KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Revelation 9:10–11
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Revelation 9:10
10And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
10And they had tayles like vnto Scorpions, and there were stings in their tayles: and their power was to hurt men fiue moneths.
Revelation 9:11
11And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
11And they had a king ouer them, which is the Angel of the bottomlesse pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greeke tongue hath his name †Apollyon.
- That is to say, A destroyer.
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DEFINED WORDS
Revelation 9:10
The part of an animal which terminates its body behind.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Venomous creatures with pincers and stinging tails; also figures of severe scourges.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Sharp organs or powers that pierce and cause pain; figuratively, the power by which death wounds.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Ability, strength, authority, dominion, or the right and capacity to act.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The number following four and preceding six.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Revelation 9:11
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A messenger; especially a heavenly messenger sent by God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
bottomless
Having no bottom; unfathomably deep.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A word or appellation by which a person or thing is known; also reputation, character, authority, remembrance, or the person represented, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A member of the Hebrew people; the Hebrew language; Hebrew in origin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The Hebrew name Abaddon, meaning destruction, given in the verse to the angel of the bottomless pit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A Greek person or one belonging to the Greek-speaking world; also the Greek language.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The Greek name Apollyon, meaning destroyer, given in the verse to the angel of the bottomless pit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 10
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Open the full verse study5And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
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Open the full verse study3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
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Open the full verse study19For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
From verse 11
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Open the full verse study6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
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Open the full verse study1AND 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.
2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
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Open the full verse study4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
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Open the full verse study2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
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Open the full verse study30Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
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Open the full verse study11Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
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Open the full verse study44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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Open the full verse study4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
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Open the full verse study19And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
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Open the full verse study31Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
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Open the full verse study9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
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