Revelation 11:16 BSB

Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
εἴκοσι	eikosi	twenty	G1501 →
τέσσαρες	tessares	four	G5064 →
πρεσβύτεροι	presbuteroi	elders	G4245 →
οἱ	hoi	<the>	G3588 →
ἐνώπιον	enōpion	before	G1799 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ	theou	God	G2316 →
καθήμενοι	kathēmenoi	sitting	G2521 →
ἐπὶ	epi	on	G1909 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
θρόνους	thronous	thrones	G2362 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
ἔπεσαν	epesan	fell	G4098 →
ἐπὶ	epi	upon	G1909 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
πρόσωπα	prosōpa	faces	G4383 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
προσεκύνησαν	prosekunēsan	worshiped	G4352 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
θεῷ	theō	God	G2316 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 4:10
the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:
leads to
- Revelation 5:8
  When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which…
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 19:4
  And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying: “Amen, Hallelujah!”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 7:11
  And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 95:6
  O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11–16
  Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom,…
Through
Revelation 4:4
Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.
leads to
- Revelation 4:10
  the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 19:28
  Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve…
Through
Revelation 7:11
And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,
leads to
- Revelation 5:11–13
  Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels and living creatures and elders encircling the throne, and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Revelation 4:4Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.Genesis 17:17Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”Revelation 4:10the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:Revelation 7:11And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,Revelation 5:14And the four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.Revelation 19:4And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying: “Amen, Hallelujah!”Daniel 2:46At this, King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, paid homage to Daniel, and ordered that an offering of incense be presented to him.Revelation 5:5–8Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

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