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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Example Sentences

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

This work is by most students regarded as, upon the whole, better than the Revised Version of 1885 and the best translation of the Bible that has yet appeared.

From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

At least I have read a paper on the Revised Version which satisfies me that I ought to have joined more heartily in Mr. Gladstone's censure of it.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron