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Revelation 8:6

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

KJV

Καὶ οἱ ἑπτὰ ἄγγελοι οἱ ἔχοντες τὰς ἑπτὰ σάλπιγγας ἡτοίμασαν αὐτοὺς ἵνα σαλπίσωσιν.

Greek NT

Et septem angeli, qui habebant septem tubas, præparaverunt se ut tuba canerent.

Vulgate

And the seven angels that had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

ASV

And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound the trumpet.

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

Symbols Trumpet

In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὑτοῦ
autou
reflexive_pronoun · 3×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
σάλπιγξ
salpigx
noun · 11×
σαλπίζω
salpizo
verb · 12×
ἄγγελος
aggelos
verb · 176×
ἑπτά
epta
adjective · 88×
ἑτοιμάζω
etoimazo
verb · 41×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

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

notable
SBLGNT: αὑτοὺς | WH: αὑτοὺς | Treg/NIV: αὐτοὺς | RP: ἑαυτοὺς
  • αὑτοὺςSBLGNT
  • αὑτοὺςWestcott-Hort
  • αὐτοὺςTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἑαυτοὺςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • Isa 27:13 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall wo
  • Josh 6:4 — And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
  • Ps 47:5 — God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
  • Rev 8:2 — And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
  • Rev 8:2 — And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
  • Rev 9:1 — And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
  • Rev 9:14 — Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.