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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Revised Version

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

In the preparation of the Revised Version of 1885 the American scholars proposed more radical changes than the English revisers would admit.

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

We turn with curiosity to the Revised Version; and discover that out of the 25 so retained, the Editors in question were only able to persuade the Revisionists to adopt 8.

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William