Words read in context: Distinguished splitting from clinging, seeing from an attention marker, illness from weakness, and nations or Gentiles from the older term heathen. Updated vocabulary such as wroth, tidings, and unloose.
• Documented Hebrew decisions: Distinguished black cumin from spelt in Isaiah 28, corrected the rope image in Isaiah 3:24, and recorded the grammatical decisions in Psalm 32:9 and Proverbs 5:6. Psalm 77:2 now preserves the Hebrew hand image, with the uncertainty in the verb recorded in the review notes.
• Clearer injury language: Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24 now use wounds without the repeated explanatory phrase about scourging. Healing language is retained; theological application belongs in commentary.

Sources, study notes, and copyright

The English base follows the later KJV tradition commonly identified with 1769; it is not a transcription of the original 1611 printing. The translation method now explicitly preserves speakers, conditions, and imagery, and separates editorial commentary from Scripture.

Word-study tooltips now state that they show related study entries, not a verified Hebrew or Greek word alignment for each verse. Fixed claims that every use of power is supernatural, every weakness is illness, or every act of speaking is an executive command have been removed from the translation guidance.

The drafting policy uses the KJV and documented source-language evidence. NKJV and other copyrighted modern translations are not wording templates. A phrase scan or pronoun change cannot prove legal clearance. See the translation method, source-review explanation, and quotation and copyright policy.

What has been checked

All 12,625 verses in the active collection were checked for verse coverage, agreement between manuscript and reader data, and reproduction from the recorded rules and verse decisions. The local reader build and regression checks pass. The change record preserves the KJV input, previous wording, revised wording, and reasons for each changed verse.

Review status: This release applies specific corrections. A complete, independent Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek review of every verse, verification of the original digital source's acquisition history, and legal clearance remain outstanding. Version 1.2 does not claim a perfect or fully verified translation.

Historical notes: These describe the earlier rules and prepared changes. Version 1.2 supersedes the pronoun policy and the earlier claims of complete source verification or copyright assurance.

Version 1.0 removed the archaic grammar, not, as this section originally claimed, the archaic vocabulary; see v1.3 for the correction and the words that survived. Version 1.1 fixes what that removal left behind. Swapping single words out of 400-year-old English leaves seams, grammar that no longer agrees, doubled words, half-modernised idioms. This release reads the seams and closes them, without touching meaning.

Mechanical repairs

Artefacts of the modernisation itself, each one corrected everywhere it occurred:

• "from from there" (38 places), the KJV word thence already means from there, so "from thence" became a doubled "from". Now simply from there. Same fix for whence, henceforth and thenceforth.
• "which is, being interpreted" (6 places), now which means. The Greek μεθερμηνευόμενον is plainly "which is translated". Matthew 1:23, Mark 5:41, 15:22, 15:34, Acts 4:36, John 20:16.
• "if you be" (18 places), now if you are. This one sits in the most-read verses in the book: "If you are the Son of God…"
• "in no wise" (8 places), now in no way. The Greek οὐ μή is an emphatic never, and "in no way" carries that; "in no wise" just sounds old.
• "whomever" (11 places), now whoever, matching the house rule that already removed whom.
• "Messias", now Messiah (John 4:25).
• "saidst you truly", now you have spoken truly (John 4:18). "was happen", now had happened (Luke 24:12). "to wit", now namely and we make known to you (2 Corinthians 5:19, 8:1).
• "Look a star" → "Look, a star", the KJV Behold is an interjection and needs its comma. Where the text genuinely means look at, the speck, the face, it was deliberately left alone.

Grammar after the whom removal

The earlier policy removed whom, but English does not simply substitute who in every position. That policy is retired in v1.2. Clauses like "in whom I am well pleased" collapse into "in who I am well pleased", which is not English at all. Across all 66 books we found 358 of these and rebuilt 333 of them one verse at a time, never by search-and-replace, because the correct repair differs in every sentence.

• "in who I am well pleased" → "I am well pleased with him"
• "from who also I received letters" → "from him also I received letters"
• "the man of who he bought it" → "the man he bought it from"

The remaining 25 were already correct, "For who is God except the LORD?" needs no repair, and were left untouched.

A relative-pronoun bug, found and killed

While reading those verses by hand we found a worse fault. The rule turning "he that believes" into "he who believes" was firing on every that, not only the relative one. Sixty-one verses had been quietly broken, "tell him who the child was dead" instead of "tell him that the child was dead". All 61 are repaired, and the rule now refuses to fire where a relative clause is impossible.

Consistency with our own published rules

We audited the whole Bible against the standards we publish in our own style guide and found 506 verses that broke them. 392 were corrected in this release, including restoring the true sense of let as hinder, the 1611 meaning, and the opposite of what let means today.

Reader

• Word tooltips for scourge and its family, giving the Greek and the physical reality behind it.
• John 2:15 now reads whip, φραγέλλιον, a whip of cords.
• Automated guards scan selected archaic forms and a limited phrase watchlist. These checks do not detect every error or establish copyright clearance.

Every repair above was also written back into the translation pipeline itself. These faults cannot return the next time the text is rebuilt from source, that is the difference between fixing a page and fixing a press.

The first complete Giga King James Version: all 66 books, translated in full, with the reader, the study tools and the apps around it.

What the GIGAKJV is

The GIGAKJV revises a KJV text in the later 1769 tradition. The original release described its base as 1611; that description is corrected in v1.2. It keeps the KJV's structure, its literal discipline and its weight, and replaces the 17th-century vocabulary that no longer communicates, or, worse, that now communicates the opposite of what it meant. This claim was overstated: the v1.0 pass replaced archaic grammar and a list of known false friends, but left dozens of dead nouns and verbs standing. See v1.3.

Prevent meant precede in 1611. Let meant hinder. Conversation meant conduct. A reader in 2026 does not misunderstand these words; they understand them perfectly, in the modern sense, and so read the verse backwards. Correcting that is not a liberty taken with Scripture, it is what the 1611 translators did for their own generation, and the reason they gave for doing it.

What changed from the KJV base

• Archaic pronouns retired. Thee, thou, thy, thine and ye become you and your.
• Archaic verb endings retired. Saith, hath, doeth, knoweth become says, has, does, knows.
• Words that flipped meaning restored to their 1611 sense, prevent, let, conversation, suffer, meat, quick, so the verse says today what it said then.
• Obsolete forms replaced, shew, peradventure, haply, wist, durst.
• Whom removed in favour of who, as an earlier house rule. This rule is retired in v1.2: objective whom remains valid modern English.

What did not change

No verse was dropped, merged, renumbered or softened. Word order and sentence structure follow the KJV wherever modern English permits. The working base follows the later 1769 KJV tradition. Historical provenance still requires review; the limited phrase watchlist cannot prove the origin of every sentence.

The dual provision

Passages dealing with the Atonement are rendered so that both halves of it stand equally: forgiveness of sins purchased at the Cross, and physical healing purchased at the whipping post. Both are presented as finished works of Christ, because both are what the text says. There is more on this in the FAQ.

The reader

• All 66 books, chapter navigation, and swipe gestures on mobile.
• Words of Christ in red.
• Tap any marked word for its lexicon entry and the Greek or Hebrew behind it.
• Ask King James, study conversation with tappable scripture references, read-aloud, and voice-to-text.
• Daily devotionals.
• Installable as an app, and fully readable offline once installed.
• Native iOS and Android builds.

Provenance

The current derivation from the bundled KJV is recorded. Version 1.2 distinguishes reproducibility from historical provenance, source-language verification, and legal clearance. See Copyright for how the GIGAKJV is licensed and how it was produced.