Parallel Verses
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 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.
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;
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 you saw was, and is not, but is about to come up from the abyss and then go to destruction. The inhabitants of the earth -- all those whose names have not been written in the book of life since the foundation of the world -- will be astounded when they see that the beast was, and is not, but is to come. 9 (This requires a mind that has wisdom.) The seven heads are seven mountains the woman sits on. They are also seven kings: 10 five have fallen; one is, and the other has not yet come, but whenever he does come, he must remain for only a brief time.
Cross References
Revelation 13:18
This calls for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the beast's number, for it is man's number, and his number is 666.
Revelation 17:3
So he carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and there I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
Daniel 12:4
"But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about, and knowledge will increase."
Daniel 12:8-10
I heard, but I did not understand. So I said, "Sir, what will happen after these things?"
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the Lord are right; the godly walk in them, but in them the rebellious stumble.
Matthew 13:11
He replied, "You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.
Matthew 24:15
"So when you see the abomination of desolation -- spoken about by Daniel the prophet -- standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Revelation 13:1
Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name.
Revelation 17:7
But the angel said to me, "Why are you astounded? I will interpret for you the mystery of the woman and of the beast with the seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
Revelation 17:18
As for the woman you saw, she is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth."