Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

King James Version

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Holman Bible

The name of the star is Wormwood, and a third of the waters became wormwood. So, many of the people died from the waters, because they had been made bitter.

International Standard Version

The name of the star is Wormwood. One-third of the water turned into wormwood, and many people died from the water because it had turned bitter.

A Conservative Version

And the name of the star is called Wormwood oil. And the third part of the waters developed into wormwood oil, and many of the men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

American Standard Version

and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Amplified

The name of the star is Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters, because they had become bitter (toxic).

An Understandable Version

And the star was called "Wormwood" [Note: The Greek word here means "bitter," See Lam. 3:15 ASV], and one third of the waters became wormwood [i.e., bitter], and many people died from the waters because they had become bitter.

Anderson New Testament

And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood: and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Bible in Basic English

And the name of the star is Wormwood: and a third part of the waters became bitter; and a number of men came to their end because of the waters, for they were made bitter.

Common New Testament

The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became Wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

Daniel Mace New Testament

the name of the star was wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Darby Translation

And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood, and many of the men died of the waters because they were made bitter.

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

and the name of the star was called Wormwood, and a third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were become bitter.

Godbey New Testament

And the name of the star is called Apsinth. And the third part of the waters became apsinth; and many of the men died from the waters, because they were bitter.

Goodspeed New Testament

The star is called Apsinthus, that is, Wormwood. Then one third of the waters turned to wormwood, and numbers of people died of the waters, for they had turned bitter.

John Wesley New Testament

And the name of the star is called Wormwood, and many men died of the waters, because they were bitter.

Julia Smith Translation

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third of the waters is into wormwood; and many of men died of the waters, for they were rendered bitter.

King James 2000

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the name of the star was called Wormwood, and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters because they were made bitter.

Modern King James verseion

And the name of the star is called Wormwood, and a third part of the waters became wormwood. And many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and the name of the star is called wormwood. And the third part was turned to wormwood. And many men died of the waters because they were made bitter.

Moffatt New Testament

(the name of the star is Wormwood); a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died of the waters, because they had turned bitter.

Montgomery New Testament

A third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

NET Bible

(Now the name of the star is Wormwood.) So a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from these waters because they were poisoned.

New Heart English Bible

The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

Noyes New Testament

And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Sawyer New Testament

And the name of the star was called Bitterness. And a third part of the waters became bitter, and many men died by the waters, because they were bitter.

The Emphasized Bible

And, the name of the star, is called Wormwood; and the third of the waters became wormwood, and many of the men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters was turned into wormwood, and multitudes of men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Twentieth Century New Testament

(The star is called 'Wormwood.') A third of the water became bitter as wormwood, and so bitter was the water that many died from drinking it.

Webster

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died by the waters, because they were made bitter.

Weymouth New Testament

The name of the star is 'Wormwood;' and a third part of the waters were turned into wormwood, and vast numbers of the people died from drinking the water, because it had become bitter.

Williams New Testament

The star is called Absinthus, that is, Wormwood. So one-third of the waters turned to wormwood, and great numbers of people died of the waters, because they had turned bitter.

World English Bible

The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

Worrell New Testament

And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many of the men died in consequence of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Worsley New Testament

and a third part of the waters became as wormwood: and many men died of the waters, because they were bitter.

Youngs Literal Translation

and the name of the star is called Wormwood, and the third of the waters doth become wormwood, and many of the men did die of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

the name
ὄνομα 
Onoma 
name, named, called, surname , named , not tr
Usage: 162

of the star
ἀστήρ 
Aster 
Usage: 16

is called
λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

ἄψινθος 
Apsinthos 
Usage: 2

and


ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
man, not tr,
Usage: 0
Usage: 316

the third
τρίτος 
Tritos 
Usage: 45

part of the waters
ἄψινθος 
Apsinthos 
Usage: 2

γίνομαι 
Ginomai 
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531

πολύς πολλός 
Polus 
Usage: 292

ἀποθνήσκω 
Apothnesko 
die, be dead, be at the point of death +9, perish, lie a dying, be slain +, vr dead
Usage: 93

men
ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709


which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0

of
ὕδωρ ὕδατος 
Hudor 
Usage: 63

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

References

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Watsons

Context Readings

The Blowing Of The Trumpets

10 The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters. 11 The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter. 12 The fourth angel sounded, and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way.



Cross References

Jeremiah 9:15

therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Jeremiah 23:15

“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets,
‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood
And make them drink poisonous water,
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Pollution has gone forth into all the land.’”

Exodus 15:23

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah.

Deuteronomy 29:18

so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

Ruth 1:20

She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Proverbs 5:4

But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.

Lamentations 3:5

He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.

Amos 5:7

For those who turn justice into wormwood
And cast righteousness down to the earth.”

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one plow them with oxen?
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

Revelation 8:7

The first sounded, and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

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