Unlike modern versions' twisted paraphrased/word-omitting "translators", 1611 KJB translators used word-for word translation type, from Hebrew Masoretic & Greek/Byzantine-type manuscripts into English for KJB.
KJB translators said they knew & feared the LORD, were careful, & wanted vulgar (historical/long-used) words to be understood by readers
"Truely, that we might not varie from the fenfe [sense] of that which we had tranflated before, if the word fignifized [signifized] the fame [same] thing in both places (for there bee some wordes that be not of the same fenfe euery where) we were efpecially carefull, and made a confcience, according to our duetie. But, that we fhould expreffe the fame notion in the fame particular word; as for example, if we tranflate the Hebrew or Greeke word once by Purpofe, neuer to call it Intent;...But we defire [desire] that the Scripture may fpeake like it felie [it self],...that it may vnderftood even of the very vulgar."
(1611 KJB, The Translators To The Reader, Page 18/1506)
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