Study it in the app“And it was granted to them not to kill them, but to torment them for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a person.”
Andκαὶit was grantedἐδόθηto themαὐτοῖςnotἵνα μὴto killἀποκτείνωσινthem,αὐτούςbutἀλλ’toἵναtorment themβασανισθήσονταιfor fiveπέντεmonths;μῆναςandκαὶtheir tormentὁ βασανισμὸς αὐτῶνwaslikeὡςthe tormentβασανισμὸςof a scorpionσκορπίουwhenὅτανit stingsπαίσῃa person.ἄνθρωπον
grant
To let someone do something.
Where else “edothē” appearskill
Kill.
Where else “apokteinōsin” appearstorment
To make someone suffer greatly.
Where else “basanisthēsontai” appearsfive
Five.
Where else “pente” appearsmonth
A period of about thirty days, one of the twelve parts of the year.
Where else “mēnas” appearstorment
Torment: severe pain or anguish; also the act of tormenting.
Where else “basanismos” appearsscorpion
Scorpion.
Where else “skorpiou” appearswhen, whenever
When, whenever.
Where else “hotan” appearsstrike
Strike, hit.
Where else “paisēi” appearssomeone
Any person, without saying who, as in the parables.
Where else “anthrōpon” appears4And they were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green thing or any tree, but only the people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 · This verse (above)
6And in those days people will seek death and will never find it; and they will long to die, and death flees from them.
