IntheEnglishlanguagetherewasasyetnoclassicalmeaning；itwasexactlythatmeaningthatthesewritersweregivingthewordswhentheybroughtthemintotheirversion。[1]Thereislargeadvantageinthefactthattheagewasnotascientificone，thatthelanguagehadnotbecomecomplicated。SoitbecomesinterestingtoobservewithProfessorMarchthatninety-threepercent。ofthesewords，countingalsorepetitions，arenativeEnglishwords。Thelanguagewasnew，wasstillplastic。Ithadnotbeenstiffenedbyuse。ItreceiveditssetmoredefinitelyfromtheEnglishBiblethanfromanyotheronework——morethanfromShakespeare，whoseinfluencewassecond。
[1]Trevelyan，EnglandundertheStuarts，p。54，ThefourthfactwhichhelpedtodetermineitsEnglishstyleistheloyaltyofthetranslatorstotheoriginal，notablytheHebrew。ItisacommonremarkofthestudentsoftheoriginaltonguesthattheHebrewandGreeklanguagesarepeculiarlytranslatable。ThatisnotableintheHebrew。Itisnotalanguageofabstractterms。Thetendencyoflanguageisalwaystobecomevague，sincewearelazyintheuseofit。
Weuseonewordinvariousways，andapetoneformanyideas。Languageisalwaysmoreconcreteinitsearlierforms。InthisperiodoftheconcreteEnglishlanguage，then，thetranslationwasmadefromtheHebrew，whichwasalsoaconcrete，figurativelanguageitself。ThestructureoftheHebrewsentenceisverysimple。
Therearenoextendedparagraphsinit。ItissomewhatdifferentintheNewTestament，wheretheseparagraphsarefound，certainlyinthePaulineGreek；buteventheretheextendedsentencesarebrokenintoclauseswhichcanbetakenaswholes。TheEnglishversionshowsconstantlythemarksoftheHebrewinfluenceinthesimplicityofitsphrasing。RenansaysthattheHebrew\"knowshowtomakepropositions，butnothowtolinkthemintoparagraphs。\"SotheearlierBiblestoriesarelikeachild\'swayoftalking。Theyletonesentencefollowanother，andtheirunityisfoundintheoverflowinguseoftheword\"and\"——onefacthungtoanothertomakeastory，butnottomakeanargument。
InthefirsttenchaptersofISamuel，forexample，therearetwohundredandthirty-eightverses；