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Revelation 7:4

And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

KJV

καὶ ἤκουσα τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἐσφραγισμένων, ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τέσσαρες χιλιάδες ἐσφραγισμένοι ἐκ πάσης φυλῆς υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ·

Greek NT

Et audivi numerum signatorum, centum quadraginta quatuor millia signati, ex omni tribu filiorum Israël.

Vulgate

And I heard the number of them that were sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

ASV

And I heard the number of them that were signed. An hundred forty-four thousand were signed, of every tribe of the children of Israel.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σφραγίζω
sphragizo
verb · 15×
τέσσαρες
tessares
adjective · 41×
τεσσαράκοντα
tessarakonta
adjective · 22×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
φυλή
phule
noun · 31×
χιλιάς
chilias
noun · 23×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἀριθμός
arithmos
noun · 18×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἑκατόν
ekaton
adjective · 17×
Ἰσραήλ
israel
noun · 68×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ἑκατὸν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἑκατὸν | RP: + καὶ
  • ἑκατὸνSBLGNT
  • ἑκατὸνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + καὶRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἐσφραγισμένοι | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐσφραγισμένοι | RP: ἐσφραγισμένων
  • ἐσφραγισμένοιSBLGNT
  • ἐσφραγισμένοιWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐσφραγισμένωνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

§1138"Recapitulated in Christ," these are the ones who take part in the service of the praise of God and the fulfillment of his plan: the heavenly powers, all creation (the four living beings), the servants of the Old and New Covenants (the twenty-four elders), the new People of God (the one hundred and forty-four thousand),4 especially the martyrs "slain for the word of God," and t…
Chapter 1. Summary of the Foregoing Books, and Scope of that Which Follows. I. The man who fears God seeks diligently in Holy Scripture for a knowledge of His will. And when he has become meek through piety, so as to have no love of strife; when furnished also with a knowledge of languages, so as not to be stopped by unknown words and forms of speech, and with the knowledge of …

Cross-references

  • Acts 3:26 — Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
  • Acts 26:7 — Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
  • Exod 28:21 — And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribe
  • Ezek 47:13 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
  • Ezek 48:19 — And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
  • Ezek 48:31 — And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
  • Ezra 6:17 — And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tri
  • Gen 28:14 — And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the
  • Gen 49:28 — All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
  • Jas 1:1 — James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
  • Jas 1:1 — James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
  • Luke 22:30 — That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Matt 19:28 — And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, ju
  • Matt 19:28 — And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, ju
  • Ps 115:14 — The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
  • Rev 9:16 — And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
  • Rev 9:16 — And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
  • Rev 14:1 — And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
  • Rev 14:3 — And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed fro
  • Rev 21:12 — And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
  • Rom 9:27 — Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
  • Rom 11:5 — Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
  • Zech 9:1 — The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.