Revelation Chapter 9 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Revelation 9:8

And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as `teeth' of lions.
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BBE Revelation 9:8

And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
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DARBY Revelation 9:8

and they had hair as women's hair, and their teeth were as of lions,
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KJV Revelation 9:8

And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
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WBT Revelation 9:8


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WEB Revelation 9:8

They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.
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YLT Revelation 9:8

and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as `those' of lions,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - And they had hair as the hair of women. This (like the succeeding clause) seems merely the enumeration of an additional feature, in which these creatures resembled locusts, and which helped to establish their claim to the name. The antennae of the insect are probably referred to. Wordsworth sees here an allusion to the flowing hair of Mohammed and the Saracens. And their teeth were as the teeth of lions. The powerful nature of the teeth of the locust is a remarkable feature of the insect; and it is here more fully referred to in order to enhance the general terror of their aspect (cf. Joel 1:6).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8)And they had hair . . .--Translate, And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions, and they had breastplates as iron breastplates; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of (having, i.e., drawn by) many horses, running to war. The hair: It is said that some locusts are hairy, and the passage in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 51:27) has been quoted as evidence (the rough caterpillars here spoken of being said to be "locusts bristling with hair"), but the application of the passage is uncertain: the rough caterpillar may be the locust in the third stage, when the wings are still enveloped in rough horny cases which stick upon their backs. Others think the idea of the woman-like hair has its basis in the antlers of the locust. The teeth like those of the lion is a description the origin of which is found in the prophet Joel, in his prediction of the locust plague: "a nation cometh upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek-teeth (or, grinding-teeth) of a great lion." The terrible destructiveness of the locusts, and their strong, ceaseless, and resistless voracity, were thus described. Their breastplates are taken as descriptive of their thoraxes, which in the vision seemed strong as iron. The comparison of the sound of the wings to the thunderous sound of chariots and horses rushing into battle is repeated from Joel 2.