Glossary
Words whose sense has shifted are explained here, never rewritten: a word can look modern and mean something else. Each entry is a reviewer's own prose (no dictionary text is stored), linked to the places it applies; those words carry a dotted underline in the reader.
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let
verbKJVProposedTo hinder or stand in the way, the opposite of the modern sense. Only some places in the KJV use it so (he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way); most lets mean allow. Link only the hindering ones.
Not linked yet · proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026
conversation
nounKJVApprovedConduct: the whole way a person lives and behaves among others. Not talk. To have one's conversation in heaven, or to let it be as becomes the gospel, is about how one lives.
Linked in 6 places (conversation) · proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026 · approved by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026
prevent
verbKJVApprovedTo come or go before; to be up and doing ahead of someone or something, or to meet a person before they arrive. In the KJV it never means to stop or hinder: when the psalmist prevents the dawning of the morning, he is awake and praying before daybreak.
Linked in 6 places (preventest, prevent, prevented) · proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026 · approved by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026