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John’s Vision on Patmos

Revelation 1:15

In 9 translations

BSB
His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters.
KJV
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
WEB
His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.
ASV
and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.
LSV
and His feet like to frankincense-colored brass, as having been fired in a furnace, and His voice as a sound of many waters;
YLT
and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters,
DBY
and his feet like fine brass, as burning in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters;
DRC
And his feet like unto fine brass, as in a burning furnace. And his voice as the sound of many waters.
GNV
And his feete like vnto fine brasse, burning as in a fornace: and his voyce as the sounde of many waters.

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read πεπυρωμένης (“refined”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read πεπυρωμένοι (“refined”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: πεπυρωμένης. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read πεπυρωμένης; Robinson–Pierpont read πεπυρωμένοι.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ οἱ πόδες αὐτοῦ ὅμοιοι χαλκολιβάνῳ, ὡς ἐν καμίνῳ πεπυρωμένης, καὶ ἡ φωνὴ αὐτοῦ ὡς φωνὴ ὑδάτων πολλῶν,
RP2018
καὶ οἱ πόδες αὐτοῦ ὅμοιοι χαλκολιβάνῳ, ὡς ἐν καμίνῳ πεπυρωμένοι· καὶ ἡ φωνὴ αὐτοῦ ὡς φωνὴ ὑδάτων πολλῶν.
TR-Boyd
καὶ οἱ πόδες αὐτοῦ ὅμοιοι χαλκολιβάνῳ, ὡς ἐν καμίνῳ πεπυρωμένοι· καὶ ἡ φωνὴ αὐτοῦ ὡς φωνὴ ὑδάτων πολλῶν.
SCR1894
και οι ποδες αυτου ομοιοι χαλκολιβανω ως εν καμινω πεπυρωμενοι και η φωνη αυτου ως φωνη υδατων πολλων

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Ezekiel 43:2and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory.
  • Daniel 10:6His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
  • Revelation 14:2And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.
  • Revelation 19:6And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.
  • Revelation 2:18To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze.
  • Psalms 93:4Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.
  • Ezekiel 1:7Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, gleaming like polished bronze.
  • Ezekiel 40:3So He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze. He was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
  • Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

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