Revised Version

British  

noun

1. a revision of the Authorized Version of the Bible prepared by two committees of British scholars, the New Testament being published in 1881 and the Old in 1885

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In the Authorized Version of the Old Testament unicorns are mentioned four times; in the Revised Version the Hebrew word, R'?m, is translated "wild ox."

From Time Magazine Archive

The year before the Protestants began working on the Revised Version, U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Moffatt Translation, like the recent Goodspeed-Smith "American" Bible, is much more colloquial than the Revised Version of 1901, now being re-revised by a committee Under Dr. Moffatt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Modern Versions.—All the English versions are now antiquated, except those in the Variorum Apocrypha and the Revised Version of the Apocrypha, and even these are far from satisfactory.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

The Revised Version rightly indicates this connection by its translation, but fails to give the construction as accurately as the older translation does.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren