Mark 1:6

Mark 1:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
• New International Version (NIV)John wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Context of Mark 1:6

4John was baptizing in the wilderness, and preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. 5And there went out to him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a leather belt around his loins; and he ate locusts and wild honey; 7And preached, saying, There cometh after me one mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and loose. 8I indeed have baptized you in water: but he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

Mark 1:6 word by word

καὶ ἦν ὁ Ἰωάννης ἐνδεδυμένος τρίχας καμήλου καὶ ζώνην δερματίνην περὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐσθίων ἀκρίδας καὶ μέλι ἄγριον.Read the interlinear

• Andδέde · thenG1161
• JohnἸωάννηςIōannēs · JohnG2491
• wasἦνēn · wasG2258
• clothedἐνδύωenduō · to put onG1746
• camel’sκάμηλοςkamēlos · camelG2574
• hairθρίξthrix trichos · hairG2359
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• leatherδερμάτινοςdermatinos · made of leatherG1193
• beltζώνηzōnē · belt/sash/girdleG2223
• aroundπερίperi · aboutG4012
• hisαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• loinsὀσφῦςosphus · loinsG3751
• ateἐσθίωesthiō · to eatG2068
• locustsἀκρίςakris · locustG200
• wildἄγριοςagrios · wildG66
• honeyμέλιmeli · honeyG3192

Cross-references for Mark 1:6

• 2 Kings 1:8And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a leather belt about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
• Zechariah 13:4And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
• Matthew 3:4And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leather belt about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
• Leviticus 11:22Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the beetle after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.

Commentaries on Mark 1:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6John was clothed, etc. - See the note on Matthew 3:4.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4-8Verses 4-8 See the notes at Matthew 3:3, Matthew 3:5-6, Matthew 3:11.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6camel’s hair, with a leather belt: Compare with Elijah (2 Kings 1:8). John ate what was available in the wilderness. Locusts (a type of insect) were allowed as food by God’s law (compare Leviticus 11:20–24).Read the comment

Topics related to Mark 1:6

• Camel
• John
• Leather
• Locust

In the dictionaries

• Camel's Hair
• Camel
• Girdle
• Kings, The Books of
• Latchet
• Locust
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• Hair
• Honey
• Husks

Commentaries on Mark 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• 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
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings