Revelation 11:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And their dead bodies [lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ τὰ πτῶματα αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τῆς πλατείας τῆς πόλεως τῆς μεγάλης, ἥτις καλεῖται πνευματικῶς Σόδομα καὶ Αἴγυπτος, ὅπου καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν ἐσταυρώθη.

Transliteration

And the ptōmata of them upon the plateias of the poleōs of the megalēs, which kaleitai pneumatikōs Sodoma and Aigyptos, where also the Kyrios of us estaurōthē.

Grammar Details

• *ptōmata*: nominative neuter plural - corpses/fallen bodies
• *plateias*: genitive feminine singular - of street/wide way
• *poleōs*: genitive feminine singular - of city
• *megalēs*: genitive feminine singular - of great/large
• *kaleitai*: present passive indicative, 3rd singular - is called
• *pneumatikōs*: adverb - spiritually/symbolically
• *Sodoma*: nominative neuter singular - Sodom
• *Aigyptos*: nominative feminine singular - Egypt
• *Kyrios*: nominative masculine singular - Lord
• *estaurōthē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd singular - was crucified

Word Meanings

• *ptōmata*: corpses/fallen bodies/carcasses
• *plateias*: street/broad way/public square
• *poleōs*: city/town
• *megalēs*: great/large/important
• *kaleitai*: is called/named
• *pneumatikōs*: spiritually/symbolically/allegorically
• *estaurōthē*: was crucified/impaled

Referenced Verses

• Rev 18:10 : 10 standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
• Rev 18:18 : 18 and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city] is like the great city?
• Rev 18:21 : 21 And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.
• Rev 18:2 : 2 And he cried {G2479} with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird.
• Heb 13:12 : 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate.
• Rev 14:8 : 8 And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that hath made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
• Rev 16:19 : 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
• Jer 23:14 : 14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
• Jer 26:23 : 23 and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king, who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
• Ezek 16:53-55 : 53 And I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them; 54 that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. 55 And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
• Ezek 23:3 : 3 and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.
• Ezek 23:8 : 8 Neither hath she left her whoredoms since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.
• Ezek 23:19 : 19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 23:27 : 27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom [brought] from the land of Egypt; so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
• Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
• Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
• Matt 10:15 : 15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
• Luke 13:33-34 : 33 Nevertheless I must go on my way to-day and to-morrow and the [day] following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen [gathereth] her own brood under her wings, and ye would not!
• Acts 9:4 : 4 and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
• Heb 6:6 : 6 and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
• Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly.
• Gen 19:24 : 24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;
• Exod 1:13-14 : 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.
• Exod 3:7 : 7 And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
• Exod 20:2 : 2 I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
• Ps 78:43-51 : 43 How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan, 44 And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink. 45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them. 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust. 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost. 48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil. 50 He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence, 51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
• Ps 79:2-3 : 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.
• Isa 1:9-9 : 9 Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
• Isa 3:9 : 9 The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.
• Rev 17:1 : 1 And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, {G3427} Come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters;
• Rev 17:5 : 5 and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
• 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;
• Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like {G5125} manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
• Rev 11:9 : 9 And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do [men] look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and {G863} suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
• Rev 11:13 : 13 And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell; and there were killed {G3686} in the earthquake seven thousand persons: and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
• Rev 18:24 : 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.