1 Corinthians 14:8
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
KJV
καὶ γὰρ ἐὰν ἄδηλον σάλπιγξ φωνὴν δῷ, τίς παρασκευάσεται εἰς πόλεμον;
Greek NT
Etenim si incertam vocem det tuba, quis parabit se ad bellum ?
Vulgate
For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?
ASV
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
παρασκευάζω
paraskeuazo
verb · 4×
πόλεμος
polemos
noun · 18×
σάλπιγξ
salpigx
noun · 11×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
φωνή
phone
noun · 139×
ἄδηλος
adelos
adjective · 2×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: φωνὴν σάλπιγξ | Treg/RP: φωνὴν σάλπιγξ | WH/NIV: σάλπιγξ φωνὴν
- φωνὴν σάλπιγξ — SBLGNT
- φωνὴν σάλπιγξ — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
- σάλπιγξ φωνὴν — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1Cor 14:7 — And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
- Amos 3:6 — Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
- Ezek 33:3 — If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
- Isa 27:13 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall wo
- Jer 4:19 — My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
- Job 39:24 — He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
- Joel 2:1 — Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
- Neh 4:18 — For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.
- Num 10:9 — And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from y
- Num 10:9 — And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from y