Revelation 3:16

“So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit you out of my mouth.”

Revelation 3:16 · direct translation from the Greek
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Revelation 3:16, word by word

you areεἶei

be

To be: says who or what something is.

Where else “ei” appears
lukewarmχλιαρὸςchliaros

lukewarm

Lukewarm, tepid: neither hot nor cold.

Where else “chliaros” appears
neitherοὔτεoute

neither, nor

Neither, nor.

Where else “oute” appears
hotζεστὸςzestos

hot

Hot, boiling hot.

Where else “zestos” appears
coldψυχρόςpsychros

cold

Cold, cool.

Where else “psychros” appears
I am aboutμέλλωmellō

be about to

Something on the point of happening.

Where else “mellō” appears
to vomitἐμέσαιemesai

vomit, spit out

Vomit, spit out.

Where else “emesai” appears
my mouthστόματόςstomatos

mouth

The part of the face through which one eats and speaks; also what one says.

Where else “stomatos” appears

The context

15I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. If only you were cold or hot!

16 · This verse (above)

17For you say, “I am rich, and I have become wealthy, and I have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are the wretched one and pitiable and poor and blind and naked.

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