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Mark 1:6

And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;

KJV

καὶ ἦν ὁ Ἰωάννης ἐνδεδυμένος τρίχας καμήλου καὶ ζώνην δερματίνην περὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐσθίων ἀκρίδας καὶ μέλι ἄγριον.

Greek NT

Et erat Joannes vestitus pilis cameli, et zona pellicea circa lumbos ejus, et locustas et mel silvestre edebat.

Vulgate

And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.

ASV

And John was clothed camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and he ate locusts and wild honey.

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δερμάτινος
dermatinos
adjective · 2×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
ζώνη
zone
noun · 8×
θρίξ
thrix
noun · 15×
κάμηλος
kamelos
noun · 6×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέλι
meli
noun · 4×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
ἀκρίς
akris
noun · 4×
ἄγριος
agrios
adjective · 3×
ἐνδύω
enduo
verb · 28×
ἐσθίω
esthio
verb · 65×
Ἰωάννης
ioannes
noun · 134×
ὀσφῦς
osphus
noun · 8×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: καὶ ἦν | WH/Treg/NIV: καὶ ἦν | RP: Ἦν δὲ
  • καὶ ἦνSBLGNT
  • καὶ ἦνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • Ἦν δὲRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. The Work is Taken Up After a Violent Interruption, Which Has Driven the Writer from Alexandria. He Addresses Himself to It Again, with Thanks for His Deliverance, and Prayer for Guidance. When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the need…

Cross-references

  • 2Kgs 1:8 — And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
  • 2Kgs 1:8 — And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
  • Lev 11:22 — Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
  • Lev 11:22 — Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
  • Luke 7:33 — For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
  • Matt 3:4 — And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
  • Matt 3:4 — And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
  • Zech 13:4 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
  • Zech 13:4 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive: