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Bible Analysis
Revelation 16:4
Textus Receptus (Stephanus 1550)
(See Variants Below)
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
Textus Receptus Support:
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Variants
Both the Stephanus 1550 and the Beza 1598 Textus Receptus do not fully support this verse. In many cases the verse is supported from either the Bishop's Bible, Tyndale Bible or the Erasmus reading.
Variant: Read "it became blood" (or 'there came blood') instead of "they became blood."
Greek-English Dictionary
blood literally (of men or animals) figuratively (the juice of grapes) or specifically (the atoning blood of Christ); by implication bloodshed also kindred
1. blood
a. of man or animals
b. refers to the seat of life
c. of those things that resemble blood, grape juice
2. blood shed, to be shed by violence, slay, murder
of the New Testament 1889
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.