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Revised Standard Version

Revised Standard Version

6.8
An English translation of the Bible first published in the mid 1900s
  • proper noun
translation icon : Versión Estándar Revisada
  • My first Bible was a Revised Standard Version, available since 1989 as the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV).
  • New Revised Standard Version

Examples

  • All Bible quotations in this blog are from the New Revised Standard Version unless otherwise indicated.

    Blog text (24)

  • I have used the Douay-Rheims version for biblical citations, occasionally modifying archaic language or substituting the Revised Standard Version.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The New Revised Standard Version

    Blog text (24)

  • Revised Standard Version

    Blog text (33)

  • All Bible quotations in this blog are from the Revised Standard Version unless otherwise indicated.

  • Biblical quotations, which generally introduce each chapter, come from the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition of the Bible.

Surface Forms

Revised Standard Version main

Morphology

revised + standard + version

The meaning is directly built from the constituents: 'revised' (updated), 'standard' (accepted benchmark), and 'version' (edition), so a learner can infer it denotes an updated standard edition. Although identifying the specific referent (a Bible translation) needs world knowledge, the compositional sense is transparent to a B1 learner who knows the words.

Etymology

Revised Standard Version gets its name because it is a revised, or updated, form of an earlier 'standard' English Bible called the American Standard Version, made in the mid-1900s to use clearer language for modern readers. That's why the name now refers to a major modern English translation of the Bible.