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Revelation 11:1

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

KJV

Καὶ ἐδόθη μοι κάλαμος ὅμοιος ῥάβδῳ, λέγων· ἔγειρε καὶ μέτρησον τὸν ναὸν τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον καὶ τοὺς προσκυνοῦντας ἐν αὐτῷ.

Greek NT

Et datus est mihi calamus similis virgæ, et dictum est mihi : Surge, et metire templum Dei, et altare, et adorantes in eo :

Vulgate

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

ASV

And there was given me a reed, like unto a rod. And it was said to me: Arise, and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that adore therein.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
θυσιαστήριον
thusiasterion
noun · 23×
κάλαμος
kalamos
noun · 12×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μετρέω
metreo
verb · 11×
ναός
naos
noun · 45×
προσκυνέω
proskuneo
verb · 59×
ἐγείρω
egeiro
verb · 143×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
o
article · 19778×
ὅμοιος
omoios
adjective · 45×
ῥάβδος
rabdos
noun · 12×

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: Ἔγειρε | WH/Treg/NIV: Ἔγειρε | RP: Ἔγειραι
  • ἜγειρεSBLGNT
  • ἜγειρεWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἜγειραιRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
  • 1Pet 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
  • Eph 2:20 — And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
  • Ezek 40:1 — In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of th
  • Ezek 40:3 — And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
  • Ezek 42:15 — Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
  • Ezek 47:3 — And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
  • Isa 28:17 — Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
  • Rev 21:15 — And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
  • Rev 21:15 — And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
  • Zech 2:1 — I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
  • Zech 2:1 — I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
  • Zech 2:2 — Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.