The Greek New Testament on this site is the Byzantine text: the Greek of the great majority of manuscripts. The King James was translated from the Textus Receptus, the printed Greek of the sixteenth century. The two agree almost everywhere. This page lists every place they do not.
Byzantine is the main text the site shows in Greek. King James Greek is the Textus Receptus as F. H. A. Scrivener rebuilt it in 1894 from the readings the King James translators followed.
“Scrivener and Stephanus” means the reading is also in Stephanus’s printed Greek of 1550, the standard Textus Receptus. “Scrivener only” means Stephanus reads with the Byzantine text there, and the King James followed another printed edition, usually Beza’s.
The Greek is printed without accents, as the apparatus it comes from prints it. Two readings joined by dots are one difference made in two places in the verse.
Each difference is sorted by kind: words the King James Greek adds, words it lacks, the same words in another order, a letter or two, and other wording. A letter or two is often spelling (δαυιδ and δαβιδ are both David), but not always: ημων is “our” and υμων is “your.”
Where the Byzantine text has no verse that the King James has, the site’s Greek gives the King James Greek there and says so. The other editions that agree with a reading are named by their abbreviations; the key is on the method page.
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Most differences are a word or two. A few are whole verses, or most of one, that the King James has and the Byzantine text does not.
Grouped by book, closed. Open one to read its verses, or click a bar above to jump to it. Any verse opens in Pick-a-Verse.