KJV King James Version
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
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Revelation 9:14
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
WEB World English Bible
saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, “Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”
ASV American Standard Version
one saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, ‘Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;’
Surrounding context — Revelation 9
11 And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon.
12 One woe is past; [and], behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen [were] two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses [were] as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
λέγονταG3004 · legōto sayτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoἕκτῳG1623 · hektossixthἀγγέλῳG32 · angelosangelὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoἔχωνG2192 · echōto have/beτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoσάλπιγγα·G4536 · salpigxtrumpetλῦσονG3089 · luōto looseτοὺςG3588 · hothe/this/whoτέσσαραςG5064 · tessaresfourἀγγέλουςG32 · angelosangelτοὺςG3588 · hothe/this/whoδεδεμένουςG1210 · deōto bindἐπὶG1909 · epiupon/to/againstτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoποταμῷG4215 · potamosriverτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoμεγάλῳG3173 · megasgreatΕὐφράτῃ.G2166 · EuphratēsEuphrates
Cross-references
Revelation 16:12And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.2 Samuel 8:3David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.Genesis 2:14And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates.Revelation 9:15And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.Jeremiah 51:63And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:Revelation 7:1And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.Revelation 8:6And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.Revelation 8:2And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
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