KJV King James Version
And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men.
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Revelation 9:7
And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads; and their faces were like the faces of men.
WEB World English Bible
The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces.
ASV American Standard Version
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men’s faces.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the likenesses of the locusts are like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men,
Surrounding context — Revelation 9
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
7 And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions.
9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power [was] to hurt men five months.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
καὶG2532 · kaiandτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoὁμοιώματαG3667 · homoiōmalikenessτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀκρίδωνG200 · akrislocustὅμοιαG3664 · homoioslikeἵπποιςG2462 · hipposhorseἡτοιμασμένοιςG2090 · hetoimazōto make readyεἰςG1519 · eistowardπόλεμον,G4171 · polemoswarκαὶG2532 · kaiandἐπὶG1909 · epiupon/to/againstτὰςG3588 · hothe/this/whoκεφαλὰςG2776 · kephalēheadαὐτῶνG846 · autosit/s/heὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenστέφανοιG4735 · stephanoscrownὅμοιοιG3664 · homoioslikeχρυσῷ,G5557 · chrusosgoldκαὶG2532 · kaiandτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoπρόσωπαG4383 · prosōponfaceαὐτῶνG846 · autosit/s/heὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenπρόσωπαG4383 · prosōponfaceἀνθρώπων.G444 · anthrōposa human
Cross-references
Daniel 7:8I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn [were] eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.Nahum 3:17Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].Daniel 7:4The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.Joel 2:4-5The appearance of them [is] as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
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