Unlike English, Koine Greek doesn't rely on word position to show who's doing what to whom — that job is carried by the case endings (nominative, accusative, genitive, etc.), not by where a word sits in the sentence. Because of this, word order in Greek is genuinely flexible, and a large share of the "transposed" variants you'll find throughout K7 involve no real difference in meaning — just a different word order carrying the same grammatical relationships.
There's no single fixed "Koine order" the way English defaults to Subject-Verb-Object. Patterns shift by genre and author: fast-moving narrative (Mark, much of the Gospels) tends to front the verb more often; denser, more argumentative or Hebraic-influenced writing (Hebrews, the Johannine letters) often pushes the verb later in the clause. Word order in Greek is driven mainly by emphasis and what the author wants the reader's attention on first — not by a grammatical requirement.
B = Byzantine alternate reading.
N = NA 26/27 A Sinaticus type set as primary compilation.
RP = RP 2018
Q = All minority compilations.
TNT = A compilation using mostly the A manuscript.
TR5 = Supposedly the actual Text used for the Tyndale Translation.
TR6 = TR 1986 backward compilation.
V = SBL. Another Vaticanus Greek Manuscript set as primary text like WH.
WH = Westcott and Hort 1881. Vaticanus Greek Manuscript set as primary text
[words in brace] Doubt these are original.
ND. = No Difference in English. Some of the 9800 differences are the ND., some minor to some extremely doctrinal dangerous. Like the unmarked supplied words "unknown" as in "unknown tongue" in KJV 1 Cor 14.
§§@ = Not yet human approved.
§§§ = Human approved but may still be missing commentary on those which truly cause a doctrinal problem.
One think to always remember the computer age has proven over a billion times: Copyists and Transcription experts, omit a 1000 times more often than they add. Hospitals know this. This is why they constantly are reciting your 'allergies' to you the patient. Giving penicillin to a chemo patient who is allergic to it -- DEAD!
We have noticed that some footnote changes are ignored because they are stupid sounding or don't fit contextually. Then it appears they go back to their KJV and use whatever is says, but in Modern English.
Disclaimer. These textual-variant footnotes were machine-coded in Excel and human spot-checked, not individually verified by multiple Greek scholars. In 2026, our coding cleaned up to be more English-like using AIs vs. spending a year plus doing it as each one was checked. If you find one that's wrong, here's how to tell us.
We don't need "such and such said" or "I believe." We are the judge and jury on what is final. The MLV only exists because a new convert found an "indoctrination" put into his newly bought Bible version. We built a computer-enforced, strictly non-paraphrased translation specifically so no single person's theology could quietly bend the English away from the Greek — including ours. That standard applies here too.
What we will look at
- The specific manuscript siglum(s) involved (RP, Q, N, WH, Treg, TR, B, V, Z, S, Holmes, etc.)
- The actual Greek word(s) in question — copy/paste them if you can
- Why the footnote's English doesn't match the Greek reading it claims to represent
- A reference to a Greek lexicon, grammar, or the manuscript apparatus itself
What we will not act on
- "This contradicts what my pastor/denomination/study Bible teaches"
- "This doesn't fit the doctrine of ___"
- Preferences for a theological system, translation tradition, or wording you're used to, offered without a textual or grammatical basis
- Long doctrinal arguments with no Greek in them
If your email is about what the Bible should mean rather than what the Greek text actually says, it isn't a textual correction — it's a theological disagreement, and this isn't the channel for it. We'll say so briefly and move on. This isn't a slight against your convictions; it's the same rule that built the MLV in the first place, and it applies to everyone, including us.
How to submit
[Insert submission email/form here.]
Please include:
- Book, chapter, verse
- The Greek word(s) and manuscript siglum(s) in question
- Your proposed correction and the textual/grammatical basis for it
We read every submission that meets the above. We don't reply to every one.