Revelation 10:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And when the seven thunders uttered [their] [voices], I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying, {G3427} Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ὅτε ἐλάλησαν αἱ ἑπτὰ βρονταί τὰς φωνὰς ἑαυτῶν, ἔμελλον γράφειν: καὶ ἤκουσα φωνὴν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ λέγουσαν μοι, Σφράγισον ἃ ἐλάλησαν αἱ ἑπτὰ βρονταί, καὶ μὴ αὐτὰ γράψῃς.

Transliteration

And when elalēsan the seven brontai the phōnas of themselves, emellon graphein: and ēkousa phōnēn from the ouranou legousan to me, Sphragison what elalēsan the seven brontai, and not them grapsēs.

Grammar Details

*elalēsan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - spoke/uttered [completed action]
*brontai*: nominative, feminine, plural - thunders
*phōnas*: accusative, feminine, plural - voices/sounds
*emellon*: imperfect active indicative, 1st person singular - was about to [continuous intent]
*graphein*: present active infinitive - to write
*ēkousa*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - heard [completed action]
*phōnēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - voice/sound
*ouranou*: genitive, masculine, singular - heaven/sky
*legousan*: present active participle, accusative, feminine, singular - saying
*Sphragison*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person singular - seal up
*grapsēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might write [prohibition]

Word Meanings

*emellon*: was about to/was intending to/was going to
*ēkousa*: heard/perceived/understood
*legousan*: saying/speaking/telling
*Sphragison*: seal up/secure/keep secret
*grapsēs*: write/record/document

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Referenced Verses

Dan 8:26 : 26 And the vision of the evenings and mornings which hath been told is true: but shut thou up the vision; for it belongeth to many days [to come].
Dan 12:4 : 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Dan 12:9 : 9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed till the time of the end.
Rev 1:11 : 11 saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send [it] to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
Rev 22:10 : 10 And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand.
Rev 2:1-3 : 1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: 2 I know thy works, and thy toil and {G4675} patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false; 3 and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's sake, and hast not grown weary.
Hab 2:2-3 : 2 And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.
Deut 29:29 : 29 The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Isa 8:1 : 1 And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
Isa 8:16 : 16 Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
Isa 29:11 : 11 And all vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed:

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