Revelation 9:8

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

and, they had hair, as the hair of women, and, their teeth, were, as of lions,

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Their hair was like women's hair. Their teeth were like lions' teeth.

Revised Standard Version
their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And they had heare as the heare of wemen. And their tethe were as the tethe of lyons.

Hebrew Names Version
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

New American Standard Bible
They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.

New Century Version
Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.

Update Bible Version
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [teeth] of lions.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions.

World English Bible
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Weymouth's New Testament
Their faces seemed human and they had hair like women's hair, but their teeth resembled those of lions.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei hadden heeris, as heeris of wymmen; and the teeth of hem weren as teeth of liouns.

English Revised Version
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Berean Standard Bible
They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.

Contemporary English Version
Their hair was like a woman's long hair, and their teeth were like those of a lion.

Amplified Bible
They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.

American Standard Version
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Bible in Basic English
And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Complete Jewish Bible
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

Darby Translation
and they had hair as women's hair, and their teeth were as of lions,

International Standard Version
They had hair like women's hair and teeth like lions' teeth.Joel 1:6;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as of lions;

Murdock Translation
And they had hair, like the hair of women: and their teeth were like those of lions.

King James Version (1611)
And they had haire as the haire of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of Lions.

New Living Translation
They had hair like women's hair and teeth like the teeth of a lion.

New Life Bible
Their hair was like the hair of women. Their teeth were like the teeth of lions.

New Revised Standard
their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth;

English Standard Version
their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they had heare as the heare of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lyons.

George Lamsa Translation
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they had hair as the hair of women: and their teeth were as lions.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they had heere as the heere of women, & their teeth were as ye teeth of Lions.

Good News Translation
Their hair was like women's hair, their teeth were like lions' teeth.

Christian Standard Bible®
they had hair like women’s hair; their teeth were like lions’ teeth;

King James Version
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Lexham English Bible
and they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions,

Literal Translation
And they had hairs like the hairs of women; and their teeth were like those of lions.

Young's Literal Translation
and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as [those] of lions,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they had heere as the heere of wemen. And their tethe were as the tethe of lyons.

Mace New Testament (1729)
their hair was like that of women, and their teeth like the teeth of lions.

New English Translation
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.

New King James Version
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Their hair was long like a woman's, but their teeth were those of lions.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.

Contextual Overview

¹ And, the fifth messenger, sounded; and I saw a star, out of heaven, fallen unto the earth, and there was given unto him the key of the shaft of the abyss. ² And he opened the shaft of the abyss; and there came up a smoke out of the shaft, as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened, by reason of the smoke of the shaft. ³ And, out of the smoke, came forth, locusts, upon the earth; and there was given unto them licence, as the scorpions of the earth have licence. ⁴ And it was bidden them that they should not injure the herbage of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, - but only the men who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads. ⁵ And it was given unto them, that they should not slay them, but that they should be tormented five months; and, the torture of them, was as of a scorpion's torture, whensoever it smiteth a man. ⁶ And, in those days, shall men seek death, and in nowise shall find it, and shall covet to die, and death fleeth from them. ⁷ And, the likenesses of the locusts, were like unto horses prepared for battle; and, upon their heads, as it were crowns, like unto gold, and, their faces, were as the faces of men, ⁸ and, they had hair, as the hair of women, and, their teeth, were, as of lions, ⁹ and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and, the sound of their wings, was as the sound of chariots of many horses, running into battle; ¹⁰ and they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings, and, in their tails, is their licence to injure men five months.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hair: 2 Kings 9:30, Isaiah 3:24, 1 Corinthians 11:14, 1 Corinthians 11:15, 1 Timothy 2:9, 1 Peter 3:3

and their: Psalms 57:4, Joel 1:6

Reciprocal: Proverbs 30:14 - whose

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they had hair, as the hair of women,.... Some locusts have smooth, others hairy heads n: this fitly points at the Arabians or Saracens, who, as Pliny says o, used to wear long hair without cutting it, and attired as women, and have their names also from women: they were called Hagarenes, from Hagar, Abraham's handmaid, by whom he had Ishmael, the father of these people; afterwards they took the name of Saracens, from Sarah, the wife of Abraham, whose posterity they would be thought to be; though they may have the latter name, either from סרק, to "rob" and "steal", with the Arabians, or from the same word, as it signifies to "comb", from the combing and plaiting: of their hair. This may also point at the effeminacy of the western locusts, the monks and friars, who dress more like women than men; and many of them claim the virgin Mary for their patroness; and may in general design the votaries of the church of Rome, who are under the vow of a monastic life, as those among the Jews, under a Nazarite's vow, wore long hair.

And their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions; so in Joel 1:6; which may denote the ravages and devastations of the Saracens in the empire, robbing, pillaging, and destroying all they met with; and is applicable enough to the devouring jaws of the Romish clergy, their plundering the estates of men, their cruelties and barbarities exercised by their Inquisition, &c. Pliny says p, that locusts will gnaw the doors of houses.

n Gloss. in T. Bab. Cholin. fol. 65. 1. o Hist. Nat. l. 6. c. 28. p L. 11. c. 29.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they had hair as the hair of women - Long hair; not such as men commonly wear, but such as women wear. See the notes on 1 Corinthians 11:14. This struck John as a peculiarity, that, though warriors, they should have the appearance of effeminacy indicated by allowing their hair to grow long. It is clear from this, that John regarded their appearance as unusual and remarkable. Though manifestly designed to represent an army, yet it was not the usual appearance of men who went forth to battle. Among the Greeks of ancient times, indeed, long hair was not uncommon (see the notes above referred to on 1 Corinthians 11:14), but this was by no means the usual custom among the ancients; and the fact that these warriors had long hair like women was a circumstance that would distinguish them particularly from others. On this comparison of the appearance of the locusts with the hair of women see the remarks of Niebuhr, in the notes on Revelation 9:7.

And their teeth were as the teeth of lions - Strong; suited to devour. The teeth of the locust are by no means prominent, though they are strong, for they readily cut down and eat up all vegetable substances that come in their way. But it is evident that John means to say that there was much that was unusual and remarkable in the teeth of these locusts. They would be ravenous and fierce, and would spread terror and desolation like the lions of the desert.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 9:8. Hair as the hair of women — No razor passes upon their flesh. Their hair long, and their beards unshaven.

Their teeth were as the teeth of lions.] They are ferocious and cruel.