Book Description

Translators imputed words in the King James Bible and italics them because some have assumed that those words were placed for importance.In fact, the words in italics in the King James Bible are words that were added by the translators to help the reader. They felt it was necessary when translating from one language to another because a word in one language may not have a comparison word in English and natural expressions often do not efficiently flow smoothly from one language to another. Hence, the words in italics are words which do not have any equality in the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek text. By adding these words, the translators' goal was to make the meaning of the sentence clearer and produce a more readable translation that reads smoothly, yet was faithful to the original. However, to make sure that the reader understood that these words were not in the manuscripts, they set them in italics.Clearly, the words in italics were not miraculously given to the translators by God as additional inspiration the same way He did as recorded in 2 Peter 1:21, "holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." Neither are the italics there to add emphasis. The words in italics in the King James Bible are words that were added by the translators to help the reader better understand the intent of the passage translated from the original languages.The same as for me (Michael Johnson, Sr.), I added all my precepts and word appellations using italics. To give the reader notice, they are not part of scripture. They were added for clarity only, and give the reader a better understanding of what the passage is saying and what the words mean at the time the word was being in the Bible. Word appellations are used to give the reader knowledge of geographical locations (as of a region, village, or vineyard), or person(s) name meaning, and location, city, place, and wilderness locations. Appellations are also used to identify the characteristics and acts by appellations.