Revelation 9:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Joel 1:6 : 6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.
  • 1 Pet 3:3 : 3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
  • 1 Cor 11:14-15 : 14 Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? 15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.
  • 1 Tim 2:9 : 9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
  • 2 Kgs 9:30 : 30 When Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
  • Isa 3:24 : 24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

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  • Rev 9:9-11
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    9 They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.

    10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

    11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."

  • 7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.

  • Rev 9:16-19
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    16 The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. I heard the number of them.

    17 Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.

    18 By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.

    19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.

  • 6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

  • Song 6:5-7
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    5 Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.

    6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing; of which every one has twins; none is bereaved among them.

    7 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

  • Ezek 1:10-11
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    10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side; and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side; the four of them also had the face of an eagle.

    11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.

  • Joel 2:4-5
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    4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run.

    5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

  • 6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

  • 2 Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.

  • Ezek 1:5-8
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    5 Out of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

    6 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.

    7 Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.

    8 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them had their faces and their wings [thus]:

  • 7 The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.

  • 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

  • 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

  • Rev 9:3-5
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    3 Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

    4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have God's seal on their foreheads.

    5 They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.

  • Dan 7:4-7
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    4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I saw until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.

    5 Behold, another animal, a second, like a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.

    6 After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

    7 After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.

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    28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

    29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • 13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • 2 The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

  • 14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

  • 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

  • 18 They shall also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

  • 19 Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was diverse from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;

  • 24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

  • 18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

  • 12 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, [even] the wheels that the four of them had.

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

    12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

  • 14 His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.

  • 12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • 23 Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.

  • 38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.