Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
Here is a problem for a profound mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Holman Bible
“Here is the mind with wisdom:
International Standard Version
This calls for a mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is sitting. They are also seven kings.
A Conservative Version
Here is the mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains where the woman sits on them.
American Standard Version
Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:
Amplified
Here is the mind which has wisdom [and this is what it knows about the vision]. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits;
An Understandable Version
"This calls for an understanding mind. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. They are [also] seven kings;
Anderson New Testament
Here is the mind that has wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Bible in Basic English
Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman is seated:
Common New Testament
This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
Daniel Mace New Testament
the meaning is very comprehensive. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Darby Translation
Here is the mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains, whereon the woman sits.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Godbey New Testament
Here is a mind having wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, where the woman sits upon them,
John Wesley New Testament
Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sitteth,
Julia Smith Translation
Here the mind having wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, where the woman sits upon them.
King James 2000
And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Here [is] the mind that has wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains {on which the woman sits} and they are seven kings.
Modern King James verseion
And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And here is a mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:
Moffatt New Testament
Now for the interpretation of the discerning mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated:
Montgomery New Testament
Here is the mind that has wisdom. the seven heads are seven hills on which the woman is seated;
NET Bible
(This requires a mind that has wisdom.) The seven heads are seven mountains the woman sits on. They are also seven kings:
New Heart English Bible
Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Noyes New Testament
Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Sawyer New Testament
Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits,
The Emphasized Bible
Here, is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads, are, seven mountains, whereupon the woman sitteth;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, where the woman is seated even upon them.
Twentieth Century New Testament
(Here there is need for the discerning mind.) The seven heads are seven mountains upon which the woman is seated.
Webster
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Weymouth New Testament
Here is scope for the exercise of a mind that has wisdom! The seven heads are the seven hills on which the woman sits.
Williams New Testament
Here is scope for a mind that is packed with wisdom. The seven heads are the seven hills on which the woman is seated.
World English Bible
Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Worrell New Testament
Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Worsley New Testament
To this the mind that hath wisdom will attend: for the seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman sitteth.
Youngs Literal Translation
Here is the mind that is having wisdom; the seven heads are seven mountains, upon which the woman doth sit,
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in Revelation 17:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Judgment Of The Great Prostitute Babylon
8 The animal that you saw was, and is no more; it is going to come up out of the abyss, but it is to go to destruction. The inhabitants of the earth, whose names from the foundation of the world have not been written in the book of life, will be amazed when they see that the animal was, and is no more, and yet is to come. 9 Here is a problem for a profound mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated. 10 They are also seven kings; five have fallen, one is reigning, the other has not yet come, and when he does his stay must be brief.
Cross References
Revelation 13:18
There is wisdom hidden here! Let everyone of intelligence calculate the animal's number, for it indicates a certain man; its number is 666.
Revelation 17:3
So he carried me away in a trance to a desert, and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet animal all covered with blasphemous titles; it had seven heads and ten horns.
Matthew 13:11
He answered, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but they are not.
Matthew 24:15
"So when you see the dreadful desecration, of which the prophet Daniel spoke, set up in the Holy Place"??he reader must take note of this??16 "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;
Revelation 13:1
Then I stood on the sand of the seashore, and I saw an animal come up out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, and with ten diadems on its horns, and blasphemous titles on its heads.
Revelation 17:7
but the angel said to me, "Why are you amazed? I will explain to you what the woman and the animal with seven heads and ten horns that carries her symbolize.
Revelation 17:18
And the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth."