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What Does “Quicken” Mean in the Bible?
In the King James Bible, “Quicken” means “make alive” in modern English. It is an archaic word from the 1611 KJV that has dropped out of everyday use.
What Was Lost
The sense of God jolting the spiritually dead into immediate, startling life -- not gradual recovery but instant resurrection of the soul. The 'quick and the dead' framing made quicken a word that straddled the boundary between life and death itself.
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