When you do a search for a word on the "Phrase Search / Concordance" you might experience a problem looking for your specific word. The "Phrase Search / Concordance" searches the King James Version. The edition of the King James Version that we use is the 1769 Edition. Because of this, there are some minor spelling variations, even from more recent editions of the King James Version.
The following table compares various spellings from Modern versions of the KJV with the 1769 edition (the one used on the BLB) and the 1611 edition (the first edition):
| Modern | 1769 | 1611 | Reference |
| always | alway | alway | Job 7:16 |
| astonished | astonied | astonied | Job 17:8 |
| braided | broided | broided | 1Ti 2:9 |
| cliffs | clifts | clifts | Job 30:6 |
| drove | drave | draue | Act 18:16 |
| graft/grafted | graff/graffed | graffe/graffed | Rom 11:23 |
| heretic | heretick | heretike | Tts 3:10 |
| hungered | hungred | hungred | Mat 25:35 |
| idle | idol | idoll | Zec 11:17 |
| Phoenicia | Phenicia | Phenicea | Act 21:2 |
| public | publick | publique | Mat 1:19 |
| reward | rereward | rereward | Isa 52:12 |
| rye | rie | rye | Isa 28:25 |
| sergeants | serjeants | sergeants | Act 16:38 |
| show | shew | shew | Jhn 14:8 |
| spew | spue | spew | Rev 3:16 |
| subtle | subtil | subtill | Gen 3:1 |
| steadfast | stedfast | stedfast | 1Cr 15:58 |
| Stoics | Stoicks | Stoikes | Act 17:18 |
| thoroughly | throughly | throughly | 2Ti 3:17 |
| today | to day | to day | Hbr 4:7 |
| vats | fats | fats | Joe 2:24 |
| veil | vail | vaile | 2Cr 3:16 |
Another difficult one may have is alternate spellings of the same name. This is especially the case when a name appears in both Old and New Testaments; because one spelling is based upon Hebrew and another is based upon Greek, there can be subtle differences. Some examples of these differences include the following names:
- Elijah/Elias
- Gideon/Gedeon
- Isaiah/Esaias
- Jephthah/Jephthae
- Melchizedek/Melchisedec
- Noah/Noe
- Sarah/Sara
- Zion/Sion
