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ENGLISH WORD AUDIT

Every “worship” in the KJV

Trace all 198 worship-family word uses in 188 verses back to their source vocabulary and contextual classification.

198word uses
188verses
51 / 51completed scenes in obeisance family

198 English word uses

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Every “worship” in the KJV
PassageEnglish formUse in contextWord familyDetails
Genesis 22:5worshipIntended or attemptedObeisance
Genesis 24:26worshippedCompleted sceneObeisance
Genesis 24:48worshippedCompleted sceneObeisance
Genesis 24:52worshippedCompleted sceneObeisance
Exodus 4:31worshippedCompleted sceneObeisance
Exodus 12:27worshippedCompleted sceneObeisance
Exodus 24:1worshipPrescribed or predictedObeisance
Exodus 32:8worshippedCompleted sceneObeisance
Exodus 33:10worshippedCompleted sceneObeisance
Exodus 34:8worshippedCompleted sceneObeisance
Exodus 34:14worshipPrescribed or predictedObeisance
Deuteronomy 4:19worshipPrescribed or predictedObeisance
Deuteronomy 8:19worshipPrescribed or predictedObeisance
Deuteronomy 11:16worshipPrescribed or predictedObeisance
Deuteronomy 17:3worshippedPrescribed or predictedObeisance
Deuteronomy 26:10worshipPrescribed or predictedObeisance
Deuteronomy 29:26worshippedReported practiceObeisance
Deuteronomy 30:17worshipPrescribed or predictedObeisance
Joshua 5:14worshipCompleted sceneObeisance
Judges 7:15worshippedCompleted sceneObeisance

Follow the numbers

The audit maps 172 English tokens to the obeisance family, 25 to other vocabulary, and one to translator-supplied English. The completed category contains 51 tokens, all in the obeisance family. Of 136 tokens in the four action-oriented categories, 135 have an identifiable source word; all 135 belong to that family.

The extra intended-action token is 1 Kings 12:30, where the KJV supplies “to worship.” The seven Old Testament exceptions comprise five “worshippers of Baal” labels, Jeremiah 44:19’s shaping vocabulary, and that supplied expression. The total is 111 of 118 Old Testament tokens, not 111 of 117.

Classification is interpretive and open to review. “All” in these findings refers to the stated corpus and categories.

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