The Wordsworth Dictionary of Bible Quotations provides a fresh selection of familiar and not so familiar biblical quotations. It contains over 4000 quotations from the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible, the Apocrypha and the much loved 1662 Book of Common Prayer, all of which had such a powerful role in the development of the English language.

          In the chapters on the Old Testament, the dictionary covers the Books of the Law, the Historical Books, the Books of Poetry and Wisdom and the Books of the Prophets. The reader will be able to find, among a wealth of expressions, who are the salt of the earth and the powers that be, why we sometimes escape by the skin of our teeth and what is the fly in the ointment. The dictionary is fully indexed for ease of use.