KJV: And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
YLT: And he who is speaking with me had a golden reed, that he may measure the city, and its gates, and its wall;
Darby: And he that spoke with me had a golden reed as a measure, that he might measure the city, and its gates, and its wall.
ASV: And he that spake with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
ὁ | the [one] |
Parse: Article, Nominative Masculine Singular Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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λαλῶν | speaking |
Parse: Verb, Present Participle Active, Nominative Masculine Singular Root: ἀπολαλέω Sense: to utter a voice or emit a sound. |
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ἐμοῦ | me |
Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive 1st Person Singular Root: ἐγώ Sense: I, me, my. |
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μέτρον | a measuring |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Neuter Singular Root: μέτρον Sense: measure, an instrument for measuring. |
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κάλαμον | reed |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Singular Root: κάλαμος Sense: a reed. |
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χρυσοῦν | golden |
Parse: Adjective, Accusative Neuter Singular Root: χρύσεος Sense: golden. |
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ἵνα | so that |
Parse: Conjunction Root: ἵνα Sense: that, in order that, so that. |
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μετρήσῃ | he could measure |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Subjunctive Active, 3rd Person Singular Root: μετρέω Sense: to measure, to measure out or off. |
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πόλιν | city |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular Root: πόλις Sense: a city. |
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πυλῶνας | gates |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Plural Root: πυλών Sense: a large gate: of a palace. |
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αὐτῆς | of it |
Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive Feminine 3rd Person Singular Root: αὐτός Sense: himself, herself, themselves, itself. |
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τεῖχος | wall |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Neuter Singular Root: τεῖχος Sense: the wall around a city, town wall. |
Greek Commentary for Revelation 21:15
Regular imperfect here, no longer εχων echōn a measure a golden reed See Revelation 11:1 for καλαμος kalamos (reed). Μετρον Metron is an old word, kin to μητηρ mētēr (mother, moulder, manager), an instrument for measuring (μετρεω metreō) as in Matthew 7:2, here in the predicate accusative. [source]
Purpose clause with ινα hina and the first aorist active subjunctive of μετρεω metreō The rod of gold was in keeping with the dignity of the service of God (Revelation 1:12; Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3; Revelation 9:13; Revelation 15:7). [source]
Add μέτρον as a measure. See Revelation 11:1. Compare Ezekiel 40:5. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Revelation 21:15
This was a second selection out of those invited to the hills and after the night of prayer and after day came (Luke 6:13). Why he chose twelve we are not told, probably because there were twelve tribes in Israel. It was a good round number at any rate. They were to be princes in the new Israel (cf. Matthew 19:28; Luke 22:30; Revelation 21:14, Revelation 21:15). Luke (Luke 6:13-16) also gives the list of the twelve at this point while Matthew (Matthew 10:1-4) postpones giving the names till they are sent out in Galilee. There is a fourth list in Acts 1:13. See discussion of the names of the apostles on Matthew 10:1-4 and pp. 271-3 of my Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ. The three groups of four begin alike (Simon, Philip, James). There are some difficulties. [source]
Not the same as κάλαμος areed. See Revelation 11:1; Revelation 21:15; and on 3 John 1:13. This word means a stalk of grain after the ears have been cut off. It was used for thatch in building. Virgil, “Aeneid,” 654, alludes to the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus with its roof bristling with stubble. [source]
Old word for a growing reed (Matthew 11:7) which grew in immense brakes in the Jordan valley, a writer‘s reed (3 John 1:7), a measuring-rod (here, Revelation 21:15.; Ezekiel 40:3-6; Ezekiel 42:16-19). [source]
John returns, after the parenthesis in Revelation 21:11, to the structure in Revelation 21:10, only to use the accusative εχουσαν echousan as before to agree with πολιν polin but the nominative εχουσα echousa as again with “twelve gates” Πυλων Pulōn is an old word (from πυλη pulē gate) for a large gate as in Luke 16:20 and six times in Rev for the gate tower of a city wall (Revelation 21:12, Revelation 21:13, Revelation 21:15, Revelation 21:21, Revelation 21:25; Revelation 22:14) as in 1 Kings 17:10; Acts 14:13. See Ezekiel 48:31. for these twelve gates, one for each tribe (cf. Revelation 7:1-8). [source]
It is rectangular, both walls and city within. Babylon, according to Herodotus, was a square, each side being 120 stadia. Diodorus Siculus says that Nineveh was also foursquare.With the reed (τωι καλαμωι tōi kalamōi). Instrumental case (cf. Revelation 21:15 for καλαμος kalamos) and for μετρεω metreō (aorist active indicative here)Twelve thousand furlongs This use of the genitive σταδιων stadiōn with επι epi is probably correct (reading of Aleph P), though A Q have σταδιους stadious (more usual, but confusing here with χιλιαδων chiliadōn). Thucydides and Xenophon use επι epi with the genitive in a like idiom (in the matter of). It is not clear whether the 1500 miles (12,000 furlongs) is the measurement of each of the four sides or the sum total. Some of the rabbis argued that the walls of the New Jerusalem of Ezekiel would reach to Damascus and the height would be 1500 miles high.Equal (ισα isa). That is, it is a perfect cube like the Holy of Holies in Solomon‘s temple (1 Kings 6:19.). This same measurement (πλατοσ μηκοσ υπσος platosβατος mēkoshupsos) is applied to Christ‘s love in Ephesians 3:18, with bathos (depth) added. It is useless to try to reduce the measurements or to put literal interpretations upon this highly wrought symbolic language. Surely the meaning is that heaven will be large enough for all, as Jesus said (John 14:1.) without insisting on the materialistic measurement of a gorgeous apartment house full of inside rooms. [source]
Instrumental case (cf. Revelation 21:15 for καλαμος kalamos) and for μετρεω metreō (aorist active indicative here) [source]
Apparently the same angel as in Revelation 22:1 (Revelation 21:9, Revelation 21:15). [source]
Imperfect active of κλαιω klaiō picturesque, descriptive, I kept on weeping much; natural tense in these vivid visions (Revelation 1:12; Revelation 2:14; Revelation 5:4, Revelation 5:14; Revelation 6:8, Revelation 6:9; Revelation 10:10; Revelation 19:14; Revelation 21:15). Perhaps weeping aloud. [source]