The Fifth Trumpet
Revelation 9:10
In 9 translations
- BSB
- They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.
- KJV
- And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
- WEB
- They have tails like those of scorpions, with stingers. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.
- ASV
- And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.
- LSV
- and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority [is] to injure men five months;
- YLT
- and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority [is] to injure men five months;
- DBY
- and they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and their power [was] in their tails to hurt men five months.
- DRC
- And they had tails like to scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had over them
- GNV
- And they had tailes like vnto scorpions, and there were stings in their tailes, and their power was to hurt men fiue moneths.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Where the editions differ
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text, Greek reading followed by the King James Version include καὶ (“and”); Textus Receptus do not include this wording.
- In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus include ἡ (“[is] the”); Byzantine text do not include this wording.
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus read ἐξουσία (“power”); Byzantine text read ἐξουσίαν (“power”).
- In STEPBible’s comparison, Byzantine text include ἔχουσιν (“they have”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus do not include this wording.
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus read αὐτῶν (“of them”); Byzantine text read τοῦ (“of it”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus include ἦν (“it was”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus include καὶ (“and”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: ἡ ἐξουσία αὐτῶν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἡ ἐξουσία αὐτῶν; Robinson–Pierpont read ἐξουσίαν ἔχουσιν τοῦ.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- καὶ ἔχουσιν οὐρὰς ὁμοίας σκορπίοις καὶ κέντρα, καὶ ἐν ταῖς οὐραῖς αὐτῶν ἡ ἐξουσία αὐτῶν ἀδικῆσαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους μῆνας πέντε.
- RP2018
- Καὶ ἔχουσιν οὐρὰς ὁμοίας σκορπίοις, καὶ κέντρα. Καὶ ἐν ταῖς οὐραῖς αὐτῶν ἐξουσίαν ἔχουσιν τοῦ ἀδικῆσαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους μῆνας πέντε.
- TR-Boyd
- Καὶ ἔχουσιν οὐρὰς ὁμοίας σκορπίοις, καὶ κέντρα ἦν ἐν ταῖς οὐραῖς αὐτῶν· καὶ ἡ ἐξουσία αὐτῶν ἀδικῆσαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους μῆνας πέντε.
- SCR1894
- και εχουσιν ουρας ομοιας σκορπιοις και κεντρα ην εν ταις ουραις αυτων και η εξουσια αυτων αδικησαι τους ανθρωπους μηνας πεντε
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Revelation 9:5The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
- Revelation 9:3And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.
- Revelation 9:19For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).