και 2532 CONJ ειχον 2192 5707 V-IAI-3P θωρακας 2382 N-APM ως 5613 ADV θωρακας 2382 N-APM σιδηρους 4603 A-APM και 2532 CONJ η 3588 T-NSF φωνη 5456 N-NSF των 3588 T-GPF πτερυγων 4420 N-GPF αυτων 846 P-GPF ως 5613 ADV φωνη 5456 N-NSF αρματων 716 N-GPN ιππων 2462 N-GPM πολλων 4183 A-GPM τρεχοντων 5143 5723 V-PAP-GPM εις 1519 PREP πολεμον 4171 N-ASM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
9. Breastplates. The breast of the locust resembles the plates of a horse's armor.Sound of their wings. Olivier, a French writer, says: "It in difficult to express the effect produced on us by the sight of the whole atmosphere filled on all sides and to a great height by an innumerable quantity of these insects, whose flight was slow and uniform, and whose noise resembled that of rain." For a graphic description of their numbers and ravages, see Thomson, "Land and Book, Central Palestine and Phoenicia," 295-302.
Of chariots of many horses. That is, of many-horsed chariots. The Rev., by the insertion of a comma, apparently takes the two clauses as parallel: the sound of chariots, (the sound) of many horses.
Tails like unto scorpions. The comparison with the insect as it exists in nature fails here, though Smith's "Bible Dictionary" gives a picture of a species of locust, the Acridium Lineola, a species commonly sold for food in the markets of Bagdad, which has a sting in the tail.
Stings (kentra). Originally any sharp point. A goad. See on pricks, Acts xxvi. 14. Plato uses it of the peg of a top ("Republic," 436). Herodotus of an instrument of torture. Democedes, the Crotoniat physician, having denied his knowledge of medicine to Darius, Darius bade his attendants "bring the scourges and pricking-irons kentra) (3, 30) Sophocles of the buckle-tongues with which Oedipus put out his eyes.
"Woe, woe, and woe again! How through me darts the throb these clasps (kentrwn). have caused." "Oedipus Tyrannas," 1318.
Of the spur of a cock, the quill of a porcupine, and the stings of insects. For the A.V., there were stings in their tails, read as Rev., and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt.
