This is any one of various recensions that aretaken to represent the authentic words, or portion of the words,of the original Scriptures.¹

Some examples are as follows:

• Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
• Masoretic Text
• Nestle-Aland's Novum Testamentum
• Textus Receptus
• United Bible Society's Greek New Testament
  
• Westcott and Hort's The New Testament in the Original Greek

1. Funk and Wagnalls. Dictionary of the English Language. Page 1299.