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This entertaining and informative book explains everyday expressions and curious words and their origin in the KJV. The text gives details on the original meanings and when and where they were used in the Bible. Gives the fascinating and often humorous stories behind hundreds of contemporary phrases and expressions, including such sayings as "the blind leading the blind," "by the skin of my...

of Spinoza or Samuel Johnson that “nature abhors a vacuum,” or the line in the Te Deum, “Thou didst not abhor the Virgin’s womb.” But these meanings are now obsolete, and the word has become fraught with emotion. It means to hate vehemently, to abominate, to regard with loathing or disgust. The King James Version employs “abhor” 43 times, to represent 14 different Hebrew or Greek words; RSV retains it in more than half these cases. In Exodus 5:21 “made our savour to be abhorred” is changed to “made
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