So why trust a book where the words are given new definitions unrelated to their original meaning?

"The original Hebrew word is 'pachad', which always indicates a terrified dread." This website has a great explanation of this common confusion about the word. a href="http://home.nyc.rr.com/mysticalrose/fear.html" rel="nofollow"http://home.nyc.rr.com/mysticalrose/fear…/a Hey, even I have struggled with it, but if you just think about the language used to write the Bible, you will understand that the writers of the KJV did not manipulate the original word.