Parallel Verses
Moffatt New Testament
Now for the interpretation of the discerning mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated:
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Holman Bible
“Here is the mind with wisdom:
International Standard Version
This calls for a mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is sitting. They are also seven kings.
A Conservative Version
Here is the mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains where the woman sits on them.
American Standard Version
Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:
Amplified
Here is the mind which has wisdom [and this is what it knows about the vision]. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits;
An Understandable Version
"This calls for an understanding mind. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. They are [also] seven kings;
Anderson New Testament
Here is the mind that has wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Bible in Basic English
Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman is seated:
Common New Testament
This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
Daniel Mace New Testament
the meaning is very comprehensive. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Darby Translation
Here is the mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains, whereon the woman sits.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Godbey New Testament
Here is a mind having wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, where the woman sits upon them,
Goodspeed New Testament
Here is a problem for a profound mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated.
John Wesley New Testament
Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sitteth,
Julia Smith Translation
Here the mind having wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, where the woman sits upon them.
King James 2000
And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Here [is] the mind that has wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains {on which the woman sits} and they are seven kings.
Modern King James verseion
And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And here is a mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:
Montgomery New Testament
Here is the mind that has wisdom. the seven heads are seven hills on which the woman is seated;
NET Bible
(This requires a mind that has wisdom.) The seven heads are seven mountains the woman sits on. They are also seven kings:
New Heart English Bible
Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Noyes New Testament
Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Sawyer New Testament
Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits,
The Emphasized Bible
Here, is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads, are, seven mountains, whereupon the woman sitteth;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, where the woman is seated even upon them.
Twentieth Century New Testament
(Here there is need for the discerning mind.) The seven heads are seven mountains upon which the woman is seated.
Webster
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Weymouth New Testament
Here is scope for the exercise of a mind that has wisdom! The seven heads are the seven hills on which the woman sits.
Williams New Testament
Here is scope for a mind that is packed with wisdom. The seven heads are the seven hills on which the woman is seated.
World English Bible
Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Worrell New Testament
Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
Worsley New Testament
To this the mind that hath wisdom will attend: for the seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman sitteth.
Youngs Literal Translation
Here is the mind that is having wisdom; the seven heads are seven mountains, upon which the woman doth sit,
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in Revelation 17:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Judgment Of The Great Prostitute Babylon
8 The Beast you have seen was, is not, but is to rise from the abyss ??yet to perdition he shall go ??and the dwellers on earth will wonder (all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life), when they see that the Beast was, is not, but is coming. 9 Now for the interpretation of the discerning mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated: 10 also, they are seven kings, of whom five have fallen, one is living, and the other has not arrived yet ??and when he does arrive, he can only stay a little while.
Cross References
Revelation 13:18
Now for the gift of interpretation! Let the discerning calculate the cipher of the Beast; it is the cipher of a man, and the figures are six hundred and sixty-six.
Revelation 17:3
So he bore me away rapt in the Spirit to the desert, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet Beast covered with blasphemous titles; it had seven heads and ten horns.
Matthew 13:11
He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.
Matthew 24:15
So when you see the appalling Horror spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing erect in the holy place (let the reader note this),
Revelation 13:1
Then I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a Beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, ten diadems on his horns, and blasphemous titles on his heads.
Revelation 17:7
But the angel said to me, "Why marvel? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman, and of the Beast with the seven heads and the ten horns who carries her.
Revelation 17:18
As for the woman you have seen, she is the great City which reigns over the kings of the earth."