Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
New American Standard Bible
His head and His
King James Version
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Holman Bible
His head and hair were white like wool—white as snow—and His eyes like a fiery flame.
International Standard Version
His head and his hair were white like wool, in fact, as white as snow. His eyes were like flames of fire,
A Conservative Version
And his head and hair were white as wool, white as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire,
American Standard Version
And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Amplified
His head and His hair were white like white wool, [glistening white] like snow; and His [all-seeing] eyes were [flashing] like a flame of fire [piercing into my being].
An Understandable Version
And His head and hair [i.e., probably meaning the hairs of His head] were as white as wool, or as snow, and His eyes were like flaming fire.
Anderson New Testament
His head and his hair were white as white wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Common New Testament
His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire;
Daniel Mace New Testament
his head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; his feet were like fine brass,
Darby Translation
his head and hair white like white wool, as snow; and his eyes as a flame of fire;
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
His head, even his hairs, were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Godbey New Testament
And his head and his hairs were as wool, white as snow; and his eyes were like a flame of fire;
Goodspeed New Testament
His head and hair were as white as white wool, as white as snow; his eyes blazed like fire;
John Wesley New Testament
His head and hair were white as white wool, as snow,
Julia Smith Translation
And his head and hairs white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire;
King James 2000
His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Lexham Expanded Bible
and his head and hair [were] white like wool, white as snow, and his eyes [were] like a fiery flame,
Modern King James verseion
His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow. And His eyes were like a flame of fire.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
His head and his hairs were white, as white wool, and as snow: and his eyes were as a flame of fire:
Moffatt New Testament
his head and hair were white as wool, white as snow; his eyes flashed like fire,
Montgomery New Testament
His head and his hair were as white as wool, as white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire,
NET Bible
His head and hair were as white as wool, even as white as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame.
New Heart English Bible
His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
Noyes New Testament
His head and his hairs were white as white wool, as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Sawyer New Testament
and his head and hairs were white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes like a flame of fire,
The Emphasized Bible
And his head and hair, white, like white wool - like snow, and, his eyes, like a flame of fire,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
his head and flowing locks white as a white fleece of wool, even as the snow; and his eyes as a flame of fire;
Twentieth Century New Testament
'The hair of his head was as white as wool, as white as snow; his eyes were like flaming fire;
Webster
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Weymouth New Testament
His head and His hair were white, like white wool--as white as snow; and His eyes resembled a flame of fire.
Williams New Testament
His head and hair were as white as white wool, as white as snow. His eyes were like coals of fire;
World English Bible
His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
Worrell New Testament
And His head and hair were white as white wool, as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire;
Worsley New Testament
His head and his hairs were white like white wool, as white as snow; and his eyes as a flame of fire;
Youngs Literal Translation
and his head and hairs white, as if white wool -- as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire;
Themes
Christ Appearance » His personal appearance figuratively described
Christ » For select reading » Appearance, personal of
Christ » Glorified » Described by the revelator
Face » Of Christ » His personal appearance figuratively described
Christ Glorified » Described by the revelator
Jesus Christ » History of » Appears to the apostle john (on patmos island)
Lamps » Illustrative » Of omniscience of Christ
Vision » Of john on the island of patmos » Of Christ and the golden lampstands
Topics
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References
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Word Count of 38 Translations in Revelation 1:14
Images Revelation 1:14
Prayers for Revelation 1:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
John's Vision Of The Son Of Man
13 And in the middle of them one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to his feet, and with a band of gold round his breasts. 14 And his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters.
Cross References
Daniel 7:9
I went on looking till the seats of kings were placed, and one like a very old man took his seat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool; his seat was flames of fire and its wheels burning fire.
Daniel 10:6
And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army.
Revelation 19:12
And his eyes are a flame of fire, and crowns are on his head; and he has a name in writing, of which no man has knowledge but himself.
Revelation 2:18
And to the angel of the church in Thyatira say: These things says the Son of God, whose eyes are like a flame of fire, and his feet like polished brass:
Matthew 28:3
His form was shining like the light, and his clothing was white as snow: