Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. New Living Translation And for three and a half days, all peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will stare at their bodies. No one will be allowed to bury them. English Standard Version For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, Berean Standard Bible For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb. Berean Literal Bible And those of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations gaze upon their bodies three and a half days, and they will not allow their bodies to be put into a tomb. King James Bible And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. New King James Version Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves. New American Standard Bible Those from the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. NASB 1995 Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. NASB 1977 And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. Legacy Standard Bible And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. Amplified Bible Those from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. Christian Standard Bible And some of the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will view their bodies for three and a half days and not permit their bodies to be put into a tomb. Holman Christian Standard Bible And representatives from the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will view their bodies for three and a half days and not permit their bodies to be put into a tomb. American Standard Version And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do men look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. Aramaic Bible in Plain English “And then they of the peoples and generations, languages and nations will look upon their corpses 3 1/2 days, and they will not allow their corpses to be placed in tombs.” Contemporary English Version For three and a half days the people of every nation, tribe, language, and race will stare at the bodies of these two witnesses and refuse to let them be buried. Douay-Rheims Bible And they of the tribes, and peoples, and tongues, and nations, shall see their bodies for three days and a half: and they shall not suffer their bodies to be laid in sepulchres. English Revised Version And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do men look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. GOD'S WORD® Translation For 3 1/2 days some members of the people, tribes, languages, and nations will look at the witnesses' dead bodies and will not allow anyone to bury them. Good News Translation People from all nations, tribes, languages, and races will look at their bodies for three and a half days and will not allow them to be buried. International Standard Version For three and a half days some members of the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their dead bodies and will not allow them to be placed in a tomb. Literal Standard Version and they gaze—[those] of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations—on their dead bodies three and a half days, and they will not allow their dead bodies to be put into tombs, Majority Standard Bible For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb. New American Bible Those from every people, tribe, tongue, and nation will gaze on their corpses for three and a half days, and they will not allow their corpses to be buried. NET Bible For three and a half days those from every people, tribe, nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb. New Revised Standard Version For three and a half days members of the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb; New Heart English Bible From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be placed in a tomb. Webster's Bible Translation And they of the people, and kindreds, and languages, and nations, shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. Weymouth New Testament And men belonging to all peoples, tribes, languages and nations gaze at their dead bodies for three days and a half, but they refuse to let them be laid in a tomb. World English Bible From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. Young's Literal Translation and they shall behold -- they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations -- their dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Witnesses Killed and Raised…8Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified. 9 For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb. 10And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.… Cross References 1 Kings 13:22 but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.'" Psalm 79:2 They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song: "Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. Revelation 10:11 And they told me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings." Treasury of Scripture And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. the people. Revelation 10:11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. Revelation 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. three. Revelation 11:2,3,11 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months… and shall not. Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. Revelation 19:17,18 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; … Psalm 79:2,3 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth… Jump to Previous Allow Belonging Bodies Body Burial Dead Gaze Graves Half Kindreds Languages Nation Nations Peoples Permit Placed Refuse Sepulchre Suffer Three Tomb Tombs Tongues Tribe TribesJump to Next Allow Belonging Bodies Body Burial Dead Gaze Graves Half Kindreds Languages Nation Nations Peoples Permit Placed Refuse Sepulchre Suffer Three Tomb Tombs Tongues Tribe TribesRevelation 11 1. The two witnesses prophesy.6. They have power to shut heaven so that it rain not. 7. The beast shall fight against them, and kill them. 8. They lie unburied; 11. and after three and a half days rise again. 14. The second woe is past. 15. The seventh trumpet sounds. Verse 9. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves; and from among the peoples and tribes, etc., do [men] look upon, etc., and suffer not, etc., in a tomb (Revised Version). The fourfold enumeration points to the wide distribution of the state of things symbolized (cf. Revelation 4:6; Revelation 5:9, etc.), and seems of itself almost sufficient to demonstrate that the two witnesses are not two individual persons who are hereafter to appear. The period is but three days and a half; again, as in vers. 2, 3, a broken, that is, a finite but uncertain period; but, as compared with the three years and a half - the period of the world's existence - very short. (On the signification of the last clause, see on ver. 8.) It is the usual Eastern mark of contempt and degradation. The whole verse, together with the preceding and succeeding verses, describes symbolically, but graphically, the scorn and contempt to which the Church and God's Word will be subjected by men. Parallel Commentaries ... Greek For threeτρεῖς (treis) Adjective - Accusative Feminine Plural Strong's 5140: Three. Or neuter tria a primary number; 'three'. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. a half ἥμισυ (hēmisy) Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular Strong's 2255: Half. Neuter of a derivative from an inseparable prefix akin to hama and meaning semi-; half. days ἡμέρας (hēmeras) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Strong's 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset. all ἐκ (ek) Preposition Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. peoples λαῶν (laōn) Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 2992: Apparently a primary word; a people. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. tribes φυλῶν (phylōn) Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural Strong's 5443: A tribe or race of people. From phuo; an offshoot, i.e. Race or clan. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. tongues γλωσσῶν (glōssōn) Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural Strong's 1100: The tongue; by implication, a language. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. nations ἐθνῶν (ethnōn) Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural Strong's 1484: Probably from etho; a race, i.e. A tribe; specially, a foreign one. will view βλέπουσιν (blepousin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 991: (primarily physical), I look, see, perceive, discern. A primary verb; to look at. their αὐτῶν (autōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. bodies πτῶμα (ptōma) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular Strong's 4430: A fall; a carcass, corpse, dead body. From the alternate of pipto; a ruin, i.e., lifeless body. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. will not permit ἀφίουσιν (aphiousin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 863: From apo and hiemi; to send forth, in various applications. [them] πτώματα (ptōmata) Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural Strong's 4430: A fall; a carcass, corpse, dead body. From the alternate of pipto; a ruin, i.e., lifeless body. to be laid τεθῆναι (tethēnai) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Passive Strong's 5087: To put, place, lay, set, fix, establish. A prolonged form of a primary theo to place. in εἰς (eis) Preposition Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases. a tomb. μνῆμα (mnēma) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular Strong's 3418: A tomb, monument, memorial. From mnaomai; a memorial, i.e. Sepulchral monument. Links Revelation 11:9 NIVRevelation 11:9 NLT Revelation 11:9 ESV Revelation 11:9 NASB Revelation 11:9 KJV Revelation 11:9 BibleApps.com Revelation 11:9 Biblia Paralela Revelation 11:9 Chinese Bible Revelation 11:9 French Bible Revelation 11:9 Catholic Bible NT Prophecy: Revelation 11:9 From among the peoples tribes languages (Rev. Re Apocalypse) |
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