Difficult and archaic KJV words

Words whose older sense can be missed

Letteth in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 concerns restraint, while letteth him go in 2 Kings 10:24 concerns allowing escape. Quick can mean living; meat can mean food; conversation often concerns conduct. Context decides the sense.

• letteth

  In 2 Thessalonians 2:7, letteth means restrains or holds back.

• prevent

  Prevent can mean come before, go before, or meet beforehand in the KJV.

• conversation

  Conversation often means conduct or manner of life in the KJV; Philippians 3:20 concerns heavenly citizenship.

• quick

  Quick can mean living or alive in the KJV, rather than fast.

• meat

  Meat often means food in the KJV, with a wider sense than animal flesh.

• charity

  Charity in these KJV passages is love expressed in its character and actions.

• peculiar

  Peculiar describes a special possession or a people belonging to God in these KJV passages.

• suffer

  Suffer can mean allow or permit, and it can also describe undergoing hardship.

Unfamiliar forms and words of direction

• thither

  Thither means to that place or toward that place.

• whither

  Whither means to what place, or to the place to which.

• whence

  Whence means from where or from which place or source.

• anon

  Anon means immediately or at once in its two KJV occurrences.

• stablish

  Stablish means establish, make firm, or strengthen.

• holpen

  Holpen is an older form meaning helped.

• wot

  Wot means know in the KJV.

• wist

  Wist means knew; wist not means did not know.

Read the complete passage

The explanation is study material alongside the verse. Read the whole sentence and chapter, and compare other occurrences before deciding that a glossary meaning applies everywhere.