Revelation 5:4
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
KJV
καὶ ἔκλαιον πολὺ ὅτι οὐδεὶς ἄξιος εὑρέθη ἀνοῖξαι τὸ βιβλίον οὔτε βλέπειν αὐτό.
Greek NT
Et ego flebam multum, quoniam nemo dignus inventus est aperire librum, nec videre eum.
Vulgate
And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look thereon:
ASV
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open the book, nor to see it.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βιβλίον
biblion
noun · 32×
βλέπω
blepo
verb · 132×
εὑρίσκω
eurisko
verb · 175×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κλαίω
klaio
verb · 40×
οὐδείς
oudeis
adjective · 235×
οὔτε
oute
conjunction · 94×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
ἀνοίγω
anoigo
verb · 76×
ἄξιος
axios
adjective · 41×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: ἐγὼ | WH/Treg/RP: ἐγὼ
- ἐγὼ — SBLGNT
- ἐγὼ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.