Words have their histories, like men. Like them they live and die. A word that meant one thing may mean another hundreds of years afterwards, and may at last cease to be used at all. In our English translation (the Authorized Version of King James in the year 1611) there are many words found that are now, after the lapse of almost 400 years, obsolete (that is, gone out of use) or obsolescent (that is, going out of use). Others have somewhat changed their meanings. The following are some hard, and old-fashioned, words to be found in the King James Version, with their present-day meaning:

Abomination An object that fills us with disgust, particularly an idol.
Ambassage The same word is translated “message” in Luke 19:14.
Asswaged Sank down, subsided.
Astonied Astonished.
Audience The Hebrew word means the ear. Abraham spoke in the ear of the children of Heth; we say “in the hearing of”. To give audience means to listen.
Barbarian An alien or foreigner.
Barbarous Foreign.
Baser “Certain lewd fellows of the baser sort”; that is, wicked men who hung about the market place; vile men of the rabble.
Bewrayeth Betrays.
Carriage That which is carried, baggage. We now say luggage.
Charger Dish in the Old Testament (Num 7), where silver chargers are spoken of. But in the New Testament (Mat 14) the Greek word “pinax” means a wooden drinking cup.
To be at charges To discharge the cost of, to bear the expense of.
Convert To turn again.
Fain Gladly.
Garner Granary (barn).
Jot, Yod The smallest Hebrew letter. “Iota” is the Greek. Both correspond to the English letter “I” but it is often transliterated “J” in our Bible. The names Jerusalem, Jesus, Isaac, Isaiah, Judah, Israel, John, James, Jacob, etc., all begin with this letter.
Knop An old way of writing “knob”. In connection with the tabernacle, the knops were carved imitations of the buds of flowers.
Latchet The thong by which the sandal was attached to the foot.
Let In a few passages only, ‘let’ means ‘hindered’ (Exo 5:4; Isa 43:13; Rom 1:13; 2 Thes. 2:7).
Liketh Pleases.
Lively Living.
Maul A heavy hammer.
Meat Food of any kind. In the RV the words “meal offering” have been substituted for meat offering. This expresses the sense better.
Mete To measure.
Meteyard The English means to measure by the yard, or a yard measure. The Hebrew (Lev19:35) is best translated by the word “measure” only.
Minish Diminish.
Minister A servant.
Mite A very small coin.
Mote A minute particle of dust; a speck (Mat 7:3).
Neesing Sneezing.
Nether Lower.
Nethermost Lowest.
Occupy To do business; to trade.
Occupier Trader.
Offence In many places, a stumbling block, “skandalon”, the original of our word “scandal”.
Ouches Sockets.
Overlived Outlived.
Peradventure Perhaps; it may be.
Pottage That which is prepared in a pot.
Presently In the present moment; now.
Printed Engraved; “inscribed” (RV).
Proper Goodly, comely.
Proselyte “One who has come to”, therefore a convert to Judaism.
Provoked Stirred up, stimulated.
Quick Living.
Quicken To make alive.
Quit Behave, or, as we now say, acquit.
Ranges Ranks in 2Ki 11:8.
Ravin Plunder.
Reins The kidneys, regarded as the seat of joy, pain, etc.
Reprobate Refuse.
Ringstraked Streaked with rings.
Riotous Gluttonous.
Scall An eruption on the head or face.
Scrabbled Scrawled, or scratched.
Scrip A small bag or wallet.
Seethe To boil.
Sherd A sherd, potsherd, a broken piece of pottery.
Silverlings Pieces of silver.
Sith Since.
Sod, Sodden Boil, Boiled.
Sottish Foolish.
Staggered “Wavered” (RV)
Strawed Strewed, scattered.
Tables Writing tablets covered with wax.
Tabret A kind of small tambourine.
Tell To number or count.
Temperance Self-control.
Tempt To test, try, put to the proof.
Tetrarch Ruler over a fourth part.
Thought “Anxiety” in Matthew 6:25.
Tired Adorned with a tire or head dress; attired.
Tittle The minute point added to one Hebrew letter to distinguish it from another.
Tormentors Torturers.
Trow To think, imagine.
Twain An old form from the Anglo-Saxon “twegen” — two; hence the Scotch “twa”, and the English “twainty” or twenty.
Unperfect Imperfect.
Untoward Not toward; ie, inclined in the opposite direction.
Utter Sometimes means outer.
Vagabond A wanderer.
Vile Worthless.
Ware Aware.
Whit A bit, atom; every whit, wholly; not a whit, not at all.
Wilily Craftily.
Wise Way. On this wise, in this way.
Wist Knew.
Wit To wit, to know.
With Young twig of willow.
Wot Knew.
Yokefellow Fellow-laborer.