Revelation 1:14–15
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1:14His48 head and hair were as white as wool, even as white as snow,49 and his eyes were like a fiery50 flame. 1:15His feet were like polished bronze51 refined52 in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar53 of many waters.
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- 48 Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
- 49 The clause, “even as white as snow” seems to heighten the preceding clause and is so understood in this ascensive sense (“even”) in the translation.
- 50 The genitive noun πυρός (puros) has been translated as an attributive genitive.
- 51 The precise meaning of the term translated “polished bronze” (χαλκολιβάνῳ, chalkolibanō), which appears nowhere else in Greek literature outside of the book of Revelation (see 2:18), is uncertain. Without question it is some sort of metal. χαλκολίβανον suggests “fine brass/bronze.” L&N 2.57 takes the word to refer to particularly valuable or fine bronze, but notes that the emphasis here and in Rev 2:18 is more on the lustrous quality of the metal.
- 52 Or “that has been heated in a furnace until it glows.”
- 53 Grk “sound,” but the idea is closer to the roar of a waterfall or rapids.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
The hair of his head was white as wool—white as snow—and his eyes like a fiery flame. His feet were like fine bronze as it is fired in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of cascading waters.
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NLTNew Living Translation
His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow. And his eyes were like flames of fire. His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice thundered like mighty ocean waves.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
and his head and hair were white like wool, white as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame, and his feet were like fine bronze when it has been fired in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters,
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KJV 1900King James Version
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
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