Revelation 4:3 BSB — MannaFest

Revelation 4:3

The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.

KJV

And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER SEVEN (420)

[Daniel 7:9] "I beheld until thrones were set up, and the Ancient of days took His seat. His garment was as white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was composed of fiery flames and its wheels were set on fire. From before His presence there issued forth a rushing, fiery stream."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

The sardine stone, of a blood-red colour, may be an emblem of his justice, and the vengeance he was about to execute on his enemies. An emerald, being green, may betoken favour to the good; a rainbow, the everlasting covenant.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And he that sat was to look upon - Was in appearance; or, as I looked upon him, this seemed to be his appearance. He does not describe his form, but his splendor. Like a jasper - ἰάσπιδι iaspidi The jasper, properly, is “an opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and also of some dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff-boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped jasper” (Dana, in Webster’s Dictionary).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	the [One]	G3588 →
καθήμενος	kathēmenos	sitting	G2521 →
ὅμοιος	homoios	like	G3664 →
ὁράσει	horasei	in appearance	G3706 →
λίθῳ	lithō	stone	G3037 →
ἰάσπιδι	iaspidi	jasper	G2393 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
σαρδίῳ	sardiō	sardius	G4556 →
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἶρις	iris	a rainbow	G2463 →
κυκλόθεν	kuklothen	[was] around	G2943 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
θρόνου	thronou	throne	G2362 →
ὅμοιος	homoios	like	G3664 →
ὁράσει	horasei	in appearance	G3706 →
σμαραγδίνῳ.	smaragdinō	an emerald.	G4664 →

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

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

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 10:1
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire.
leads to
- Ezekiel 1:28
  The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the…
- Matthew 17:2
  There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
- Revelation 1:15–16
  His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters.
- Daniel 10:6
  His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of…
- Revelation 5:2
  And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?”
Through
Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in…
leads to
- Ezekiel 28:15
  From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.
- Genesis 2:8
  And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Through
Ezekiel 1:28
The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the…
leads to
- Revelation 10:1
  Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire.