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Revelation

A door opens in heaven and the strangest book in the Bible begins: seven seals, a dragon, a city of gold descending, and a rider called Faithful and True.

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The whole book — all 22 chapters, 405 verses. The original Koine Greek, a word-by-word gloss with transliteration, fluent English, and a clickable dictionary.

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A taste — every book reads word beneath word
τὰ
the
μέγιστα
mégista
greatest
τῶν
tôn
of the
ἀγαθῶν
agathôn
goods
ἡμῖν
hēmîn
for us
“The greatest of goods come to be for us through madness.” — a line of the finished Phaedrus

A taste of the format — open the reader above to read all of Revelation word by word.

Core vocabulary

The words that carry the book. Learn these and most of the text opens up; each links, in the reader, to its full entry. Counts are how often the word appears.

  1. εἰμί to be110×
  2. λέγω to say100×
  3. ἔχω to have100×
  4. θεός of the gods95×
  5. ὁράω sees89×
  6. γῆ earth82×
  7. μέγας great80×
  8. ἄγγελος an angel, messenger67×
  9. δίδωμι to give58×
  10. πᾶς all58×
  11. ἑπτά seven55×
  12. φωνή voice55×
  13. οὐρανός heaven52×
  14. θρόνος a throne, seat47×
  15. ἀκούω to hear46×
  16. γίνομαι I come into being, am born38×
  17. θηρίον wild beast38×
  18. ὄνομα name37×
  19. ἔρχομαι to come36×
  20. ἐνώπιον before the face of, in the presence of35×
  21. κάθημαι to sit33×
  22. ποιέω to make30×
  23. γράφω to write29×
  24. τέσσαρες four29×
  25. ἀρνίον lamb, little lamb29×
  26. βάλλω to throw28×
  27. ἀνοίγω I open27×
  28. πόλις city27×
  29. αἰών age, aeon26×
  30. πῦρ fire, trials26×
  31. θάλασσα the sea, lake26×
  32. ἄνθρωπος human being25×
  33. ἅγιος set apart, holy, sacred25×
  34. εἷς one25×
  35. πνεῦμα breath24×
  36. προσκυνέω to worship, to prostrate oneself24×
  37. κύριος lord, Lord, master, sir23×
  38. βιβλίον book23×
  39. πίπτω to fall23×
  40. λαμβάνω to take23×
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Why this book

Revelation is the Bible's page-turner — a storm of visions written in deliberately strange Greek, by an exile on a prison island, to churches under persecution. Whatever you believe it means, no book in the canon moves like it.

In the original you can see what translations hide: the author bends grammar on purpose, echoing the prophets in a Greek that growls. An interlinear is the only honest way in — every odd word visible, nothing smoothed over.

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