Revelation 9:10

9:10 They have ¹  tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability ²  to injure people for five months is in their tails.

Revelation 17:10

17:10 five have fallen; one is, ³  and the other has not yet come, but whenever he does come, he must remain for only a brief time.

Revelation 9:5

9:5 The locusts ⁴  were not given permission ⁵  to kill ⁶  them, but only to torture ⁷  them ⁸  for five months, and their torture was like that ⁹  of a scorpion when it stings a person. ¹⁰ 

Revelation 16:21

16:21 And gigantic hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds ¹¹  each, fell from heaven ¹²  on people, ¹³  but they ¹⁴  blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, since it ¹⁵  was so horrendous. ¹⁶ 

Revelation 21:16

21:16 Now ¹⁷  the city is laid out as a square, ¹⁸  its length and width the same. He ¹⁹  measured the city with the measuring rod ²⁰  at fourteen hundred miles ²¹  (its length and width and height are equal).

[9:10]  ¹ tn In the Greek text there is a shift to the present tense here; the previous verbs translated “had” are imperfects.

[9:10]  ² tn See BDAG 352 s.v. ἐξουσία 2, “potential or resource to command, control, or govern, capability, might, power.”

[17:10]  ³ tn That is, one currently reigns.

[9:5]  ⁵ tn Grk “It was not permitted to them”; the referent (the locusts) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:5]  ⁶ tn The word “permission” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

[9:5]  ⁷ tn The two ἵνα (Jina) clauses of 9:5 are understood to be functioning as epexegetical or complementary clauses related to ἐδόθη (edoqh).

[9:5]  ⁸ tn On this term BDAG 168 s.v. βασανισμός states, “1. infliction of severe suffering or pain associated with torture or torment, tormenting, torture Rv 9:5b. – 2. the severe pain experienced through torture, torment vs. 5a; 14:11; 18:10, 15; (w. πένθος) vs. 7.”

[9:5]  ⁹ tn The pronoun “them” is not in the Greek text but is picked up from the previous clause.

[9:5]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “like the torture,” but this is redundant in contemporary English.

[9:5]  ¹¹ tn Grk “a man”; but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used here in an individualized sense without being limited to the male gender.

[16:21]  ⁷ tn Here BDAG 988 s.v. ταλαντιαῖος states, “weighing a talent…χάλαζα μεγάλη ὡς ταλαντιαία a severe hailstorm with hailstones weighing a talent (the talent=125 librae, or Roman pounds of c. 343 gr. or 12 ounces each) (weighing about a hundred pounds NRSV) Rv 16:21.” This means each hailstone would weigh just under 100 pounds or 40 kilograms.

[16:21]  ⁸ tn Or “the sky.” Due to the apocalyptic nature of this book, it is probably best to leave the translation as “from heaven,” since God is ultimately the source of the judgment.

[16:21]  ⁹ tn Grk “on men,” but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used here in a generic sense to refer to people in general (the hailstones did not single out adult males, but would have also fallen on women and children).

[16:21]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the men”; for stylistic reasons the pronoun “they” is used here.

[16:21]  ¹¹ tn Grk “the plague of it.”

[16:21]  ¹² tn Grk “since the plague of it was exceedingly great.”

[21:16]  ⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the somewhat parenthetical nature of the description of the city.

[21:16]  ¹⁰ tn Or “the city lies square.” On κεῖμαι (keimai) in this context, BDAG 537 s.v. 2 states, “lie, of things…ἡ πόλις τετράγωνος κεῖται is laid out as a square Rv 21:16.”

[21:16]  ¹¹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[21:16]  ¹² tn Grk “with the rod”; the word “measuring” is supplied from the description in v. 15.

[21:16]  ¹³ tn Or “two thousand two hundred kilometers,” Grk “12,000 stades.” A stade was a measure of length about 607 ft (185 m).