The presentation will first discuss the history of the English translations of the Bible and the problems which translators undertaking this enormous task have to solve; then it will analyze numerous examples of idiomatic expressions that are used today in many genres of spoken and written English and that originated in one of the English translations of the Bible, including the King James Bible (1611). No other single source has provided the language with so many expressions, which makes the Bible the most influential book in shaping modern English.