I am sure you do your reasearch and understand the words properly because you go the extra mile.
An average Joes doesn't. If the Bible is "perspicuous" then it should be understood equally by those who love dicitonaries and those who don't.
There is nothing wrong with explaining things, then, to people who are not students of language per se. Their not seeing it first off (and needing it explained) doesn’t mean that the word used is no good, archaic, porly chosen, or should be changed. What’s needed is for them just to know the language better.
I don’t know that I go the extra mile, but I am a student of Chinese and use it daily, and so I’m always looking at dictionaries. It makes one keen to word usages.
Which reminds me that many words and expressions used by the KJB translators, which are often criticized as archaic and not heard much in North America anymore, are still used daily in places like Hong Kong, Singapore, and believe it or not, Shanghai, where I live.
When’s the last time anyone in the USA heard a recorded voice on a transit train say, “Please alight (or light off) on the left.” That is, “Please exit or get off on the left.” But this can be heard daily in the Orient where English is spoken. See Geneis 24:64 KJB. And that’s only one of many example I can give.
When I was younger, I used to listen to many preachers say, “Oh that word hasn’t been used for 300 years . . .we need another Bible.” Then I got to the Orient and discovered that those words are only out of use in the USA. But I have come to believe that it is America that has been dumbed down over the past century, and “archaic” words are not the problem at all.
And when I hear preachers give definitions of English words with a Greek word, I seem to easily find the same conclusion in good English dictionaries. So I say, hhhmmmm, rather than allow the Greek scholars to kind of become a self-appointed authority over our interpretation of the Scriptures, I think I will encourage people who already have a love for Bible study to do more study of the English language.