Revelation 1:14
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.
- KJV
- His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
- WEB
- His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
- ASV
- And his head and his hair were white as white wool, [white] as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
- DARBY
- his head and hair white like white wool, as snow; and his eyes as a flame of fire;
- BLB
- And His head and the hairs [were] white as wool, white as snow, and His eyes as a flame of fire,
- ÅB
- og hodet og håret hans var hvitt som hvit ull, som snø, og øynene hans som flammer,
- OTB
- Hans hode og hår var hvite som ull, hvite som snø, og hans øyne var som en ildflamme.
- B1930
- og hans hode og hår var hvitt som hvit ull, som sne, og hans øine som ildslue,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Daniel 10:6
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Read in contextDaniel 7:9
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Read in contextRevelation 2:18
And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
Read in contextRevelation 19:12
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
Read in contextMatthew 28:3
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
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