Where did you pick up this insane idea? "Runs counter to the colloquial Greek!". Just imagine! Do you know anything at all about the translators of the KJB, and their excellence in all the biblical languages including Greek? Do you know anything about Desiderius Erasmus?" In a letter to Antoon van Bergen in 1501 Erasmus wrote:
"Latin scholarship, however elaborate, is maimed and reduced by half without Greek. For whereas we Latins have but a few small streams, a few muddy pools, the Greeks possess crystal-clear springs and rivers that run with gold. I can see what utter madness it is even to put a finger on that part of theology which is specially concerned with the mysteries of the faith unless one is furnished with the equipment of Greek as well, since the translators of Scripture, in their scrupulous manner of construing the text, offer such literal versions of Greek idioms that no one ignorant of that language could grasp even the primary, or, as our own theologians call it, literal, meaning." [1]
http://www.textusreceptusbibles.com/Desiderius_Erasmus
And do you know that they faithfully translated the Greek word for word as much as possible? The Authorized version is not only an outstanding piece of English literature, but literary scholars have even admitted that it molded the English language. There are dozens of sayings and expressions in English which hark back to the KJB.
But there is more to it than the literary aspect.
This translation was the most powerful English translation ever produced, and millions of Christians accepted it as the Word of God for hundreds of years. Millions of souls were saved through preaching out of this book.
And there is not a single conservative commentator from before the 20th century who raised any objections about this Bible. They based their commentaries on what was in this Bible, regarding it as the Word of God, and then giving their expositions.
It was the Higher and Lower Critics in the 19th century who decided that it would be fun to attack the Bible and Bible doctrines. And so the mostly German critics began gnawing away at the Bible and casting doubts on everything, until Westcott and Hort threw out the Received Text and substituted an extremely corrupt critical text for their Revised Version. And thus began the stream of corrupt modern English bibles which need to be constantly revised (perhaps more as cash cows than anything else).