Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Favorite words in the King James Bible

thee (pron.)—singular accusative of thou. We often confuse thee, thou, thy, and thine with formal forms of address—but they were not. Throughout the KJV these are simply the singular forms of the 2nd person pronoun. Memorably, Jesus says to the devil in Luke 4:8, “Get thee behind me, Satan”!

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