Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

No one in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the scroll, or to look in it.

New American Standard Bible

And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it.

King James Version

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

Holman Bible

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or even to look in it.

International Standard Version

No one in heaven, on earth, or under the earth could open the scroll or look inside it.

A Conservative Version

And none in heaven above nor on the earth nor under the earth was able to open the book or to see in it.

American Standard Version

And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon.

Amplified

And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth [in Hades, the realm of the dead] was able to open the scroll or look into it.

An Understandable Version

And no one in heaven, or on earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look inside of it. [Note: "Under the earth" may refer to the spirit world].

Anderson New Testament

And no one in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look upon it.

Bible in Basic English

And no one in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to get the book open, or to see what was in it.

Common New Testament

And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it.

Daniel Mace New Testament

and no one in heaven, nor in earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look therein.

Darby Translation

And no one was able in the heaven, or upon the earth, or underneath the earth, to open the book, or to regard it.

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

And one in heaven, nor upon the earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the scroll, or to look into it.

Godbey New Testament

And no one in the heaven, nor upon the earth, nor beneath the earth, was able to open the book, and to look into it.

Goodspeed New Testament

But no one in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth could open the roll or look into it.

John Wesley New Testament

And none in heaven, or in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

Julia Smith Translation

And none was able in heaven, nor upon earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look upon it.

King James 2000

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the scroll, neither to look thereon.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it.

Modern King James verseion

And no one in Heaven, nor on the earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the book or to look at it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And no man in heaven nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

Moffatt New Testament

But no one was fit, either in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth, to open the scroll or look into it.

Montgomery New Testament

And no one in the heavens or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look into it.

NET Bible

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.

Noyes New Testament

And no one in heaven, nor on the earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the book, nor to look thereon.

Sawyer New Testament

And no one in heaven above, nor on the earth, nor under the earth, could open the book, or look in it.

The Emphasized Bible

And, no one, was able, in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth, to open the scroll, or, to look thereon.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

And no man was able in heaven, nor upon earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look into it.

Twentieth Century New Testament

But no one either in Heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the book or look within it.

Webster

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look upon it.

Weymouth New Testament

But no one in Heaven, or on earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or look into it.

Williams New Testament

But no one in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth could open the book or look into it.

World English Bible

No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look in it.

Worrell New Testament

And no one in Heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look upon it.

Worsley New Testament

And no one in heaven, nor on earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look into it:

Youngs Literal Translation

and no one was able in the heaven, nor upon the earth, nor under the earth, to open the scroll, nor to behold it.

Interlinear

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

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

no man
οὐδείς 
Oudeis 
Usage: 160

in
ἐν 
En 
ἐπί 
Epi 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
on, in, upon, unto, to,
Usage: 2128
Usage: 644

οὐρανός 
Ouranos 
Usage: 156

nor
οὐδέ 
Oude 
neither, nor, not, no not, not so much as, then not, not tr,
Usage: 83

γῆ 
Ge 
Usage: 186

οὐδέ 
Oude 
οὐδέ 
Oude 
neither, nor, not, no not, not so much as, then not, not tr,
neither, nor, not, no not, not so much as, then not, not tr,
Usage: 83
Usage: 83

ὑποκάτω 
Hupokato 
Usage: 6

the earth
γῆ 
Ge 
Usage: 186

δύναμαι 
Dunamai 
can , cannot , be able, may , able,
Usage: 140

to open
ἀνοίγω 
Anoigo 
Usage: 62

the book
βιβλίον 
Biblion 
Usage: 31

to look
βλέπω 
Blepo 
Usage: 85

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Watsons

Context Readings

The Scroll With Seven Seals And The Lamb

2 I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll, and to break its seals?" 3 No one in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the scroll, or to look in it. 4 And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll, or to look in it.


Cross References

Revelation 5:13

I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever."

Isaiah 40:13-14

Who has known the mind of the LORD, or has taught him as his counselor?

Isaiah 41:28

When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

Romans 11:34

"For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"

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