Revelation 12:9

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐβλήθη ὁ δράκων ὁ μέγας, ὁ ὄφις ὁ ἀρχαῖος, ὁ καλούμενος Διάβολος, καὶ Σατανᾶς, ὁ πλανῶν τὴν οἰκουμένην ὅλην: ἐβλήθη εἰς τὴν γῆν, καὶ οἱ ἄγγελοι αὐτοῦ μετʼ αὐτοῦ ἐβλήθησαν.

Transliteration

And eblēthē the drakōn the megas, the ophis the archaios, the one kaloumenos Diabolos, and Satanas, the one planōn the oikoumenēn holēn: eblēthē into the gēn, and the angeloi of him met' him eblēthēsan.

Grammar Details

• *eblēthē*: aorist passive, 3rd singular - was cast/thrown
• *drakōn*: nominative, masculine, singular - dragon
• *megas*: nominative, masculine, singular - great
• *ophis*: nominative, masculine, singular - serpent
• *archaios*: nominative, masculine, singular - ancient/old
• *kaloumenos*: present passive participle, nominative, masculine, singular - being called
• *Diabolos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Devil/Slanderer
• *Satanas*: nominative, masculine, singular - Satan/Adversary
• *planōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - deceiving
• *oikoumenēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - inhabited world
• *holēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - whole/entire
• *gēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - earth/land
• *angeloi*: nominative, masculine, plural - angels/messengers
• *met'*: preposition + genitive - with
• *eblēthēsan*: aorist passive, 3rd plural - were cast/thrown

Word Meanings

• *archaios*: ancient/old/original
• *Diabolos*: Devil/Slanderer/Accuser
• *Satanas*: Satan/Adversary/Opponent
• *planōn*: deceiving/misleading/causing to wander
• *oikoumenēn*: inhabited world/earth/empire

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And the gat dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels we cast out with him.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And{G2532} the great{G3173} dragon{G1404} was cast down,{G906} the old{G744} serpent,{G3789} he that is called{G2564} the Devil{G1228} and{G2532} Satan,{G4567} the deceiver{G4105} of the whole{G3650} world;{G3625} he was cast down{G906} to{G1519} the earth,{G1093} and{G2532} his{G846} angels{G32} were cast down{G906} with{G3326} him.{G846}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And{G2532} the great{G3173} dragon{G1404} was cast out{G906}{(G5681)}, that old{G744} serpent{G3789}, called{G2564}{(G5746)} the Devil{G1228}, and{G2532} Satan{G4567}, which{G3588} deceiveth{G4105}{(G5723)} the whole{G3650} world{G3625}: he was cast out{G906}{(G5681)} into{G1519} the earth{G1093}, and{G2532} his{G846} angels{G32} were cast out{G906}{(G5681)} with{G3326} him{G846}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And the grett dragon that olde serpent called the devyll and Sathanas was cast out. Which desceaveth all the worlde. And he was cast into the erth and his angelles were cast out also.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And the greate dragon that olde serpent (called the deuell and Sathanas) was cast out. Which disceaued all the worlde. And he was cast in to the earth, and his angelles were cast out with him also.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And the great dragon, that olde serpent, called the deuil and Satan, was cast out, which deceiueth all the world: he was euen cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And the great dragon, that olde serpent, called the deuyll & Satanas, was cast out, which deceaueth all the world: And he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with hym.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

• World English Bible (2000)

  The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  So that huge dragon– the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world– was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

Referenced Verses

• Luke 10:18 : 18 He replied, 'I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.'
• John 12:31 : 31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
• John 8:44 : 44 You are from your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
• Rev 20:8 : 8 He will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and gather them for battle. Their number is like the sand on the seashore.
• Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
• Rev 20:2-3 : 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the abyss, locked it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations anymore until the thousand years were completed. After that, he must be released for a short time.
• Rev 12:3 : 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: a large fiery red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on its heads.
• Rev 13:14 : 14 It deceives those who dwell on the earth by the signs it was allowed to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
• 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
• 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that, just as the serpent deceived Eve by its cunning, your minds may be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
• 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the workings of Satan, with all kinds of power, false signs, and wonders, 10 and with every kind of deceit targeting those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion, so that they will believe the lie,
• Gen 3:1 : 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God really say, you shall not eat from any tree in the garden?'
• Isa 65:25 : 25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the serpent will eat dust. They will not harm or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the LORD.
• Luke 13:16 : 16 Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?
• Isa 14:12 : 12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, you who laid low the nations.
• Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him, 'Go away, Satan! For it is written: You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.'
• John 14:30 : 30 I will not speak much with you anymore, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.
• John 16:11 : 11 and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
• Matt 25:41 : 41 Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
• Rom 16:20 : 20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
• Rev 9:1 : 1 Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the shaft of the abyss.
• Rev 9:20 : 20 The rest of humanity, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
• 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this reason: to destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one born of God practices sin, for His seed abides in them; they cannot keep on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.
• Jude 1:9 : 9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you!'
• Rev 2:9 : 9 I know your works, your tribulation, and your poverty (though you are rich), and the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
• Rev 2:13 : 13 I know where you live—where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold fast to my name and did not deny your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death among you, where Satan dwells.
• Rev 2:24 : 24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold to this teaching and who have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, I say: I will not impose any other burden on you.
• Rev 3:9 : 9 Look, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are not—they are liars—come and bow down before your feet, and they will know that I have loved you.
• Rev 16:14 : 14 They are demonic spirits performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world to gather them for battle on the great day of God Almighty.
• Rev 18:2 : 2 He cried out with a mighty voice, saying, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a prison for every unclean spirit, and a cage for every unclean and detested bird.'
• Rev 18:23 : 23 The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of a bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf. By these signs he had deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.
• Rev 12:7 : 7 Then there was a war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
• Rev 12:14-15 : 14 But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle so that she might fly to the wilderness, to her place where she is nourished for a time, times, and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach. 15 Then, out of his mouth, the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the flood.
• 2 Cor 2:11 : 11 So that we may not be outwitted by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
• Luke 8:12 : 12 The seed along the path represents those who hear, but then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so they cannot believe and be saved.
• Acts 5:3 : 3 But Peter said, 'Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds from the land?
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.
• Rom 16:18 : 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
• 1 Tim 2:14 : 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, fell into transgression.
• 1 Tim 3:6-7 : 6 He must not be a recent convert, so that he does not become conceited and fall into the judgment of the devil. 7 Moreover, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he won't fall into disgrace and the trap of the devil.
• 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• Heb 2:14 : 14 Since the children share in flesh and blood, He too likewise partook of the same, so that through death He might destroy the one who has the power of death—that is, the devil.
• 2 Cor 11:14 : 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
• 2 Cor 12:7 : 7 And because of the extraordinary revelations, so that I might not become conceited, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me, so that I would not become conceited.
• Eph 4:14 : 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.
• 2 Thess 2:3 : 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. That day will not come unless the rebellion takes place first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed—the son of destruction.
• Matt 13:39 : 39 The enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
• Isa 27:1 : 1 On that day, the LORD will punish with his fierce, great, and strong sword Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, Leviathan, the twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea.
• Luke 22:3 : 3 Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, who was one of the Twelve.
• Luke 22:31 : 31 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you all like wheat.
• Ezek 28:16 : 16 Through your widespread trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the stones of fire.
• Zech 3:1-2 : 1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him. 2 And the LORD said to Satan, 'The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is this man not like a burning stick snatched from the fire?'
• Matt 4:1 : 1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
• Matt 4:5 : 5 Then the devil took Him to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple.
• Matt 4:8 : 8 Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
• Gen 3:4-5 : 4 But the serpent said to the woman, 'You will surely not die.' 5 'For God knows that on the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'
• Gen 3:13 : 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, 'What is this you have done?' The woman said, 'The serpent deceived me, and I ate.'
• 1 Chr 21:1 : 1 Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.
• Job 1:6-9 : 6 One day, the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. 7 The LORD said to Satan, 'Where have you come from?' Satan answered the LORD, 'From roaming the earth and walking back and forth on it.' 8 The LORD said to Satan, 'Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth—a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and turns away from evil.' 9 Satan replied to the LORD, 'Does Job fear God for nothing?' 10 'Haven't you placed a hedge around him and his household and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands so that his possessions have increased in the land.' 11 'But stretch out your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.' 12 The LORD said to Satan, 'Very well, everything he has is in your power, but do not lay a hand on the man himself.' Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
• Job 2:1-2 : 1 One day, the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. 2 The LORD said to Satan, 'Where have you come from?' Satan answered the LORD, 'From roaming through the earth and walking back and forth on it.'
• Ps 109:6 : 6 Appoint a wicked person over him, and let an accuser stand at his right hand.