Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 18:19 - 18:19

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Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 18:19 - 18:19


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They cast dust (ebalon choun). Second aorist active of ballō. Chous is old word (from cheō to pour) for heap of earth, dust, in N.T. only here and Mar 6:11. Cf. Eze 27:30; Luk 10:13. This is the dirge of the sea-folk (cf. Rev 18:10, and Rev 18:16).

By reason of her costliness (ek tēs timiotētos autēs). Occasionally in later literary Greek, though here only in N.T. and not in lxx. The same use of timē appears in 1Pe 2:7. Common in the papyri as a title like “Your Honor” (Moulton and Milligan’s Vocabulary).