What language was the 1611 king James version written in?

Answer 1

It was written in a version of English that is now called old modern English.

As a rough guide: any English that you can actually read is modern English. If it's a bit difficult to read it's old modern English. Shakespeare too wrote in old modern English but it wasn't old when he was writing. Obviously.

Remember that Shakespeare was writing to please the masses and he had much the objectives and pressures as any present day scriptwriter. The committee that translated the King James Bible were trying to make the word of God available to all English speakers.

There is also middle English e.g. Chaucer. and Old English or Anglo saxon which the English developed from about 500 to 1100AD. Then it gradually evolved to Middle English.

Answer 2

The 1611 King James Version of The Bible was written in Early Modern English, which is a predecessor to the modern English language that we use today. It was not written in Old English, Middle English, or Modern English, but rather a distinct stage of the English language.