American Revised Version
- proper noun
- US
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Versión Revisada Americana
- The American Revised Version aimed to update the language of the King James Bible.
Examples
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She inherited an old family Bible printed in the American Revised Version.
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Many scholars refer to the American Revised Version when discussing biblical translations.
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The American Revised Version is widely used in many churches.
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Many scholars prefer the American Revised Version for its clarity.
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Many scholars refer to the American Revised Version when discussing biblical translations.
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She inherited an old family Bible printed in the American Revised Version.
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The American Revised Version aimed to update the language of the King James Bible.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'American' (from the United States) + 'revised' (edited/updated) + 'version' (an edition), so its meaning — a revised edition produced/used in America — is directly derivable from the parts. This adjectival + noun naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand the intended sense even if they did not know the specific referent (the Bible edition).
Etymology
American Revised Version comes from a group of American scholars who made a new edition of the King James 'Bible' in the late 1800s to update old words and improve some translations. So the title tells you it is an American 'revised' 'version' of an older 'Bible' translation.
