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Parallel REV 21:17

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BI Rev 21:17 ©

OET (OET-RV)

He also measured the wall to be 70m using normal measurements.[fn]

21:17 It’s not stated if that’s the height or the thickness of the city wall.

OET-LVAnd he_measured the wall of_it, of_a_hundred forty four cubits, a_measure of_human_origin that is also of_the_messenger.

SR-GNTΚαὶ ἐμέτρησεν τὸ τεῖχος αὐτῆς, ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τεσσάρων πηχῶν, μέτρον ἀνθρώπου ἐστιν ἀγγέλου. 
   (Kai emetraʸsen to teiⱪos autaʸs, hekaton tesserakonta tessarōn paʸⱪōn, metron anthrōpou ho estin angelou.)

Key: yellow:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT And he measured her wall, 144 cubits by the measurement of a man, which is of an angel.

UST He measured its wall and reported that it was 66 meters high. The angel used the measurement that people normally use.


BSB And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.

BLB And he measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of man, that is of the angel.

AICNT He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits by human measurement, which is also an angel's measurement.

OEB Then he measured the wall; it was two hundred and eighty-eight feet, as people measure, that is as the angel measured.

WEB Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

NET He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits according to human measurement, which is also the angel’s.

LSV And he measured its wall—one hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger;

FBV He measured the wall and it was 144 cubits thick in human measurements that the angel was using.

TCNT Then he measured its wall and found it to be one hundred forty-four cubits according to human measurement, which the angel was using.

T4T He measured its wall and reported that it was 216 ft./70 metersthick (OR, high). The angel used the measure that people normally use.

LEB And he measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubitsaccording to human measure, which is the angel’s.

BBE And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

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ASV And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

DRA And he measured the wall thereof an hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an angel.

YLT and he measured its wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger;

DBY And he measured its wall, a hundred [and] forty-four cubits, [a] man's measure, that is, [the] angel's.

RV And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

WBS And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

KJB And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

BB And he measured the wall thereof an hundreth and fourtie and foure cubites, by the measure of man, that is of the angell.
  (And he measured the wall thereof an hundreth and forty and four cubites, by the measure of man, that is of the angell.)

GNV And hee measured the wall thereof, an hundreth fourtie and foure cubites, by the measure of man, that is, of the Angell.
  (And he measured the wall thereof, an hundreth forty and four cubites, by the measure of man, that is, of the Angell.)

CB And he measured the wall therof, an cxliiij. cubittes, after ye measure of a man, which the angel had.
  (And he measured the wall therof, an cxliiij. cubittes, after ye/you_all measure of a man, which the angel had.)

TNT And he measured the wall therof. an cxliiii. cubittes: the measure that the angell had was after the measure that man vseth.
  (And he measured the wall therof. an cxliiii. cubittes: the measure that the angell had was after the measure that man useth.)

WYC And he mat the wallis of it, of an hundrid and `foure and fourti cubitis, bi mesure of man, that is, of an aungel.
  (And he mat the wallis of it, of an hundred and `foure and forty cubitis, by measure of man, that is, of an angel.)

LUT Und er maß ihre Mauern, hundertvierundvierzig Ellen, nach dem Maß eines Menschen, das der Engel hat.
  (And he maß ihre Mauern, hundertvierundvierzig Ellen, nach to_him Maß eines Menschen, the the angel hat.)

CLV Et mensus est murum ejus centum quadraginta quatuor cubitorum, mensura hominis, quæ est angeli.
  (And mensus it_is murum eyus centum quadraginta quatuor cubitorum, mensura hominis, which it_is angeli.)

UGNT καὶ ἐμέτρησεν τὸ τεῖχος αὐτῆς, ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τεσσάρων πηχῶν, μέτρον ἀνθρώπου ὅ ἐστιν ἀγγέλου.
  (kai emetraʸsen to teiⱪos autaʸs, hekaton tesserakonta tessarōn paʸⱪōn, metron anthrōpou ho estin angelou.)

SBL-GNT καὶ ἐμέτρησεν τὸ τεῖχος αὐτῆς ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τεσσάρων πηχῶν, μέτρον ἀνθρώπου, ὅ ἐστιν ἀγγέλου.
  (kai emetraʸsen to teiⱪos autaʸs hekaton tesserakonta tessarōn paʸⱪōn, metron anthrōpou, ho estin angelou.)

TC-GNT Καὶ ἐμέτρησε τὸ τεῖχος αὐτῆς ἑκατὸν τεσσαράκοντα τεσσάρων πηχῶν, μέτρον ἀνθρώπου, ὅ ἐστιν ἀγγέλου.
  (Kai emetraʸse to teiⱪos autaʸs hekaton tessarakonta tessarōn paʸⱪōn, metron anthrōpou, ho estin angelou.)

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).


TSNTyndale Study Notes:

21:17 In the ancient world, walls were important not only to the defense and boundary of a city, but also to its status. That these walls are 216 feet thick (Greek 144 cubits) indicates the strength of God’s redeemed people. The measurement of 144 cubits again uses a multiple of 12 to represent God’s people. A cubit was the length of a man’s forearm, with a standard length of about 18 inches.


UTNuW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

ἐμέτρησεν τὸ τεῖχος αὐτῆς, ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τεσσάρων πηχῶν

˱he˲_measured the wall ˱of˲_it ˱of˲_/a/_hundred forty four cubits

John is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “he measured her wall and found it to be 144 cubits”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τεσσάρων πηχῶν

˱of˲_/a/_hundred forty four cubits

This could be the measurement: (1) of the height of the wall. Alternate translation: “144 cubits high” (2) of the thickness of the wall. Alternate translation: “144 cubits thick”

Note 3 topic: translate-bdistance

ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τεσσάρων πηχῶν

˱of˲_/a/_hundred forty four cubits

A cubit was the measurement of the distance from a person’s elbow to his longest fingertip, typically about half a meter or about 18 inches. If it would be helpful in your language, you could give the equivalent in modern measurements. However, you might also wish to retain the ancient measurement, since there may be some symbolic significance to the number 144. Alternate translation: “about 70 meters” or “about 200 feet”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

μέτρον ἀνθρώπου ὅ ἐστιν ἀγγέλου

/a/_measure ˱of˲_human_origin that is_‹also› ˱of˲_/the/_angel

Since cubits were the distance from an elbow to a fingertip, John needs to specify from what size person the angel determined this measurement. This could mean: (1) that the angel appeared to John in human form and so the distance from his elbow to his fingertip was the same as that of a human. It may be helpful to begin a new sentence here. Alternate translation: “The angel appeared in human form, and so he used an ordinary human cubit to measure” (2) that the angel may have been a giant compared with humans, but the angel still used a human-sized cubit. Alternate translation: “The angel used the cubit measure that people ordinarily use”

BI Rev 21:17 ©