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Revelation 6:14

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

KJV

καὶ ὁ οὐρανὸς ἀπεχωρίσθη ὡς βιβλίον ἑλισσόμενον, καὶ πᾶν ὄρος καὶ νῆσος ἐκ τῶν τόπων αὐτῶν ἐκινήθησαν.

Greek NT

et cælum recessit sicut liber involutus : et omnis mons, et insulæ de locis suis motæ sunt :

Vulgate

And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

ASV

And the heaven departed as a book folded up. And every mountain, and the islands, were moved out of their places.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βιβλίον
biblion
noun · 32×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κινέω
kineo
verb · 8×
νῆσος
nesos
noun · 9×
οὐρανός
ouranos
noun · 274×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
τόπος
topos
noun · 95×
ἀποχωρίζω
apochorizo
verb · 2×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἑλίσσω
elisso
verb · 1×
o
article · 19778×
ὄρος
oros
noun · 64×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • 2Pet 3:10 — But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that
  • Ezek 38:20 — So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall s
  • Hab 3:6 — He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
  • Hab 3:10 — The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
  • Heb 1:11 — They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
  • Isa 2:14 — And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
  • Isa 24:21 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
  • Isa 34:4 — And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig fro
  • Isa 54:10 — For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
  • Jer 3:23 — Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
  • Jer 4:23 — I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
  • Jer 51:25 — Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a bu
  • Job 9:5 — Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
  • Job 14:18 — And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
  • Luke 6:48 — He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was foun
  • Matt 24:35 — Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
  • Nah 1:5 — The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
  • Ps 99:1 — The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
  • Ps 102:26 — They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
  • Ps 104:5 — Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
  • Rev 16:20 — And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
  • Rev 16:20 — And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
  • Rev 20:11 — And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
  • Rev 20:11 — And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
  • Rev 21:1 — And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.