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Revelation 9 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Revelation 9, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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Revelation 9 in the Greek

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Greek Transliteration Strong's Count KJV renderings
καπνός kapnós G2586 6 smoke
ἵππος híppos G2462 5 horse
οὐρά ourá G3769 4 tail
φρέαρ phréar G5421 4 well, pit
ἄγγελος ángelos G32 6 angel, messenger
θώραξ thṓrax G2382 3 breast-plate
σκορπίος skorpíos G4651 3 scorpion

How preachers through history handled this text

4 public-domain excerpts on Revelation 9, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 3 John Wesley 1

“In this chapter we have an account of the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets, the appearances that attended them, and the events that were to follow; the fifth trumpet (ver. 1-12), the sixth, ver. 13, &c.. The Seven Trumpets. (a. d. 95.) 1 And 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. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; …”

— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 6 (Acts to Revelation), on Revelation 9:1–25 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

  • Euphrates — Rev 9:14

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