Revelation 5:14
Context5:14 And the four living creatures were saying “Amen,” and the elders threw themselves to the ground 1 and worshiped.
Revelation 6:7
Context6:7 Then 2 when the Lamb opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come!”
Revelation 8:9
Context8:9 and a third of the creatures 3 living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were completely destroyed. 4
1 tn Grk “fell down.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”
2 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.
3 tn Or “a third of the living creatures in the sea”; Grk “the third of the creatures which were in the sea, the ones having life.”
4 tn On the term translated “completely destroyed,” L&N 20.40 states, “to cause the complete destruction of someone or something – ‘to destroy utterly.’ τὸ τρίτον τῶν πλοίων διεφθάρησαν ‘a third of the ships were completely destroyed’ Re 8:9.”