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Revelation 8:11

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

KJV

καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ ἀστέρος λέγεται ὁ ἄψινθος. καὶ ἐγένετο τὸ τρίτον τῶν ὑδάτων εἰς ἄψινθον, καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀπέθανον ἐκ τῶν ὑδάτων, ὅτι ἐπικράνθησαν.

Greek NT

et nomen stellæ dicitur Absinthium, et facta est tertia pars aquarum in absinthium ; et multi hominum mortui sunt de aquis, quia amaræ factæ sunt.

Vulgate

and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

ASV

And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became wormwood. And many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
πικραίνω
pikraino
verb · 4×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
τρίτος
tritos
adjective · 56×
ἀποθνήσκω
apothnesko
verb · 112×
ἀστήρ
aster
noun · 24×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἄψινθος
apsinthos
noun · 2×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
o
article · 19778×
ὄνομα
onoma
noun · 228×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὕδωρ
udor
noun · 76×

Textual variants

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

trivial
SBLGNT: ὁ | WH/NIV/RP: ὁ
  • SBLGNT
  • Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • Amos 5:7 — Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
  • Amos 6:12 — Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
  • Deut 29:18 — Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a
  • Jer 9:15 — Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
  • Jer 23:15 — Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone fo
  • Lam 3:19 — Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
  • Prov 5:4 — But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.