Revelation 9:1

Revelation 9:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
• New International Version (NIV)The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.

Context of Revelation 9:1

The fifth angel made a sound with his trumpet. Then I saw a star that had fallen down from the sky to the earth. Someone gave a key to that star. The key could open the entrance to the deep hole. 2When the star opened the entrance, smoke came up out of the hole. It was like the smoke from a very big hot fire. The smoke caused the sun and the sky to become dark. 3Then locusts came out of the smoke and they came down on the earth. They received power to cause great pain, like the power of scorpions.

Revelation 9:1 word by word

Καὶ ὁ πέμπτος ἄγγελος ἐσάλπισεν, καὶ εἶδον ἀστέρα ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ πεπτωκότα εἰς τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐδόθη αὐτῷ ἡ κλεὶς τοῦ φρέατος τῆς ἀβύσσου,Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• the fifthὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the fifthπέμπτοςpemptos · fifthG3991
• angelἄγγελοςaggelos · angelG32
• soundedσαλπίζωsalpizō · to sound a trumpetG4537
• I sawὁράωhoraō · to see: seeG3708
• a starἀστήρastēr · starG792
• fallπίπτωpiptō petō · to collapseG4098
• fromἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• heavenοὐρανόςouranos · heavenG3772
• untoεἰςeis · towardG1519
• the earthγῆgē · earth: planetG1093
• to himαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• was givenδίδωμιdidōmi · to giveG1325
• the keyκλείςkleis · keyG2807
• of the bottomlessἄβυσσοςabussos · abyssG12
• pitφρέαρphrear · well/abyssG5421

Cross-references for Revelation 9:1

• Revelation 9:12The first great trouble has now finished. But after all these things, there are two more great troubles still to come.
• Revelation 8:6Then the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to make a noise with their trumpets.
• Revelation 11:14That is the second great trouble and it has now finished. But the third great trouble will come soon.
• Revelation 1:20You saw seven stars that I held in my right hand. You saw seven lights in their gold lampstands. Now I will tell you what they mean. The seven stars show what the angels of the seven churches are like. The seven lights in their lampstands show what the seven churches themselves are like.’
• Revelation 8:10Then the third angel made a sound with his trumpet. I saw a very big star, which was burning with a bright light. It fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and the springs of water.
• Isaiah 14:12Look at you! You have fallen from heaven! You shine like the bright morning star! You have won against many nations, but now you have come down very low!
• Luke 10:18Jesus replied, ‘I saw the Devil himself fall from heaven like lightning.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:3Do not let anyone deceive you like that in any way. That day will not happen until certain other things have happened. Before that day, there will be a time when many people will turn against God. Also, the man who is completely against God will appear. God will surely destroy him in the end.
• 2 Timothy 3:1Let me tell you this. During the last days of this world, there will be times of great trouble.
• Revelation 1:18I am the one who always lives. I died once. But look! Now I am alive and I will be alive for ever. I have authority over death and over Hades, the place for dead people.
• Revelation 20:1Then I saw an angel who was coming down from heaven. He was holding the key to the deep hole. He also held a great chain in his hand.
• Revelation 9:2When the star opened the entrance, smoke came up out of the hole. It was like the smoke from a very big hot fire. The smoke caused the sun and the sky to become dark.
• Revelation 17:8This animal was once alive, but it is not alive now. Soon it will come up out of the deep hole again but then God will destroy it completely. All these things will surprise many people who live on the earth. Those are the people whose names are not written in God's book of life from the beginning of the world. They will be surprised to see the animal that was alive at one time. It is not alive now, but it will soon appear again.
• Revelation 20:10The Devil had deceived those people. I saw God throw him into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur. That is the lake where he had already thrown the wild animal and the false prophet. They will have a lot of pain in that place, all day and all night for ever.
• Luke 8:31These bad spirits asked Jesus not to send them away to the world below.
• Romans 10:7‘Do not say to yourself either, “Someone will have to go down into the world below.” ’ (That means: ‘Someone will have to bring Christ up from the place where dead people are.’)

Commentaries on Revelation 9:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1A star fall from heaven - An angel encompassed with light suddenly descended, and seemed like a star falling from heaven. The key of the bottomless pit - Power to inundate the earth with a flood of temporal calamities and moral evils.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1And the fifth angel sounded - See the notes on Revelation 8:6-7. And I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth - This denotes, as was shown in the notes on Revelation 8:10, a leader, a military chieftain, a warrior. In the fulfillment of this, as in the former case, we look for the appearance of some mighty prince and warrior, to whom is given power, as it were, to open the bottomless pit, and to summon forth its legions. That some such agent is…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The fifth trumpet is followed by a representation of another star as falling from heaven and opening the bottomless pit, out of which come swarms of locusts. (1-12) The sixth trumpet is followed by the loosing of four angels bound in the great river Euphrates. (13-21) Verses 1-12 Upon sounding the fifth trumpet, a star fell from heaven to the earth. Having ceased to be a minister of Christ, he who is represented by this star becomes the minister of the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-12The fifth trumpet is the first of the three terrors (Revelation 8:13). It brings a judgment of locusts from the bottomless pit, a place of horror. Ancient cultures thought the ocean depths, or the Abyss, was a home for demonic forces (see study note on Genesis 1:2).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-211. The last three trumpets of the seven are called, from Re 8:13, the woe-trumpets. fall--rather as Greek, "fallen." When John saw it, it was not in the act of falling, but had fallen already. This is a connecting link of this fifth trumpet with Re 12:8, 9, 12, "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, for the devil is come down," &c. Compare Is 14:12, "How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning!" the bottomless pit--Greek, "the pit of the…Read the comment

Topics related to Revelation 9:1

• Astronomy
• Hell
• Key
• Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena
• Pit
• Stars
• Trumpet
• Vision

In the dictionaries

• Bottomless, Pit
• Abaddon
• Angel
• Deep
• Eternal death
• Abyss
• Apollyon
• Authority in Religion
• Eschatology of the New Testament
• Government

Commentaries on Revelation 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings