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Revelation 14:16

And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

KJV

καὶ ἔβαλεν ὁ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τῆς νεφέλης τὸ δρέπανον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐθερίσθη ἡ γῆ.

Greek NT

Et misit qui sedebat super nubem, falcem suam in terram, et demessa est terra.

Vulgate

And he that sat on the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped.

ASV

And he that sat on the cloud thrust his sickle into the earth: and the earth was reaped.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βάλλω
ballo
verb · 125×
γῆ
ge
noun · 251×
δρέπανον
drepanon
noun · 8×
θερίζω
therizo
verb · 21×
κάθημαι
kathemai
verb · 89×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
νεφέλη
nephele
noun · 25×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: τῆς νεφέλης | WH/Treg/NIV: τῆς νεφέλης | RP: τὴν νεφέλην
  • τῆς νεφέληςSBLGNT
  • τῆς νεφέληςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • τὴν νεφέληνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • Matt 16:27 — For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
  • Rev 14:14 — And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
  • Rev 14:19 — And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.