Revelation 9:8

They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

In Context

7And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads; and their faces were like the faces of men.

9They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

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Cross References

Psalms 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Joel 1:6For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.

1 Timothy 2:9Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

Matthew Henry on Revelation 9:2-13

The Seven Trumpets. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was commanded them that they… Read the whole commentary →

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