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Revelation 9 — Sermon Preparation
The fifth trumpet releases demonic locusts and the sixth unleashes a vast army from the Euphrates, bringing torment and death on those who refused to repent. 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.
- 21
- verses
- 496 / 158
- Greek words / lemmas
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
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.
“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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