KJV King James Version
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Revelation 1:15
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters.
WEB World English Bible
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 American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters,
Surrounding context — Revelation 1
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks [one] like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14 His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance [was] as the sun shineth in his strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18 [I am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
καὶG2532 · kaiandοἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoπόδεςG4228 · pousfootαὐτοῦG846 · autosit/s/heὅμοιοιG3664 · homoioslikeχαλκολιβάνῳG5474 · chalkolibanosbronzeὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongκαμίνῳG2575 · kaminosfurnace/ovenπεπυρωμένηςG4448 · puroōto burnκαὶG2532 · kaiandἡG3588 · hothe/this/whoφωνὴG5456 · phōnēvoice/sound: voiceαὐτοῦG846 · autosit/s/heὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenφωνὴG5456 · phōnēvoice/sound: voiceὑδάτωνG5204 · hudōr, hudatoswaterπολλῶνG4183 · polusmuch
Cross-references
Ezekiel 43:2And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice [was] like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.Daniel 10:6His body also [was] like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.Revelation 14:2And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:Revelation 19:6And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.Revelation 2:18And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet [are] like fine brass;Psalm 93:4The LORD on high [is] mightier than the noise of many waters, [yea, than] the mighty waves of the sea.Ezekiel 1:7And their feet [were] straight feet; and the sole of their feet [was] like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.Ezekiel 40:3And he brought me thither, and, behold, [there was] a man, whose appearance [was] like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.Isaiah 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
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