Text -- Revelation 8:9 (NET)

8:9 and a third of the creatures living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were completely destroyed.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Rev 8:9

¹ tn Or “a third of the living creatures in the sea”; Grk “the third of the creatures which were in the sea, the ones having life.”

² tn On the term translated “completely destroyed,” L&N 20.40 states, “to cause the complete destruction of someone or something – ‘to destroy utterly.’ τὸ τρίτον τῶν πλοίων διεφθάρησαν ‘a third of the ships were completely destroyed’ Re 8:9.”