Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And here is a mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:
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,
Goodspeed New Testament
Here is a problem for a profound mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated.
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.
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 beast that thou seest, was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and shall go into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder - whose names are not written in the book of life from he beginning of the world - when they behold the beast that was, and is not. 9 And here is a mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth: 10 they are also seven kings. Five are fallen, and one is, and another is not yet come. When he cometh he must continue a space.
Cross References
Revelation 13:18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath wit count the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred, threescore and six.
Revelation 17:3
And he carried me away into the wilderness in the spirit. And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet beast full of names of blasphemy, which had ten horns.
Daniel 12:4
And thou O Daniel, shut up these words, and seal the book, till the last time. Many shall go about here and there, and then shall knowledge increase."
Daniel 12:8-10
I heard it well, but I understood it not. Then said I, "O my Lord, what shall happen after that?"
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise to understand these things and hath wit to perceive them? For the ways of the LORD are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the wicked shall tumble in them.
Matthew 13:11
He answered, and said unto them, "It is given unto you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Matthew 24:15
When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination that betokeneth desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place: let him that readeth it, understand it:
Revelation 13:1
And I stood on the sea sand. And I saw a beast rise out of the sea, having seven heads, and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his head, the name of blasphemy.
Revelation 17:7
And the angel said unto me, "Wherefore marvellest thou? I will show thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that beareth her, which hath seven heads, and ten horns.
Revelation 17:18
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.